Ojai Studio Artists: Metamorphosis
August 14 through October 13
The theme of this year’s annual exhibition with the Ojai Studio Artists (OSA) is Metamorphosis.
All art is a metaphor. Life is an adventure into the unknown, and metamorphosis is an inevitable part of it. Transformations are constant and ongoing. Every person is constantly changing. As an artist’s life changes, their work typically also changes, in form, structure, or character. For this exhibition, artists were asked to depict a metamorphosis. It may be a transformation in their life, their work, or in the world around them. Through many styles and mediums, their work explores the quest for transformation.
The annual Ojai Studio Artists three-day October art tour features studios across the valley. This is a one-stop preview of work by all sixty-two participating artists.
The community-based group has been celebrating Ojai arts and offering scholarships to local students for more than 40 years.
Artwork in this exhibition is for sale. Sales benefit the individual artists and the museum's exhibitions and educational programs.
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In the Wilson Gallery:
1234561) Susan Stinsmuehlen-Amend, Amber Leaves Abutment Tangle, kiln-fired paint on handblown glass, solder, wire, cullet, vintage hangar, metal support 29" x 5" x 4", $600
2) Julie Grist, Renata (reborn), Mixed media paint, 24” x 24" $1200
3) Valerie Freeman, Goldilocks, Luster Ceramic, 12” x 10” x 5”, $850
4) Karen K Lewis, Transformation, $1800 Oil on canvas, 40” x 30”
5) Duane Dammeyer, Window Through Time, $2475, Stone-Fossilized Coral on Italian Serpentine, 20.5"h x 10"w x 9"d
6) Virginie Snyder, Lucior Thorne: the Virtue Crowned Itself, $2400, Oil on canvas, 36” x 24"
In the Alcove:
7897) Rex Kochel, Last Visit Home, $200, Watercolor 28” x 17”
8) Cindy Pitou Burton, Sky to Sea, $585, Archival photograph 21” x 27”
9) Andrea Haffner, Untitled, $525, Mixed media 11” x 11” x 2.5"
10) Carol Shaw-Sutton, Blooming, $3800, Fiber sculpture, 38” x 40” x 24”
11) Richard Amend, Gold Tree w/CTP, $750, Archival digital print w/gold leaf, 15" x 13"
12) Wrona Gall, Beyond the Shore, $3100, Acrylic on panel, 32” X 36”
111012In the Hall:
131415161718192021222313) Kimberly Smith, My Metamorphosis, $2800, Mixed media and oil, 36” x 24”
14) Richard Negri, Emerging, $500, Acrylics on canvas, 12” x 9”
15) Gayel Childress, World Peace through Love, $600, Mixed-media with gold leaf, 8” x 10”
16) Sandy Treadwell, Becoming Marilyn, $5000, Charcoal on paper, 28" x 36"
17) Richard Franklin, Return of the Monarchs, $1200, Acrylic, 30" x 24"
18) Brian Berman, UNIFY, $7500, Cast and Plate Glass Sculpture, 9” x 9” x 5”
19) Stephen Edward, Ruby Pinus Lambertiana, $800, Cast Glass, 5” x 12” x 5”
20) Sandra Torres, Vestiges, $120, Stoneware 2.5” x 3.75” x 3.75”
21) Bhagvita Khalsa, In-depth, $1250, Ceramic, 10” x 10”
22) Wyatt Amend, Green Goblets, $600, Stoneware, high fire glaze 8” x 3.5”
23) Emily Brown, Porcelain Form, $400, Porcelain, oxides, glazes, 6" x 12"
In the Main Gallery, Center and Back/Left:
2425272624) Bernadette Di Pietro, MAKE A DIFFERENCE- "Get out of your chair", $340 each, wire, paper, fabric, plaster tape, Gesso, paint, 12” x 20” x 20”
25) Lisa Skyheart Marshall, California: Poppy.Quail.Cactus, $1100, mixed media, 15"x12"
26) Sooz Glazebrook, Shift, $950, Inglaze Lustre ceramic wall piece, 19" diameter x 1/4" thick
