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17th Annual OC Arts Awards

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Captain Blood

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Marooned!

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Chasing the LighT

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The Day I Bullied Sir Anthony Hopkins into Admitting He’s Zen

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Creations That Last a Lifetime

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Looking Forward to the 2017 Palm Springs International Film Festival

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A look Back at the Origins of This Whimsical Creation

Pillages Laguna Beach with Passion, Swordplay The Lone Woman of San Nicolas An Interview with Acclaimed Landscape Painter Tom Swimm

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HIGHLIGHTS

THE SAWDUST FACADE

A look Back at the Origins of This Whimsical Creation written by Liz Goldner Few structures embody the artistic nature and quirkiness

of Laguna Beach as vividly as the Sawdust Art Festival facade.

This distinctive edifice, which welcomes visitors traveling here

on Canyon Road, features several architectural styles reflective of the community surrounding it.

The fact is that the facade has become such an integral

part of the gateway to our city that many residents and visitors take its presence for granted. But ask the Sawdust’s long-time

exhibitors about this structure and you’ll learn that before it was

decided to move to Laguna and asked Lashley to design a home here for him. The budding architect agreed to do so, soon fell

in love with our city—especially with its unusual, vernacular, hand-made houses—and moved here after graduation in the late 1950s. He began working as an architect, creating and

remodeling houses all over the city, often in the craftsman style, which features a wide-open interior design and exposed wood and beams.

constructed in 1988, the festival built a temporary, rambling,

rough-hewn facade nearly every year. Then inquire as to how this magical facade was designed and built, and you’ll hear

about Jim Lashley, a long-time Laguna resident and architect who won a contest in 1987 to create a permanent edifice for the event.

I met with Lashley, now almost 80 years old, on a late

August afternoon in front of the Sawdust, as throngs of people

were entering and leaving. He had traveled to the festival on his bicycle from his downtown home, and was eager to talk about his life as an architect and about how he designed the facade.

Lashley’s father was in the military. “So I grew up all over

the place,” the architect says, recalling that he observed all

kinds of cultures and buildings. He studied architecture at the

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In 1987 the Sawdust’s board decided that the festival needed

a permanent facade and asked local architects to submit plans.

Resident Patti Ohsland, for whom Lashley had designed a home, recommended that he enter this design contest. As a resident for nearly 30 years, he had been observing our city’s unique

architecture, and he chose several houses that he admired as

models for the festival’s main edifice and for its adjoining west

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and east reconstructions. The Sawdust

board liked his plans the best and chose him to create the new facade.

Lashley modeled the festival’s main

entrance on one of Laguna’s most iconic houses, “The Witch’s House” on Wave

Street in north Laguna. Designed and built in the late 1920s by Los Angeles architect Vernon Barker, it’s on the National

Register of Historic Places. Lashley

explains that when this and other houses were built in the early 20th century,

Laguna had no building department

and no codes; therefore, architects could design eccentric residences with little oversight. Today the Sawdust’s main

entrance and the Witch’s House are like congenial cousins, with each featuring

steep, soaring gables facing in different directions, irregular shake shingles

and variously shaped windows, some

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oddly angled doors. Both buildings also contain prominently

arched gables. Just to the right of this edifice there is a low-

fairy tales. And both are built mainly of wood (although the

square symmetrical windows. It was inspired by the American

displayed stone chimneys recalling similar structures out of Sawdust’s main edifice includes stucco for durability).

The west facade of the Sawdust, to the right of the main

entrance, is the most fanciful and eclectic. Lashley explains that

slung facade, made primarily of wood, with pitched roofs and

Craftsman style of architecture, and in particular by a residence on the corner of Carmelita and Pearl Streets.

While Jim Lashley’s Sawdust facade is a durable, creative

this design is based on a vintage house on High Drive. Indeed,

reflection of the artistic community surrounding it, he has kept

and a chimney can be seen there. Yet Lashley’s design also

seldom been extolled by the community. In 2012, however, the

a home with similar features with extensive use of natural rock incorporates Provincial features including an arched doorway and window, an asymmetrical shape, and a silo-type tower

or chimney. Adding to the west section’s storybook character

are intricate, colorful tiles bordering the arched doorway and window and dividing the lower stone work from the upper

wooden walls. Local ceramic artist Marlo Bartels created and installed this tile work.

The east facade encompasses the most traditional design

of the three Sawdust edifices. For this section, Lashley copied

the look of a Cotswold-style house on Virginia Park Drive near

Laguna Beach High School. The English Cotswald style, similar to homes depicted in children’s books, features stucco walls, a large central chimney, simulated thatched roofs and steep

a low profile for most of his life, and his architectural plans have Sawdust erected a plaque near its main entrance. It reads, “In tribute to JIM LASHLEY, Laguna Beach Architect and Artist, Designer of the Sawdust Art Festival facade and permanent

buildings in 1988, inspired by early houses of Laguna Beach … with gratitude and admiration by the Board of Directors and Artists.”

The Sawdust Art Festival’s Winter Wonderland features

artwork, jewelry, clothing, blown glass, ceramics, woodwork, metals, painting, photography, sculpture, clothing and more.

There are also outdoor cafes, art classes, live entertainment, a

petting zoo and even Santa. The event runs five weekends from

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17 th Annual OC Arts Awards Samueli Theater, Segerstrom Center for the Arts, to honor its arts stars at the 17th

Annual Orange County

Forsyte, President, Pacific Symphony; Mike McGee,

Director, Begovich Gallery & Professor of Art, California State University, Fullerton.

An Achievement

Arts Awards, hosted by

Award was given to PBS

agency, Arts Orange County.

the region’s flagship PBS

the county’s non-profit arts This year’s Helena

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SoCal, which has become television station.

Awards were also given

honorees for lifetime

to Emerging Artist, Yevgeniya

County arts community

Leader, Allen Moon, founder

contributions to the Orange included Damien and Yvonne

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Mikhailik, and Emerging Arts of Santa Ana Sites.

John Forsyte

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Damien and Yvonne Jordan

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Jordan, arts patrons; John

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HIGHLIGHTS

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LOOKING BACK

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written by Stacy Davies

APTAIN LOOD

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In 1935, unknown 26-year-old Australian actor Errol Flynn screen tested for the lead in a new swashbuckling film after the original actor, Ronald Donat, dropped out due to asthma, and he won the part. Meanwhile, 19-year-old recent high school graduate Olivia de Havilland had just appeared in her first film, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and was offered the female lead in the same swashbuckler after the original choice, Jean Muir, dropped out.

Dead set on remaking the 1924 silent Captain

was married—a circumstance that had never

stopped him but that apparently did stop her.

The two would eventually star in eight films

together, the most popular being The Adventures

of Robin Hood in 1938, in which de Havilland says

their passion for one another is clearly evident on

the screen. It is Captain Blood, however, that ignited those long-lasting torches. In his autobiography,

written shortly before his death, Flynn admitted to still being in love with de Havilland, and she

contends that, to this day, her feelings for him have

Blood after two other buccaneer adventures had

not diminished. Blood was also the beginning of

the criminally undervalued Hungarian director

Hollywood—a beautiful couple of whom fans

cashed in at the box office, Warner Bros. tapped

one of the most famous screen pairings of 1930s

Michael Curtiz to helm the momentous production.

simply could not get enough.

