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SUMMER 2014 Features
58 CHERYL EKSTROM Blazing Inspiration
In the video This Woman’s Work, sculptor Cheryl Ekstrom circles a bronze sculpture, putting touches of patina on what will be known shortly as Misplaced Heart with a Wolf at Her Back. Chic, with blazing red hair and apparently unconcerned about damaging a stunning turquoise bracelet in this hot and dirty beehive of a foundry, she brings to mind the elegance and free spirit of the two Louises, Bourgeois and Nevelson. Indeed, they are inspirations to Ekstrom, who by now offers inspiration to young artists herself.
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JON MADISON Renaissance Man with a Mission
Jon Madison is everywhere. No, really – everywhere. As one of Laguna Beach’s premier businessmen, humanitarians and visionaries, Madison knows everyone you would ever want to know—and everyone knows him. His great success with Madison Square & Garden Café over the past fifteen years certainly makes him a commodity in town, and his many charitable endeavors have earned him a place in the hearts of customers, clients and friends.
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72 DOWNTOWN LAGUNA Historic Architectural Treasures Adorn This Artistic City by the Sea
Attracted by Laguna’s deep canyons, pristine ocean, numerous coves and plentiful available land, this town’s first settlers began arriving here nearly 150 years ago, in the 1870s. Back then, the “downtown” area was available for homesteading, and entrepreneurs, developers and artists soon settled here, building homes, schools and businesses.
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Images Top to Bottom: Charley Akers Susan Jarecky Anna Hills San Gorgonio From Beaumont, 1927 oil/canvas, 20” x 30” The Irvine Museum Balasz Sipos Hot Bath, crystal Paul Bond The Waterhouse Oil on Panel, 30”x40”
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Chalk – A New Edition at Art-A-Fair
What started as a simple creative endeavor for Asheville, NC- artist Charley Akers, has turned into a tribute to Festival of Arts artists with a photography exhibition at The Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel.
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In true academy award style, the best and brightest of Laguna’s diverse artistic community enjoyed a star-studded evening on April 6, 2014, as The Laguna Beach Alliance for the Arts (LBaa) recognized its stars and paid tribute to renowned Pacific Symphony Music Director Carl St.Clair at the 8th Annual Art Star Awards held at [seven-degrees].
In 1998 Sipos entered the Hungarian Academy of Craft and Design, where he honed his skills in glasswork. Since completing his courses in 2002, he has refined those skills even further to create his own style of crystal-making, one that emphasizes his fascination with people and nature.
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KL Heagen
A local Laguna Artist whose work is currently being displayed at the COVE Gallery in South Laguna, KL gained entry into the Festival of the Arts at age six.
Anna Hills
As a founding member of the Laguna Beach Art Association in 1918, Anna Althea Hills (1882–1930) was one of its most dynamic and progressive members. She served as the association’s president for a total of six years between 1922 and 1930— important, formative years during which the group raised the funds for its permanent gallery.
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F. Scott Hess
Criticized by his instructors and his peers back in Vienna for his too-bright “American color,” Hess had begun to paint in slightly more muted colors than those in which he felt naturally inclined to paint. Now, back stateside, Hess’s first painting “exploded” in cinematic Technicolor.
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In the land of warm golden sunshine, majestic palm trees, azure blue ocean and crystal clear skies, I am standing in the Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) looking at … what is this? … a long, thin, dingy old bathtub with a damaged radio on top. Inside of the tub is a pile of trash on which a working radio speaker is blaring an indistinct blend of sounds. In place of a showerhead are an old lamp and a hunk of matted fur.
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Music & Art – Pageant of The Masters Balasz Sipos
Bob Hurley
Hollywood’s First Power Couple MARY PICKFORD AND DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS
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Bob Hurley, the founder of Hurley International, addressed the largest graduating class in the Laguna College of Art and Design’s history this past May, with ninety students who received Bachelor of Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees.
Looking Back
The Tradition of the Sawdust Festival
Young Artist–Sophia Lander
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Highlights
UNMASKING THE ARTIST
Artist Christopher Jefferies
Artist Murray Kruger
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Asheville, NC- artist Charley Akers, has turned
into a tribute to Festival of Arts artists with a photography exhibition at The Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel.
For the third consecutive year, the exhibit features
a selection of Aker’s photographs, complemented by a
piece of art by the artist depicted in the portrait. Aker’s
unique portraits capture the essence of each artist, while
also highlighting their craft. The exhibit includes portraits of southern California artists Ron Azevedo, Marlo
Bartels, Paul Bond, Antje Campbell, Russell Jacques, Artist Russell Jacques
Susan Jarecky, Christopher Jefferies, Murray Kruger, Tom
Swimm, Hannah Harris and Rachel Young, each of whom have also been selected to showcase their art at the 2014 Festival of Arts in Laguna Beach. The exhibit will be on display from May 8 to August 30, 2014.
Each portrait is captured with a style that often
has Akers compared to his greatest influence, Yousuf
Karsh. The iconic images of many of the greats, such as Hemingway, Churchill and Einstein, were captured by
Karsh and are still held up as the purest representation
of these individuals. Akers follows suit in his remarkable
ability to disarm the subject and catch a singular moment of who the artist is at their core. Step two for Akers is the integration of artist and art through technology,
illuminating the passion and craft of the creator. After a
35-year corporate photography career, Akers’ enthusiasm and drive have allowed him to launch into this new Artist Ron Azevedo 14 LagunaBeachARTmagazine.com
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THE ART GALLERY
Camille Przewodek “Lilies of the Mission” 16” x 20” oil
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When artists discovered how to put paint in a tube, the plein air movement was born. These inspired artists were able to capture nature first hand while painting in ever changing conditions. This exhibit is to honor the women who have dedicated their lives to painting the outdoors and have achieved their status as Master Plein Air Painters. Guest Artists: Kim Lordier, Peggi Kroll-Roberts, Camille Przewodek, Kathryn Stats and Elizabeth Tolley Featured Artist: Robin Hall
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ART STARS SHINE AT AWARDS GALA
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n true academy award style, the best and brightest of Laguna’s diverse artistic
community enjoyed a star-studded evening on April 6, 2014, as The Laguna Beach
Alliance for the Arts (LBaa) recognized its stars and paid tribute to renowned Pacific Symphony Music Director Carl St.Clair at the 8th Annual Art Star Awards held at
[seven-degrees]. Attendees included over 260 community and cultural leaders whose
efforts allow Laguna Beach to enjoy worldwide recognition as a hub of artistic energy.
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Joe Hanauer
Guests enjoyed a red carpet reception with
champagne and hors d’oeuvres set to the
music of Laguna Concert Band’s ensemble,
Swing Set. Later in the evening entertainment included the classical jazz stylings of musical group Trio Dinicu. Wayne Baglin, Art Stars
Event Chairman, emceed the award gala and Carl St.Clair delivered a compelling keynote address.
The evening’s first honoree was the winner
of the $5,000 [seven-degrees] of inspiration grant, awarded to Cheryl Ekstrom for her
proposal Broken/Unbroken/Broken. The finished project will be a series of sculptures created
from a variety of materials, depicting journeys and adventures in life, broken and unbroken,
for growth in spirit, intellect, perspective and humanness. The body of work will be unveiled at the 2015 Art Star Awards.
Last year’s recipient of the [seven-degrees]
of inspiration grant, Ed Peterson, was on hand to debut his creation of the original musical
score that was performed by Laguna Concert
Band for the animated film The Sock Thief produced by the Laguna College of Art & Design Animation Master Class last summer. The 2014 Art Star winners were announced: Best New Arts Program: Live! Music & Kids (Laguna Beach Live!) Individual Arts Patron of the Year: Joe Hanauer Corporate Arts Patron of the Year: The PIMCO Foundation Outstanding Arts Collaboration: Art & Nature (Laguna Art Museum and Community Organizations) Arts Leadership: Rosemary Swimm (Laguna Plein Air Painters Association) Artist of the Year: Jodie Gates
For his outstanding and significant contribu-
tions to the performing arts in Laguna Beach, Mark Dressler was honored with a Lifetime
Achievement in the Arts award. Dressler has
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30 years. He brings an unusual passion to all his work that is quite apparent to his
students, many of whom are amazed at his energy and devotion. As a teacher who
believes in teenager’s abilities, he keeps
standards and expectations high and his stu-
CUNNINGHAM / HAIGHT DUETS collaborative mixed media / oil paintings
dents consistently astound audiences with performing excellence. “No one is more
deserving of this award than Mark,” said
Art Stars Chair Wayne Baglin. He contin-
ued, “His exceptional accomplishments and contributions will continue to influence and inspire generations to come.”
The winners were presented with an
original one-of-a-kind sculpture created by
local artist Louis Longi. The sculptures are created specifically for the Art Star Awards with no molds or editions. Bronze sculptor
Louis Longi has been creating sculptures for over 26 years encompassing over 12 public art commissions and countless exhibitions, some of which have been sponsored by
MGM Mirage, Cirque du Soleil and General Motors. His works captures the essence of
human emotion with forms that encourage
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the viewer to transcend the limits of vision and experience the works.
The Laguna Beach Alliance for the Arts
was established in 2002 as the result of an exciting partnership among more than 20
Laguna Beach organizations. The mission is
to serve as an advocate for the arts, promote collaboration and networking among the
arts organizations of Laguna Beach, and to
serve as a united voice for the arts in the city. Members of the Alliance for the Arts include Art-A-Fair Festival, Laguna Dance Festival, Blue Water Green Earth, City of Laguna
Beach Arts Commission, Community Art
Project, Festival of Arts, First Thursdays Art Walk, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach
Chorale, Laguna Beach Craft Guild, Laguna Beach Film Society, Laguna Beach Live!, Laguna Beach Sister Cities Association,
Visit Laguna Beach, Laguna College of Art & Design, Laguna Concert Band, Laguna
Outreach Community Arts, Laguna Play-
house, Laguna Plein Air Painters Associa-
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Highlights
written by Mike Stice and Mary Castillo
BOB HURLEY AT LAGUNA COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN
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ob Hurley, the founder of Hurley
International, addressed the largest
graduating class in the Laguna College of
Art and Design’s history this past May, with ninety students who received Bachelor of Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees.
“We asked Bob to be our commencement
speaker because he is so much more than
Founded six years ago through its
partnership with Hurley and his company, it prepares LCAD Design + Digital Media Action Sports students for the current
demands of the industry, which is based
largely in Orange County and which Hurley helped build.
Earlier this year the LCAD Design +
just a business success story,” explains
Digital Media program was chosen as one of
created an empire that embraces the art,
by NIKE, parent company of Hurley. LCAD’s
LCAD president Jonathan Burke. “He has music, fashion, culture and environmental
stewardship of action sports. His philosophy of hard work and nurturing great talents— many of whom are LCAD students and
alumni—is significant to our new generation of graduating artists and designers.”
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the three “best design schools in the world” Chair of Design + Digital Media, Catharin Eure credits this honor with Hurley’s
decision to support and grow the sports action design program.
Visit www.lcad.edu for more information
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Looking Back
Hollywood’s First Power Couple
written by Stacy Davies
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In 1919 the couple, along with Chaplin and D.W. Griffith, formed United Artists, the only movie studio owned solely by actors. Pickford and Fairbanks would marry the following year. Long before we had Brangelina, or Paul Newman and Joanne
Pickford continued to produce films for other actors such
Woodward (P-Jo? Jo-Pa?), there were Mary Pickford and Douglas
as Claudette Colbert and the Marx Brothers at the Pickford-
Fairbanks wielded such power in the early days of Hollywood
Motion Picture Relief Fund (MPRF) to help actors in financial
Fairbanks. As America’s first great screen couple, Pickford and
that an invitation to their Beverly Hills estate, Pickfair, was a sign of social acceptance in the film industry. It was a gathering place
that Life Magazine described as “only slightly less important than the White House, and much more fun.”
Considered cinema royalty, Fairbanks (“The King of
Hollywood”) and Pickford (“America’s Sweetheart”) came together after creating astonishingly successful solo careers. Pickford, in
particular, was the most famous woman
in the world during the 1910s, and beyond her iconic status—only slightly surpassed by that of Charlie Chaplin—was a smart and aggressive businesswoman. In 1916
she became first actress to take complete control over her own productions,
overseeing every aspect of the filmmaking process. That same year, she started her own production company, the Mary
Pickford Corporation, and became the first actress to get a percentage of the
film gross, as well as the first woman in
Hollywood to earn a million dollars a year. Fairbanks was a popular lead in
Fairbanks Studios in Santa Monica, and in 1921 established the straits. As the vice president of the MPRF in the 1930s, she would spearhead a payroll-deduction plan for studio workers that
eventually allowed the organization to buy land for the Motion Picture Country House and Hospital.
During their heyday, Fairbanks and Pickford were known as
lavish party hosts, and while Fairbanks did not drink and little
alcohol could be found on the grounds of
Pickfair (aside from covert flasks smuggled in), the one thing he did love was the
beach. After frequent trips to Laguna—the hottest getaway for many of Hollywood’s elite—Fairbanks and Pickford purchased a rustic hideaway in Irvine Cove. On their quarter-mile crescent of beach,
they threw colorful tent parties for their
famous friends, and Fairbanks, who was notoriously amber-skinned long before
George Hamilton usurped the signature
look, would bask in the sun while Pickford shielded herself under hats and umbrellas to preserve her fair complexion.
