Artistry Exhibit

Current Art Exhibit at Blackhawk Gallery.

The Alamo Danville Artists’ Society opened Blackhawk Gallery’s new Exhibit ‘Artistry’ on February 15th, 2019. The Gala Reception was held on Saturday February 16 (see photos below). The exhibit will be on view seven days a week through Sunday April 21, 2019. The Exhibit is free and open to the public.

The ‘Artistry’ exhibit features one guest artist and forty member artists. Guest artist JeanCherie will be showing her Raku sculpture pieces. Members’ artworks include paintings, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, photographs, and wearable art.

The exhibit was curated by Shadi Kiaee, Kerima Swain and Beverly C Turner.

The Blackhawk Gallery is located at 3416 Blackhawk Plaza Circle in Danville, California, in the Blackhawk Plaza. Telephone: (925) 648-8023.

Regular Gallery hours are Monday-Saturday 10am-8pm and Sunday 11am-6pm. Holiday hours: 2/18 Presidents’ Day hours 10-5; 4/21 Easter Sunday regular hours.

Website: www.adas4art.org/blackhawk_gallery
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AlamoDanvilleArtistsSociety

For more information, please contact Blackhawk Gallery Director Kerima Swain at swain.kerima@gmail.com

GUEST ARTIST

JeanCherie Raku Sculpture Artist

I was a horse crazy girl. I drew horses before I rode them.

I learned to sculpt and made my living building critters like H.R. Puff ‘n Stuff for Sid and Marty Krofft, the Giraffe walk-around costumes for Toys R Us, a hippopotamus walk-around costume for The New Zoo Revue, the TV show Dinosaurs, and Pinocchio’s Whale float for Uncle Walt, to name just a few.

I sculpted for motion pictures (The Flintstones, What Women Want, Hocus Pocus), TV commercials, theme park animatronics, and built marionettes. But no horses !

As a Fine Art sculptor I enjoy working in many additive and subtractive media including, stone, bronze, paper, and, I love sculpting in ceramic clay. It is spontaneous, immediate, responsive, and satisfying to my Soul.

I am intrigued with Raku firing, a traditional Japanese method of firing ceremonial tea bowls which has been enthusiastically embraced by sculptors and ceramists.

In 2014, I sculpted my first Raku Rocking Horse!

The race was on. One became a series. Each piece articulates the feelings I treasured about horses as a child……. the freedom, power, and speed I imagined galloping across the open prairie………I was enchanted with the glamour of the beautiful senoritas with their voluminous skirts melding them to elegant prancing ponies at the Rose Parade every New Years Morning!

This equine herd will grow as the inspiration strikes me!

MEMBER ARTISTS

Pooja Ahuja, Dalia Alekna, Akio Aochi, Charles Blanton, Don Cresswell, Yi Ding, Elena Doronkina, Herbert Estes, Kathy Flint, Bobbi Garrop, David Gates, Lynn Glenn, Shadi Kiaee, Michael Kovler, Roseann Krane, Walter Krane, Irenka Kudlicki, Tom Lemmer, Claudette McDermott, Ray McGinnis, Elena Morris, David Nakahara, Leslie Ouyang, Julia O’Reilly, Lin Padden, LJ Powell, Dan Riley, Ellen Schimmel, Andrea Schwartz, Pat Smith, Greg Starnes, Kerima Swain, John Terlip, Jennifer Titchenal , Beverly C Turner, Jim Vlantis, Norma Webb, Charles White, Georganne Zaro Eddy.

IMAGE GALLERY

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