Curtiz’s stock was still low and his leads had

of 1935 and released just after Christmas, Captain

only resulting in a runaway hit that established

rear-screen projection. The only location shooting

that also shot Flynn and de Havilland into the

(with palm trees added to make it appear like a

It was a genuine monetary gamble, considering

Filmed in three months during the summer

zero name recognition. The gamble paid off, not

Blood was shot almost entirely on studio sets with

the foundation for every pirate film to follow, but

took place at Laguna Beach’s Three Arch Bay

stratosphere. Oh, yes, and they fell in love.

Caribbean island) and it is here that the famous

actor from the Golden Age and has kept mum

and his French rival Levasseur (Basil Rathbone)

At age 100, de Havilland is the oldest living

duel between Dr. Peter “Captain” Blood (Flynn)

about Flynn for most of her life. In recent years,

riveted audiences.

that they were terribly attracted to each other, yet

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insisting they were never intimate because Flynn

Initially, Flynn was so nervous in his first

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camera rolled. Once he gained his

bearings later in the production, he was much better, leading Curtiz to reshoot most of the early scenes.

Flynn was also plagued with other problems, collapsing during the

filming from a bout of malaria that

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he’d contracted years earlier in New Guinea—a condition that would haunt him for the rest of his life.

Flynn quickly recovered this time

around and resumed his incessant pranking of co-star de Havilland,

something he continued throughout their later films. In the Charge of the Light Brigade, filmed the following year, he left a dead snake in her

pantaloons. She found it when she tried to put them on and fled into the lake shrieking – wearing only

a hoopskirt. Flynn could be heard

giggling in the bushes nearby and de Havilland thereafter lived in terror over what he’d think up next.

Filming at the bay was less

eventful, but more complex.

While Laguna’s famous fog was

conveniently inactive, there was still nature to contend with, as Rathbone

explained when discussing his death scene on the beach.

“A man stood with a stopwatch,”

the actor recalled, “and he timed the waves coming in. There was a short routine in which Flynn had to get

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wave was coming in. If I fell exactly as a wave was coming in, it would cover me with water and as the wave went back

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There was also real bloodshed.

Deciding that he wanted to see authentic fear in his actors’ eyes, Curtiz had the safety caps removed from the ends of their swords, resulting in Rathbone

leaving a large scar on Flynn’s arm.

While subsequent pirate films

have mimicked and surpassed Curtiz’s exemplary cinematography, no scurvy leads have yet been able to duplicate

Flynn’s charisma, and it was this unique buccaneer bravado that kept him in the swordplay trade, on and off, for many

years. De Havilland quickly wearied of being “rescue fodder,” however, finally moving past typecasting in 1939 and

proving herself iconic in Gone with the

Wind, for which she took home the gold.

Many years and pirate films later,

everyone has a personal favorite, but

while under a modern lens Captain Blood

does have some unintentionally comedic moments (and many intentional ones that still stick), it remains untouched

in its rollicking shipboard attacks and

village-plundering. There’s also Flynn

and de Havilland, of course, and you just can’t beat those faces.

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LOOKING BACK

Marooned!

The Lone Woman of San Nicolas written by Grove Koger

The story of the Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island is

actually two stories. One is a factual account of a woman who

was marooned on an island off the coast of what was then Alta California, while the other is a vivid fictional recreation of the woman’s lonely plight and her evolving appreciation for the

natural world. The first is frustratingly brief and ambiguous, while the second has become a modern classic.

The scene of the Lone Woman’s adventures was fog-bound

signs that someone was living on San Nicolas. He returned with several other hunters, one of whom encountered the woman

skinning a seal. She “was of medium height,” Nidever wrote,

and “rather thick.” He added that “she was continually smiling,” but that her teeth were “worn to the gums.” She obligingly

helped the men hunt otters for several weeks, and left with them as the ship sailed back to the mainland.

No longer “lone,” the woman lived with Nidever and

San Nicolas, the most remote of the Channel Islands. San Nicolas

his wife, but no one, not even local Native Americans, could

Nicoleño, Native Americans whose numbers were decimated

have been delighted with what she saw—including children and

was once inhabited by a group of people we’ve dubbed the when Russian and Aleut fur traders began hunting the sea

otters living in the island’s waters. In 1835 Catholic missionaries arranged with a schooner captain to transport the remaining inhabitants of San Nicolas to the mainland.

The story might have ended there, but for some reason the

seamen left one young woman behind. Did she leap off the ship when she realized that her child was not aboard? That was the story that circulated decades later, apparently with no basis

in fact. What we do know is that the wind rose and the ship’s

captain had no choice but to cast off and abandon the woman.

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understand a word of what she said. Nevertheless she seems to horses—and danced to show her pleasure.

Fast forward a century and we find writer Scott O’Dell

approaching the end of his stint as book editor for the Los Angeles Daily News. Born in LA, O’Dell had lived in San

Pedro and nearby Rattlesnake (Terminal) Island, worked as a cameraman in Hollywood, and hobnobbed with the likes of

John Barrymore and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Then in his mid-fifties, he’d published a handful of books, but none of them had set the world on fire—a situation that was to change with the appearance of Island of the Blue Dolphins in 1960.

O’Dell had first heard of the Lone Woman in the 1920s.

But it was only much later, in anger at the hunters who were

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Island of the Blue Dolphins went on to win Scott O’Dell a host of awards slaughtering “everything that creeps

or walks or flies” near his house in the

mountains, that he began to rework the

animals, she can’t help but remember “all the happy days.”

The fictional story ends there, but

story in a subtly different form.

the factual one has a much less satisfying

into Karana, who jumps ship to remain

solitude, the Lone Woman died only

O’Dell transformed the Lone Woman

with her abandoned brother, Ramo.

However, Ramo is soon killed by wild

dogs, leaving Karana completely alone.

Yet she perseveres, making a simple but ultimately fulfilling life for herself. She survives on shellfish but in time learns to spare larger animals, realizing that

“the earth would be an unhappy place”

conclusion. After enduring years of

Karana’s stoic response to her situation has inspired millions of young readers.

In 2012, after years of searching the

available to her. Her real name had never

cave that the Lone Woman had lived in.

been discovered, but she was baptized

as Juana Maria by the fathers at Mission

Santa Barbara and buried in an unmarked grave in the mission’s cemetery.

Island of the Blue Dolphins went on

When she’s rescued at last and taken

Medal for the year’s “most distinguished

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28 languages, and its simple account of

island, Navy archaeologist Steve Schwartz

from the effects of the rich food suddenly

to win Scott O’Dell a host of awards,

to the mainland, accompanied by her

children’s classic, it’s been translated into

seven weeks after her rescue, apparently

without them. Instead she tames birds

and two of the dogs as her companions.

children.” Long since recognized as a

including the prestigious Newbery

contribution to American literature for

discovered what he believed was the

What clues to her ordeal might it reveal?

However, the Navy, which administers

San Nicolas, has ordered the work halted in light of protests by the Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians, who claim a cultural

affiliation with the Nicoleños. That claim

has been challenged, but for the moment,

at least, San Nicolas is keeping its secrets.