As Laguna continued to grow
(becoming incorporated in 1927), there
romantic comedies at the time and had also formed his own film
was need for extended routes to reach the secluded seaside town,
met Pickford at a party, the love affair began. In 1919 the couple,
Pickford and Fairbanks led a parade of locals to the celebration.
company, the Douglas Fairbanks Film Corporation, and when he along with Chaplin and D.W. Griffith, formed United Artists, the only movie studio owned solely by actors. Pickford and Fairbanks would marry the following year.
While the late 1920s saw Fairbanks’s career skyrocket as he
and when the new stretch of Coast Highway opened in 1926,
Fairbanks played the role of blacksmith, hammering together a chain that symbolically linked the beach communities, and Pickford portrayed the “Spirit of Progress.”
By the mid 1930s both Fairbanks and Pickford had retired from
became the athletic heartthrob of such swashbucklers as The
acting, two of numerous causalities caused by the introduction
beginning to slow. She’d reached mega-stardom in films such
of marriage. As the most famous couple Hollywood has ever
Mark of Zorro and The Thief of Bagdad, Pickford’s acting career was as 1914’s Tess of the Storm Country, but the little “Girl with the
Golden Hair” role she had made famous in Rebecca of Sunnybrook
Farm (1917) had become tiresome for her. What’s more, the public didn’t respond to her attempt to “grow up” into a
sophisticated lady when she sheared off her legendary locks for
her first talking picture, 1929’s Coquette—even though she would
of talking pictures, and in 1936 they would divorce after 16 years known, and America’s “unofficial international ambassadors to the world,” the two were the first to place their footprints in concrete at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, and those shoes, whether marching down red carpets or skipping along the Laguna shores, have never been filled. l
win her only Oscar for the performance.
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Art History
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ANNA HILLS written by Janet Blake
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s a founding member of the Laguna Beach
Art Association in 1918, Anna Althea Hills (1882–1930) was one of its most dynamic
and progressive members. She served as the
association’s president for a total of six years between 1922 and 1930— important, formative years during which the group raised the funds for its permanent gallery.
Born in Ravenna, Ohio, Hills studied at Olivet College
in Olivet, Michigan, the School of the Art Institute of
Chicago, and the Cooper Union Art School in New York
City. In New York she also studied under Arthur Wesley
Dow, who played a prominent role in the American Arts
and Crafts Movement and was one of the most influential art teachers of the period.
Like many art students during the late nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries, Hills continued her studies
in Europe, attending the Académie Julian in Paris and
traveling in the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Italy and
the British Isles. In England she studied with John Noble Barlow in an art colony at St. Ives, Cornwall. Returning
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and then, the following year, established a home and studio in Laguna Beach.
When Hills arrived in California, she was working in an
impressionistic style, but her palette was muted, her tones low-key. This palette reflected the atmosphere of the northern climates of
England and the Netherlands. Once in her new home, however, Hills
responded like other artists to the state’s bright light and rich, colorful
landscape. She remarked that she had to throw out her old palette and start over with brighter colors.
Hills traveled throughout southern California and Arizona, and
became particularly attracted to the desert landscape, as seen in her painting San Gorgonio from Beaumont. She worked primarily in oil,
utilizing both brush and palette knife. Her work with the latter tool, in
fact, is very distinctive, and makes her works stand apart from those of her contemporaries. Hills was also fond of portraying dramatic cloud effects, often establishing a low horizon line in order to give the sky dominance in the composition, as seen in Cloud Shadows.
As a prominent member of the arts community, Hills used her
leadership skills in the formation of the Laguna Beach Art Association and the transformation of the town into an artist colony of national
reputation. She felt that it was a place in which she could paint, teach and establish an art school. This she did by welcoming students
into her studio. Many of these students were not young novices but
professional art teachers from other parts of the country who traveled to California each summer for the privilege of studying with her.
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This page: The Spell of the Sea, 1920 oil/canvas, 30” x 40” Courtesy of The Irvine Museum Opposite Page: By The Roadside, El Toro, 1914 oil/canvas, 14”x10” Courtesy of The Irvine Museum
As a teacher, Hills felt strongly about the importance of arts
education for children, organizing art exhibits that circulated
among Orange County schools and sending fellow artists to the schools for direct instruction with children. She also lectured at schools and clubs in Los Angeles and Orange County.
Anna Hills lived to see the opening of the gallery in February
was tactful, and practical with all of her artistic traits.” Shortly
after her death, the members of the art association voted to erect a bronze memorial plaque with her portrait in bas-relief. The
tablet was completed by artist Ruth Peabody and is installed in the upper gallery area of Laguna Art Museum.
Never tiring in her goals for the gallery, Hills had plans at
1929, but died the following year of heart disease. On her
the time of her death for decorating the building’s façade and
town is mourning over the loss . . . . She had such high ideals,
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passing, Garden Club president Fern Burford remarked, “The
finishing its basement—goals that were accomplished over the
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Museum Sketch
written by Debra Leitner Jennifer Steinkamp, Moth 5, 2012 computer generated animation, dimensions variable Museum purchase with funds provided through the prior gift of Mr. and Mrs. J.G. Redmond
Orange County Museum of Art The Avant-Garde Collection (Exhibition Sept. 7-Jan. 14)
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n the land of warm golden sunshine, majestic palm trees, azure blue ocean and crystal clear skies, I am standing in the Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) looking at ‌ what is this? ‌ a long, thin, dingy old
bathtub with a damaged radio on top. Inside of the tub is a pile of trash on which a working radio speaker is blaring an indistinct blend of sounds. In place of a showerhead are an old lamp and a hunk of matted fur.
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CHRISTIANA LEWIS, ERIC NADEAU
KAREN PETTY, ERIC NADEAU
LGOCA
Laguna Gallery of Contemporary Art
ERIC NADEAU
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Lorser Feitelson, Magical Space Forms, 1953 oil on canvas, 36 x 23-1/2 inches Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John McLaughlin
The piece is ugly, even repulsive, and I just want to walk right
by and go on to the next work. But, I don’t. I linger and notice old
black–and-white photographs positioned in the shape of a cross on the plastic top of the tub. In one of them, a German soldier is drinking at a dinner party. Another photograph catches the soldier eyeing a woman walking in the distance. A third photo shows him observing artillery
tanks. Edward Kienholz and Nancy Reddin Kienholz constructed this assemblage, End of the Bucket of Tar with Speaker Trail No. 2, in 1974.
Kienholz had found the tub (which may once have belonged to an
embalmer) in Germany as he perused flea markets and junk shops, and used it as the basis for a concentration camp image, which is further
enhanced by the German military photographs. Like it or not, this is
part of our past as members of the human race. The art may be ugly, but truth can be ugly too.
The Kienholzes and other artists from the 1970s, including Nam
June Paik, Andy Warhol and William Wegman, wanted to create art that didn’t look like art. As art critic David Hickey states, “Abstract expressionism, pop and minimalism had their day. It was time for
something new. Something conceptual, something post-minimalist,
something fearlessly feminist or all of the above as long as it couldn’t be easily labeled or commoditized.”
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Bruce Conner, Cross, 1962 assemblage, 51-3/8 x 32-1/2 x 11-1/4 inches framed Gift of the LAM Contemporary Collectors Council with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.
End of the Bucket of Tar is part of OCMA’s Avant-Garde Collection, an
exhibition running from September 7 through January 14. Chief Curator Dan Cameron will trace the Museum’s acquisitions across five decades with the specific focus on the evolving definition of avant-garde during that period. Far less challenging than End of the Bucket of Tar is Stanton Macdonald-
Wright’s Still Life painted in 1924-25 while he was head of the Los Angeles
Student Art League. Although the image of flowers in deep, rich yellow, pink, orange and blue hues in a white vase is distinguishable, the prisms of white, blue, purple, brown and black color surrounding the arrangement are closer to the abstract, color-saturated canvases the artist painted between 1913 and 1920. During those early years, Macdonald-Wright and Morgan Russell had
developed Synchronism, an aesthetic philosophy combining musical rhythms, space and abstraction to create luminous layers of color, light and form.
Synchronism was the first American Avant-Garde art movement to receive international attention.
The 1940s, 1950s and 1960s ushered in Abstract Expressionism, Neo-Dada,
Pop Art, Lyrical Abstraction, Tachisme, Outsider Art and other movements.
Artists from the first of these decades represented in The Avant-Garde Collection include Emil James Bisttram and Oscar Fischinger.
Important figures from the 1950s included in the exhibition are Jay DeFeo,
Lorser Feitelson (considered the founder of Hard Edge), Lee Mullican, and
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David Park (known for Bay Area Figurative). These artists and many others made
important contributions to the development of American avant-garde art. However,
if pressed to pick only one artist from the
era to discuss, my choice would be DeFeo, who is represented by two works in this exhibition. The first, painted in 1951, is
an untitled tempera on brown paper. The
second, a gouache completed in 1952 and
also on paper, is from the artist’s “Florence� series. Both abstracts are painted in a
subdued, monochromatic palette of gray, black, white and tan.
While Macdonald-Wright was concerned
with color, texture was much more
important to DeFeo. Her work is basically about the thickness and thinness and
texture of paint. She blurs the line between painting and sculpture, a practice that is
most apparent in a major work she called The Rose, a twelve-foot-tall piece that she
labored on for eight years. She would apply pigment, scrape it off and reapply it until the surface took on the appearance of a sculptural relief.
By the late 1950s and early 1960s, artists had begun to react against the subjectivism of abstract expressionism. More than ever before, they experimented with new styles, forms and materials. Advertising and commercial culture dominated American life with billboards, radio, television and print advertising. While some artists appropriated imagery from this consumer culture, other artists rejected it. Movements such as Pop Art, Minimalism
and Conceptual Art emerged in the 1960s as
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Among the many featured artists from that decade are Josef Albers, Craig Kauffman, Louise Nevelson and Ed Ruscha. To take
only one example of a work from this group, Kauffmann’s Untitled is a vacuum-formed Plexiglas wall relief constructed in 1968
and consisting of a cylindrical, pill–shaped
form adhering to a rectangular background. Kauffmann used sprayed color and
minimalistic shapes to achieve a distinctive luminous presence.
Kauffmann’s art has been described
as a seductive mixture of Minimalism,
Pop Abstraction and Finish Fetish. Just
as Jay Defoe was concerned with texture,
Kauffmann was concerned with materials and finish, and was fond of slick, glossy
surfaces suggestive of surfboard finishes
and Southern California’s sunshine–and-
car culture. Along with other Los Angeles
artists such as Ed Moses, Ron Davis and Ron
Cooper, he utilized polyester resin and other forms of plastic while employing techniques derived from industry.
The Fall issue of Laguna Beach Art
Magazine will touch upon works from The Avant-Garde Collection from the 1980s and 1990s through the current decade. For
lovers of contemporary art, visiting the
exhibition will be like visiting good friends you haven’t seen for a long time. You had
forgotten how they made you smile or made you think or even made you angry! If you
know nothing about contemporary art, this is your opportunity to have an intensive,
crash course in its history. Dan Cameron and Curatorial Associate Fatima Manalili will
arrange the art by decade and movement so
that you can enjoy witnessing the transition. Last year, worldwide auction sales of
postwar and contemporary art climbed to a historic peak of $6.8 billion, according to the 2014 Art Market Report by the
European Fine Art Foundation. If you
haven’t visited the Orange County Museum of Contemporary Art in a while, now is the time. www.ocma.net l
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written by Jared Linge
CHALK T
a new edition at Art-A-Fair
his summer, in its 48th year, the Art-A-Fair is
scheduled Sunday, creating temporary six-by-eight-foot
community: a selection of award-winning chalk artists
Many of the artists’ past works have consisted of vivid
introducing a new dynamic to the Laguna Beach
who will be competing against one-another while creating live street paintings on the pavement of the fair grounds.
The street art will begin on July 27th and continue over the following five Sundays. Viewers will have the opportunity to vote on their favorite artist prior to the award ceremony which will take place at 3:00pm on August 31st.
The stable of artists include—Maribeth McFaul, Cyndi
Kostylo, Ly Mai, Lori Antoinette, Lysa Ashley, Willie Zin
and Cecelia Linayao. Each artist will be working on their 34 LagunaBeachARTmagazine.com
masterpieces and inviting viewers to watch the process. large-scale portraiture, master copies of iconic works throughout art history, and surreal anamorphic 3-D illusions.
Chalk is an ephemeral medium that we all have
experience with. It holds a special place in our childhood memories; it’s inherently accessible, it feels warm and
familiar. There’s also an intimacy to chalk, a sense that
what we are looking at will never be seen again after two weeks or the slightest rainfall. It’s a playful medium,
Artists with their work, clockwise from top left of opposite page: Hugo Rivera, Cyndi Kostylo, Cecelia Linayao, Ly Mai, Maribeth McFaul & Renee Keady
elevated by the artists who use it masterfully.
ideal form. Now, chalk art has an indelible
there’s a transcendental sense of seeing
painting dates back to the “screevers” of late
When we encounter a chalk masterpiece,
something taken to a level that we ourselves never did, that we never thought was
possible. But there’s also a feeling of disbelief that such a thing could have been so labored over that is not meant to last.
There are many ephemeral forms of visual
art that rely on the impermanence of various
media or modalities to make their statement. Andy Goldsworthy’s site-specific sculptures
urban quality. The origin of modern street
nineteenth-century Britain, a Shakespearian term given to the pavement artists at the
time who made their living on donations from an admiring public. (Think Dick
Van Dyke in Mary Poppins). The images
were often accompanied by text involving
philosophy, moral lessons or topical political discourse.
