Every second Saturday in downtown Sacramento, restaurants, galleries, bars, and many other establishments open their doors to celebrate ART! Here at second Saturday you can look at art, catch band performing some music, see fire dancers, and so much more! You never know what you will see at Second Saturday! Take a look at this!
We previously did a blog entry on the Getty Center as part of our “Musuems Around the World” series. Here we found some footage of the cnter that displays its beauty. Take a look at the video. It almost feels like you asre there!
We found this video to be very helpful to any artist that is looking to make a career at something you love – your art! Imagine all you do ios paint for a living! It can happen! You just need to believe in yourself, and work hard at accomplishing this dream! You must be able to market yourself as an artist! Take a look at this 15 minute video, see if there are any tips that may help you. We would love your comments!
On this edition of Museums around the world, we head down south to the J. Paul Getty Museum. Now there are two locations in the Los Angeles area, The Getty Center which sits next to the 405 on a huge hill, and then there is the elegant villa which is in Malibu. For this trip we will focus on the Getty Center near the 405 Freeway.
First a little history about J.Paul Getty and the trust fund he has created. It truly is an amazing story.
J. Paul Getty viewed art as a civilizing influence in society and strongly believed in making art available to the public for its education and enjoyment. He opened the J. Paul Getty Museum to the public in 1954. This small museum, established in his ranch house in Malibu, housed collections of Greek and Roman antiquities, 18th-century French furniture, and European paintings. Fascinated with the ancient world of the Mediterranean, he later built a Roman-style villa, modeled after the Villa dei Papiri of the first century A.D.
When most of Mr. Getty’s personal estate passed to the Trust in 1982, the Trustees sought to make a greater contribution to the visual arts through an expanded museum as well as a range of new programs. The Getty Conservation Institute, the Getty Research Institute, and the Grant Program were founded in the 1980s. The Grant Program became the Getty Foundation in 2005.
The J. Paul Getty Trust continues Mr. Getty’s vision, supported by directions from his will, which calls for “the diffusion of artistic and general knowledge.”
Because of his love for art and antique collections, Mr. Getty vowed that never will anyone be charged an admission to come and share his love of art. To this day, millions of people a year come through the doors of the Getty center, and they have never been charged an admission. this massive complex first opened its doors in 1997 and will be celebrating its 15th anniversary shortlty. It truly is a remarkable place with a huge collection. It will take you more than one day to view everything that The Getty Center has to offer.
The Getty Center has numerous daily tours with hundreds of exhibits. Go to their site for all of the details and daily activities as well as a calendar of exhibits coming and ones that are currently there. This is a must stop for all of you art lovers. Truly is a magnificint place!
We have mastered the art of duplicating original art, photos, and even tattoos, but HUMANS? Not our specialty, nor do we have the experience to do so. We did find a very interesting video on human duplication! Yes, yes, we know, what does this have to do with art? Art comes in many forms. This is very original and fascinating. At least in our eyes. However, if you need to duplicate any art piece or photo, give us a try! We currently have a buy one duplication process and receive a second duplication for half off! Please no humans!
www.sacramentogiclee.com
This month we are pleased to feature one of our favorite client’s that have a unique way of displaying her talent. Val Warner focusses on wildlife to inspire her paintings. She has a keen eye for detail as you will see in her work.
Val Warner lives in the Sierras between Sacramento and Tahoe with her husband, Chuck and their golden retriever, Rocky on 5 beautiful “mountain top” acres. “I have been inspired to draw, study and paint all of my life with the never ending focus on the play of light on living creatures, whether they be trees, rocks, or breathing beings”, says Val. “Yes, I live in California and am kind of a hippy, jock, tree hugger”, Val adds.
We asked Val why she paints and she responded, “”It’s me, it’s what I do. When I paint I get to become very intimate with my subject. I see it/them for what they really are. Light. Color, Radiance. I’m brought to tears every time. That’s why I paint. To share that. To show that. To live that.”
“What style and methods do you utilize for your paintings?”, we asked. “I choose to live as an oil painter. I have always used oils and find they lend themselves to the luminosity and depth I NEED to show in my work. Living creatures are so full of bounced light, it is a never ending challenge to put that in my paintings. My style is basically realistic though I love a juicy plein air now and then. My quest is to show my subjects in a way that causes to viewer to stop and take notice. To appreciate the power, gentleness, whatever that is unique to that animal or person or location. I’ve been told that my work has a certain radiance that transcends the canvas.” Val answers.
The following are some of the galleries that are showing Val Warners pieces:
Wyland Gallery – South Lake Tahoe, CA
Located in the Raley’s Shopping Center near stateline
in their absolutely beautiful new gallery!
A must see!