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BOOK EXCERPT

“Unguarded and naked, even when fully clothed, the

images in this book capture a time that Bowie himself would

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ARTIST PROFILE

Chasing the Light

An Interview with Acclaimed Landscape Painter Tom Swimm written by Kimberly B. Johnson

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“Across the Grand Canal”

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Before Tom Swimm found himself as a writer, playwright, composer and painter in Laguna Beach, he was working as an advertising artist in the country’s brashest metropolis—fast-paced, no-nonsense, no-sleep New York City. But he was familiar with that

environment, having been born and raised in the region and spending his formative years in the city taking in its cultural amenities.

“I always sketched and painted, even at a very young age,” Swimm

remembers. ”In high school, my interest in art became more focused and it was at this time that I took some art classes and spent time reading about

artists and visiting museums in New York. Van Gogh was a major influence in my work, not only for his paintings, but for his passion for art that came through in his writing. The way he used color and applied brushstrokes is unique to his vision.

“Edward Hopper was another source of inspiration,” Swimm

continues, “especially his paintings of architectural and urban subjects. His work always captured very subtle nuances of light and shadow, something I try to do in my own work. Many other artists from the Impressionist

period were an influence, including Monet and Cezanne. I learned so much just by studying their painting—as much as I could. Having access to all

the museums in New York was a great advantage. My childhood and high

school years weren’t the happiest times in my life, but when I could retreat into painting, it provided a world where I felt more confident.”

After finishing high school, Swimm went on to work for a newspaper

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in upstate New York. “College didn’t interest me,” he explains, but

working on the paper turned out to be a great learning experience for the

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“Venice Taxi” young creative. “It taught me about writing, visual composition, printing, how to deal with deadlines

and also how to work with groups of people. After the newspaper, the ad agency business came next, where

my ‘street education’ continued. It was New York in the

Mad Men days and it gave me a lot of knowledge about

the art business, photography, visual composition, color and design.”

In 1982, with his wife and young son in tow,

Swimm relocated to Laguna Beach, where he was

immediately inspired by the West Coast’s light, life

and profound landscape. Here he renewed his love for painting, beginning again with a newfound vigor and a lust to chase the light wherever it might lead. Soon

afterward, a friend suggested that he submit his work to the Festival of Arts. “I had my doubts,” Swimm

recalls, “but I was surprised that I was accepted on

my first try. That was 1987 and the Festival became a

pivotal turning point in my transition from commercial art to becoming a ‘fine artist.’”

Nearly 30 years ago, during Swimm’s very first

day exhibiting at the Festival, his wife—who, Swimm 48 ArtPatronMagazine.com

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Swimm met Paul Jillson, the owner of Laguna’s Pacific Edge Gallery, who gave the artist his first exhibition in

1990. That show, says Swimm, changed his life forever.

The romantic interplay of light on surfaces is what

Swimm strives to capture, and it’s his ability to do this

that has earned him such acclaim. “So much of painting is about observation,” he explains. “Even though I

work from my photos for reference and am primarily a studio painter, I study the effects of light and shadow in all that I see. Capturing that single moment where light reaches its peak at certain times of day is a challenge, but it’s what I strive to capture.”

By now Swimm’s work has been displayed on

the walls of numerous galleries, and at one point his pieces hung in a dozen galleries across both coasts

and in Hawaii. In addition, the artist is a favorite of

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After receiving the portrait, Allen replied

with a thank you letter, noting that it was

a very gracious gift as well as an excellent likeness. Others who own Swimm’s

works include television personality

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Burt Bacharach, Baywatch co-creator Greg Bonann, and actress Tai Collins.

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age of 16, and the two have enjoyed 40 years of marriage and the challenges

and triumphs that come with them—

including supporting each other through tough decisions such as career changes.

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ARTIST PROFILE

The Day I Bullied Sir Anthony Hopkins into Admitting He’s Zen written by Stacy Davies

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Being in the “stream,” the state of

consciousness in which creativity flows

unobstructed by fear or judgment—that is the goal of artists. It can take years of pushing through insecurity and

criticisms—both real and imagined,

both just and unjust—to reach a place

in which one is content merely with the

act of creating, regardless of what comes

afterward. And most of us never get there.

It helps if you’ve already been wildly

successful in some other field, although that, alone, never ensures confidence.

When I spoke with Sir Anthony Hopkins by phone from Maui (he in Maui, me,

unfortunately not), the one theme that

kept popping up, and that he consistently

referred back to, was that he really doesn’t care if you like his work. His paintings,

specifically. He might care if you like his acting, but I doubt it—besides, he has a shelf of statuettes to back that up.

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composing music, something he’s toyed with since he was a boy—he’s perfectly fine with your ignoring them, and pleasantly surprised if you’re touched.

He also thinks it’s amusing when he’s analyzed, which I attempted to do, at

length, eliciting only polite responses that I might be right.

“People come up with these

fascinating analyses about everything,” he laughs, “and I honestly don’t know what

they’re talking about. I’m not interested in any of it, not in an academic way.”

Throughout our conversation, I try

to worm my way into his head, and he

patiently allows it with little comment— he’s not willing to admit to much. When it comes to discussions about concrete

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“I come from Wales, which is a very

dull climate normally, and I love color,”

Hopkins says. “When I paint, I choose a

color and put it on the canvas and it just evolves. If there’s a mistake, I just paint over it.”

I ask if he believes there are mistakes

in art.

“No, not really. Sometimes, I look

at it and think I should change things,

sometimes I leave it alone. I just go into

the studio, I don’t plan anything. There’s

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I protest that there is psychology

behind it—we just haven’t figured his out yet! He laughs, and instead of debating the point, offers two brief stories of

Gary Cooper and Picasso, and Richard Burton and Picasso. (Sir Anthony does love Picasso.) In short, the tales run

along the lines that Picasso had lunch

with Cooper in Paris and then made a drawing of the fish carcass they’d just

ravished, and handed it to Cooper. A fish, is a fish, is a fish—there was no intent.

Likewise, Picasso paid for a feast he

shared with Burton by making a sketch on the bill. A drawing as currency, with no

premeditation. Hopkins wins the point,

and is quick to add that he is no Picasso.

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moment, thinks, and partially commits.

So I push, determined to pin down an

admission that, on some level, he does

have feelings about the work he claims he forms no attachment to once it’s completed.

“You do have the need and the

desire to paint, don’t you?”

“I enjoy doing it,” he says matter-

of-factly. “I spend three days in the

studio and I paint, and then I think I

better stop. I don’t need to add more

time to it. Yes, I love doing it and I’m constantly surprised that these [art]

shows come up. I’m very pleased that it’s happened.”

“Ah! So, there is a satisfaction!”

“Oh, yes! But I can never remember

how I created it. I just don’t have

that ability to appraise it. So, that’s

an expectation, I guess. I was never

academically trained or have formal education in it. I just know about

practice – doing something over and over and over. Like with acting. You

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something so well, you don’t have to

think about it. I just go with the flow. I

recognize it when it comes. I guess, yes, it’s a bit Zen.”