In the spirit of the screevers, the Art-A-
and installations incorporate the changing
Fair is a true grassroots arts organization,
twigs, flowers, and icicles as media. Tibetan
demand almost five decades ago when its
seasons and delicate natural material such as Buddhists spend weeks creating vibrant,
intricate sand mandalas and then destroy
them as a meditation on the transitory nature of existence. All forms of ephemeral art are innately interactive, collaborating with the
variables of the environment, the influence
of time, and the gaze of the audience. They
have the unique quality of decommodifying
art—removing the idolatry of an object in art and making it entirely experiential.
Chalk has been used as a fine art medium
for centuries, largely for sketches and
underdrawings because of its forgivable
nature. Michelangelo created his studies for
the Sistine Chapel using a red chalk method, relying on live models along with his
intuitive understanding of anatomy, using
the malleable chalk line as a way to explore
growing out of the community’s creative
founders split away from the Festival of Art.
Although it calls Laguna Beach its home, it’s the only one of what are now three summer fairs in the area to exhibit artists who are
local, national and international. At the ArtA-Fair you will find work presented in a gallery atmosphere by 125 artists.
Street painting complements the character
of the Art-A-Fair in both its socio-historical context and the communal philosophy on
which the event was founded. The co-op’s members promote a statement both as an
organized movement and on an individual
level, fostering diversity in style and media and recognizing the necessity of the artist
to create a space nurturing self-expression. www.art-a-fair.com l
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written by Elizabeth Nutt
The Tradition of the
SAWDUST FESTIVAL
F
or the forty-eighth consecutive summer Laguna Beach’s
Sawdust Festival will open its doors in June to hundreds
of thousands of visitors who travel from near and far to
partake of the legendary nine-week art show. Each summer
the festival hosts two hundred local Laguna artists—exhibitors must be residents—and a vast array of fine
arts and crafts. But no show is the same: each summer, the festival welcomes new artists,
new mediums, new styles, new faces and new
since 1968. This summer the two hundred thousand visitors
expected to attend the show will walk on sawdust as they take in the show’s many marvels—and for a very good reason. The original artists laid down sawdust to combat mud and dust,
giving the show the moniker it proudly possesses today. The
spreading of the sawdust each June before the
show carries out a tradition in the artists’ village that spans nearly fifty years.
Physical space continues to define the
cause for celebration. The show is just as diverse
festival. With room for only two hundred
and visitors as it is for the art itself. But what
have the opportunity to showcase their work.
and ever-changing in its community of artists
does stay the same, rendering impermeable the traditions that make the Sawdust Festival so
unique? The very grounds on which the event unfolds each year.
These grounds were a key to the festival’s
birth and remain essential to its nature today. Breaking away from the Festival of Arts in
protest of its juried system in 1965, a few dozen
small booths on-site, only two hundred artists A litany of names remains on the wait list; this year the festival will welcome only 20
new artists, with 180 returning veterans. This particular restriction makes the event what
it is: an incredibly significant opportunity to
welcome eager new artists into the fold, as well as a reunion, bringing back generation after
generation of artists and their families who have
Laguna artists physically and metaphorically moved themselves
been participating in the show for decades.
Park Avenue. They were determined to create an event in which
grounds, and this summer they will bring their own children
board members—could participate. To achieve this, the artists
side by side for so many years that the festival becomes a sort of
away from the traditional festival to a vacant lot at the bottom of any local artist—not solely with the approval of a committee of
staked out their own new physical space on which to earn their livelihood and showcase their work.
The Sawdust Festival is now held on a three-acre eucalyptus
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Many artists spent their childhood summers on the festival
into their booths with them. Many artists have been exhibiting family in and of itself. Artists present nearly ten hours a day,
six days a week for the entirety of the festival, and the grounds do begin to feel like home; relationships form and are fortified summer after summer.
What many visitors don’t realize is that although the Sawdust Festival seems deeply established and permanent in both its community and structure, the village itself must be constructed from the ground up every year; administrative buildings are the only permanent structures allowed on-site. Though the festival doesn’t officially begin
until June, February marks the beginning of its rebirth. That month artists receive their booth assignments via a lottery system,
which is based on seniority. The moment
they receive their assignments, they begin
implementing their ideas for the construction of the perfect booth for this year, a structure
that will reflect their creativity, thinking and of course their style as artists.
The architectural design of the booths
themselves is just as significant as the art
they’ll contain, for they’ll shelter not only the fine arts and crafts that help the artists make a living but also the visitors themselves. The festival is designed to be both entertaining and educating, and the booths become
classrooms, inviting an exchange between artist and visitor and serving as spaces
for demonstrations and tutorials. Space
continues to define the representation and
organization of the artists each year, as well as the experience of the guests.
This summer’s artists—like all of those
before them—will continue to carry out the traditions of the Sawdust Festival, each a
significant piece of a mosaic that continues to grow on Laguna Canyon Road. And the
grounds will once again bear witness to the construction and deconstruction of both
a village and a community that somehow manages to feel just as timeless as it is
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Pageant re-creation of John Singer Sargent’s “El Jaleo,” one of the pieces that Starr Parodi and Jeff EdenFair composed music for.
Music and Art A Marriage Made at the Pageant of the Masters written by Daniella Walsh • composers photographed by Tom Lamb
O
nce again this summer, as dark settles into the Irvine
collaboratively) wrote just the right music to accompany The
audiences will be mesmerized by tableaux vivants, living
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
Bowl, home of the Pageant of the Masters, rapt
pictures in the truest sense of the word.
This year it’s The Art Detective, a thriller created by Diane
(Dee) Challis Davy and featuring a script written by Dan Duling.
Heist, a reenactment of the infamous 1990 robbery at Boston’s
Bill Liston
Liston is a composer, orchestrator and arranger based in
There’ll be reference to art thefts and archeological treasures
Cypress who has worked with the Pageant for six seasons now.
magnifying glasses on who-done-its involving art and mysteries
the rap sheet of Robert Gentile, a mobster recently jailed in a
spirited from ancient civilizations. Art sleuths will train their
surrounding figures such as Édouard Manet’s muse, model and fellow artist Victorine Meurent.
“We will delve into art thefts during World War II, Howard
Carter and his discovery of King Tut’s tomb and David
Hockney’s Secret Knowledge, an exploration of the little-known
drawing and painting methods of Dutch and Flemish masters,”
says Davy. She also mentions movie posters, a portrait of Charles Dickens, the infamous Jekyll and Hyde and a statue of Sherlock Holmes.
The curtain will rise, the pit orchestra begin to play and the
narrator break into his spiel. But first let’s shine a light on how Bill Liston composed the music for Rembrandt’s Night Watch
and Starr Parodi and Jeff Eden Fair (a married couple who work 38 LagunaBeachARTmagazine.com
Besides writing and playing music, his credits may well extend
drug case whom the FBI is reportedly trying to connect to what’s still the biggest art heist in American history.
Liston’s been a saxophonist since age 13,
and learned to play and compose on the piano, fascinated by music’s correlation
to mathematics. “I figured cords and cord extensions, explored jazz harmony. It was like taking an engine apart to see how it worked,” he explains.
Music runs in Liston’s family. His
grandfather was Leo Kronman, a wellknown sax and clarinet player as well
as arranger and orchestrator around Los
Angeles and San Francisco during the 1920s. His father tuned pianos, an occupation that
gave Liston plenty of models to try out, and his mother sang with Kronman’s band in earlier days.
Today Liston plays six kinds of
saxophone, six kinds of clarinets and four
kinds of flutes. He’s written music for Spy
Kids 2, Pirates of the Caribbean, Dude, Where’s My Car? and several World of Warcraft and Starcraft segments. He’s performed with Michael Bublé, Randy Newman, Aretha
Franklin, Bette Midler, Arturo Sandoval,
Ray Charles, James Taylor ... the list goes on
and on. Busy with television, film and video material, he says that on average he works seven days a week.
In writing for the Pageants, Liston says,
he seeks a balance between the impact of the art and the palette of musical possibilities provided by instruments of the orchestra that includes, along with traditional
instruments, modern inventions to create
sound effects. “It has been fun, exciting and also challenging to enhance the emotion
of a work of art,” he adds. “Music should not pull you away from what you are
seeing. There always has to be a dialogue between the piece and the music, and the
art and music have to exist in the same time line. There should not be an 1840 painting accompanied by music that would be written 100 years later.”
Liston is adept at paying attention to
minutiae, and his forte lies in writing
segments of music for as many as five works
of art. “I have to bridge all elements to create an effect,” he says.
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The couple explored the relationship between Manet and Meurent that, albeit platonic, was fraught with jealousies and intrigue. “We prefer to deal with the back stories as opposed to the obvious.” Starr Parodi and Jeff Eden Fair
“The piano is a prized possession; it inspires me all by itself,”
Amphitheater, where Fair worked on sound techniques and
soundscapes.
Gladys Knight. They started writing music together shortly
and their credits include work in Dream Girls, Harry Potter and
Parodi and Fair first met on the stage of the Pacific
Parodi played piano and synthesizer for George Howard and
she says. Fair himself plays French horn and bass and designs The couple have been writing music for more than 20 years,
afterward and today live and work in Pacific Palisades.
the Deathly Hallows, Failure to Launch, The Last Samurai, Mission
providing background for The Heist are also writing music for a
daughter, Isolde, is following the family path by making music
Concert, John Singer Sargent’s Madame X , and the anonymous
per season since 2010.
They too are in their sixth Pageant season and, besides
dozen pieces, including Manet’s Olympia, Johannes Vermeer’s
Tut’s Sentinels.
“Jeff and I talk about a painting and learn everything about
Impossible 2 and Vicky Christina Barcelona. Their ten-year-old
and has appeared in the Pageant as a substitute at least one night Pageant regulars will know that Leonardo da Vinci’s Last
Supper usually wraps up the performances, accompanied by the
it—like Olympia, which was considered scandalous in its
“Meditation” from Thaïs by Jules Massenet. In 2011 (It’s Only
relationship between Manet and Meurent that, albeit platonic,
substituting The Sacrament of the Last Supper by Salvador Dali, the
time,” Parodi explains. She adds that the couple explored the
Make Believe), when Pageant creators broke with tradition by
was fraught with jealousies and intrigue. “We prefer to deal with
couple composed the accompanying music.
the back stories as opposed to the obvious.”
“We are very busy composing,” continues Parodi, who
“We love working together because we trust each other,”
Parodi says of the couple’s collaboration. “It allows us to
shares a studio with her husband. The space is filled with every
experiment and make occasional mistakes. But, if you are
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BALAZS SIPOS
Internationally Acclaimed & Beating the Odds written by Kimberly Johnson
Finding international success in the art world is an accomplishment that many will never know. It is this bittersweet realization that reinforces the dog-eat-dog ethics of the game, keeping the strong on their toes and the weak at bay. For active contemporary artists, the stakes are higher than ever. 42 LagunaBeachARTmagazine.com
I
n the case of 35-year-old sculptor
Balazs Sipos, taking a rare medium
and combining it with two popular themes has allowed him to beat
the odds. In 1998 Sipos entered the Hungarian Academy of Craft and Design, where he honed his skills
in glasswork. Since completing his
courses in 2002, he has refined those skills even further to create his own style of crystal-making, one that
emphasizes his fascination with people and nature.
Acknowledging Sipos as a
practitioner of a rare medium demands a bit of explanation on the art of pâte
de verre. A distant cousin of the more
widely known form of crystal-making known as glass-blowing, it yields a
stylistically different product utilizing a wholly different method of production. Pâte de verre begins with a
mould. Commonly formed from a
substance such as plaster, the mould
is manipulated into a shape depicting, quite literally, whatever the artist can dream up, manufacture or find. For
Sipos the human form—captured in quirky, intimate and even folkloric ways—is a prominent theme.
After a shape is produced within
the mould, it’s broken in half to reveal an inner surface that is then brushed
with an adhesive before finely textured powdered glass is sifted in. The mould is covered with the remaining half and set into a kiln at roughly 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit for several hours. After
cooling, the mould is carefully broken away to expose a nearly finished
product waiting to be refined and polished.
It’s the room for error and the time
commitment that makes this art form so uncommon. However, Sipos’s
mastery of the laborious craft and his
ability to inject humanity into his works is what seems to attract audiences and
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CASA COOL Estrada Brothers Latin Jazz Band June 26
curators alike. “You know, it’s funny,”
his most popular pieces to date.
of Laguna Beach’s Avran Art + Design.
homeland of Hungary, Sipos has attracted
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impression of both dark and morbid tones
featured in Italy’s MACEF International
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seems that the experience is multi-layered
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thought-provoking imagery presented in
3rd Degree Blues Jazz Funk Band
muses Clarissa Butler, assistant director
Evan Stone Quartet
“For attendees, his work often leaves an
July 24
Hawaiian Shirt & Ukulele Exhibition July 8 - Sept 7, 2014
Casa Coastal Luau July 8
The History of the Aloha Shirt July 10
San Onofre Wednesday Night Ukulele Players August 14
History of Ukuleles September 4
For tickets and info visit
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or either a sense of whimsical fun.” It and complex, presumably due to the the works.
Sipos’s sculpture entitled Yuck stands
as an ideal example. The piece depicts
a dog, mouth agape, with the head of a
Besides gaining recognition in his
international interest as well. He has been Home Show and Germany’s Messe
Frankfurt Ambiente, and several of his
pieces have been added to the permanent collection of Hungary’s Ajka Crystal
company museum. Avran Art + Design
began representing him on this side of the ocean in 2012.