530 541-7099
Wyland Gallery,
Planet Hollywood Casino Mall aka Miracle Mile Mall
Las Vegas, NV
(702)699- 5363
We would love to show you some of her work, but because the internet has many thieves, we felt it would be best to send you to her website where you may take a closer look at this incredible artist and her work. www.valwarner.com
Thank you Mrs. Warner for the opportunity. And keep bringing in your work for us to duplicate them. We love your work!
On our second stop of our museums around the world trip, we are visiting our second local art museum, The Crocker Art Museum. The Crocker is located at 216 O Street in beautiful Downtown Sacramento and can be reached from several major freeways. The history of this museum dates back to 1868.
In 1868, Judge Edwin B. Crocker purchased the property and existing buildings on the corner of Third and O Streets. He then commissioned Seth Babson (1830-1908), a talented local architect, to redesign and renovate the home into a grander, Italianate mansion. In addition,  Crocker asked Babson to design an elaborate gallery building that would sit adjacent to the mansion and display the family’s growing art collection.Babson saw the home and gallery as an integrated complex, unique in design and demanding the finest materials. The gallery building included a bowling alley, skating rink and billiards room on the ground floor; a natural history museum and a library on the first floor; and gallery space on the second floor. Completed in 1872, the Crocker family mansion and art gallery are considered the masterpieces of Babson’s career.The family mansion went through several uses and reconstructions until a 1989 renovation restored the historic façade and created a modern gallery interior. The original buildings, now connected, as well as the cast concrete Herold Wing addition of 1969, were renamed the Crocker Art Museum in 1978.
In 2000, the Crocker appointed a selection committee comprised of elected officials, community leaders, CAMA Board members, City staff and potential donors to search for an architect that would lead the Museum through master planning. After an exhaustive review of all of the major museum architects in the world, Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects (GSAA) was unanimously chosen to guide the process because of their design aesthetic and past experience. GSAA designed the expansion of the Crocker after conducting a thorough master planning process. Many voices from the community were involved in an openly collaborative process to ensure that the new building and the internal reconfiguration of the existing structures would work together as a whole. A classic, contemporary design was created that would pay tribute to the historic structure. On October 10, 2010, the Crocker opened the 125,000-square-foot Teel Family Pavilion, a classic, contemporary design. The Pavilion complements the historic structures and more than tripled the Museum’s current size, enhancing its role as a cultural and educational resource for Sacramento and California’s many visitors. |
In 1869, Judge Edwin B. Crocker and his family assembled a collection of more than 700 paintings and around 1,344 master drawings (one of the finest early collections in the United States) during an extended trip to Europe from 1869-71. Before and after their trip, the Crockers acquired numerous paintings by contemporary California artists, forming the core of what is today one of the state’s premier collections of California art.
The E. B. Crocker Collection was originally installed in 1873 and was one of the largest private collections in this country at that time. While the Crockers frequently opened the gallery building to the public, it remained a privately held collection until Margaret Crocker presented the building and collection to the City of Sacramento and California Museum Association in 1885.
David Lubin, a member of the first Board of Directors of the California Museum Association, became one of the first individual donors to expand the Crocker’s collection. In 1889, he donated marble sculptures, some of which are located in the niches of the grand staircase in the Museum’s lobby. Thus began the community-based contributions which grew the original private art collection to its current size and scope. The Crocker Collection now focuses on California, European and Asian artworks, and International Ceramics.
Today the Crocker Art Museum holds hundreds upon hundreds of different art pieces. The Crocker Art Museum is Sacramento’s Premier place to go and enjoy some wonderful art pieces. With their ever changing exhibits, you are sure to find bright, exciting, and very thought provoking pieces. Currently on display is:
| Sat, January 29, 2011 – Sun, April 24, 2011 | Gottfried Helnwein: Inferno of the Innocents | Crocker Art Museum | EXHIBITIONS |
Upcoming Exhibitions
MARCH 12, 2011 – MAY 15, 2011
Discover meaning and metaphor in this exhibition featuring three decades of Buck’s printmaking and sculpture. John Buck: Iconography celebrates the artist’s inventive use of material and the bold expression he has achieved.
The works on view invite us into the artist’s personal world, but we are free to ruminate, mediate, and ultimately reach our own interpretations. Colorful, textured, and detailed, John Buck’s art is enigmatic and inspiring.
ON VIEW MARCH 26 – JULY 17, 2011
Southern California artist Daniel Douke responds to everyday experience by rendering the transient packaging of consumer products —particularly the box. At first glance, Douke’s boxes appear to be simply found objects—à la Marcel Duchamp. They are anything but. These are paintings that are rendered in exquisite detail, with text, packaging tape, smudges, and dents all carefully observed and painted. Even the canvas is stretched and shaped to perfection. By making these discarded boxes art, he gives them permanence and value, challenging our assumptions about reality and artifice. This exhibition features 24 of his works.
