Pelican Art Gallery
Award winning fine art gallery with award winning artistsPelican Art Gallery @ Sonoma Horse Park
Posted on August 03, 2010Giant Steps is an amazing local non-profit organization that is the only year-round premier accredited therapeutic riding program in the North Bay Area. You can find out more about Giant Steps at http://www.giantstepsriding.org. Pelican Art Gallery is participating in an event to help support Giant Steps this week. Great for the entire family!
This Thursday, August 5th, from 5 – 7pm, the Petaluma Galleries & Merchants will be taking the best of Petaluma to the Sonoma Horse Park in support of the Giant Steps Charity Classic. It will be an evening of enchanting art and product presentation combined with hunter/jumper competition entertainment. This is one evening during the 4-day competition of world class horse & rider team events. We invite you to join us in this unusual and exciting opportunity.
Also, learn more about the Giant Steps’ Grand Prix Gala to be held on August 7, 2010: http://giantstepsriding.org/news-events/charity_classic-1/
The last 17 years, Pebble Beach has hosted a series of Grand Prix, hunter/jumper horse competitions. Due to the US Open Golf tournament this year, these competition weekends moved to the Sonoma Horse Park in our own backyard! You can find out more about the schedules for these competition weekends at http://sonomahorsepark.com/schedule.php
Hope to see you at the Horse Park!
Masters of Today featuring artists Christopher Schink and Camille Przewodek
Posted on June 01, 2010We continue our Masters of Today series presenting two incredible master artists in their exhibit going up on June7th. Christopher Schink is editor of the Pallet Magazine and the author of Mastering Color and Design In Watercolor and Color And Light For The Watercolor Painter— both published by Watson-Guptill, NY. He is the co-author (with Skip Lawrence) of Watermedia Focus Workbook, Volume I. Schink is an internationally renowned painting instructor and competition juror, having taught throughout the US, Australia, Europe, Mexico and Canada. We are so lucky to have Topher as one of the Pelican Art Gallery Master artists! I met Topher at the Intensive Studies Seminar in Taos, New Mexico a few years ago and was blown away with his style and ease of putting paint to paper. When we found out he lived in Sonoma County we approached him about letting us represent him and were thrilled when he agreed!
"Along the Chamas" by Christopher Schink, watercolor on paper
Camille Przewodek, a nationally recognized painting instructor, offers classes and workshops from the l’Atelier aux Couleurs, the Petaluma Art Academy which she founded. Camille is a dedicated, no-nonsense leader in the arts in Petaluma. At the Petaluma Art Academy, Przewodek subscribes to the teachings and painting methods introduced to her by master artist Henry Hensche at the Cape Cod School of Art in Massachusetts. She is a passionate artist who excels in plein air and still life painting. Camille is a key addition to our list of proven master artists at the Gallery. She captures the beauty of the land in a way that evokes emotional response from viewers.
"Meadow at Sunset" by Camille Przewodek, oil on canvas board
Masters of Today exhibit at the Pelican Art Gallery featuring Schink & Przewodek will include an artist reception on Saturday, June 12th, 2010 from 4 – 7pm as part of the Second Saturday Art Walk downtown. Schink will also be presenting a lecture on “The Roots of Modern Art” on Tuesday, June 8th at the Gallery at 6:30pm. Pelican Art Gallery has started a new Tech Talk series scheduled for Thursday June 10th and 17th. Call for details. Public is welcome to all events listed in this article. Exhibit runs through August 7th, 2010.
Celebration of South American Poetry, Music and Sharing
Posted on May 29, 2010It was an incredible night here at Pelican Art Gallery, home of the Masters of Today visual artists. We ventured into a beautiful bilingual evening of fantastic poetry and classical guitar. Beatrice Lagos, an internationally known poet, decided that the people of Chile should receive help to recover from the 8.8 earthquake and tsunami from earlier this year, 2010. She coordinated an incredible evening that included music from classical guitarist Mark Taylor.
Mark Taylor, classical guitarist at Pelican Art Ayuda a Chile event
Mark played several different pieces that set the tone of this emotional and heart warming demonstration of love and caring. It was enjoyed by all. One guest claimed that it was as though they were in the Lincoln Center in Washington, DC. It was a wonderful international event! Thanks Beatriz!!
Beatriz Lagos at the podium during Ayuda a Chile event at Pelican Art Gallery
Poetry & Painting
Posted on May 06, 2010Poetry Reading
I’m truly excited about this Saturday, May 8th. We have 2 very fun and engaging activities. First, at 2pm, we have our dear friend Katherine Hastings heading up a poetry reading, celebrating the Golden Anniversary Edition of Beatitude Magazine. Katherine will be joined by Sonoma County Poet Laureate, Gwynn O’Gara. The magazine was founded in 1959 by Bob Kaufman, Allen Ginsberg, John Kelley and William Margolis and helped launch the careers of many poets. It is a loving tribute to over 50 years of North Beach poetry in San Francisco.