Sipos’s works have been popular with
boy jolting outward. According to Sipos,
gallery goers ever since they became
involving a wild dog that saves the life
his works on display there have been
the piece is inspired by ancient folklore of a drowning boy by swallowing him
whole. Soon afterward, the boy dies in unrelated circumstances, leaving the
animal in unparalleled grief. The dog
then transfigures into the form of a small
boy, filling the void created by the child’s untimely demise. Sipos’s grasp of the
interconnections linking folklore, culture and emotion makes the sculpture one of
available at Avran. Three-fourths of
purchased, and the gallery shows interest in stocking more pieces. As a visionary, Sipos has made an impression on the
contemporary art world. His strength and individuality have set him apart from
the rest of the young hopefuls awaiting their own chance to beat the odds. www.avranart.com l
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Life is a dream PAUL BOND written by Lisa Aslanian
Or, at its best, life is like a dream in that it feels light, fleeting, magical, nonsensical and exquisitely impactful.
Paul Bond’s multifaceted works—oil paintings sometimes displayed alongside poetry
and narrative—belong equally to two traditions: the irrational in art and what I would call the mystical meditative tradition of Buddhism.
There is a long tradition in Western art (from Francisco Goya to Surrealism and
magical realism) in which the irrational, fantastical and magical dimensions of human existence are privileged over the rational and reasonable. Bond’s dreamlike canvases
fall into this tradition—but not completely. Whereas Goya and the Surrealists celebrated the expression of the unfettered unconscious, Bond’s surreal canvases are meditative,
tranquil and largely free of the ugly side of the unconscious. Deep down (for Bond) lies peace, with the world and with oneself.
Bond has been compared to Salvador Dali and he rightly rejects the comparison. There
is none of Dali’s pathos in Bond’s work, no fantasies of impotence or dismembered
women, no hints of bodily fluids. We could say, however, that Bond’s works resemble those of René Magritte, with the difference between the two being largely one of
inflection. Where Magritte is cerebral, Bond is serene. Bond’s work imparts a SoCalmeets-Buddhist calm and acceptance of life as a dream. We get from his visual and
written narrative a mindfulness that leads to a blissful place where paradox dissolves into nothingness, or a toothless void.
We can immediately see Magritte’s influence in Bond’s Waterhouse, a meticulously
rendered and largely realist oil painting with a surrealist touch at its center, the sea neatly spilling in through the fireplace. Bond explains that the sea is a loose metaphor for an
overpowering or sublime force, the source (and backbone) of empires as well as the place where he has felt a peaceful loss of self while riding the waves.
Turning on paradox, the image is one in which the sea washes into an everyday living
room. That which seems permanent and solid—a living room, a home, a chair and the
walls that protect us from nature—is neither. The painting is as rendered and controlled as a Magritte, and, also like the Belgian master, it relies on a simple inversion of reality to disorient the viewer (the sea entering through the fireplace), but it somehow is less
stark and heady. The relationship of the painter (and the viewer) to the intimation that LagunaBeachARTmagazine.com 47
Magical realism, like Surrealism, also relies on dream life. The laws of nature (or physics) are subverted in magical realism.
SANDRA JONES CAMPBELL
In Between Here and Not Here, Oil on Panel, 30”x30” nothing is solid, that all is fleeting and that
let love into the cracks and crevices where
or some other force beyond our control, is
expresses itself in a profound kindness,
we may all be swept away by the ocean
one of distant acceptance. Or is it a happy resignation? "Third Martini Medley, Solo With a Twist" acrlyic on canvas 60 x 40 inches
Magical realism, like Surrealism, also
relies on dream life. The laws of nature (or
physics) are subverted in magical realism. In literature, for example, a character may be alive and dead at the same time—a
reality that exists only in our imagination. In painting, the image is realistic but Sandra Jones Campbell Studio 949 310 0074 Call for appt. Sandra@SandraJonesCampbell.com Laguna Beach, CA 92651
elements of magic take it to another level. The Kindness of Erik Borzi depicts a
man, eyes and lips closed, with a serene
and restful expression. He is wearing an elongated top hat and on top of the top
hat sits a bird’s nest with three birds. The Represented by:
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man is in the sky, which we realize from the small clouds that surround the hat.
Erik Borzi, Bond tells us in a poem, has
there was once only sadness, and this love or a meditative lovingness that engenders and nurses life. I see the painting as
an allegory of what Tibetan Buddhists
call maitri, loosely translated as loving-
kindness (toward oneself and others). It
also suggests the Buddhist notion of love and its relationship to friendship.
Perhaps Eleanor Dreams of a Miraculous
Rescue is best approached through Freud’s notion of “the remains of the day” as
explained in The Interpretation of Dreams. The fragments or leftovers of everyday
waking life become the code for what the
dream means and conceals. In this painting Bond combines two moments (two
remains, two leftovers) that stuck with
him. First, he recalls a picture of his niece in which she seemed oddly confident;
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Flight of the Muse, 24”x36” Oil on Panel
tenth AnniversAry FestivAl
Complexions Contemporary Ballet, photo by Jae Man Joo
Performances at Laguna Playhouse
Sept. 11 | Ballet Memphis Sept. 12 | BODYTRAFFIC Sept. 13 | Master Class AND Performance by Stars of Dance Complexions Contemporary Ballet Post-performance Artists’ Reception Sept. 14 | Master Class AND Matinee – Stars of Dance Complexions Contemporary Ballet
Catch the Next Wave of Dance! September 4–14 Jodie Gates, Founder and Artistic Director
“The festival has found its footing……..one of the can’t-miss weekends on the dance calendar.” – OC Register
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second, he remembers a moment in Bali when he looked into the eyes of a
trapped elephant and wondered what it felt like to be a restrained animal.
Bond creates a fantasy (or allegory or dream) of these two remains in which,
as he explains, the painting is meant to convey a childlike innocence or desire
to save all creatures from harm. Yet, as viewers, we can read past (or beyond or into) what Bond tells us about the origin of the image. The setting in the work is nondescript: the elephant lies listlessly on its side on a burnt-out patch of
grass surrounded by concrete, with a striped roof in the distance. A deeper level of ambiguity, even ambivalence, is introduced. Eleanor does not look like she is thinking about the elephant or saving it. She may be standing on top of the gargantuan animal but she has no real relationship to or engagement with it, and there is only one sign of distress and despair: in the animal’s open eye.
Most of Bond’s works fall into the category of allegory. Each painting is like
a dream that narrates an experience. Sometimes the artist is able to catch the
entirety of the dream with a poem or a story about the origin and meaning of
the work, but sometimes it takes us, viewers and critics, to open up the dream within the dream.
Paul Bond will be featured in the La Jolla Festival of Arts on June 21st and
22nd and will be participating at the Laguna Beach Festival of Art and Pageant of the Masters (where he has exhibited for five years) from July 5th through August 31st. l
Bond has a studio in San Clemente that is open by appointment, www. paulbondart.com.
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Striking the Balance KL HEAGEN written by Elizabeth Nutt
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“It will take you to a place we’d all like to go at the end of the day,”
explains KL Heagen of her work, which
ultimately transcends the canvas with its undulating rhythms of color, form and
dimension. “Beyond all other mediums, oil paint has a special effect when
stroked upon the canvas. There is certain
sensuality within the colors and textures.
You manipulate it, and then it manipulates you. Ultimately, a vision is born.”
A local Laguna Artist whose work is
currently being displayed at the COVE
Gallery in South Laguna, KL gained entry
into the Festival of the Arts at age six with the help of her kindergarten teacher. KL
will tell you with a sincere smile about her finger-paint-on-construction-paper piece titled Yellow Birds, which impressed her
teacher enough to enter the tiny pupil’s work in the world-famous festival. KL
took home a blue ribbon that year, and art has remained the cornerstone of both her life and her career ever since.
KL grew up in a family of artists. Her
uncle was internationally acclaimed fashion illustrator, educator, and
watercolor artist Marbury Hill Brown, and both KL’s father and grandmother were painters. But KL wasn’t always drawn
to painting. She remembers a childhood
home cluttered with canvasses, oil paints
and paintbrushes, but she describes herself as too much of a perfectionist to explore a medium that, during her adolescent
and young adult years, felt too loose and messy for her tastes.
Though it was obvious to those around
her that KL was extremely talented, she
wasn’t ready to pursue painting when she entered California State University, Long Beach at age 18. Rather, she attempted
to translate her love for the beauty of the ocean into a degree in Marine Biology.
But she quickly realized that, though it
remained a challenge for her, her passion was for art. She switched to a Graphic Design / Marketing major, which she
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the creative process and the precision
and neatness that she craved. KL went on
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to pursue a twenty-year career in graphic design, temporarily
“I enjoy translating natural environments and tangible forms
putting her classes at CSULB on hold halfway through her
into intense color contrasts. My style involves fluidity, balance,
graphic design, and unable to ignore a longing within herself to
shapes join to create a realm that is literal as well as imaginable.”
undergraduate studies. Feeling that she had reached a plateau in paint, KL returned to school to earn a degree in Fine Art in 2002. Back in the classroom, KL struggled with modern teachings
and the shift toward abstract methods of painting. She had
begun her studies twenty years earlier, when realism dominated the art school world, and suddenly she felt she was incapable of understanding and working within an entirely new framework of art.
Frustrated, KL knew she wouldn’t succeed in graduating if
she couldn’t transform her mindset and style to adapt to the
modern curriculum. But her persistence paid off. Not one to quit, she found a balance between the chaos of the abstract and her
desire to create clean, lucid landscapes and seascapes. Looking back, KL explains that, “it was like learning a whole new,
energy, luminous temperature and light. Abstract and organic KL strikes a perfect balance by combining smooth with rough textures, minimalism with surrealism. Her landscapes and
seascapes invoke just a hint of interpretive reality, enabling the viewer to identify it as well as illusion.
The artist seeks balance in her environment as well, splitting
her time between Bend, Oregon, and Laguna Beach. She
constantly strives to find beauty and color in the natural world— be it surrounded by forest or white-sand beaches—and she fuels her creativity with world travel. Marie Thibeault, KL explains,
gave her her “rainbow,” and she continuously seeks to achieve
what she refers to as “color maximumism,” or the most perfect reflection of natural color and light in her work.
The artist who once ignored the disarray of oil paints and who
difficult language,” a language she can now both understand and
felt reluctant to release control to creativity, now frames each
colorist Marie Thibeault, whom she credits for both challenging
to finish each beautiful scene that she captures in her mind’s
appreciate. She studied under accomplished abstract painter and her and enabling her to achieve success as a painter. Today KL’s contemporary landscapes and seascapes retain her signature style, for which she has become renowned.
canvas before she begins painting, confident that she will be able eye or in a photograph. The result: truly unique seascapes and
landscapes that do take you to that place we’d all like to be at the end of the day. www.klheagenfineart.com l
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Blazing Inspiration CHERYL EKSTROM written by Daniella Walsh
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n the video This Woman’s Work, sculptor Cheryl Ekstrom circles a bronze sculpture, putting touches of patina
on what will be known shortly as Misplaced Heart with a
Wolf at Her Back. Chic, with blazing red hair and apparently
unconcerned about damaging a stunning turquoise bracelet
in this hot and dirty beehive of a foundry, she brings to mind
the elegance and free spirit of the two Louises, Bourgeois and Nevelson. Indeed, they are inspirations to Ekstrom, who by now offers inspiration to young artists herself.
Barely missing being honored as Artist of the Year at this
year’s annual Art Stars Awards held by the Laguna Beach Alliance for the Arts, Ekstrom was awarded the coveted
[seven-degrees] of Inspiration Grant, which allots her $5000 as seed money to start a new series of sculptures based on chakras, or life energies.
It’s a far cry from her early childhood in Beaver Falls, PA,
where she first astounded her mother by carving an elephant from a bar of soap.
From then on, life buffeted Ekstrom from corporate
and real estate offices into Laguna seaside mansions and the Laguna Canyon studio that, crammed with books,
memorabilia and a revolving supply of her sculptures,
where she spends the majority of her time. What had been
missing all along was art school, replaced instead by Parisian avenues, Munich cathedrals and New York museums.
“I have always been a storyteller but did not get around to
telling them until later in life,” she says.
Ekstrom first made a splash among art critics with her
Geisha series, creations that bore little semblance to the
graceful singers, dancers and (in some eyes) prostitutes of
Japanese culture. Her geishas resembled screaming viragos, contorted and bound in traditional kimonos and obscured
by make-up, or slyly smiling actors whispering, “If only you knew...” Without labeling herself as such, she had nailed a
feminist tenet that women can only survive in a paternalistic world by playing roles.
More recently, Ekstrom created Misplaced Heart with a
Wolf at Her Back, a replica of a dress worn by the nineteenthcentury women known as suffragettes. Precisely detailed,
first in wax and then cast in bronze, the piece is placed on a stand, bereft of a head and body. Lee Spiro, director of
Leslie Sacks Fine Art in Los Angeles, calls the dress iconic
of women’s struggle for self-realization on one hand while,
being empty, of women being deprived of personal identity, forced to conform to societal standards. “Cheryl is the
real deal. She does not produce tepid decorative art but
uncompromising and even controversial work,” he says.