I secretly revel that I got what I

wanted—I think—and then wonder why it was so important in the first

place. Why do we need to know what makes people tick? Why was I so

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obsessed with getting into this man’s head? What were the mysteries I’d

hoped would be revealed? I wanted

the keys to his process. His emotional manual. A slight inkling into how he

creates. None of these admissions ever really help another artist or make any

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along.

“I don’t even know how I became

an actor,” he laughs. “Does it have a

magical meaning? Why talk about it?

Just get on with it and do it.”

Mystery solved.

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ARTIST PROFILE

Creations That Last a Lifetime The Artwork of Sukhdev Dail written by Kimberly B. Johnson

Sculptor and painter Sukhdev Dail was born in a small village in Punjab, a region of northern India whose name means “the land of five rivers.”

Known for its rich natural resources and humble way of life, Punjab is “very fertile,” the artist explains, “and is considered a bread basket of India.”

The son of an Ayurvedic doctor and

surgeon and the grandson of a horse

breeder and landowner, Dail enjoyed a

wealth of experiences in his birthplace.

college’s front garden, but Dail himself was itching to move on.

“I have traveled from Kashmir in the

“Village life differed, for we had no ready-

north to Kerala in the south of India, a

granted in a city,” he says. “We made our

explains. “Marveled at Kashmir’s natural

made toys or amenities that one takes for

own and used our own imagination, since nobody told us how to do it.” He recalls

carving toys from wooden sticks with his pocket knife.

Dail’s formative years in Punjab

encouraged the growth of his imagination and creativity, traits necessary to his

very survival. “We played outsiade as

children, and even with a temperature

of 100-plus degrees, we didn’t carry any

water with us. On the way to school, we

drank from a stream, and if hungry, we’d climb a mango tree, get into a nearby corn field or eat raw sugar cane for a

distance of about 2000 miles,” the artist

beauty, which would be an inspiration for any painter of landscapes, and enjoyed the Ajanta caves in the south for their

abundance of wall paintings glorifying the human body with such grace and

elegance. The same is to be said about the temples, carved in stone, with each inch of the space covered with a multitude

of human and animal figures, depicting stories and legends. As a young artist, those experiences left an indelible

impression on me, and gave a certain

direction to my future artistic attempts.”

Anxious to see the art of Europe, Dail

snack.” Nourished through years of such

traveled with several companions along

to achieve success as an artist throughout

ran out of gas in the midst of a brewing

experiences, the young man was destined India, Europe and America.

Graduating from the Delhi College

of Art in 1962, Dail was offered a teaching opportunity at the Teacher’s College

in Phagwara, where he created his first

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archer, in 1964. The piece still stands in the

India’s ancient Grand Trunk Road. They sandstorm, and after abandoning their car, opted to walk. The storm washed over them with fury, but eventually

they reached a village and found a gas

attendant who drove them back to their car. Continuing on, they reached Iran

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before their car truly gave out and had

numerous private collections of many art

‘installation’ adjoining the invisible old

awards as well. In 1985 he was invited

to be abandoned. “It became yet another Trunk Road,” Dail remarks.

After reaching Brussels, Belgium,

Dail was admitted to the city’s Royal Academy Palace de Beaux Arts and

of his 20-year career at the India’s Chandigarh Museum.

Since then Dail has found himself

in Laguna Beach, living near a state park

small compared to Paris, but had all

recent piece, a 10-foot bronze sculpture

the amenities, museums and galleries necessary to an aspiring artist.

Dail eventually moved to Canada,

where he supported himself as an

animator, and in time got a call from Bill Hanna of Hanna-Barbera Productions

where deer and bobcat roam. His most entitled Sea Breeze, stands on the

community’s main beach. He sometimes takes an early evening walk to visit

the sculpture and often finds tourists

snapping their photos with his creation.

Dail travels to Europe and India

asking him to come to Hollywood to

every year to touch base with his family

a director for such studios as MGM and

first stop is England, where I visit my

work as a layout artist. He hired on as Universal, assignments that allowed him to continue his career as a fine

artist as well. Dail held a one-man show at the prestigious Ankrum Gallery in

Hollywood in 1971, exhibiting ethereal abstract paintings that found homes in

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to hold the first retrospective exhibition

held his first one-man exhibition at the Gallery Romain Louise. The city was

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collectors. The 1970s brought him several

and nourish his creative roots. “My

son Mavi and visit the Blott Gallery,

which exhibits my work. The next stop

is Croatia, since my wife Marija is from there. I also have a gallery in Zagreb

that exhibits my art, and a studio on the

mountain of Biokovo which I share with

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a friend, the sculptor

for an hour. At home I have my breakfast

the old Roman road, and I

working day starts. I feel that I have made

Milan. The studio is by

find it very soothing, even spiritual, where we work in stone, and rest among the olives and grapes

overlooking the Adriatic

I have studied at the academies of the

world, seen the arts of the East and of the West, of the old and of the new.

“I was always searching for the art

that was in me,” Dail continues. “One

into the distant past,

what kind of art to create? What kind of

hearing horses’ hoofs on the cobbled stones, as

they transport marble sculptures and other

treasures down these ancient roads.”

Dail still practices

a philosophy of being

present and making each day count. “I start each

day at 5:00 a.m. with yoga and stretching and at 6:00 I bike to the beach, where I

walk barefoot in the sand and meditate

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a full circle as far as art is concerned:

Sea and neighboring islands. I am carried

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and a cup of chai or macchiato, and my

has to come to terms with his own soul;

message to emit? Is it important to have

a message? Not really, for even when an art is created for its own sake, there is

a message in it, if a viewer wants to see it—he makes it up himself. And that’s fine. I dig deep into the universe, and

close to myself; I touch the delicate line that vibrates as it connects us all—be it humans, birds, animals or plants. I

try to create a form, a space, colors and

compositions that evoke emotions, that last a lifetime.”

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written by Liz Goldner • photographed by Tom Lamb One of Pat Sparkuhl’s favorite paintings is a large

horizontal oil featuring his wife, Heather, smiling broadly while sitting on a paddleboard at Laguna’s Diver’s Cove.

Painted by Bradford Salamon, Infinite Dance hangs above

Sparkuhl’s fireplace, and is one of several pieces created by

friends and colleagues on display in his home. Here also are

and appearance of the nearby palm trees. These include Record Tower and A Pair of High Heels, the latter made from discarded shoe heels. These totem-like artworks pay homage to the

culture that Sparkuhl grew up with, to a time when surf music proliferated and women often dressed up.

A visit inside his home reveals an abundance of personal

works by local expressionist Sandra Jones Campbell, longtime

works. Near the entrance is a large, untitled, uncontrived

Nordstrom, who captured Heather floating on a paddleboard

feet. Created over the 35 years since the birth of Sparkuhl’s

Sawdust exhibitor Dion Wright, and photographer Jim

along Main Beach and surrounded by dolphins. For Sparkuhl, living a joy-filled life, appreciating the art of others, and creating his own works are inseparable pursuits.

Among Sparkuhl’s other treasured pieces are the 30

surfboards in his back yard, some of them decades old. He

uses just a few of them when he surfs nearby and displays the rest, as each one is a hand-formed work of art, he explains.

