Somewhere between downpours and rainbows, we turned on to Bill Owens’ street. His directions over the phone were implicit. “You will see a table on the side of the street next to a telephone pole. Turn in right there and go down the long driveway to my house.”
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The California Art Club and the Carmel Visual Arts will present the exhibition Point Lobos and Beyond at the Carmel gallery from October 19 to November 30, 2018. The exhibition opens with a reception with the participating artists on Saturday, October 19, from 2 to 4 p.m. The more than 30 works selected for inclusion in this display have been created by many of the state’s premier contemporary-traditional artists who are members of...
Read MoreWe celebrate TWO artists in this feature looking at two photographic icons. The expertise combined between Ted Orland and Alan Ross would make the most sturdy tripod tremble! Coming back for another encore workshop, the combined camera duo will cover all of the photography bases with expertise in film and digital. Both photographers had worked one-on-one as assistants to Ansel Adams. They printed with him in his renowned Carmel...
Read MoreLate in his career, Richard Diebenkorn wrote out ten points he thought useful when approaching the art of painting. Two of our more contemporary painting instructors are William Wray and Alex Kanevsky. They will be coming together at 6:30pm on Friday, Oct 26, 2018—an evening between each of their workshops—to discuss these 10 “notes” he wrote to himself. As artists, we all approach our art making differently, in fact,...
Read MoreWe Are Selma | The Selma Portrait Project by Kathryn Mayo Carmel Visual Arts welcomes Kathryn Mayo, a photography professor at Cosumnes River College near Sacramento, with an exhibition of her wet plate collodion ambrotypes. The exhibition features Kathryn’s photographs from an important series titled: We Are Selma | The Selma Portrait Project. Kathryn Mayo spent a year on sabbatical from teaching in California’s Central Valley to...
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