Arts Oasis

Exposure Goes Dotty!

Gideon Images Show

New show at Images By Gideon Fine Art Gallery, will be continuing with the gallery open on Saturday, February 14, 2009 from 6 pm to 9 pm. featuring four talented new artists.  The show will be ongoing thru to March 13th with the gallery open Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 11 am to 4 pm. All the galleries at the Backstreet Art District will be open. Located behind the Mercedes Benz dealership in Palm Springs.

Images By Gideon Fine Art Gallery
Backstreet Art District
2682 Cherokee Way
Palm Springs CA

MANDADDY TO SHOW!

Bidwell at Exposure

Shaktima - Last Chance to See and Celebrate the Goddess

La Quinta Arts Foundation PLEIN AIR PAINTING

Plein Air Painting   

A formal exhibition of works by ten contemporary Plein Air Painters began Friday, December 11, 2008 and runs through February 1, 2009 at the Palm Desert Community Gallery, located inside the Palm Desert Visitor Center, 72-567 Highway 111.

The Plein Air Artists featured included: Ebrahim Amin, Gary Blackwell, Robert Fleming, Robert Ferguson, Michael Logan, Nancy Lynn, Terry Masters, Diane McClary, David Musser, and Jack Wang.
Plein Air is a collaboration between The City of Palm Desert Public Art Department, La Quinta Arts Foundation, The City of La Quinta Museum, and La Quinta Arts Foundation. All Plein Air events are offered free to the public.

Derived from the French phrase en plein air, plein air artists leave their studios to paint outside. Although it is a familiar concept today, it was revolutionary when it began in the late 1800s. Founding members of this art movement include Claude Monet, Camille Pissaro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, of the famed Impressionist group.

Plein Air will move to La Quinta for ONE DAY ONLY on Saturday, January 10, 2009 with two popular public events:

Paint Out - 8 am to 12 noon at La Quinta Resort & Club, 49499 Eisenhower Dr., La Quinta. This is an opportunity for spectators to watch their favorite plein air artists paint on location on the beautiful ground of this historic hotel.

Artist Reception and Wet Paint Sale - 1 pm to 3 pm at La Quinta Museum, 77-885 Avenida Montezuma. Call 760-564-1244 or 760-777-7090.

Charlie Ciali at Exposure Gallery This Friday the 9th

TWO AWARD WINNING CAMERAMEN TO SPEAK ON THE ART OF CINEMATOGRAPHY AT PALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM

TWO AWARD WINNING CAMERAMEN TO SPEAK ON THE ART OF CINEMATOGRAPHY AT PALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM
Annenberg Theater Council Lecture Will be Moderated by Dr. David Kaminsky

The third lecture in the Annenberg Theater Council’s ongoing lecture series at the Palm Springs Art Museum’s Annenberg Theater will feature a panel discussion with two Academy-Award winning cinematographers on January 11, 2009 at 1 p.m. Held in between film screenings of the Palm Springs International Film Festival, the panel will feature a lively conversation between Vilmos Zsigmond and John Toll and will be moderated by Dr. David Kaminsky, the former Vice-Chair of the Palm Springs International Film Festival and an executive-producer of an Academy Award-nominated short documentary film. Tickets for the lecture are $25 and can be purchased at the museum’s Box Office at 760.325.4490 or at annenbergtheater.org.

Sunday, January 11, 2009, 1 p.m.
Classic Images from the Great Hollywood Cameramen
Panel: Cinematographers Vilmos Zsigmond and John Toll; moderated by David Kaminsky, M.D.

Vilmos Zsigmond

Vilmos Zsigmond is an Academy Award winning cinematographer who has worked on such classics as Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Deliverance (1972), Bonfire of the Vanities (1990), The Witches of Eastwick (1987) and The Long Goodbye (1973).  Born in Hungary, he studied cinema at the Academy of Drama and Film and at Film Art in Budapest and began his career photographing the Hungarian revolution of 1956.  Zsigmond shot footage of the Soviet invasion and then escaped to the United States where he sold the footage to CBS.

Settling in Los Angeles, Zsigmond began working at film labs as a technician and photographer.  During the 1960s he worked on independent and educational films and became known for use of natural light and a vivid use of color.  He gained prominence during the 1970s with work on Robert Altman’s McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) for which he won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography.

For years Zsigmond has made a point of sharing his knowledge about the art of lighting with aspiring cinematographers.   He teaches many lighting seminars to budding filmmakers.  Every two years he teaches a two-week seminar in Hungary for 16 students and 20 observers from all over the world.

John Toll, A.S.C.

John Toll received two consecutive Academy Awards in 1994 and 1995 for his cinematography on Legends of the Fall (1994) and Braveheart (1995). Toll also earned a 1989 Outstanding Achievement Award from his peers in the American Society of Cinematographers for his work on the TV pilot The Young Riders (1989). Toll has also worked on the films Vanilla Sky (2001) and Almost Famous (2000).

Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Toll moved to Los Angeles where he worked for David Wolper Productions while studying for a liberal arts degree. He became a member of the Camera Guild early in his career and his first mainstream job was on the 1970s TV series The Rookies.

Toll prefers an unobtrusive, uncluttered style, where his natural aesthetic is making light feel natural and not manipulated. He learned how to deal with shifting and unpredictable weather patterns while filming the America’s Cup sailing adventure Wind on a twelve-meter boat in open seas.  That led to Mel Gibson’s Braveheart (1995) which was shot in Ireland and Scotland where the climate can cycle through four seasons in a single day.  The historical epic was a difficult shoot, and Toll achieved a raw, stark and almost primitive feel to the story of Scottish freedom fighter William Wallace. His 1994 film Legends of the Fall also called for realism and visual style to raise the hero to mythic stature. In both films, Toll linked the characters to the surroundings.