A dedicated surfer since the age of 11, when he moved to

Laguna, Sparkuhl became an artist in part due to the hours

he spent alone on a surfboard as a child and teen. “It was me

on a board, surfing the waves on my own,” he says. “And it’s

me alone in my art studio making my assemblage art pieces.”

He adds that these two passions are not only complementary; they inspire each other.

A tour of Sparkuhl’s own artworks begins in the front

yard of his 1920s vintage bungalow in North Laguna. Here he is surrounded by assemblages that reflect the rough texture

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installation, attached to the ceiling and measuring 7 by 13 daughter, the assemblage consists of old license plates,

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disposable cameras, a Day of the Dead figure, a dinosaur toy,

sorcerer, creating haunting and beautiful pieces. His hope is

more souvenirs.

our deepest yearnings, frustrations, anxieties and addictions.

records, puppets, masks, photographs of old friends and many Throughout his house are more sculptures made from such

cast-off materials as antlers, barbed wire, books, candles, cast feet, cast torsos, ceramic figures, copper wire, crutches, dolls,

human hair, molded teeth, photographs, religious icons, swords and wishbones. Sparkuhl weaves these items together like a

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that these artworks will reach into our psyches by speaking to One such piece is Faids, which addresses the scourge of AIDS

in our society. Shaped like a Gothic arch, the sculpture features a symbolic mother made from a mannequin head, fragmented

coins, human figures symbolizing the illness’s victims, and cast

figures representing scientists searching for a cure. There is also

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a shrine illustrating women as victims, as well as a plastic bird

Bearing Witness is a commentary on the brutality of the

representing release, freedom and resolve.

Holocaust, on how Jews in concentration camps were forced to

along the Mexican border, particularly, he says, “the plight

chambers. Its materials include a violin, human hair collected

Sparkuhl’s No Child Left Behind deals with drug trafficking

of children growing up without trust for adults.” This piece

features a child’s head encased within a stocking and a heart.

Other symbolic items include crinkled pesos and dollar bills, cast skulls, a rosary and a sculpted priest wearing elegant vestments.

play beautiful music as their fellow prisoners entered the gas

from 55 different people, and plastic dolls’ hands holding barbed wire.

The most compelling work in Sparkuhl’s home, Bible Series,

is an ongoing project composed of 21 individual pieces, with

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each piece featuring a real Bible. To these he has attached dolls’ heads, gambling materials, a gun, a grenade, the figure of a bishop holding a skull, an image of Porky Pig, a devil with a crown, and a bride

and groom from a wedding cake. The artist explains that the project confronts the hypocrisy of some of today’s conventional religious practices.

Upon leaving his art-filled residence, Sparkuhl walks up North

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Opposite Page: Misbuttoned Shirt – painting by Andy Gerber; Tattoo Parlor – mixed media by Dennis Clendenen This Page: Angel – painting by Juan Cervantes; Angel Series (Pat Sparkuhl) – photograph by John Hesketh; studio shot

of the Laguna Beach Festival of Arts permanent collection, where he has been working since 2010. Within this 1,500-square foot-

space, he examines, arranges, catalogues and watches over the

Here, the former art professor and Festival of Arts exhibitor/ juror communes joyfully with the paintings.

When asked to explain what he considers to be the value of

restoration of the festival’s 1,100-piece collection. These classic

art, Sparkuhl replies, “The understanding and appreciation of

Anna Hills’ The White Barn (1920), Joseph Kleitsch’s Laguna Beach

magical way.” He adds, “When you feel passionate about issues

pieces include William Griffith’s Saddleback Mountain (1938),

(1926), William Wendt’s Studio in the Canyon (1930), Scott Moore’s Pigeon Man, Monterey (1985) and Ken Auster’s Laguna (1996).

art is like a contagion that affects most people in a positive and and ideas, and then express those feelings in art, that is true freedom.”

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COLLECTOR PROFILE

A Tale of Two Cities The Collections of Gil Rose and Stan Russell written by Angela Romeo photographed by Terry Hastings

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Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities opens with the observation, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” To avid art collectors Gil Rose and Stan

Russell, their residence in Palm Springs and their getaway condo

in San Diego constitute a somewhat different tale. “The difference is the desert home reflects a resort ambience while the condo has

an urbanity only a large city can offer,” Russell points out. “When

we purchased the San Diego property on Balboa Park, an artist we collect actually believed we purchased it to house her work.“

The pair travel regularly between their two dynamic collections

of contemporary art. “Our San Diego and Palm Springs homes reflect not only our love of art, but our love of life,” Russell continues.

“They are different in that the desert collection is staged in a gallery and spa-like setting, while the penthouse has an NYC energy about it. We find joy in art that evokes happiness in both settings.” The

two share a connection with each other as well as with their art. “We normally migrate to the same work,” Rose quips, “but feel the art buys us, not the other way around.”

Above left: “Girl with Birdcage” by Gene Logan. Steel construction.

Above Right: “Mother Earth” A 500-pound rock crystal and steel fountain designed by collectors, Gil Rose & Stan Russell. Below: “Pivot Abstract” circa 1997 by Brad Howe. Painted steel construction.

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“Portrait of Thomas Goylar� dated 1973 by Roger Robles. Note: Robles is represented in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC. Both the artist and the subject reside in the desert.

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“Art is acquired in many ways,” Russell adds. “We have

“Resin-coated Panels” by local Palm Springs artist, David Travis.

purchased from galleries, directly from the artists, online and

from secondary sources such as Revivals and Angel View. These are local charitable resale shops where, with patience, one can find amazing works. It is not about the source, it is about the passion.”

The San Diego residence reflects a tasteful aesthetic

blending the natural light and the canyon’s views of Balboa

Park with the tongue-in-cheek playfulness of the art itself. “San Diego is a different lifestyle from Palm Springs,” Rose says.

“The art reflects those differences. The Rebecca Lowry Sweater, for instance, is perfectly suited for San Diego. It belongs here.

The marine rope used to knit the piece feels more seaside

costal than desert sand. More importantly, the piece reflects our sentiment about art in a general sense. Lowry’s work blends

into our environment. The scale and proportion of the work,

while familiar, also challenge us as viewers to connect with the work. The idea of a whimsical challenge is fascinating.”

The Palm Springs house, which dates from 1948, was

designed by Allen Siple of Westwood Village fame in LA and built by Paul Trousdale. The sprawling, Spanish-inspired

exterior fits squarely in the early Mid-Century Modern style for which Palm Springs is noted. The home’s interior has a very

In a hacienda-style house, Rose explains, life revolves

definite modern feel, and was designed to draw visitors to the

around the courtyard. “We have used the exterior spaces to

to challenge your aesthetic. Once you enter the gate there is a bit

each pocket of exterior space is a chance for us to create a unique

a journey onto all the ‘what ifs’ that art can evoke.”

people to experience the integration of art in all settings.”

individual pieces in the collection. As Rose remarks “Our goal is

showcase artwork that incorporates the outside/inside aesthetic;

of a wow factor. We love that! The first step into the courtyard is

vignette. All rooms open into the art-filled landscape. We want

“Homage to Nevelson” Wood assemblage created by collector Stan Russell.