MARCH 28 – AUGUST 7, 2011
This small exhibition features works of art by Indian artists—Jamini Roy, Lalu Prasad Shaw, Manu Parekh, and Ghopal Ghosh—who worked towards reconciling modern art innovations of the West with traditional Indian style art. Roy, the acclaimed Bengali painter, drew on local traditions, particularly Kalighat painting, for his inspiration. This painting of the Hindu deity Krishna reflects those folk influences while the work of others included in this exhibition – found quite different solutions.
ON VIEW APRIL 16 – JULY 17, 2011
Conceptual artist Jonathon Keats has developed a gourmet cuisine for flora by mixing different wavelegnths of light. Keats’ installation wil be on view in the floral plantings in front of the historic Crocker.
MAY 14, 2011 – SEPTEMBER 25, 2011
Influenced by the new French painting, the American artists who embraced Impressionism from the 1880s to the first decades of the twentieth century were a diverse group of painters, whose styles were as varied as the subjects and locales they chose to paint. This exhibition features 125 paintings from the Bank of America Collection and traces the stylistic evolution of landscape painting as well as the changing attitude toward nature through an examination of works by prominent American artists including George Bellows, George Inness, Childe Hassam, Ernest Lawson, Lilla Cabot Perry, and Julian Alden Weir.
Exhibition opens at noon on May 14th, 2011.
Here are some more amazing 3D art that we found on the internet! These are becoming very popular. We will be back on Monday and continue our musuem tour with our second stop at The Crocker Art Musuem here in Sacramento. Also, stay on the look out for this month’s featured artist. Its a wild one! Until Monday, have a great weekend, and enjoy the video.
We thought it would be a fun blog series to showcase musuems around the world. For those of you that love art as we do, this little journey will take you through museums that you may have been to or ones that you would still like to visit. If nothing else, perhaps, these little mini-tours will inspire you to create that materpiece!
Lets start the journey locally. Our first stop is The Center of Contemporary Art , Sacramento. This musuem is located at 1519 19th Street in downtown Sacramento. The Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, founded in 1989, is a member-supported, nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement and appreciation of new and experimental art by international, national and regional artists.
Artists who have exhibited at CCAS include Christopher Brown, Camille Utterbach, Hans Hofmann, Willem de Kooning, Mildred Howard, Steve Kaltenbach, Vic Muniz, William Wiley, Troy Dalton, Jack Ogden, Darrin Marin, James Albertson, Brenda Louie, Joan Moment, Tony Natsoulas, Craig N. Smith, Quintin Gonzalez, Gerald Walburg, and John Yoyogi Fortes.
CCAS functions as more than a contemporary art center, hosting special events, such as the Annual Benefit Art Auction, CAST (Capitol Artists Studio Tour), monthly lectures and workshops for art students. In addition to the longtime support of the public, artistic community and corporate sponsors, CCAS has a strong and dedicated board of directors.
CCAS is the frequent focus of newspaper and magazine articles published in Artweek magazine, Midtown Monthly, The Sacramento Bee, Sacramento Magazine, and the Sacramento News and Review. A review of artist Christopher Brown’s exhibition at CCAS appeared in the November 2005 issue of Artweek magazine.
CCAS is committed to serving the Sacramento community for the long term. CCAS was founded in downtown Sacramento on 15th Street in 1989, and subsequently relocated to Del Paso Boulevard. With great assistance from the building’s owner, Steven Moore of Rex Moore Electrical Contractors & Engineers, CCAS opened at its current location in midtown Sacramento on August 6, 2005.
Currently on display is “SIGNS” being displayed from February 22nd though March 20th, 2011.
Signs features the work of Aptos, California-based artist Enid Baxter Blader. The exhibition will include her paintings and her short film, THE ORD, which documents the de-commissioned Fort Ord Army Base.
A pile of bloody birds lying on the ground, a crooked rainbow formed over a burnt landscape and cows making their way through a flood are other subjects found in Blader’s paintings. There is no rationale for optimism and no proof that things will get better. Yet, there is a hopeful surging forward, a “cutting against the grain” in the face of uncertainty. Sense of place is central in much of Blader’s work, as is an emphasis on the connection of opposites.
A filmmaker, musician and painter, Blader’s work has been exhibited internationally and nationally including at the Smithsonian, Sundance, and as part of the Getty Museum’s retrospective of California Video, 1960-present. Blader is the chair of Teledramatic Arts at CSU Monterey Bay.
Stay tuned to the next blog as we visit Sacramento’s Crocker Art Museum!
We thought some of these were pretty neat! The trickery of the eyes and mind are sometimes fun! We wanted to let any tattoo artist know that we can put your work on canvas as well! Many of our tattoo artist that we service, take their tattoo art and display them very professionally on their shop walls! We can also duplicate your art into a very nice portfolio to show to potential customers. Call us for more details!