Timeless Exhibit

Current Art Exhibit at Blackhawk Gallery.

The Alamo Danville Artists’ Society opened Blackhawk Gallery’s new Exhibit ‘Timeless’ on September 21.  The exhibit will be on view through Sunday November 25, 2018. The Exhibit is free and open to the public.

The ‘Timeless’ exhibit features a guest artist and 35 member artists. Guest artist Dave Mathews is showing his unique assemblage sculptures. Members’ artworks include paintings, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, photographs, and wearable art.

The exhibit is curated by Debby Koonce, Kerima Swain and Beverly 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: 10am-5pm on Labor Day.

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

Dave Matthews

Biography

Dave Matthews is primarily a self-taught assemblage, mixed media and abstract artist who grew up in Oklahoma in an old house filled with antique furniture and junk yard curiosities. He moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1994 for a work assignment and never left. His art career began in 2014 after retiring from a large corporation. He is influenced by the female form and his daily observations. In his abstract work he strives for balance and symmetry and highlights the beauty of wood or stone. He often uses cherry wood and finishes the piece using the labor intensive French polishing technique. His work also includes assemblages incorporating found or second hand materials: such as fabric, dolls, hair, glass, jewelry, acrylic. photographs and mirrors, In his free standing assemblage sculptures, his love of classic and antique wood furniture often finds him using the curves and crevices to depict the female form.

He began to show his work in 2016, and was selected as one of five artists by the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art (Marin MOCA) as an emerging artist of Northern California. Since then he has been showing his work in the Northern California area.

Artist’s Statement:

Local dumps, roadsides. flea markets. thrift stores and lumber yards provide the raw materials for my assemblage. mixed media and abstract sculptures. Seeing and handling discarded objects triggers memories from my childhood as well as adult life experiences. I try to capture these thoughts and emotions in my work. In particular, I’m drawn to the curves. color variations and texture of wood. When using discarded materials, I often highlight the blemishes that occur with age. weathering. and use. To me this provides character and familiarity. I also work with “new” wood and stone to create abstract sculptures. For these sculptures, the grain and beauty of the wood or stone is highlighted and the pieces hand finished to show the beauty of the material.

 

MEMBER ARTISTS

Dalia Alekna, Akio Aochi, Michael Arata, Gary Bergren, Charles Blanton, Don Cresswell, Sachin Deshpande, Yi Ding, Herbert Estes, Ellie Fard, Bobbi Garrop, David Gates, Linda Geniesse, Lynn Glenn, Shadi Kiaee, Debby Koonce, Michael Kovler, Roseann Krane, Tom Lemmer, Claudette McDermott, Ray McGinnis, Elena Morris, David Nakahara, Leslie Ouyang, Julia O’Reilly, Lin Padden, Nola Pardi Proll, Harika Piccone, Dan Riley, Michael Rizza, Joanne Robinson, Ellen Schimmel, Andrea Schwartz, Pat Smith, Greg Starnes, Kerima Swain, Beverly C Turner, Jim Vlantis, Norma Webb, Charles White.

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