NORTH PARK NIGHTS
A dedicated group of artists and business owners in North Park are launching a community-wide effort, North Park Nights, to celebrate local Arts & Culture. Participate in NPN by exploring our unique galleries, shops, and restaurants featuring cultural activities and a variety of visual and performing arts. NPN will take place the third Saturday of every month. In addition, a broader programming and events schedule is being planned.
Look for future NPN activities throughout the month at www.NorthParkNights.org. Join us for a night of discoveries and surprises!
On
the third Saturday of each month, North Park's
galleries welcome artists, art lovers and curiosity seekers
with equal adoration. North Park Nights, as the gallery walk
is called, provides an opportunity for San Diegans to experience
varying forms of art all in one leisurely stroll. Every month from 7 to 9 p.m., participating North Park galleries
display the works of painters, photographers, sketchers,
sculptors and the like, allowing visitors to mosey down
the one-block stretch southeast of 30th and University in
North Park. Ducking in and out of participating galleries,
North Park Nights guests are treated to three hours of self-directed
gallery hopping and light fare.
SDAD EXHIBITIONS / EVENTS:
January / February Exhibition:
"Women by Women" featuring work by the San Diego Women's Figurative Group
Exhibition: January 16 - February 14, 2010
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 16th from 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Closing Reception will be held on Saturday, February 13th from 6:00pm - 9:00pm
SPECIAL FEATURE:
“This mixed media exhibition explores the contemporary vision of the Southern California woman. We ask ourselves the following questions: How do we see women differently than men see us? How does our specific Southern Californian culture and identity affect how we portray women? Can the erotic, the feminist, the feminine, and the working artist/woman be reconciled?”
About the Artists:
“The San Diego Women’s Figurative Group is a collective of women artists who share a common interest in new feminist figuration. We meet each month to critique work, see local exhibitions, and support each other in our careers as artists and educators. We work across a variety of media: drawing, painting, mixed media, photography, sculpture, installation and new media.”
This exhibition features the following artists: Irene Abraham, Jocelyn Duke, Jeanne Dunn, Michele Guieu, Misty Hawkins, Daphne Hill, Maura McHugh, Amy Paul, Ginger Rosser, Therese Rossi, Anna Stump, and Marcella Villasenor.
SDAD Featured Artist: San Diego Art Department student, Desolina.
Past 2009 Exhibitions:
November/December Exhibition:
"GLASSWORKS" featuring work by SDAD Instructors and Students
Exhibition: November 21st - December 11th
Opening Reception: Saturday, Nov. 21st from 6:00pm - 9:00pm.
SPECIAL FEATURE:
This exhibition will feature a diverse variety of fused and stained glass artwork by SDAD Instructors and Students. Exhibiting artists include Bonnie Dull, Marvin Dull, Toye Martindale, and SDAD students!
The San Diego Art Department offers 6 week classes in glass fusing and stained glass. Please refer to the "art classes" page for more details.
October/November Exhibition:
"Creatures of the Imagination" by Lois Adler-Roussell
Exhibition: October 17th - November 15th, 2009
Opening Reception will be held on October 17th from 6pm - 9pm
SPECIAL FEATURE:
“I found the work of this artist enchanting. Behind a purposely naive style, easily compared to a children's book illustration, you find yourself seduced into a post modern Never Never Land. You are enchanted and dragged into a storybook world of paradoxical ironies. Perusing the work more carefully you ultimately sense that you have found the juncture when Harry Potter meets American Consumerism. Amidst the humor and appeal, you sense an almost Dickensian grasp of story telling. In my many years of teaching art at U.C. Berkeley, I often hoped I would find the artist who could embody these many qualities. Irony, satire and humorous appeal, without heavy handedness and pomposity. Refreshing, fun, yet serious talent. Bravo! Lois. Bravo!” written by Warren Travis, M.F.AProfessor Emeritus, U.C. Berkeley; Winner of L.A. Times Theatre Critics Award for Design at the Mark Taper Forum; Winner of Bay Area Theatre Critics Award for California Shakespeare Festival; Designer for San Francisco Ballet; Visiting Artist in Residence at Stanford University.