Then again, Ekstrom has no trepidation about switching
gears by paying tribute to Charles and Ray Eames by
translating their famous chair and hassock in stainless steel. “I consider getting approval from the Eames family an
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accomplishment,” she explains. Reinvented to the finest
detail, including the look of down-filled pillows, the chairs
were cast from 30 molds. “In terms of collectors, they are the most successful pieces, with all of them sold,” she adds.
Currently Ekstrom is working on pieces assembled from
found objects, many of which fill a work space that could
easily be mistaken for a movie set. In it are remnants from another collectors’ fave, her “Journeyman Series.” There once were forty of these pieces, ostensibly so numbered
after the days Christ spent in the desert. Mostly dispersed
now, they are beautiful in a Dantean sort of way with their
Montage Hotel and Resort guests can also admire a set of
mythic animals titled Parallel Dance gracing the entrance to the swimming pool.
Ekstrom’s creativity came to a dramatic halt on Oct. 13,
2011, when her husband, painter Dennis Ekstrom, died after having suffered a stroke. “He died on his birthday, actually both our birthdays,” she recalls. “For a while I could not sculpt anything but by now I have eleven pieces again. I could come back and work from passion rather than as therapy.”
A couple of months ago, visitors could find Ekstrom
elongated bodies, small heads and varied burdens.
in a paint booth at Beach Cities Auto Collision polishing
Unction” series, ten-foot warrior statues with animal heads
did not quite reach the beast’s back, but evidently she had
Also present are remnants from Ekstrom’s “Extreme
and humanoid bodies. Ekstrom subtitled them “Warriors against Angst” in acknowledgement of traumas she had
undergone earlier in life. One warrior guarded the entrance to the Bank of America and stood watch in Juris Park for
a time. Now, three somewhat similar bronze figures titled Warriors United stand on a traffic island at Broadway and Beach St.
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a brilliantly red fiberglass bull. At roughly five feet, she changed streams again, at least for the moment. “I had
never worked in fiberglass and made the animal this flashy and realistic,” she says of the partially prefabricated piece bound for an Austin, Texas, collector. “But just try telling me I can’t do something and you can bet I’ll take up the challenge,” she laughs. l
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Jon Madison Renaissance Man with a Mission written by Stacy Davies • photographed by Tom Lamb
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on Madison is everywhere. No, really – everywhere. As one
of Laguna Beach’s premier businessmen, humanitarians and
visionaries, Madison knows everyone you would ever want to
know—and everyone knows him. His great success with Madison Square & Garden Café over the past fifteen years certainly makes
him a commodity in town, and his many charitable endeavors have earned him a place in the hearts of customers, clients and friends.
Still, few probably realize the breadth of the man’s life, although if
you’ve met Jon, whose brain runs at an average speed of about eighty-
eight miles per minute, you’d be less than shocked to find out that he appeared in the 1976 remake of King Kong with Beau Bridges and Jessica Lange.
“I had a friend who was an actor—he was the stunt double for William Katt
in Carrie, when he gets the blood dropped on his head—and he got me into the film as an extra, once in New York, where we all just looked up at the World Trade Center and screamed, even though we didn’t see any monkey—they lied! Then I did it again in Los Angeles where I watched a big ape hand – again, no monkey. I got $5 and a box lunch. Twice.”
It was this inauspicious introduction to the West Coast that led the eighth-
generation Manhattanite to leave his professorship at Cornell University, where he had taught plant physiology and botany and worked as a lead architect on the restoration of Central Park in 1974. (He still remembers
which trees they left and which they took out.) Moving to Laguna Beach, he
embarked on a landscape architecture career in Irvine. But after realizing that the future of landscaping for model homes looked bleak, Madison decided to go to law school. Working at a firm during the day, helping organize a
mountain of misplaced and sometimes sketchy lawsuits, he attended classes at night. He still did some contract landscaping on the side, but once he graduated and began to practice, the law bug took over. For a while.
Madison soon left the company and started his own firm with a partner.
Meanwhile, he began a new project—the café. Inspired by his friends at the
Black Iris floral gallery, he designed his own creative take on a restaurant / gift store hybrid. He also decided to dedicate the event side of the café entirely to charitable endeavors. In one year, he produced 19 events.
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And now, a side note: The one thing that people
recognize when they meet Jon Madison, in addition to his IQ and inability to run low on steam (“I’m a
triple A-type personality,” he states matter-of-factly) is his penchant for directness. His snappy one-liners include, “How do I say this politely? It’s crap,”
“Where she goes, rain clouds follow,” and “His
wife is a coroner—great stories!” When I suggest
that he had achieved so much that he might really be 85 instead of perhaps 60, he quips, “Close—I
have a portrait in the back room that I can’t show
you.” (He entered Cornell at the age of 16 on a full
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“I love supporting artists,” he says. “I think it’s so fabulous that people have this talent. It’s that directness, however, that honesty,
that is one of the most endearing (and, to some, shocking) things about Madison, and it’s the
trait that makes his enthusiasm for the artists of Laguna Beach both believable and potent. Besides sponsoring and directing numerous
little hand to help them—so many give up a
lot to do what they’re doing. And we’re an arts
colony, let’s face it. We are not just a resort town with a T-shirt. It’s important we help our artists survive.”
In his 1100-square foot home that he shares
events in town to benefit its artist-residents, to
with Ken, his partner of fifteen years, Madison
his home with their work.
way, mind you—his A-type wouldn’t hear of it—
whom Madison is entirely dedicated, he also fills “I love supporting artists,” he says. “I think it’s
so fabulous that people have this talent. And I
feel that artists, in general, always need an extra
adorns every space with art. Not in a cluttered
but in what he calls “layers,” and he does it with the same expert eye he’s brought to every other area of his life.
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“Everything has its place,” he says. “Ken likes sneaking
things back into the house that I got rid of—his antiques, old
cameras, the stamp collection. But it’s okay. We both buy things, that’s how it has to work.”
The home, however, is his palette, all of it reworked from
time to time, and all of it filled with artists whose lives he seems to know in great detail and whom he speaks of as “brilliant,” “fabulous,” “phenomenal,” and so on.
“Look at all of this space, it would be wrong not to fill it with
art. That would be a crime. We try to make everything in the house a little piece of art, and all of this work, we’ve met the
artist and that’s important. I think art has to be personal. I don’t know how you can just buy it, unless you’re buying a Picasso, then you’re buying value or whatever you want to call it. And we rename everything, too.”
One of the most prominent pieces in the home is a towering
red Joe Brubaker sculpture that they call Arthur and that
Madison has fitted with wheels so that it can be rolled into
various locations. John and Ken have the largest collection of
Brubaker pieces, in fact—twenty-one in all—and they stand in every room in the house.
Alongside the Brubakers are myriad paintings from Sandra
Jones Campbell, including one in which the artist changed the LagunaBeachARTmagazine.com 69
color of a dog from red to black to match Madison’s bear of a pup, Cole, as well as a dozen or so mixed media works from
Maurice Gray, with one in particular of a bronze treehouse that
that Jon stumbled upon once and commissioned a craftsman to turn into a bench.
The eclecticism even extends to the gardens, where Jon and
holds a special place in Ken’s world. Images by Sherry Karver
Ken harvested 530 pounds of produce last year—beets, chives,
by Geoff Krueger and Francis Livingston enhance the open-space
to a mélange of lush succulents. And Jon can—and just might—
add some photo-dynamism to the living room, and landscapes feel of the hillside bungalow.
One of the most usual artists represented in the house is Terry
Turrell, with half a dozen or so sculptures and wall hangings. The intricacies of the mixed media assemblages are a sight to
behold, especially one called Two Face, an 18-inch-high figure of
metal, wood, ceramic and cloth whose face opens up via a small hinge.
Much of the work that Jon and Ken collect comes from the Sue
Greenwood Gallery, with whom Madison has a long business
and personal relationship, but Jon and Ken also find art outside of town, including landscapes by Mary-Austin Klein of LA and an abstract figure painting they call Red Woman by two Native
American men in San Francisco who go by the name Sudhaus. Outside, the artistry continues with a 150-pound hanging
sculpture of iron and rock titled Ambrosia Britannica, by John
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tomatoes, cucumbers, raspberries, lemons and limes, in addition tell you exactly when and how to harvest or tend to it all. It’s a true artistic paradise on every level, and this love of creation,
which Madison seems to have come by naturally, is paramount to him.
“My whole family was into art. And animals, I had every
animal, skunks, opossums, raccoons—right there in Manhattan! And people like Mario Lanza would come over to visit my
mother, who was a very social person and the first woman to get her master’s from Fordham University. She’d play opera
through the house and sing—and she was a terrible singer, a
terrible singer and a terrible cook—but a phenomenal woman.
That’s where it all started, the art thing. I mean, I understand when people like mainstream artists, and such, but come on,
there are so many others, so many great artists hidden in these
little corners of the world. We need to celebrate them and keep that art alive.” l
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DOWNTOWN LAGUNA
Historic Architectural Treasures Adorn This Artistic City by the Sea written by Liz Goldner • photographed by Tom Lamb • historical photographs courtesy of the Laguna Beach Historical Society
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ttracted by Laguna’s deep canyons, pristine ocean,
downtown Laguna Beach became known for its old-fashioned
town’s first settlers began arriving here nearly 150 years
twentieth century, as planned communities were spreading over
numerous coves and plentiful available land, this
ago, in the 1870s. Back then, the “downtown” area was available for homesteading, and entrepreneurs,
ambiance and diversity of architectural styles. By the mid-
much of south Orange County, this artistic city by the sea was
refurbishing its historic buildings. Many of these charming structures still grace
developers and artists soon settled here,
downtown, from Coast Highway to Third
building homes, schools and businesses.
Street and City Hall, from Legion Street to
One early homesteader was John
Broadway at the north.
Damron, who sold 528 acres to George
Our tour of historic downtown begins
Rogers for $1000 in 1878. Rogers built a home for his family here, and, with his
at Laguna’s hexagonal lifeguard tower on
front of the house. That mature tree now
Union Oil gas station on Coast Highway,
Main Beach. Erected in the 1920s at the
daughter Lizzie, planted a pepper tree in
it was moved to this location in 1937. First
frames the front of City Hall as a living
aid and rescue equipment are kept on the
testament to Rogers’s enterprising spirit.
ground floor, but the tower’s top floor has
Laguna Beach had only 300 residents
become an observation deck.
in 1910. The few buildings here, the
A jaunt to Legion Street affords a visit to
majority in downtown, included a
the turn-of-the-century classic Legion Hall
general store and post office (depicted in Joseph Kleitsch’s 1922-23 Old Post Office on display at Laguna Art Museum), a
Joseph Kleitsch, The Old Post Office, c. 1922-23 Oil on canvas, 40 x 34 inches, Laguna Art Museum. Gift of the Estate of Joseph Kleitsch in memory of his wife, Edna
building with its hipped, gabled roof, front porch and stoop. As a former school built
hotel and a smattering of cottages. But Laguna began to grow in
on Park Avenue in 1908, it was purchased, renamed and moved
be visiting in a moment.
at 551 South Coast Highway, you’ll find the tiny Brown’s Park
1912 after Elmer Jahraus opened the lumberyard whose site we’ll As more settlers arrived and built homes and businesses,
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to its current location by the American Legion in 1929. Nearby,
with its stained glass fence art overlooking Main Beach. This park
was built to commemorate Joe Brown’s early twentieth-century
By-The-Sea American Catholic Church with its Mediterranean
Nearby is Hotel Laguna, built in 1930 in Mission Revival style.
Wise Clarkson in 1933, using materials salvaged from the Long
beachfront home, destroyed by a winter storm decades ago.
As the third hotel building at this address, this beachfront venue features parapets, a mock bell tower, an inner courtyard, a dining veranda with
ocean view and an alcove with numerous historic photos. As a popular Hollywood retreat it attracted a number of famous figures, including Humphrey Bogart, Errol Flynn and John Barrymore.
Across the street from Hotel Laguna,
hidden between two well know
establishments you’ll find Peppertree
Lane. Erected as a pepper mill in 1932,
the building was remodeled to include a restaurant, chocolate shop, gelato shop and the Saloon, whose mahogany bar dates back to 1906. A few steps north,
on the corner of Laguna Avenue, is the refurbished Provincial Revival style
Tommy Bahama Building. Built in 1931as the Heisler Building, the combination restaurant and clothing store was upgraded recently with stucco façade and double hung windows.
Up Laguna Avenue to Park Avenue you’ll find St. Francis
revival architecture. It was founded and built by Reverend Percy Beach earthquake of that year. The church features an adobe tiled gable roof, plaster facing and a wooden bell tower. The front bay, forming the altar inside, has a half-moon stained
glass transom. The building is listed in
Guinness World Records as the “Smallest
Catholic Church.” On the corner of Park Avenue and Glenneyre you’ll find the
Cope House, built by S.H. Cope in 1897.
