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Erik ReeL

Visual Arts: Painting, Printmaking

Erik ReeL, born and raised in Seattle, lives and maintains a studio in downtown Ventura. Represented by collections in New York, Berlin, Los Angeles,, Chicago, Buenos Aires, Houston, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Paris, London, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Seattle, Indianapolis, San Diego, and Santa Fe [NM] . Public collections include: Seattle City Light, City of Seattle, Museum of Ventura County. ReeL’s painting emphasizes improvisation, exploring issues related to mark-making and signification. ReeL attended Whitman College, majoring in mathematics; the University of California, at Berkeley; and the University of Washington in mathematics, art history, and studio art, graduating summa cum laude in 1975. He studied art history with Rainer Crone and Ettlinger, painting with Jacob Lawrence and Michael Spafford, color with Dahn, a student of Albers, sumi-e with George Tsutakawa, and Chinese brush with Hsai Chen. In the 1970s ReeL wrote on art for Vanguard, ArtExpress, High Performance, ArtWeek, a weekly column for the Bellevue Journal-American daily newspaper, and was arts editor for the Seattle Voice city magazine. He sat on the Seattle Arts Commission Special Task Force for Media, and the Special Task Force for Educational Institutions in the Arts. For half a decade he taught art history, color theory, life painting, and design at the Seattle Central Community College before leaving Seattle in 1984, coming to California in 1995. Selected Exhibition History Solo and Two-Person 2018 Erik ReeL, Gray Space gallery, Santa Barbara 2017 Epiphany, Porch Gallery, Ojai, California 2016 Full Circle, Morris Graves Museum of Aart, Eureka, California 2014 Silence, SCIART, Camarillo, California 2014 Rebar, Museum of Ventura County, Ventura, California 2014 Standing in Boots, w/ Nash Rightmer, WAV, Ventura 2014 Featured artist, City Clerk’s Office, Ventura City Hall, Ventura, California 2013 Tabula Rasa, 643 Project Space, Ventura, California 2013 Suite Spot, Ventura Executive Suites, Ventura, California 2012 60 @ 60, Ventura, California 2011 Signs, Vita Art Center, Bell Arts Factory, Ventura 2011 Markings II, B Street Space, Oxnard, California 2011 Markings I, B Street Space, Oxnard, California 2009 Viva la Vida, Laurel Ventura gallery, Ventura 2009 Turbulence, w/ Vonder Gray, Gallerie 255, Ventura 2008 Erik ReeL at the Love House, Ventura, California 2008 Caruso Woods, Santa Barbara, California 2008 Faculty Club, University of California, Santa Barbara 2006 Autochthon, Caruso Woods, Santa Barbara 2005 Indonesian, Caruso Woods gallery, Santa Barbara 2004 Faculty Club, University of California, Santa Barbara 2004 Musician’s Den, Caruso Woods Gallery, Santa Barbara 2003 3 Venues, Santa Barbara Film Commission 2003 Faculty Club, University of California, Santa Barbara 2003 Night Balcony, Delphine Gallery, Santa Barbara, California 2002 Delphine Gallery, Santa Barbara, California 2002 Vinland, Delphine Gallery, Santa Barbara, California 2002 Yaman Rag, FC, Unversity of California, Santa Barbara 2001 Faculty Club, University of California, Santa Barbara 2001 Gardens of the Night, Delphine Gallery, Santa Barbara 2000 Dreams of Paradise, Delphine Gallery, Santa Barbara 1988 – 1996 did not exhibit 1987 Mazey Hickey Gallery, Seattle 1986 Whatcom County Museum, Bellingham, Washington 1985 Jackson Street Gallery, Seattle, Washington 1984 Cornish Institute for the Arts, Seattle 1984 Night Voices, with Sue Ann Harkey, Seattle Art Museum 1984 Jackson Street Gallery, Seattle, Washington 1984 Face to Face, with Jimmy Jet, Seattle Pacific University 1983 Jackson Street gallery, Seattle, Washington 1983 I Dream the Shattering Price of Wisdom, Ace, Seattle 1982 Warehouse Paintings, Vogue, Seattle 1981 Wall Drawing, and/or alternative space, Seattle 1979 Facing Death, Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington 1979 Some Seattle Drawings, and/or alternative space, Seattle, 1977 A Reading After Robbe-Grillet, Cabaret Voltaire, Seattle 1977 Alexander Sasanoff, Seattle, Washington 1975 Alexander Sasanoff, Seattle, Washington Group 2018 82d National, Butler Institute of American Art, OH 2017 Art For Living, CICA Museum, Seoul, South Korea 2017 From the Collection, Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, CA 2017 Contemporary Abstraction, Sullivan Goss, Santa Barbara, CA 2016 For the Earth, Postmodern, Washington, DC 2015 Out of the Great Wide Open, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara 2015 Retablos for Peace, Museum of Ventura County, Ventura, California 2014 100 Grand, Sullivan Goss gallery, Santa Barbara, California 2014 Cuento Cups, Museum of Ventura County, Ventura, California 2014 Ventura County Arts Council, Ventura, California 2013 100 Grand, Sullivan Goss gallery, Santa Barbara 2013 In the Detail, SCIART, Camarillo, Califonria 2013 Elizabeth Gordon gallery, Santa Barbara, California 2013 WAV [Working Artists Ventura], California 2013 Art for Peace, Vita Art Center, Bell Arts Factory, Ventura 2012 Something Old, Something New, Pistol Productions, Ventura 2012 Undressed, Pistol Productions, Ventura, California 2012 SCIART, Camarillo, California 2012 Vita Art Center, Bell Arts Factory, Ventura, California 2011 Vita Art Center, Bell Arts Factory, Ventura, California 2011 StoneWorks, Ventura, California 2010 Print Electronico, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2010 Epocha Nueva, Casa Del Mexicano, Santa Paula, California 2010 Laurel Ventura Gallery, California 2009 California State University Channel Islands Invitational 2009 VCAC Selects Ventura’s Best, Ventura, California 2008 Mirror, curated: Paul Benavidas, Ventura, 2008 Earth and Sky, Gallerie 255, Ventura, California 2008 Caruso Woods, Santa Barbara, California 2007 Rainbow Alliance Show, LGBT Support Network, Ventura 2007 Caruso Woods, Santa Barbara, California 2006 Elizabeth Edwards, Palm Desert, California 2006 Caruso Woods, Santa Barbara, California 2005 Elizabeth Edwards, Palm Desert, California 2005 Caruso Woods, Santa Barbara, California 2004 Society of American Graphic Artists [SAGA], New York City 2004 Landscape Unlimited, Chicago, Illinois 2004 17th Parkside National, University of Wisconsin 2004 McNeese State, c: M. Druit, Sr Curator, Menil, Houston 2004 Signal+Noise, Center4Research/Electronic Art TEch., UCSB 2004 Artlink Contemporary, Fort Wayne, Indiana 2004 Montpelier Center for the Arts, Montpelier, Virginia 2004 Las Vegas Center for Art and Design, Santa Fe, New Mexico 2004 Elizabeth Edwards, Palm Desert, California 2004 Buddha Abides, Caruso Woods, Santa Barbara, California 2003 Lisa Kurts Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee 2002 Lisa Kurts Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee 2000 Artists for World Peace, Pavilion for World Peace, Kobe, Japan 2000 Artists for World Peace, Karpeles Museum, Santa Barbara 1988 – 1996 did not exhibit 1985 New York, LA, Seattle, COCA, traveled: Seattle, LA, New York 1985 Seattle Art Museum, c: Gene Barto, Brooklyn Museum of Art 1985 Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle 1984 City of Seattle Collects, c: Howard Fox, Seattle Art Museum 1984 Dark Voices, performance, Seattle Art Museum 1984 Burning Angels, Cornish Institute for the Arts, Seattle 1984 Sliver Birds, performance, Poetry Seattle 1983 Jackson Street Gallery, Seattle, Washington 1980 Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, Washington 1979 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC 1979 William Traver Gallery, Seattle, Washington 1978 6500 x 20, and/or alternative space, Seattle 1978 Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington 1977 International Flux Fest, c: George Maciunas, and/or, Seattle 1976 c: Wayne Thiebaud, Del Mar Museum, Corpus Christie, Texas