Working with Terence Malick on The Thin Red Line (1998), Toll elevated his artistry to a new level.  Handheld cameras create a sense of the immediate and make the audience feel they are watching the action from close range. Thus the screen became Toll’s canvas and he transformed images into the poetry of frightened men pondering the meaning of life. 

The ATC lecture series concludes with a conversation between the accomplished American photographer Mary Ellen Mark and the Palm Springs Art Museum’s Dr. Daniell Cornell on Tuesday, January 20, 2009 at 6 p.m.

This lecture series is produced by Susan Bloom and Michael Childers.

Located downtown in an architecturally-significant E. Stewart Williams-designed building, the Palm Springs Art Museum features exciting exhibitions of contemporary, Native American, Western and Pre-Columbian art in spacious galleries.  It features two sculpture gardens, stimulating lectures and educational programs for all ages, and offers diverse performances at its Annenberg Theater. The Art Museum is open six days a week; Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Thursday from 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. Admission is free to members; $12.50 for adults; $10.50 for seniors 62 and over; $5 for adult students and active-duty military with I.D. and free for youths 17 and under. For more information, call 760.322.4800 or visit www.psmuseum.org.

THIS LECTURE SERIES IS SPONSORED BY THE MUSEUM’S ANNENBERG THEATER COUNCIL. PRESENTING SPONSOR IS WELLS FARGO THE PRIVATE BANK.

Latin American Art: Classic to Contemporary

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
DECEMBER 20, 2008

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
KIMBERLY NICHOLS
DIRECTOR
760-464-6000
Kimberly@heatherjames.com   

HEATHER JAMES FINE ART ANNOUNCES EXHIBITION
LATIN AMERICAN ART: CLASSIC TO CONTEMPORARY
OPENS THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 2009 WITH PUBLIC RECEPTION

(Palm Desert, CA)—December 20, 2008—Heather James Fine Art announces a new exhibition Latin American: Classic to Contemporary, which opens Thursday, January 22, 2009 with an opening reception from 6-8 p.m. RSVP to Kimberly@heatherjames.com or by calling 760.346.8926.

The exhibition, representing a breadth of expression from the historical to the new, will celebrate a diverse selection of Latin American artists from Chilean abstractionist, Roberto Matta, to Puerto Rican post-Impressionist, Arnaldo Roche-Rabell.  Utilizing a wide variety of techniques and inspired by many traditions, other artists include Fernando Botero, Osvaldo Budet, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Wilfredo Lam, Cristina Lei Rodriguez, Carlos Luna and Melvin Martinez.

Heather James Fine Art is located at 45-188 Portola Avenue in Palm Desert and will feature a wide array of art ranging from Impressionist and Modern art to Post-War and Contemporary, American, Latin American, Old Master, Photography and Design. The new Fine Art gallery is an expansion and evolution of the current Heather James Art & Antiquities, which continues to operate in the El Paseo location and provide clients with the finest in cultural antiquities and ethnographic art from all corners of the world. 

For more information, or to RSVP for the exhibition, call Director Kimberly Nichols at 760.346.8926. or email Kimberly@heatherjames.com.

The Art of Shaktima Brien

The Art of Shaktima Brien 
When: Dec. 20-Jan. 17, 2009
Opening Night:
December 20, 5-9 p.m.
Where:        
GALERIE MYSTERE
Backstreet Art District
2680 Cherokee Way
Palm Springs, CA 92264
760 314-9374

Admission:
Free and open to the public

The Art of Shaktima Brien, a woman and her symbols

In the tradition of Frida Kahlo, The Art of Shaktima Brien offers insights into the feminine unconscious, universal archetypes and soulscapes.

Executed on a period of 20 years, the paintings (acrylic on canvas – 2 to 12 feet) unravel missing archetypes in modern consciousness. In their presences, the viewers experience cosmic memory, déjà vu, and awakening of potential.

The exhibition opens on December 20 at the new GALERIE MYSTERE
in Palm Springs in the Backstreet Art District at 5 p.m.. 

Shaktima Brien is a California artist at the leading edge of the global multi-cultural fusion. Earlier, this year, her paintings were parts of The Palm Springs Art Museum Artists Council Juried Exhibition and Auction, and of The City of Palm Springs Juried Art Show, where her piece Shamans received an Honorable Mention. Excerpts of her series The Goddess Journey are featured at The International Museum of Women - Shaktima Brien 

In 2007, a North Hollywood solo exhibition followed a show at the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History for the Premiere of Signs of Time, a film on Marija Gimbutas (The Language of the Goddess) sponsored by UCLA Women’s Studies, Women’s Heritage Project and Bellili Productions.

In the 90’s, Shaktima’s tableaux were sold at the Shirley MacLaine and Whoppie Goldberg Art Auction, while others were juried by Judy Freeman, Associate Curator of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art for the “Women in Contemporary Art" exhibition.

Brien’s book memoirs Road Yin, which screenplay won the first place at the 2001 Palm Springs Writer’s Guild Contest, is coming out in 2009.

Brien’s collectors live around the world.

GALERIE MYSTERE supports evolution of human potential, unraveling deeper layers of the Great Mystery.