The oldest home in downtown Laguna, it boasts Victorian architecture reminiscent of homes in the East and Midwest, a
multi-gabled roof and board-and-batten walls. The current owner has restored
and maintains this building in pristine
condition. Back up South Coast Highway a stop at the White House Restaurant reveals more history. Built in 1918, it features large front-facing gables, a steep pitched roof and the casement windows characteristic of early Laguna buildings. Along with excellent food and a broad menu, this comfortable eatery displays a gallery of historic photos. LagunaBeachARTmagazine.com 73
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Just beyond Ocean Avenue is South Coast Cinemas with its old-fashioned balcony seating. Opened in 1935 as the New Lynn Theater, it’s Mediterranean in style, with French doors and wrought iron balcony balustrades. Three buildings on Forest Avenue illustrate this city’s allegiance to architectural preservation. The Laguna Presbyterian Church on the corner of Second Avenue was constructed in 1928 by Roy Ropp, who is also noted for founding the Pageant of the Masters. This Gothicinspired Mediterranean revival building features stucco walls, tiled roofs and a large bucolic garden open to all passersby. Bells in the church’s tower remind pedestrians that another hour has passed. Nearby at 384 Forest Avenue is the former office of Laguna Beach Lumber, which was in business from 1912 to 1975 and which provided wood for ninety percent of Laguna’s older homes. This majestic Norman-style structure features an elevated front-facing gable at one end, a long side-facing gable, smaller sub-gables, recessed entry and double wood doors. After closing, the lumberyard office became the Ivy House and Cedar Creek restaurants, and is today the Lumberyard Restaurant. At the corner of Forest Avenue and Third Street you’ll see the classic 1901 Fire Station designed by Aubrey St. Clair. (The
architect was the son of Norman St. Clair, whose watercolors helped establish Laguna Beach as an art colony.) This Mediterranean revival firehouse has a red-tiled roof, stucco finishing, fire truck doors and a Spanish ornamented tower in the rear. To the right of the firehouse is the complementary architecture of Laguna Beach County Water District. Designed primarily with one story with a second story over the northerly section, it also features a tiled and gabled roof, an entry arcade on the lower story, and inviting trees, lawns and flowers in front. The final stop on our architectural tour is at the Murphy Smith Bungalow on Ocean Avenue, near Beach Street. This small board-and-batten home has cozy front and back porches with French doors in the front bedroom. Built in 1920, it’s the showcase of the Laguna Beach Historical Society, which provided invaluable research for this article. The beach-style cottage has been lovingly maintained and decorated with period furnishings, kitchen appliances, clothing, medicine bottles, paintings and photos of early settlers. Open Friday through Sunday from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m., it’s like a large piece of folk art and well worth a visit. l
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F. Scott Hess BY REALISM
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n 1984, after six years in Europe, several of them as a grad student at the Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien
(Academy of Fine Arts Vienna), F. Scott Hess was ready for a
change. He told his then-girlfriend, a film student, “If you want
to follow me back to the States, you can choose the city.” Shortly afterward, Hess found himself in Los Angeles, home of the 1984
F. Scott Hess (FSH): It certainly wasn’t easy when I was
making it. I talk about it quite easily now, though. A lot of the
psychological things that happened to me as a kid, that spurred
the art, are things that I’ll talk about and it shocks people a lot of the time.
MS: About how old were you when you first started talking
Summer Olympics.
about these things?
his too-bright “American color,” Hess had begun to paint in
It was just after my parents divorced. My father had left. And
inclined to paint. Now, back stateside, Hess’s first painting
woman in a bikini tied to a chair inside of a jail. But I had no idea
Criticized by his instructors and his peers back in Vienna for
slightly more muted colors than those in which he felt naturally “exploded” in cinematic Technicolor. Ironically, though, the
eroticism of his earlier works—a theme he’d been exploring
almost exclusively since the age of seven—had vanished. No longer bound by the impulse to depict “naked ladies tied
up,” Hess underwent the daunting, yet rewarding, journey of rediscovering himself as an artist.
Following are insights into the master artist’s fascinating
journey.
Mike Stice (MS): How uneasy is it for you to talk about your
work? Its eroticism?
FSH: I started drawing naked ladies tied up when I was 7.
I remember the first drawing I made (along these lines) was a when I made the drawing that it was in any way something I
should not be doing. And then there came a time when I realized they were things I shouldn’t have out there in public. So I began doing the drawings privately and hiding them. That continued
all of the way through high school. And I did thousands of these drawings and I got really good at drawing the figure because I was making these perverted little drawings which were erotic fantasies in high school.
Before I went to high school, I was in a small Wisconsin town,
population of less than six thousand, and considered kind of
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abandoning the figure altogether? Did you experiment with any paintings that didn’t include figures?
FSH: Not at all. No. The figure has been there since the age of
seven or earlier. I’ve always been figurative.
MS: Would you say that your palate was highly influenced by
the Fantastic Realists? Your use of color is one of the things about your work that really stands out to me when I view it.
FSH: It’s funny. [The Fantastic Realists] certainly had strong
color, but all of my colleagues at the Academy used much more
muted colors. And I wanted bright colors, so I would be accused of using “American color,” which was bright and gaudy, and
they wanted things toned down a bit. So my color then was a
little more muted than it would have been otherwise. But when I came to L.A. in 1984 the first painting I made just exploded. It was just really bright and was just a release of all that criticism that was behind me at that point. There’s nothing negative
about being an “American painter” in America. It was negative
in Vienna to be an American in general, but to be an “American painter,” you know, they sort of picked on you a bit extra, I think.
MS: Is there anything about being an American artist (and
one living so near Hollywood) that has given your work that cinematic sense of dramatic lighting? odd, I think. I decided I was going to turn over a new leaf when I went to college. I burned a thousand drawings, including an
FSH: I’m sure there has been. One of the things that opened
me up as an artist, initially, as a freshman at Lawrence
erotic novel. Went out behind the house and burned them.
University, we had to go see one of Fellini’s films, 8 ½, and it
the hometown of Sigmund Freud? (Laughter)
different person. I didn’t know what it meant. I had no idea what
bound women were of my mother. She was tied up so that she
on, I looked at a lot of film. It wasn’t just Hollywood, certainly.
killed it. I had my first show of erotic art in Vienna in 1979 and
depicted people moving, going through these situations. And so,
MS: Was it coincidence that after that you found yourself in
blew my mind open. Literally, I came out of watching that film a
FSH: I had a revelation in Vienna that those drawings of
it was about. But I was just flabbergasted. And so from that point
wouldn’t leave as my father had left. And that pretty much
I loved European film, too. But cinema had a huge effect. It
all these works were successful as a show. They were bought by
yeah, film has certainly had a huge effect on me.
And after that, the erotic theme just died on me. Dead. And then
very lucky in being able to do that, but I also want to say that
to paint and where I was going.
disciplined. And I worked very hard to do these things. And, at
doctors and lawyers who were the cream of Viennese society.
I had a tough couple years where I was trying to figure out what MS: How did you reinvent yourself as an artist, then?
FSH: It took me a couple years, and it was very difficult,
because I didn’t know my theme anymore. From the age of seven
*FSH: I’ve spent my life doing what I want. And I’ve been
I really pushed hard at it. You know? I was extraordinarily
many times in my life, without the financial reward. So, if you’re a young artist and you’re thinking about following this career
path, it’s not all roses. There will be some very difficult things to
to twenty-three or twenty-four, I knew what I was making. It
get through, but the highs are like nothing else. l
And then that died; so, I had to discover what I was all about all
Excerpts from an interview of world-renowned painter and Laguna College of
I came to the conclusion that the psychological relationships
Liberal Arts instructor Mike Stice. To listen to a full, unedited version of this
was this erotic art. And I made the best erotic art that I could.
over again. And at some point, after a couple of years of struggle,
Art and Design (LCAD) Fine Arts faculty member F. Scott Hess by LCAD
between people were what I had always been doing.
interview, visit: http://kx935.com/podcast/collegeartradio/1.27.2014.2200
MS: During that two-year period, did you ever consider
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Charles
Gitnick
On April 3rd, Charles Gitnick turned 12 years old and exhibited in the world’s largest fine art fair, New York’s ArtExpo, in the young artists section titled “Solo.” Since he began drawing and paitning at the age of five, he has sold art both nationally and internationally and has been featured in publications such as the LA Times and the Huffington Post. The subject matter of guns began when he was nine from the necessity of making art from found objects which became 3-D wall pieces. With no money, he would make art from anything he could get away with painting on, one of which was a toy rifle. It was after the shootings in Connecticut that Charles reconsidered the purpose of using gun imagery in his work. He had been making his gun art for a year and
was suddenly confronted with the truth of violence in our culture. He went through a brief period where he stopped making art altogether until through the support of his parents came to see--- as all thoughtful artists do--- the opportunity to use his art to great affect. Now, Gitnick approaches his subject matter with distinct purpose. Paintings of guns camouflaged in bright colors or set against a Byzantine gold leafed background send a clear message about a distorted narrative. Gitnick says about his work, “The gun is there but it’s hard to see, or you don’t see it for what it really is. Hopefully my art will get people talking about guns, gun safety, and gun violence. I wish that guns were only in an art gallery.” Charles Gitnick will be exhibited at Townley Gallery in Laguna Beach from June 2 - 30 with an artist’s reception June 5th from 6-9 pm. For more information about Charles Gitnick and his work, visit his website at: CharlesArts.com.
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: “Gold Leaf,” gold leaf faux, replica gun, and spray paint on board, 39 x 24.5 inches; “Flower,” replica guns and acrylic on canvas, 42.5 x 42.5 inches; “Weapon of Peace,” replica rifle and acrlyic on canvas, 62.5 x 32 inches
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Calendar of Events Ongoing through July 13, 2014
“Women Who Paint En Plein Air”
Roger’s Gardens | 2301 San Joaquin Hills Road, Corona Del Mar When artists discovered how to put paint in a tube, the plein air movement was born. These inspired artists were able to capture nature first hand while painting in ever changing conditions. This exhibit features women Master Plein Air artists who have dedicated their lives to painting the outdoors. Featured Artist: Robyn Hall Guest Artists: Robin Hall, Kim Lordier, Peggi Kroll-Roberts, Camille Przewodek, Kathryn Stats and Elizabeth Tolley Rogersgardens.com; (949) 640-5800
Ongoing – July 27, 2014
Sarkisian & Sarkisian
Orange County Museum of Art 850 San Clemente Dr, Newport Beach California survey of video artist Peter Sarkisian (born 1965, Glendale, CA), and the artist’s father, Paul Sarkisian (b. 1928, Chicago) with 22 video sculptures by Peter Sarkisian and nearly a dozen paintings by Paul Sarkisian, the exhibition hints at a comparison between the distinct approaches of two artists who happen to be father and son. ocma.net; (949) 759-1122
Ongoing through July 27, 2014
Time Capsule: recently acquired works from the 1970 and 1980
Orange County Museum of Art 850 San Clemente Dr, Newport Beach OCMA Chief Curator Dan Cameron will present a selection of artworks made between 1970 and 1989, ocma.net; (949) 759-1122
Ongoing through August 31, 2014
New Local Featured Artist
Gallery McCollum 206 N. Pacific Coast Highway, Laguna Beach Local Artist and Author Vanessa Rothe will be exhibiting her new works from Saint Tropez and the South of France. Wheat fields with hay rolls, Cafe scenes, colorful boats and Vespa scooters in oils and watercolors. Vanessarothe.com; (949) 280 1555
Ongoing through August 31, 2014
Russian Impressionism meets American Impressionism in “Realism Without Borders”
Wednesday, June 4-30, 2014
Landscapes: Real and Imagined paintings on canvas and paper by Howard Hitchcock will be featured in the Front Gallery along with Tattoo, paintings of symbolic images on paper by Lawrence Terry in the Skylight Gallery.
Sandstone Gallery Laguna 384-A, N. Coast Hwy, Laguna Beach 12-5pm daily and by appointment. Closed Tuesdays. Also exhibiting, local artists Ann Kim, Sunny Kim, Mada Leach, Anne Moore, Hyatt Moore, Jong Ro, & Lynn Welker. Sandstoneartgallery. com; (949) 497-6775
Thursday, June 5, 2014; 6-9pm
First Thursday Art Walk Reception
Orange County Creatives, 761 S. Coast Hwy, Laguna Beach Enjoy some wine and cheese while seeing what’s new in the gallery. OrangeCountyCreativesGallery.com; (978) 473-9658
Thursday, June 5, 2014; 6-9pm
Meet the artists
Sandstone Gallery Laguna 384-A N. Coast Hwy, Laguna Beach Complimentary refreshments offered. Sandstoneartgallery.com; (949) 497-6775
Thursday, June 5, 2014, 6-10pm
“Through My Eyes - How I See It” – Artist Reception
Las Laguna 577 S. Coast Highway A-1 Laguna Beach Visit us in Laguna Village at The Cliffs for our artist reception, beautiful views, and live music. Guest Artist Gregory Gallardo. Laslagunagallery.com (949) 667-1803
Thursday, June 5, 2014; Artist Reception 6-8pm
“The Back Room” Spring Celebration!