“Endeavor” by Rebecca Lowry. Knitted from 100-pound test line marine rope. (San Diego condo)

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The covered outdoor loggia is a favorite place for the owners to sit and view the art filled grounds.

“A Moment of Inertia” a collaboration

by Stan Russell and Tolley Marney.

The Palm Springs home reveals

a bracing mix of artists from the

community, Southern California, and

beyond. “Jeanne Bradley did one of our

favorite pieces,” Rose points out. “It was also one of the first pieces we purchased

together over a decade ago. We also have

country journey of the artist. Paul started in Provincetown, moved to New York

City, where the piece was purchased, and retired to Palm Springs. Paul has become a friend we continue to collect. Art does have a circle of life!”

Both Rose and Russell are very

works from Rik Phillips, David Travis,

conscious of that circle. “Art lives

Marney.

caretakers. It is important to us to know

Brad Howe, Russell Jacques and Tolley “In our desert collection,” Rose

continues, “we also have a work that has come full circle, a ceramic piece created in 1964 by Paul Bellardo. It came to me

from my aunt, who lived in Manhattan

all her life. It has traveled from New York across the country to find a home here in Palm Springs. It mirrors the cross-

on forever,” Rose insists. “We are its

who will be the next shepherd of our

collections. Gil and I are very conscious of that responsibility and we have begun to

take steps to ensure that the legacy of our collection is preserved.

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is important. What we lovingly refer to as

“and volunteer as curator for art and

to help and bring joy to others. Art can be

HeART of Giving Program. Client art

the ‘junk’ in our homes has great potential given to others—as gift to personal friends and family or to charitable organizations.

Art can be sold—cash is easy to tax and

perhaps re-invest. Art can be divested as

part of an estate plan. People need to look at options and discuss these options with a qualified professional.

“Many think that giving work to a

museum is the only path. It isn’t for many reasons. First, donating to a museum is

a process. The potential gift needs to go

through levels before it may be accepted.

The piece needs to fit the museum’s

goals and within its curatorial criteria.

collectibles. This is embodied in The

regularly hangs in the hallways of the

Desert AIDS Project, the D.A.P. Art has

been part of the healing process for clients ever since Philanthropist Steve Chase donated gifts from his design firm’s

collection to the project. People can follow in these same footsteps by donating,

gifting or bequeathing art to D.A.P. They can contact me or Major Gifts Manager Ron Willison at 760-992-0445 or e-mail

him at rwillison@desertaidsproject.org.

Art is meant to live on, and this is one way for it to do so.”

Besides taking place in the best of

There is a very good chance, no matter

times and the worst of times, A Tale of Two

accepted.

and a season of light. But Gil Rose and

how generous the gift, that it may not be “Another opportunity to consider

is a bequest or divesture to a non-profit

referred to as a 501(c)(3). Many nonprofits

are more than willing to accept a donation when it comes with no strings attached.

The charity can keep, loan, exhibit or sell

the work—in short, use it in a manner best able to serve its needs. The art lives on

and accomplishes more than bringing joy.

“I am an involved with the

Cities was also set in an age of wisdom Stan Russell’s tale is more than that. It

involves personal love coupled with the joy of art, all wrapped in the promise of

hope. “Knowing that the collections make us happy and bring joy to others, today and into the future, makes them all the

more special,” Rose concludes. “Art does live in the worst of times and in the best of times.”

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COVER STORY

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A Visit to the Studio

“Thirteen years to become an overnight success.” That’s how Phillip K. Smith III describes his career as an artist.

It all started three years ago on five acres of

high desert as Smith stared out the window of an

abandoned shack while tuning into the landscape.

At that point in his artistic development, he

decided to take on his first self-initiated large-scale project, turning the small structure into the global sensation we now know as Lucid Stead.

Smith remembers staring for hours across

a rugged terrain without a single living thing in

sight as he watched the sunlight change color. He explained that “when it rained outside, it rained

inside through the deteriorating wood and missing door of the abandoned 70-year old shack.” It

was then that he said to himself, “We have to do

something with this place,” and began drawing out a conceptual idea on paper. Once he was able to

get the financial backing needed, he made his idea a reality.

Smith’s intention was to invite 30 to 40 friends

to the unveiling, not knowing that he would get

200 visitors the first weekend. Before long, Lucid Stead turned into a social media phenomenon.

Smith was overwhelmed with national, and then international, requests to visit the illuminated rustic spaceship that had just appeared in the

desert an hour and a half north of Palm Springs.

It was a turning point in Smith’s career, earning him a spot in art history textbooks on college campuses worldwide.

The project also sparked more experiments

written by Rob Piepho

with light, in the process landing Smith an

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“Lucid Stead is about tapping into the quiet and the pace of change of the desert. When you slow down and align yourself with the desert, the project begins to unfold before you. It reveals that it is about light and shadow, reflected light, projected light, and change.�

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“Created just six months after Lucid Stead, Reflection Field was directly inspired by the four windows and doorway of the Joshua Tree installation. These simple elements became monolithic, free standing volumes of reflection, creating their own space within the field of the Coachella Music and Arts Festival.�

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opportunity for an important installation at the

for Laguna Beach and Laguna Art Museum’s Art

attracted audiences with his Reflection Field, a cluster

near the ocean and a project in the desert that will be

famed Coachella Music Festival in 2014. There he

of monoliths designed to take festivalgoers into an enveloping color field of tranquility, encouraging

them to “take a time out” and allow themselves to be

transported into an alternate reality of space and color.

In the spring of 2017 Smith will be participating

in another Coachella Valley milestone when he

participates in Desert X. Smith explains, “I am looking to progress from what was first created in ¼ Mile Arc

and Nature by creating a dialogue between a project created for Desert X.”

Smith’s work continues to be in demand, allowing

him and his team to take on more commissions around the globe. These installations need no explanation; they are constructed in a universal language

combining space, light and color. The ability to unify

the world through what we see and experience in his work is what inspires Smith today.

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In an exclusive interview with the art world’s new rock star, Art Patron

visited Smith to get an inside look at what he is working on and what he is

most excited about in the months ahead. A tour of his two-story studio and gallery—an industrial building situated in a Palm Desert business park—

allowed us to see how the artist’s career has developed over the past three years.

Initially we found the space overwhelming, thanks in part to the

massive LED pieces, once exhibited at the prestigious Royale Projects, that

adorn its walls. When I asked Smith how he chose this particular complex, he explained that the business park had hired him in 2007 to place his first commissioned public work at its entrance. That meaningful interaction is

what sealed his future, he says, and the location reminds him of where he came from and what he has set out to do.

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“Unlike the other Lightworks pieces that have precisely set color shifts and duration, Torus 9 shifts randomly between my defined color spectrum and pace of change parameters. The result is an experience that may never be duplicated.”

Smith is passionate about changing the way we look at art.

We will have that very experience November 3 through

We discussed how a viewer typically devotes a short period

6 when Smith unveils 1/4 Mile Arc, his Art + Nature series

next piece. Smith wants to change that pattern by capturing

each year’s selected artist to create a work that interacts with

of time to any particular work, then moves on quickly to the an audience and setting up a kind of dialogue or interaction, encouraging viewers to take the time to watch as the piece evolves and morphs through a spectrum of colors.