Galina Richardson

Visual Arts: Illustration, Other, Painting; Fine Art, Watercolor, Charcoal, Pastel, Mixed Media

Galina Richardson was born in Volgograd, Russia and has been drawing and painting ever since she was a young girl. Growing up, she was also interested in languages and she ultimately sought a formal education in the field of linguistics. While working as a technical translator in Surgut, Western Siberia, Galina met her American husband. She soon joined him in Ventura, California and has called this coastal city her home for more than twenty-five years. Galina studied graphic design at UCSB and for many years worked as a graphic designer, creating logos, advertisements, posters and brochures. She went on to work for the FBI in Los Angeles as a language analyst, but her passion for art remained. Mostly self-taught, Galina is a passionate watercolorist. She loves the freedom, spontaneity and delicate nature of the watercolor medium. Capturing people in all their uniqueness has been the main driving force behind Galina’s artwork and her two daughters often provide inspiration for her paintings. Galina frequently exhibits at the Buenaventura and Thousand Oaks Art Associations, where her artwork has received recognition from her peers and the public. She paints plein air, enjoys life figure drawing, attends classes and workshops taught by renowned local and international artists, including Keiko Tanabe, Nick Runge, Cuong Nguyen, Gerald Brummer, Paul Jackson, Jeannie Vodden, and Judy Koenig. Galina is also an avid runner and has recently reached her goal of completing 50 marathons.

Tobie Roach

Visual Arts: Illustration, Painting

Mainly I am an artist, though I wear a few hats: Public Art Project Manager for the City of Ventura California, and other various creative ways to make a living while still being loyal to the arts. I also LOVE to make stuff. Paintings, collage, sculpture, enamored with repurposing things, whatever inspiration brings. I guess you’d like to know that I was educated. Firstly by life experience, many mentors and teachers, so far, but more formally I have a BA in Fine Art from Cal State Channel Islands. I am so grateful I had the opportunity to study (and continue), in depth, what it is I love so much.I’ve done a bit of traveling, met a lot of people, enjoyed working as a personal assistant to very amazing people. I look and listen within frequently. I’ve endured my fair share of life lessons. I’ve been the giver and receiver of a lot of love. I am grateful.

Mark Rubin

Visual Arts: Painting

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