27) Sylvia Raz, Sunburst, $2500, Acrylic on canvas, 32” x 32”
Center Left:
282930313233343528) Hallie Katz, Hidden Beauty, $5500, Sterling silver, carved black onyx with Druzy quartz crystals, diamonds, 2" x 3" w/ 18" chain
29) Patrish Kuebler, Mummy Brown, $1200, Encaustic, 24" x 24"
30) Emily Thomas MaHarry, Day Trip, $4200, Acrylic, 48” x 36”
31) Pamela Grau, Ojai Garden (aka Taft at Dusk), $600, Digital collage outputted as an archival mono print, 20" x 16"
32) Susan Guy, Ojai Valley Land Conservancy Meadow Preserve, $450, Digital, 12” x 18”
33) Lucinda Yates, Regarding Richard, $650, Watercolor and gouache, 18.375” x 24.375”
34) Ted Gall, A Measurement of Change, $9500, Cast Bronze 18” x 18” x 18”
35) Carlos Grasso, The One Morphing into the Many (apparently...), $1400 or $500 each, Acrylic and Magic Stones on canvas, 35” x 35”
Front/Left:
363738394036) Leslie Plimpton, The Cost of Fashion, $3575, Fabric, garment tags, mannequin, wig, 71" x 15"
37) Mary Neville, "5", $4200, Mixed media on canvas, 36” x 36”
38) James Petrucci, Chromatic Continuum, $4500, Flashe, acrylic and paper clay on canvas, 30” x 48”
39) Linda Taylor, Museum of Relics, $1500, Collagraph, plate lithography, 22" x 30"
40) Lulu Sherman, Awakening, $5400, Charcoal and photo collage, 27” x 29”
West wall:
41424344454641) Bert Collins, The Douglas Preserve, $450, Acrylic, 21" x 18"
42) Tom Pazderka, Mother and Child, $3800, Ash, oil and charcoal on burned panel, 44” x 31”
43) Bruce Grabin, Mira Monte Sunset, $2100, Oil on linen panel, 16” x 20”
44) Katie Van Horne, (my name is koto), “I contain multitudes” -Walt Whitman, $3500, Gold leaf and mixed medium, 61” x 35.5”
45) Spark Taylor, The Mosaic of Time, $3200, Oil on canvas, 24” x 36”
46) Jannene Behl, Morning Mist at Cole Point, $600, Pastel 16” x 18”
Center:
474849505147) Lindsay Thomson, Milky Way Over Bryce Canyon, $2200, Photographic print, 36” x 17”
48) Sharla Fell, New Life Painting, $350, Textile collage, embellishment, 14" x 21"
49) Richard Flores, Manamorphosis, $1200, Luster glazed stoneware, 9” x 6” x 6”
50) Kristin Clawson, Potential Yet Realized, $350, Ceramic, steel wire 16” x 4.5” x 3.5”
51) Myra Toth, Topsey Turvy, $4400, Wood, foam, paint, ceramic with luster glaze, 11” x 8” x 8”
Left:
52535455565752) Stephanie Hubbard, Last Light, $1200, Mixed media on canvas, 36" x 36"
53) Christopher Noxon, Awha'y 5, $4000, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 48" x 36"
54) Christine Apostolina Beirne, Dreamin’ of Taft Garden, $2250, Oil and cold wax on cradled board, 30” x 30”
55) Douglas Teiger, DeConstructing Color Untitled 120 & 121, $2000 or $1000 each, Oil on canvas mounted on wood panel, 42” x 20” each panel
56) Rebecca Odes, Grand Ambient Landscape #1, $2200, Silk, plexiglass, 16” x 17”
57) Marie McKenzie, Pearls, $1575, Oil on canvas, 14” x 18”
Back/Right:
586059616258) Martha Moran, Kissed by the Clouds, $7500, Various stones and steel, 64” x 36” x 24”
59) Marc Whitman, Evening light in the Ojai Valley, $3000, Oil on canvas, 48” x 36”
60) Jeff Mann, View of Galapagos Island From Charles Darwin’s Cabin on the HMS Beagle, $12,000, Graphite on D’Arches Rag Paper, 26” x 41”
61) Yolanda Bergman, "As The World Turns - Day Melting Into Night"- South African Sunset, $3500, Italian Smalti mosaic on wood panel, 22” x 26”
62) Dorte Bistrup, A Poem by Emily Dickinson, $350, Mixed media/assemblage, 8” x 8”
Interested in purchasing a piece from the show?