Alamo Danville Artists’ Society will host the opening of Blackhawk Gallery’s new Exhibit “Summer Breeze”. A Gala Reception will be held on Saturday July 18 from 5 to 7pm with wine and Hors d’oeuvre. The exhibit will be on view seven days a week from July 17 to September 20.
Gallery hours are Monday to Saturday from 10am to 8pm, and Sunday from 11am to 6pm. The Reception and Exhibit are free and open to the public.
The ‘Summer Breeze’ exhibit features metal sculptures by guest artist Jeff Owen and works by forty member artists. Members’ artworks include paintings, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, photographs, and wearable art.
The exhibit is curated by Pete DeFao, Debby Koonce, and Kerima Swain.
Blackhawk Gallery is located at 3416 Blackhawk Plaza Circle in Danville, California 94506, in the Blackhawk Plaza. Telephone: (925) 648-8023.
Guest Artist
Jeff Owen is a nationally recognized metal sculptor. His sculptures express his emotions, concepts, dreams, and the patterns he sees in life. Owen’s sculptures have won awards at the Palm Springs Art Museum’s 39th National Juried Exhibition, Carmel’s Sculpture in the Park State Juried Exhibition, Santa Clara Indoor Sculpture Exhibition, Los Gatos Art Association Member and Open Juried Exhibitions, invited to Golden Globes Gifting Suites, invited to bid on gift sculptures for the G20 Summit, and other shows and exhibitions. He has public sculptures in Downtown Los Altos and The Shops of Dos Lagos, Corona, CA. He sells his sculptures at fine art events and on the internet. His sculptures have been purchased across the United States, in Great Britain, Canada, and Australia.
Jeff Owen’s “art” life began as a child sitting in the back seat of a 1957 Chevrolet with a drawing tablet, only the best from the art store, and his favorite #2 pencil. His mother would toss him and all of her drawing supplies into the car and drive all around town looking for interesting buildings, homes, or people to draw. Always on a busy street, cars whizzing by with all the noise that accompanies them; no matter, they were there to draw whatever was out the side window of the car. He’d say his drawings were never much to look at, but he always received tons of “that’s beautiful” or “I wish I could draw like that” from his mom.
Jeff’s life as a metal sculptor began when he discovered a neglected oxy-acetylene torch set and a small welder in the back of his father-in-law’s garage. “What is that?” Jeff asked his father in law Chet. “Oh that, you wouldn’t know” Chet said. “That’s for welding metal.” Jeff persisted, “Can I have it? Are you going to use it?” Chet’s response, “What are you going to do with it? You don’t even know how to use it.” Finally after coaxing it off of him, Jeff brought the old torch set and welder back to San Jose and started creating. He has been addicted to metal welding ever since.
Steel is the perfect media for Jeff Owen to express his emotions, dreams, and visions.
Artist’s Statement
My art is about life. My sculptures combine the past and present. I have an affinity toward the materials I work with, a deep sense of emotion and feeling for what the material was used for at one time and will become in my hands. These thoughts direct me on my path as I sculpt. My sculptures emerge with patterns. I take one piece of steel, add to it, delete from it. I am constantly discovering metal’s unique appeal. When the sculpture encompasses all of my creative My technique is brute force, decide-at-the-moment. Interesting shapes of metal; the patterns, textures, and grains; all entice me to create. I am fascinated with form. My aspiration is to make sculpture that is completely unique. I resist conformity and mass production.
My art is as individual as I am.
Member artists
DaDana Beebe, Claudia Bossert, Loralee Chapleau, Don Cresswell, Barbara Davies, Peter DeFao, Elena Doronkina, Georganne Zaro Eddy, Francine Garcia, Bobbi Garrop, Linda Geniesse, Lynn Glenn, Gene Gracey, Deborah Graffuis, Greg Gutbezahl, Kathie Hackler, Debby Koonce, Roseann Krane, Walter Krane, Loreta Landucci, Tom Lemmer, Andrea Markus, Claudette McDermott, Linda McSweeney, Elena Morris, Julia O’Reilly, Lin Padden, Leroy Parker, Marie Pascal, Dan Riley, Michael Rizza, Joanne Robinson, Deborah Rockey, Goldie Schnitzer, Pat Smith, Greg Starnes, Kerima Swain, Leslie Swartz, Beverly Turner, Norma Webb, Charles White
Image Gallery
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