Luminosity

 

Blackhawk Gallery


The Alamo Danville Artists’ Society opened Blackhawk Gallery’s new Exhibit ‘Luminosity’.  The exhibit will be on view seven days a week from December 1st, 2017 through February 11th, 2018. The Exhibit is free and open to the public.

The ‘Luminosity’ exhibit features one guest artist and forty member artists. Guest artist Marty Jonas will be showing her Fiber Art. Members’ artworks include paintings, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, photographs, and wearable art.

The exhibit was curated by Debby Koonce, 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.

Gallery hours are: Monday–Saturday 10 am to 8 pm and Sunday 11 am to 6 pm. Holiday hours on December 24 (Christmas Eve) and December 31 (New Years Eve), are 10 am to 5 pm. We are closed on December 25 and January 1, 2018.

Website: www.BlackhawkGallery.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AlamoDanvilleArtistsSociety

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

 

GUEST ARTIST

Marty Jonas    Fiber Artist

My Mother taught me to knit, crochet and sew, and my Father taught me to hammer, saw, solder and drill.  I cannot remember a time when I was not doing something creative, using threads or cloth, with my hands.

Cloth can be used in an infinite number of ways and has the ability to convey messages, to alter meanings and to transform the ordinary.  

The tactile quality of fiber and thread, combined with surface design techniques, provide me with the opportunity to speak visually, that which, I cannot express in words. Fiber is an extension of my voice.

While working with one piece, another concept often emerges, and it is this constant, stimulating flow of ideas that causes my work to evolve.

My goal is to create works which are complex enough to provide the viewer with interest when viewed from a distance as well as close.  I try to use the medium to its maximum, pushing beyond tradition in hope to spark the viewer’s imagination, thoughts, and memories.

Beginning with a piece of fabric or a spool of thread, Jonas creates well-defined textile pieces by pleating, weaving, wrapping, and then hand embroidering.  She is considered a formalist with concern for processes and technical process solving.

Marty Jonas studied embroidery at the City and Guilds of London Institute in England from 1993 to 2000 and has graduated with a Stitch Design and Textiles degree.  She has also attended advanced studies of embroidery at Middlesex University, London, England.

Since then, I have been creating textural fiber pieces by manipulating fabrics using pleating, ruching, knitting, shredding, rotting, bleaching, burning, printing, and dyeing.  I embellish my altered textiles with thread, beads, plastics, metals, papers, and paints.  By manipulating the colors, textures, and character of the various fibers, I convey many expressive and emotional qualities including anticipation, love, joy, serenity, depression, aging and decay.

 

MEMBER ARTISTS

Anita Angel, Akio Aochi, Gary Bergren, Charles Blanton, Don Cresswell, Barbara Davies, Sachin Deshpande, Yi Ding, Elena Doronkina, Barb English, Kathy Flint, Bobbi Garrop, David Gates, Lynn Glenn, Gene Gracey, Greg Gutbezahl, Kathie Hackler, Shadi Kiaee, Maggie Kinstle, Debby Koonce, Roseann Krane, Walter Krane, Paulette Lagana, Tom Lemmer, Andrea Markus, Claudette McDermott, Ruth McMillin, Elena Morris, Gayle Muehring, Julia O’Reilly, Lin Padden, Harika Piccone, Vicky Richardson, Dan Riley, Michael Rizza, Ellen Schimmel, Pat Smith, Greg Starnes, Mary Claire Stotler, Kerima Swain, Beverly C Turner, Jim Vlantis, Norma Webb, Charles White.

 

IMAGE GALLERY

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