JoAnne Artman Gallery 326 North Coast Hwy. Laguna Beach Viewers will be enthralled by the “Back Room” in our gallery when we unlock our hidden treasures. Our “Back Room” artists including Alberto Murillo, Anja Van Herle, James Verbicky, Pedro Bonnin, Robert Mars & Stallman. Joanneartmangallery.com; (949) 510-5481
Saturday, June 14, 2014; 6-8pm
Port and Starboard
Debra Huse Gallery 229 marine Ave Balboa Island Local Laguna Beach Artist Vanessa Rothe will exhibit alongside her international group of fine artists in this East meets West show featuring works by Russian, French, American and Ukranian artists. Boat, Marine and Ocean themed works by top Plein Air and Studio Artists of America and abroad. Vanessarothe.com; (949) 280 1555
Wednesday, June 18, 2014; 9am
Casa Wellness Wednesdays – Casa Yoga
Casa Romantica Cultural Center and Gardens, 415 Avenida Granada San Clemente Admission: Casa Member $10, Non-member $15, Student Free Casaromantica.org; (949) 498-2139
Friday, June 20, 2014; 6-9pm
Laguna Nursery Cabaret
Laguna Nursery 1370 S. Coast Hwy, Laguna Beach Laguna Nursery presents perennial favorite Saif Eddin and friends. Tickets on sale now. $35 in advance; $45 at the door. Lagunanursery.net; (949) 494-5200
Saturday, June 21, 2014; 5-8pm
Mid-month Mingle
Orange County Creatives 761 S. Coast Hwy, Laguna Beach Join the Orange County Creatives Artists for an informal evening of art and conversation. OrangeCountyCreativesGallery.com; (978) 473-9658
Thursday, June 26, 2014; 7pm
Casa Cool – Estrada Brothers Latin Jazz Band Casa Romantica Cultural Center and Gardens, 415 Avenida Granada San Clemente General Admission: $25, Casa Members: $20, Students: $15 Casaromantica.org; (949) 498-2139
Thursday, June 26, 2014; 7-10pm
Eighth “Intimate Artist Bio Series”
Las Laguna Gallery 577 S. Coast Highway A-1 Laguna Beach Please visit us at Laguna Village for breathtaking views and incredible dance themed art. Guest artist Michael Coakes. Laslagunagallery.com; (949)667-1803
Laguna Gallery of Contemporary Art 611 South Coast Highway, Laguna Beach Celebrating the world’s first ALL humanARTarian gallery 1 year anniversary party. Glass sculptor Joseph Moscoso speaks about his life, work and helping the orphans in Tijuana. Mixed media artist, Joni Pakes will be sharing her life story and touch on the importance of “Women in the Art world- Past, Present & Future” Lgoca.com; (949) 715-9604
Ongoing
Friday, June 6-27, 2014; 12-5pm. Closed Tues.
Friday, June 27, 2014 – August 31, 2014; 10-10pm
Forest & Ocean Gallery 480 Ocean Avenue, Laguna Beach Tues-Friday: 11-5pm, Sat: 10-6pm, Sun: 11-5pm See Ron Azevedo’s hauntingly beautiful images of the abandoned Beelitz-Heilstätten tuberculosis treatment complex southwest of Berlin. Ronazevedo.com; forestoceangallery.com
Las Laguna Gallery 577 S. Coast Highway A-1 Laguna Beach Las Laguna Gallery invites you to our gallery to view incredible works from local, national and international artists. Guest Artist Gregory Gallardo. Laslagunagallery.com; (949) 667-1803
Ongoing through September 15, 2014
19th Annual San Clemente Downtown Business Association Car Show
Vanessa Rothe Studio 418 Ocean Ave, Laguna Beach Come enjoy and discover Russian Impressionism in this studio setting. New Collection imported from a far to the studio for Laguna to view and enjoy. From students to masters, Russian to American show alongside one another at the studio and Rothe’s works. Call to make an appointment. Vanessarothe.com; (949) 280 1555
“Beelitz-Heilstätten-The Abandoned Sanatorium”
Call for Art – Artists Submissions
Las Laguna Gallery 577 S. Coast Highway A-1 Laguna Beach, CA 92651 Las Laguna Gallery is accepting submissions from artists for various themed shows. $35 for 1st image; $5 for each additional image. Artists are invited to visit our website for details. Laslagunagallery.com; (949) 667-1803
June Sunday, June 1-30, 2014
3-D Gun Art by 12 year old Charles Gitnick M-T: 12-6pm; F-Sun: 11-7pm Townley Gallery 570 S Coast Hwy, Laguna Beach Townleygallery.com; (949) 715-1860; Charlesarts.com
Sunday, June 1-30, 2014; Every Saturday and Sunday 1-3pm
Meet the Artists
Orange County Creatives, 761 S. Coast Hwy, Laguna Beach Come and see live demos in the gallery. Visit the “Upcoming Events” page on our website to see which artists are scheduled. OrangeCountyCreativesGallery.com; (978) 473-9658
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Saturday, June 5-23, 2014; 12- 5pm. Closed Tues.
“Art of Dance” – Group Exhibition
“Through My Eyes - How I See It” – Group Exhibition
Sunday, June 8, 2014; 10- 3pm
On Avenida Del Mar, San Clemente FREE Family Event: Over 300 unique, classic and exotic cars on display in downtown San Clemente. Mblaguna.com; (949) 347-3700
Thursday, June 12, 2014; 6:30pm
Carnival! Tenth Anniversary Celebration of Laguna Dance Festival
[seven-degrees] 891 Laguna Canyon Road, Laguna Beach Dinner, music and red-hot Brazilian dancers mark a decade of worldclass dance presentations in Laguna Beach. Limited seating. RSVP required. Lagunadancefestival.org; (949) 715-5578
Thursday, June 12, 2014; 7pm
Casa Up Close – “Modern Romance: California Homes in the Spanish Revival style” with author D.J. Waldie Casa Romantica Cultural Center and Gardens, 415 Avenida Granada, San Clemente Admission: Casa Member $10, Non-member $15, Student Free Casaromantica.org; (949) 498-2139
Sawdust Arts & Crafts Festival
Sawdust Arts & Crafts Festival 935 Laguna Canyon Road, Laguna Beach 200 Local Artists & Craftsmen; Admission Adult $8.50 Booths 307 & 312 DEMOS DAILY Mermaidsandart.com; (760) 831-9661
Friday, June 27, 2014 11-2pm
Art Club Docent Tour & Luncheon | “Then & Now: 100 Years of Plein Air Painting”
Roger’s Gardens | 2301 San Joaquin Hills Road, Corona Del Mar Join us at The Irvine Museum for a private docent tour by Museum Director, Jean Stern. After the tour, lunch will be provided by Zinc Café at Roger’s Gardens, along with a brief talk about our current exhibit, “Women Who Paint en Plein Air.” Registration fee is $25, per guest. visit shoprogersgardens.com or call (949) 640-5800
Friday, June 27, 2014-August 31, 2014
Art-A-Fair, A Fine Art Festival
Open Daily: Sun thru Thurs: 10-9pm, Fri & Sat: 10-10pm Art-A-Fair 777 Laguna Canyon Road, Laguna Beach Discover: 125 fine artists, street painting/3D mural over 5 Sundays beginning 7-27; Live music, Thursday-Sunday, Tivoli Too’s fine cuisine. Adults $7.50 Art-a-fair.com; (949) 494.4514
Saturday, June 28, 2014
Laguna Nursery goes to Lotusland in Montecito.
Laguna Nursery 1370 S. Coast Hwy, Laguna Beach Join us for an awesome day trip to one of the top ten private botanical gardens in the world. Tickets now on sale! Includes: Admission, private docent tour, private additional garden tour with Ruben Flores, VIP Limo bus to and from Montecito, Bites and Beverages before and during transit, and a gourmet box lunch. Limited availability so book today. Lagunanursery.net; (949) 494-5200
Saturday, June 28, 2014; 6:30- 9:30 pm.; Gates open at 5:30
Music Under the Stars Summer Concert Series
Mission San Juan Capistrano 26801 Ortega Hwy, San Juan Capistrano Featuring a primarily tribute band lineup, celebrating a variety of timeless and nostalgic classics in popular music at the beautiful and historic setting of the Mission. Lawn seating is $30 per person; Reserved tables available for purchase $140-$450 Missionsjc.com/ activities/signature_MusicUnderStars.php; (949) 234-1315
Monday, June 30– July 10, 2014; 9-11am
Casa Kids – Theater Improv Camp (Ages 9-14) Casa Romantica Cultural Center and Gardens, 415 Avenida Granada, San Clemente Admission: Casa Member $10, Non-member $15, Student Free Casaromantica.org; (949) 498-2139
July Tuesday, July 1-31, 2014 Every Saturday and Sunday; 1-3pm
Meet the Artists
Orange County Creatives, 761 S. Coast Hwy, Laguna Beach See live demos in the gallery. Visit the “Upcoming Events” page on our website to see which artists are scheduled. OrangeCountyCreativesGallery.com 978-473-9658
Tuesday, July 1- July 31, 2014
SALE at Just Looking Boutique
Just Looking Boutique, 384 Forest Ave. Lumber Yard Mall, #8 Laguna Beach Everything 30% - 70% OFF (949) 494-8208; heshmatshirazi@aol.com
Wednesday, July 2-August 4, 2014
Stream of Consciousness abstract oil paintings by Jong Ro will be featured in the Front Gallery along with Cosmic Dream, large scale abstracts by Sunny Kim in the Skylight Gallery.
Sandstone Gallery Laguna 384-A N. Coast Hwy, Laguna Beach Local artists exhibiting: Howard Hitchcock, Ann Kim, Mada Leach, Anne Moore, Hyatt Moore, Lawrence Terry & Lynn Welker. Mon –Sun 12-5pm and by appointment; Closed Tuesdays. Sandstoneartgallery.com; (949) 497-6775
Thursday, July 3, 2014; 6-9pm
First Thursday Art Walk Reception
Orange County Creatives, 761 S. Coast Hwy, Laguna Beach Enjoy some wine and cheese while seeing what’s new in the gallery. OrangeCountyCreativesGallery.com; (978) 473-9658
Thursday, July 3, 2014; 6-9pm
Meet the Artists
Sandstone Gallery Laguna 384-A N. Coast Hwy, Laguna Beach Sandstoneartgallery.com; (949) 497-6775
Thursday, July 3, 2014; 6:30-10pm
“Art of Dance” – Artist Reception
Las Laguna Gallery 577 S. Coast Highway A-1 Laguna Beach Las Laguna Gallery invites you to our gallery to view dance related art from local, national and international artists. Guest artist Michael Coakes. Complimentary refreshments offered. Laslagunagallery.com (949)667-1803
Friday, July 4, 2014; 8pm
July 4 with Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, 8808 Irvine Center Dr., Irvine Swing with “America’s favorite big band.” Plus, patriotic favorites and a brilliant fireworks finale! Tickets $25+. PacificSymphony.org; (714) 755-5799
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Calendar of Events Saturday, June 5-23, 2014; 12- 5pm. Closed Tues.
“Art of Dance” – Group Exhibition
Las Laguna Gallery 577 S. Coast Highway A-1 Laguna Beach Please visit us at Laguna Village for breathtaking views and incredible dance themed art. Guest artist Michael Coakes. Laslagunagallery.com; (949)667-1803
Sunday, July 6-13, 2014
The Cottage Gallery’s One Year Anniversary
The Cottage Gallery, 31701 Los Rios Street, San Juan Capistrano The Cottage Gallery’s One Year Anniversary Celebration including free demos, live entertainment and other special events. See website for full details. Cottagegallerylosrios.com
Sunday, July 6–August 30, 2014; 10–11:30pm
Festival of Arts Fine Art Show
Festival of Arts, 650 Laguna Canyon Road, Laguna Beach Come see our juried fine art show featuring 140 of Southern Orange County’s top artists in an open-air gallery setting. General Admission: $7 - $10; Students & Seniors: $4 -$6; Free Admission for Children 12 and under, Military, and Laguna Beach Residents. www.LagunaFestivalofArts.org ; (949) 494-1145
July 6–August 30, 2014; 8:30pm
Pageant of the Masters
Festival of Arts, 650 Laguna Canyon Road, Laguna Beach Watch real people be magically transformed into life-sized recreations of famous works of art. A live narrator guides you through the story of each living picture accompanied by a full orchestra. Advance Tickets $15 - $220. PageantTickets.com; (949) 494-1145
Monday-Friday, July 7 - August 22, 2014; 11-1pm
Summer Fun! Crafts for Kids
Mission San Juan Capistrano 26801 Ortega Hwy, San Juan Capistrano Daytime events for children (appropriate for ages 6-12), crafts include lasso/jump rope, miniature adobe brick house, cornhusk dolls/action figures, mini coiled pot and arrowhead necklace. $3.00 per child in addition to admission. Missionsjc.com/activities/summer-crafts.php; (949) 234-1315
Tuesday, July 8, 2014; 5:30–8:30pm
Casa Coastal – Aloha Spirit: Hawaiian Shirts & Ukuleles
Opening Luau, July 8, 2014, 5:30–8:30pm Exhibition Open July 8, 2014 – September 14, 2014 Casa Romantica Cultural Center and Gardens, 415 Avenida Granada, San Clemente Admission: Casa Member $10, Non-member $15, Student Free Casaromantica.org; (949) 498-2139
Thursday, July 10, 2014; 7pm
Casa Coastal – The History of the Aloha Shirt Casa Romantica Cultural Center and Gardens, 415 Avenida Granada, San Clemente General Admission: $15, Casa Members: $10, Students: $5 Casaromantica.org; (949) 498-2139
Thursday, July 10, 2014; 12-1pm
Festival of Arts Art Talks: “Talk the Walk”
Festival of Arts 650 Laguna Canyon Rd, Laguna Beach Experienced Docent Sabra Lande will lead Art Talk attendees on a tour of the newly opened fine art exhibit and share stories from her experiences at the Festival of Arts. Free with Festival Admission. LagunaFestivalofArts.org; (949) 494-1145
Thursdays, July 10-August 28, 2014; 5:30–7:30pm
Art, Jazz, Wine and Chocolate
Festival of Arts, 650 Laguna Canyon Road, Laguna Beach The Festival’s outdoor setting, together with chocolate paired with wine and the sensuous sounds of jazz surrounded by fine art, creates an ideal evening for all. $15 in addition to Festival Admission. LagunaFestivalofArts.org; (949) 494-1145
Friday Evening - Saturday Morning July 11 - July 12, 2014
Adventure Sleepover: Night at the Mission
Mission San Juan Capistrano 26801 Ortega Hwy, San Juan Capistrano Join us for an adventurous sleepover of camping overnight on Mission grounds for kids with their parents. The sleepover includes dinner, activities, & breakfast the next morning. $70 per person; $55 per person in groups of 4+ Missionsjc.com/activities/camp.php; (949) 234-1315
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Saturday, July 12, 2014; 10am
Laguna Nursery Garden Walk
1730 South Coast Highway, Laguna Beach Meet at 10am at the Nursery and discover Laguna Beach lagunanursery.net; (949) 494-5200
Saturday, July 12, 2014; 2-4pm.