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installation for the Laguna Art Museum. This program allows the natural environment. Smith will set up 300 ten-foot polished stainless steel rods along the natural contour of a quarter-mile stretch of beachfront separating the natural from the man-

made. Depending on which side they are on, viewers will see

panels angled at 120 degrees, the work resembles an open

reflected the ocean, the sun and—between the rods—the heart

essentially wrap the viewer in a field of color. Given the way it

a reflection of one of two worlds. On one side they will see

of downtown Laguna Beach. The other side reduces the world we live in today, the world of bustling Laguna Beach, into a

two-dimensional plane with the undulating ocean and horizon

book standing on end with color on two sides. The piece will

is designed, it also creates the illusion of a third wall of reflected color combining the colors from the two panels.

“The experience reflects not only an image of you in that

visible between the rods. Either side makes sunset an especially

color field, but also the world as we know it”, Smith explains. At

Visitors to the Laguna Art Museum can also experience

on the color side looking through?” This is an interaction that we

spectacular experience.

Smith’s other installation, Bent Parallel, on display inside the

museum until January 15, 2017. Consisting of two large hinged

that point “you begin to question which side you are on. Are you will have to determine for ourselves, but we hope it changes the way we see and experience art.

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Looking Forward to the 2017 Palm Springs International Film Festival An interview with Alissa Simon and Hebe Tabachnik written by Nicole Borgenicht

Top Photo: CateBlanchett at 2016 Awards Gala Bottom Photos, left to right: 2016 Hello My Name Is Doris with Sally Field; Helen Mirren at the 2016 Awards Gala; Talking Pictures with Ridley Scott and Matt Damon; 2016 Film Festival Party

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The programmers for the Palm Springs International Film Festival—the PS Festival for

short—meet several times a year to

discuss trends and choose the best films

in each targeted category. Art Patron was fortunate to interview the two renowned experts serving in this capacity for the 2017 festival, Alissa Simon and Hebe Tabachnik.

A film curator for 25 years, Alissa

Simon has participated in festival juries from Pusan to Montreal, San Francisco, and Sarajevo. For the 2017 PS Festival,

she will follow films from Scandinavia, Central and Eastern Europe, and the

Middle East. Hebe Tabachnik has been a film curator for more than 15 years,

serving as juror and panelist at festivals

throughout the Western Hemisphere and China. The Ibero-American programmer for the festival, Tabachnik will be

reviewing films from Spain, Portugal and Latin America.

The PS Festival selects some of the

world’s finest cinematic achievements.

“As far as what makes us different from other film festivals,” Simon

explains, “we are the only one to offer ‘Awards Buzz,’ a specially curated

section made up of what we consider

the top submissions in the Best Foreign

Language Film category of the Academy Awards.”

The festival is also noteworthy for

its global range. As Tabachnik points out, some of the “40 to 50” countries

represented are unfamiliar to audiences prior to the public viewing.

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Strengthening the festival’s mission is a powerful school system

that embraces the arts in all areas. Plus, the Palm Springs High School Performing Arts Center has an 800-seat theatre, providing another wonderful venue for the festival.

“My personal favorite part of curating is the high school

screening,” Tabachnik remarks, “followed by the question-andanswer with the director. To me, these events are highlights, as

teenagers are passionate and embrace different cinematic interests.

Their reactions are inspiring! This presentation is part of the Palm Springs International Film Festival mission, with 500 to 600 high school student viewers, which is part of a larger Palm Springs educational event.”

Aside from the thrill of encouraging young people to become

involved in the ever-growing world of cinema, seeing and selecting outstanding films for the PS Festival is an exciting experience. Says

Simon, “Among the many things I enjoy about being a programmer

is the opportunity to make discoveries and present them to our large and discerning audience in Palm Springs, the press and the industry.

For instance, a film that I programmed in the 2016 edition, a Belgian first feature that won our New Directors competition, went on to

take a slew of prizes at other festivals. But Palm Springs presented

its international premiere! After all the hard work of watching many, many movies throughout the year, it is incredibly gratifying to

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Still from After Image introduce the filmmaker and the film in Palm Springs and see

the connection and energy flow between our audiences and the filmmaker.”

While not all the competing films have been seen or

evaluated yet, Simon has given us a teaser on a great art film she is already enthusiastic about. “I can reveal one film from

my selection, Afterimage, which will be shown at the festival in

its U.S. premiere. Directed by one of the great masters of world

cinema, Andrzej Wajda, it is an impassioned biopic about avantgarde painter Władysław Strzemiński, a man of extraordinary charisma and a leading figure of Polish formalism before the

Andrzej Wajda Tabachnik describes how the acceptance of popular

cinematic forms has grown in the Iberian world. “We embrace

genre films (horror, thriller, suspense, etc.) more and more. Prior to this year, compelling genre stories were only those with high production costs, yet now more filmmakers in my category are

delivering very, very good genre films without a bigger budget.

They are mastering techniques outside the comfort zone and

telling their stories all over the world. El Clan Argentine director,

Pablo Trapero, is hired for many new films and is in demand. My category has jumped a level in quality.”

Tabachnik and Simon spend months watching films,

Second World War. He was a victim of persecution by the

eventually putting together a dynamic program that ranges

realism. The film also stars one of the most beloved actors of

animation. This Palm Springs International Film Festival will

Communist regime for failing to embrace the dictates of social Polish cinema, Bogusław Linda.”

from small and intimate relationship movies to comedy and

highlight global filmmakers at their creative and stylish best!

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Calendar

What to do?

Winter is no time to hibernate. For proof, look no further than our Editor’s Picks. We have combed the extensive offerings in both Laguna Beach and Palm Springs to help stave off your FOMO. Need more choices? Check out our complete calendar of events at www.ArtPatronMagazine.com

Laguna Beach

Palm Springs Nov 12 thru 25

Friday, November 4, 7pm

In Person: Phillip K. Smith III Laguna Art Museum, 307 Cliff Dr, Laguna Beach 1/4 Mile Arc artist Phillip K. Smith III discusses his work.

Included with museum admission.