In this exhibition, the groups of prints are of creatures that can reason. In Lois’ collection the part human animals enjoy music, mobility, frolicking and the finer elements of life. In the first group of prints she mixed etchings, watercolors, and colored pencils to create mono prints. The second group is all black and white etchings. This collection of prints took about one year to create. Each print tells a story. It is up to the viewer to make up his or her own story to go with the art.
About the Artist: Lois Adler-Roussell, with a lifetime of studying art has a MFA in printmaking from San Diego State University and a BFA in art from San Francisco State University. She has won awards for her work in San Francisco, San Diego, New York, and Richmond, Virginia. Her art is in collections all over this country and in Israel.
September/October Exhibition:
"Reincarnated: Eco Art" by Connie Cannon
Exhibition: September 19th - October 11th
Opening Reception will be held on September 19th from 6pm - 10pm
SPECIAL FEATURE:
“I am passionate about preserving our resources that end up in our landfills. It disheartens me to know that we are leaving behind so much waste for our next generation. The eco-friendly artist in me is ecstatic about giving an object a whole new life, creating a piece of artwork out of something that was once so precious to us, but has lost its meaning or use. As a Mahayana Buddhist, I believe this process symbolizes reincarnation in the artistic and religious aspect.
In my abstract work, I incorporate action painting using mixed media in creating warm and vibrant colors, expressing my love for texture that appears energetic or reserved. This abstract reflection is a meditative blending of textures and mark-making that reaches across many moods and style.
The exhibition will also feature a site specific cardboard installation created by Connie Cannon in response to the North Park Nights “Creative Cardboard Challenge” and scavenger hunt. Visit: www.northparknights.org for more details.
August/September Exhibition: The Art of Transitions
The San Diego Art Department is pleased to announce our first Open Call Fundraiser Exhibition. The world is full of transitions, whether it be internal or external, we are all affected by the passage from one form, state, style or place to another. Young to old, college to profession, single to married, daughter/son to mother/father, season to season, rich to poor, life to death.
Exhibition: August 15th thru September 13th / Closing Reception: September 12th from 6-9pm
Congratulations to the Award Winners:
Best in Show: Lois Adler-Roussell for “Cleo, Cleo and Monday”
1st Place: Stefano Romano for “My Mother’s Fatal Contribution”
2nd Place: Lois Adler-Roussell for “VW”
3rd Place: Richard Powers for “New to Old to Gentrified”
Honorable Mention: Mick Conway for “Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis”
People’s Choice: Michael Carini for “When Every Day is a Rainy Day”
The exhibition was juried by Kevin Freitas with Art as Authority. The submission fees and a percentage of the proceeds from the sale of artwork will go toward updating and revamping SDAD classroom equipment and facilities.
Award prizes donated by: Baja Betty’s, California Ballet Company, Children’s Museum, Hornblower, Landmark Theatres, San Diego Chamber Orchestra, San Diego Youth Symphony, Urban Mo’s, Urban Solace... And More!
July/August Exhibition: Third Annual Student Exhibition
SDAD is proud to present our "3rd Annual Student Exhibition" juried by David White, founder of Agitprop Gallery.
The exhibition July 18 - Aug 9, 2009.
Congratulations to our Student Award Winners:
"Best in Show" by Ashley Wendel for "Captured Beauty"
"1st Place" by Diana Gleave for "Lady in Waiting"
"2nd Place" by Jennifer McHugh for "Summer Solstice"
"3rd Place" by M.E. Whitlock Fithian for "Cow"
"Honorable Mention" by Don Scoles for "Across Florida Canyon"
Prizes Donated by: Old Globe Theater, Museum of Photographic Arts, Mingei, Pala Casino, The San Diego Museum of Art, Gamblin Arts, Artist & Craftsman Supply, and General Pencil Company.
The exhibition also features the artwork of Sally Samins, SDAD student, on the "featured artist wall," as well as, other member and instructor artwork throughout the studio!
(Photograph and artwork pictured above by Marjorie Taylor)
"Plein Air North Park" - Hosted by The San Diego Art Department in partnership with the California Art Club. We invited artists to take up the challenge of plein air painting and participate in the Premier/First Annual Plein Air North Park competition and exhibition at The San Diego Art Department. This was an opportunity for artists of all levels to participate in a unique event highlighting the North Park Community, its landmarks and the revitalization of the neighborhood.
