Events
Open GROUND: A group exhibition featuring OGS Artists
At the Marjorie Evans Gallery at the Sunset Center in Carmel-By-The-Sea
Exhibition dates: Jan. 12 - Feb. 27, 2024
Gallery events:
Opening Reception Jan. 12, 2024 | 5:00-7:00 pm
Artist Variety Showcase Feb. 9. 2024 | 5:00-7:00 pm (See Below)
OPEN GROUND is a group exhibition with a medley of work by nine women artists who thrive as a creative community at Open Ground Studios in Seaside. The work of the individual artists reflects a sense of freedom to explore and courage to express with radical acceptance.
Through a collaborative process of curation, we celebrate moments of commonality that arrive through our choice of materials or dialogue around content that easily threads one piece to another. It is not dissimilar to our experience of working in the studio where autonomy coexists within community; where inspiration appears through ambient observation, casual conversation, or deliberate brainstorming of ideas and process. The result is an Open Ground of creative expression, curious exploration, and artistic growth.
Featured Artists
Eva Boynton
Terese Garcia
Micheen Levee
Bernadette Renois
Denese Sanders
Carol Diggory Shields
Diane Danvers Simmons
Jenny Webster
Anne Ylvisaker
Artist VarietY Showcase
At the Marjorie Evans Gallery (In the adjacent Chapman room)
Feb. 9. 2024 | 5:00-7:00 pm
Free and open to the public
Artists from Open Ground, the current exhibition on display in Marjorie Evans Gallery at the Sunset Center, present an Artist Variety Showcase: an entertaining and thought-provoking expansion of their creative practices through story, song, and process. The event takes place in the Chapman room next to the gallery.
The Artist Variety Showcase will include the words of eight of the exhibiting, women artists. Terese Garcia will offer a poetry reading which she describes as “written during the C-19 lockdown and after" and Eva Boynton will give the audience a glimpse into her creative process with “Sketchbook Poetry: An Inside Peek at the Relationship Between Process and Tension.” During her spotlight, “For God’s Sake, Don’t Write Poetry,” Carol Diggory Shields will delight us with her reading from a couple of her children’s books. Sunset Cultural Center’s Elana Kline-Thompson will read a selection from Anne Ylvisaker’s award-winning youth novel Little Klein, in which a dog adopts a boy. Diane Danvers Simmons will share her voice recording with an excerpt from her memoir, My Mother Next Door. Bernadette Renois will offer a vibrant insight into life lessons from trail running and Jenny Webster will connect us to the origin of her artwork with “Why I Support The Senegal Health Institute: A Love Story”. Denese Sanders will share a spoken narrative of how her voice is rising called, “Finding My Life Force Through Song”.