Painting Demo by Alfredo Tofanelli
Alfredo Tofanelli’s artwork is flowing and colorful. Join us for a painting demonstration by Alfredo during the Art Walk Saturday, May 8th from 4 – 7pm. Alfredo teaches figure painting on Thursdays from the l’Atelier aux Couleur (the Petaluma Art Academy).
"Being Immortalized" by Alfredo Tofanelli, oil on board
Hope to see you this Saturday!
Pelican Art presented 1st of Health Lectures
Posted on April 22, 2010On Tuesday, April 20th, the gallery hosted an event through Jill be Nimble, an athletic training organization that helps promote proper physical and mental training. The evening included a presentation by sports psychologist Carrie Cheadle. Joy Hermsen was here from Jill be Nimble. It was a fun way to kick off our own training for the summer season. If you’d like to hear about these events, sign up for our email updates!
May 2010 Poets and Painting Demos
Posted on April 21, 2010Next month will be very exciting at the Gallery. We have 2 poetry events, May 8th and May 27th. We also have 2 painting demonstrations lined up on May 8th and May 15th. On May 8th, our friend and poet, Katherine Hastings, will be among the poets presenting several poems from 2 – 4pm, just before Art Walk.
Just as exciting is the poetry to be presented by Chilean poet Beatrice Lagos on Thursday, May 27th. This evening event will include a bilingual celebration of poetry in support of the Chilean villages that suffered from last month’s earthquake.
On the painting demonstration side of things, Alfredo Tofanelli will be in the Gallery for Art walk on Saturday, May 8th from 4 – 7pm. He is a portrait artist who will be giving a demo on portrait paintings. On Saturday, May 15th, as part of the Salute to American Graffiti, Stanley Mouse will be creating more hot rod art right in front of our eyes from 1 – 4pm. Hope you mark your calendars!икони
Fine Art from the Masters of Today
Posted on April 03, 2010I find it hard to believe that we’re already in April and the kickoff exhibition of the Pelican Art Gallery Masters of Today is in its final day! It has been a wonderful start to our representation of 11 incredible artists.
On Monday, April 5th, I’ll be hanging the next show which will feature Alfredo Tofanelli and Stanley Mouse.
Please join us for the Artist Reception
Saturday, April 10th from 4 – 7pm
Alfredo received his Fine Arts degree from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. He served on the faculty of Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design in Los Angeles, teaching courses in life drawing, painting and computer graphics. He currently teaches head & figure painting at the Atelier aux Couleurs: the Art Academy in Petaluma. Alfredo’s awards include the 2009Best of Show at the Napa Valley Museum’s Plein AirBiennial Exhibition.
"Ford in Mustard" by Alfredo Tofanelli, oil on canvas
Stanley, best known for his association with his music posters of the 1960s, is a master of portraiture painting. His famous posters have been in shows at The Smithsonian Institute, the New York Museum of Modern Art, the Boston Museum, the Art Museum of San Francisco, the Oakland Museum , the Tate in London and the Louvre Museum in Paris are a few of the premier museums to have featured Stanley’s artwork.
"Breezy" by Stanley Mouse, oil on canvas
Best in Sonoma County
Posted on March 21, 2010We certainly love what we do! I’m very proud to announce that Pelican Art Gallery was voted Best Framer and one of the Best Galleries in Sonoma County. We want to thank those who took the time to vote in the Bohemian’s survey this year. It reminds us how much our success is tied to our service, quality and communications. So Thank YOU!
Yesterday, we had a successful event at the Gallery benefiting the AIDS Life Cycle Ride and the Pelican Art Foundation. Our thanks to the hard work of all the volunteers to present such a fun and successful event.
Linda Gonzalez Memorial Youth Art Walk
Posted on March 11, 2010I was at the Gallery until near midnight last night finalizing the list of student art. Yesterday the local high school teachers brought in a couple hundred pieces of art from their current students. All the gallery owners and downtown merchants participating in this Saturday’s Art Walk were blown away by the quality of work.
You can see 4 examples at http://www.pelicanart.com/art/pelican-art-gallery-home/2010-youth-art-walk/. The teachers are to be commended due to their dedication to these students. Not only did they teach the classes, but they provided the artwork mounted, labeled and ready for hanging. This is not a simple task and I hope that parents and students thank the art teachers at our high schools for putting in such a tremendous effort!
Please make time to participate in the Linda Gonzalez Memorial Youth Art Walk this Saturday from 4 – 7pm and see the sea of student artists with their families. It’s really a fun experience to be around new artists who get a chance to participate in an exhibit of this caliber and size. It will be worth it!
October Happenings @ Pelican Art
Posted on October 15, 2009New Exhibit of Gerald Huth’s Works
October marks the end of the “Fruits, Nuts, and Flowers” group show and the hanging of “Erasing Borders”, a solo show by Gerald Huth.