Lagunaartmuseum.org/artandnature ; 949-494-8971

Opening Reception Nov 12, 6-8 pm Terry Hastings - BEYOND HOCKNEY Colliding Worlds Fine Art, 68-895 Perez Rd., Cathedral City CA, The Multiphoto works of Photographer Terry Hastings www. collidingworldfineart.com, 866-458-3592

Saturday, November 5, 10-4 pm Sunday, November 6 - 11-3 pm

Tom Swimm Open Studio Exhibit Sale 3251 Laguna Canyon Road, Laguna Beach Large selection of original oil paintings and signed giclées by one of Laguna’s premiere artists! Refreshments and plenty of Free Parking. Tomswimmfineart.com; 949-715-1705

Saturday, November 12, 5pm

The Diamond Ball The Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel Gala Benefitting The Canine Companions Wounded Veterans Initiative. Dinner, Live/Silent Auction, & Entertainment

by X Factor Winners Alex & Sierra - $250 Thediamondball.org; (949) 240-2000

Sunday, November 13, 10-4 pm

Holiday Outdoor Fair The Cottage Gallery, 31701 Los Rios St. San Juan Capistrano Cottagegalleryonlosrios.com

Saturday, November 19, 10 -6 pm

Winter Fantasy Five Weekends: Nov. 19 thru Dec. 18 Sawdust Art Festival, 935 Laguna Canyon Rd Laguna Beach Our festival grounds transform into a winter wonderland where 175 artists create, display and sell original creations. Art media includes jewelry, clothing, fused and blown glass, ceramics, woodwork, forged metals, painting, photography, sculpture, clothing and textiles. Sawdustartfestival.org 104 ArtPatronMagazine.com

Thursday, Nov. 17, 2016

Three Pianos-Six Hands-One Performance, A Piano Extravaganza McCallum Theatre, 73000 Fred Waring Dr., Palm Desert, CA 92260 Waring International Piano Competition winners play solo and together on 3 Steinway concert grand pianos. www.vwipc.org, 760-773-2575

Sunday, December 11, 2016, 10am - 4pm

“ARTIST OPEN STUDIO TOUR” La Quinta, CA An annual artist studio tour event sponsored by the La Quinta Museum. Tickets are $10.00 at the Museum, 77-885 Avenida Montezuma, La Quinta. For more information, call 760.777.7170.

January 1-27

Sir Anthony Hopkins Show: Dreamscapes Desert Art Collection 45-350 San Luis Rey Ave. at El Paseo, Palm Desert, CA An Artworks Exhibition by Academy Award winning actor, Composer and artist. Call to ask about Collector Artist Reception. www.desertartcollection.com 760-674-9955

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Three Pianos - Six Hands ONE PERFORMANCE - NEW PROGRAM! Thursday, November 17, 2016 7 pm • McCallum Theatre

Experience the thrill of three virtuoso pianists — Waring winners, playing solo as well as on three pianos at one time!

SCOTT CUELLAR 2013 Solo Winner

EVAN LIN 2011 Bayless Winner

VIJAY VENKATESH 2007 2nd Place Solo Winner

BACH, GOUNOD, MOZART, ROSSINI, TCHAIKOVSKY AND HOLIDAY FAVORITES

Special appearance by soprano Anna-Lisa Hackett, courtesy of Palm Springs Opera Guild

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Tickets at McCallum Theatre Box Office or Online at: McCallumTheatre.com 73000 Fred Waring Drive, Palm Desert • $67 / 47 / 27 / 17 • 760-340-2787 www.vwipc.org

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First Thursday Art Walk The 2016 LCAD Professional Mentoring Program exhibition The public is invited to tour participating galleries to view student art works. For more information please visit www.firstthursdaysartwalk.org

Friday, Dec. 2, 2016, 1-8pm

TRUNK SHOW with Phyllis Clark Just Looking Boutique 384 Forest Ave, Laguna Beach Come on by hospitality night and see the lovely avant garde jewelry of PHYLLIS CLARK...known for her creatively unique styling and one-of-a-kind pieces. Please join us!

Justlookingboutique.net (949) 494-8208 Come meet Art Patron staff at this event!

Saturday, December 3, 10 & 11:30 am

Nutcracker for Kids Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall, 615 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa Tchaikovsky’s delightful Christmas ballet—in a condensed version especially for kids Tickets from $15 PacificSymphony.org (714) 755-5799

Saturday December 17, 5-7pm

Gallery Opening Reception Annual Membership Show & Competition, 3851 S. Bear St So. Coast Plaza Village 50 OCFA Members compete for cash prizes in their medium, refreshments, free parking ocfinearts.org; 714-540-6430 106 ArtPatronMagazine.com

Palm Springs Friday, January 6, 2017,

Opening Reception: 6pm–9pm Art Exhibit –“A Lifetime of Art” Colin Fisher Studios An exhibit of paintings from Colin’s vast and amazing personal collection. This is the first time in 10 years that Colin has released these works of art for viewing and sale.

929 Home Center, 68929 Perez Rd Cathedral City 760-324-7300

Saturday, January 7, 5-8pm

Masters of Abstract Art Rebecca Fine Art Opening Reception 68895 Perez Rd., CathedralCity A unique exhibition with acknowledged artists and artworks that speaks for itself.

Robert Tahar, Donald Spencer, Joe Novak, Mario Pikus, Robert Reeves. Free admission. For more info visit Fineartvortex.com or call 760 534 5888

The premier art event in the leading destination and community of fine art galleries.

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Saturday, January 21, 2017

“Art on Main Street” Old Town, La Quinta, CA An all-day outdoor exhibition featuring the original works of 70 artists, paintings, photography, ceramics, glass, metal sculpture, jewelry, and textiles. Live entertainment. 10am-4pm Free Admission & Parking. www.OldTownLaQuinta.com Information: 310-986- 5444 www.dianemcclary.com Studio: 760.771.6666

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Laguna Beach Tuesday, January 3-29, 2017

Opening reception Jan 3 6-8 pm Open Casa: SHANE TOWNLEY

Casa Romantica 415 Avenida Granada San Clemente Shane Townley’s surrealism style is about evoking an emotion or feeling about the subject of his work.

Casaromantica.org (949) 498-2139

Wednesday Jan 11 – Feb 5, 2017

CHAPATTI! Laguna Playhouse, 606 Laguna Canyon Rd, Laguna Beach Written by Christian O’Reilly and directed by David Ellenstein is a charming tale of two devoted pet owners; reminding us it’s never too late to fall in love. Visit website for show times. Lagunaplayhouse.com (949) 497-2787

Sunday, January 15, 3 pm

Casa Kids: Swazzle Puppet Show Casa Romantica 415 Avenida Granada, San Clemente

Children participate in the puppetry show with games that teach important lessons about manners and habits. Free admission, Casaromantica.org (949) 498-2139

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Tuesday- Saturday 11-5 Sunday 12-5 Special Hours during Modernism Week

Thursday thru Sunday January 26-29, 10am-5pm

“The Southwest Arts Festival” Empire Polo Grounds, Indio CA One of the country’s premier art festivals. Interactive art displays, live music, and a huge variety of fine arts will be on display. www.dianemcclary.com Studio: 760.771.6666 Come meet Art Patron staff at this event!

February 16-19, 2017

Art Palm Springs Palm Springs Convention Center 277 N Avenida Caballeros Palm Springs CA The 6th annual Art Palm Springs returns to an eager audience. www.art-palmsprings.com Come meet Art Patron staff at this event!

February 16-26, 2017

MODERNISM WEEK Modernism Week’s cool, iconic, modern February festival is an exciting 11-day celebration of midcentury modern design, architecture, art, fashion and culture. The schedule and tickets will be available November 1 at 12 p.m. PST. Events are added frequently and there are always events accessible up to and during the festival. modernismweek.com

Thursday thru Sunday March 2 – 5, 2017

35th La Quinta Arts Festival 78495 Calle Tampico La Quinta CA This award-winning event attracts art patrons and tourists from across the nation as one of the Coachella Valley’s premier attractions. Live Entertainment, Delicious Food, Wine and Beer complement your experience. www.lqaf.com 800-316-8559 Come meet Art Patron staff at this event!

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