蜜桃传媒 closes out the Reynolds Gallery season with a celebration of California鈥檚 beauty through a special invitational show featuring some of the region鈥檚 finest landscape painters. 鈥淰iews and Visions: Celebrating California,鈥� will be at the gallery from Thursday, May 18, through June 30. An opening reception will be held Thursday, May 18, at 4 p.m.
The gallery typically ends the season with a Santa Barbara invitational, and this year will start a new tradition of featuring a 蜜桃传媒 alum. Cory Steffen is art director for Santa Barbara-based Flavia Company, an art licensing company and design studio. He graduated from 蜜桃传媒 in 1996.
鈥淩ecently, I鈥檝e been doing landscapes, big clouds, wheat fields, middle-America,鈥� says Steffen. 鈥淚鈥檝e been drawn to California鈥檚 golden hills and oak trees as of late.鈥�
鈥淏oth the paintings he has in the exhibit really celebrate the unique landscape of colors of California,鈥� says Tony Askew, 蜜桃传媒 art professor and gallery director. 鈥淭his show is designed to celebrate many aspects of California, including paintings of the rodeo, flamenco dancer, Ballard Store, local landscape and, of course, the traditional California poppy, Santa Barbara Mission and the Moreton Bay fig tree.鈥�
The exhibit also features the oil paintings of well-known Santa Barbara artist Meredith Brooks Abbott and her daughter, Whitney Abbott.
Twenty-two different artists are featured in the exhibit, utilizing photography, print,
water color and oil paintings.
鈥淚n all this year鈥檚 exhibits we celebrated California,鈥� says Askew, 鈥渟tarting out
with Richard Diebenkorn and his unique take on the Santa Cruz Islands and then Pasadena
artist R. Kenton Nelson who celebrated the nostalgia of California with his kind of
30s and 40s New Yorker imagery, then culminating in this year鈥檚 鈥淰iews and Visions鈥�
to celebrate various aspects of California.鈥�
The gallery is free and open to the public 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, and from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturdays. For more information please call the gallery office at (805) 565-6162. For directions, please visit our Web site at www.westmont.edu.