Hip hop Master Class for intermediate and advanced dancers ages 12+ with Quest Crew’s Brian Hirano and Aris Paracuelles
Sage Hill School, 20402 Newport Coast Drive, Newport Beach Laguna Dance Festival presents a hip hop master class with the dance masters from Quest Crew, which took the nation by storm after winning Season 3 of Randy Jackson’s America’s Best Dance Crew on MTV and subsequently performed with Usher, Snoop Dogg and LMFAO. Cost: Dancers $25 Observers: $15 Lagunadancefestival.org; (949) 715-5578
Saturday, July 12, 2014; 1-3pm
Jazz on the Green “Greg Adams and East Bay Soul”
Festival of Arts, 650 Laguna Canyon Road, Laguna Beach Sit back, relax, and enjoy the music of award-winning jazz artists as they perform live on the Festival grounds. Free with Festival Admission. LagunaFestivalofArts.org; (949) 494-1145
Saturday, July 12, 2014; 6-10pm
“The Art of Change” – A one man show with humanARTarian painter Mark Jesinoski. Laguna
Gallery of Contemporary Art 611 South Coast Highway, Laguna Beach Mark paints for the soul purpose to give back to the less fortunate The “Art of Change” encompasses energy, awareness and love in the human condition…..and how our human race needs to participate in helping each other in order to make this world a better place. Lgoca.com; (949) 715-9604
Sundays, July 13–August 24, 2014; 1-2pm
Art of Cooking
Festival of Arts, 650 Laguna Canyon Road, Laguna Beach Watch and learn as noteworthy chefs demonstrate delicious recipes and let guests sample their creative culinary delights. Free with Festival Admission. LagunaFestivalofArts.org; (949) 494-1145
Sundays, July 13–August 24, 2014; 1-2pm
Sunday in the Park Music Series
Festival of Arts, 650 Laguna Canyon Road, Laguna Beach Sundays at the Festival of Arts features a musical series with an eclectic mix of music providing the perfect atmosphere to browse the art gallery, picnic on the green, or simply relax in the beautiful weather of Laguna Beach. Free with Festival Admission. LagunaFestivalofArts.org; (949) 494-1145
Wednesday, July 16, 2014; 9am
Casa Wellness Wednesdays – Casa Yoga
Casa Romantica Cultural Center and Gardens, 415 Avenida Granada, San Clemente Admission: Casa Member $10, Non-member $15, Student Free Casaromantica.org; (949) 498-2139
Thursday, July 17, 2014; 12-1pm
Festival of Arts Art Talks: “Mirror Mirror”
Festival of Arts 650 Laguna Canyon Rd, Laguna Beach Focused on the topic of portraiture, Festival artists will share why and how they select the subjects that they paint. Discussion will be led by Festival artist Elizabeth McGhee. Free with Festival Admission. LagunaFestivalofArts.org; (949) 494-1145
July 7 - 11; July 14 - 18; July 21 - 25; July 28 - August 1
Ceramics Camp
Mission San Juan Capistrano 26801 Ortega Hwy, San Juan Capistrano Come join the fun and play with clay! Students will learn both ceramic hand-building techniques and how to throw clay on the wheel. $330 per person. 9- 1pm. Missionsjc.com/activities/camp.php; (949) 234-1315
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Calendar of Events Saturday, July 19, 2014; 4-7pm
Opening night, “Horses In Motion” an equestrian themed art show. Nativa Interiors 143 So. Cedros, Solana Beach The works will include paintings, sculptures and photographs from 10 local and nationally renowned artists. 10% of proceeds will go to the “After The Finish Line” foundation, a non-profit for rescued Thoroughbred racehorses. Nativafurniture.com; Show runs July 19 - August 30, 2014 (858)-794-0003; Triciaskoglund.com; (760) 458-0861
Saturday, July 19 & 20, 2014; 10-4pm
SoCalPAPA Paints OC Parks and the Back Bay
Muth Interpretive Center 2301 University Dr. Newport Beach Presented by the Newport Bay Conservancy and OC Parks Free painting classes for kids, age 7-12. Prior sign-up is required Call 949-923-2269 unbic@ocparks.com A 30% of all proceeds are tax deductible. The funds raised support the Newport Bay Conservancy Socalpapa.com; newportbay.org
Saturday, July 19, 2014; 5-7pm
Opening Reception with the Artists & Enter-toWin “California Beaches” Exhibit
Roger’s Gardens 2301 San Joaquin Hills Road, Corona Del Mar In celebration of the opening of “California Beaches,” join us for little bites, wine tasting with B Cellars, featuring wines from Napa Valley region, while engaging with the exhibiting artists. Guest will have the opportunity to Enter-to-Win an original plein air painting by one of the talented artists. Winner will be announced Monday, July 21 on Roger’s Gardens Facebook page. Featured Artist: Daniel Aldana, Brian Blood, David Damm, Gil Dellinger, Robin Hall, Joseph Paquet & Jason Situ Guest Artists: Kathleen Dunphy & Clark Mitchell; Exhibit runs: Saturday, July 19–Sunday, September 21, 2014 Rogersgardens.com; (949) 640-5800
Saturday, July 19, 2014; 6:30- 9:30 pm.; Gates open at 5:30 pm
Music Under the Stars Summer Concert Series
Mission San Juan Capistrano 26801 Ortega Hwy, San Juan Capistrano Featuring a primarily tribute band lineup, celebrating a variety of timeless and nostalgic classics in popular music at the beautiful and historic setting of the Mission. Lawn seating is $30 per person; Reserved tables available for purchase $140-$450 Missionsjc.com/ activities/signature_MusicUnderStars.php; (949) 234-1315
Saturday, July 19, 2014; 12-3pm
Family Art Day
Festival of Arts, 650 Laguna Canyon Road, Laguna Beach Art activities for children and their parents including face painting, balloon art, puppet show, and treasure hunt. Free with Festival Admission. LagunaFestivalofArts.org; (949) 494-1145
Sunday, July 20, 2014; 7:30pm
Gershwin Greats
Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, 8808 Irvine Center Dr., Irvine Gershwin’s most popular works: “Rhapsody in Blue,”“An American in Paris” and “Porgy and Bess.” Tickets $25+. PacificSymphony.org; (714) 755-5799
Thursday, July 24, 2014; 12-1pm
Festival of Arts Art Talks: “Our World to Yours” Festival of Arts 650 Laguna Canyon Rd, Laguna Beach FOA printmaker Lindsay Buchman will lead a group of artists discussing how the artist’s interpretation impacts the Free with Festival Admission. LagunaFestivalofArts.org; (949) 494-1145
Thursday, July 24, 2014; 7pm
Casa Cool – 3rd Degree Blues Jazz Funk Band Casa Romantica Cultural Center and Gardens, 415 Avenida Granada, San Clemente General Admission: $25, Casa Members: $20, Students: $15 Casaromantica.org; (949) 498-2139
Saturday, July 26, 2014; 5-8pm
Mid-month Mingle
Orange County Creatives, 761 S. Coast Hwy, Laguna Beach Join the Orange County Creatives Artists for an informal evening of art and conversation. OrangeCountyCreativesGallery.com; (978) 473-9658
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Saturday, July 26, 2014; 1-3pm
Jazz on the Green - “Down to the Bone”
Festival of Arts, 650 Laguna Canyon Road, Laguna Beach Sit back, relax, and enjoy the music of award-winning jazz artists as they perform live on the Festival grounds. Free with Festival Admission. LagunaFestivalofArts.org; (949) 494-1145
Saturday, July 26, 2014; 10am
Laguna Nursery Garden Walk
1730 South Coast Highway, Laguna Beach Meet at 10am at the Nursery and discover Laguna Beach lagunanursery.net; (949) 494-5200
Thursday, July 31, 2014; 12-1pm
Festival of Arts Art Talks: “Two by Two”
Festival of Arts 650 Laguna Canyon Rd, Laguna Beach A panel of collaborative artists will discuss the benefits and challenges of creating artwork together. Includes Festival Artists Stephanie Cunningham and Betty Haight. Free with Festival Admission. LagunaFestivalofArts.org; (949) 494-1145
August August 1-31, 2014; Every Saturday and Sunday; 1-3pm
Meet the Artists
Orange County Creatives, 761 S. Coast Hwy, Laguna Beach Live demos in the gallery. Visit the “Upcoming Events” page on our website to see which artists are scheduled. OrangeCountyCreativesGallery.com; (978) 473-9658
Saturday, August 2, 2014; 1-4pm
Festival Runway Fashion Show
Festival of Arts, 650 Laguna Canyon Road, Laguna Beach Festival artists compete to create the most inspired couture using reclaimed, reused, or recycled materials. Free with Festival Admission. LagunaFestivalofArts.org; (949) 494-1145
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Saturday, August 2, 2014; 6:30- 9:30 pm.
Music Under the Stars Summer Concert Series
Mission San Juan Capistrano 26801 Ortega Hwy, San Juan Capistrano Featuring a primarily tribute band lineup, celebrating a variety of timeless and nostalgic classics in popular music at the beautiful and historic setting of the Mission. Lawn seating is $30 per person; Reserved tables available for purchase $140-$450 Gates open at 5:30 pm Missionsjc.com/activities/signature_MusicUnderStars.php; (949) 234-1315
Wednesday, August 6-September 1, 2014
Dreamscapes abstract oil paintings on canvas by Ann Kim will be featured in the Front Gallery along with Trespassing Time, original monotypes by Anne Moore in the Skylight Gallery. Sandstone Gallery Laguna 384-A N. Coast Hwy, Laguna Beach, CA Exhibiting local artists: Howard Hitchcock, Sunny Kim, Mada Leach, Hyatt Moore, Jong Ro, Lawrence Terry & Lynn Welker. Mon - Sun 12-5pm and by appointment. Closed Tuesdays. Sandstoneartgallery.com; (949) 497-6775
Thursday, August 7, 2014; 12-1pm
Festival of Arts Art Talks: “Runway Madness”
Festival of Arts 650 Laguna Canyon Rd, Laguna Beach The week after the popular Festival Runway Fashion Show, the participating artists will discuss their designs and allow people to get up to close to the Runway looks. Free with Festival Admission. LagunaFestivalofArts.org; (949) 494-1145
Thursday, August 7, 2014; 6-9pm
First Thursday Art Walk Reception
Orange County Creatives, 761 S. Coast Hwy, Laguna Beach Enjoy some wine and cheese while seeing what’s new in the gallery. OrangeCountyCreativesGallery.com; (978) 473-9658
Thursday, August 7, 2014; 6-9 pm
Meet the Artists
Sandstone Gallery Laguna 384-A N. Coast Hwy, Laguna Beach Complimentary refreshments offered. Sandstoneartgallery.com (949) 497-6775
Thursday, August 7, 2014; 6:30-10pm
“Birds and The Bees and Everything In Between” – Artist Reception
Las Laguna Gallery 577 S. Coast Highway A-1 Laguna Beach, CA 92651 Las Laguna Gallery invites you to our gallery to view animal related art from local, national and international artists. Laslagunagallery.com; (949) 667-1803
Saturday, August 9-30, 2014.
“Birds and The Bees and Everything In Between” – Group Show
Las Laguna Gallery 577 S. Coast Highway A-1 Laguna Beach, CA 92651 Please visit us at Laguna Village at The Cliffs for our group show of animal related works. Open daily 12-5pm. Closed Tues. Laslagunagallery.com (949)667-1803
Saturday, August 9, 2014; 8pm
Disney “Fantasia”: Live in Concert
Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, 8808 Irvine Center Dr., Irvine “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice and other favorites are performed live to Disney’s stunning footage on the big screen. Tickets $25+. PacificSymphony.org; (714) 755-5799
Saturday, August 9, 2014; 1-3pm
Jazz on the Green - “Jeff Lorber Fusion”
Festival of Arts, 650 Laguna Canyon Road, Laguna Beach Sit back, relax, and enjoy the music of award-winning jazz artists as they perform live on the Festival grounds. Free with Festival Admission. LagunaFestivalofArts.org; (949) 494-1145
Sunday, August 10, 2014; 10am
Laguna Nursery Garden Walk
1730 South Coast Highway, Laguna Beach Meet at 10am at the Nursery and discover Laguna Beach lagunanursery.net; (949) 494-5200
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Calendar of Events Thursday, August 14, 2014; 12-1pm
Thursday, August 21, 2014 12-1pm
Festival of Arts 650 Laguna Canyon Rd, Laguna Beach Festival printmaker Vinita Voogd will discuss her recent residency in Venice, Italy. She will be joined by other artists that attended the summer-long printmaking workshop. Free with Festival Admission. LagunaFestivalofArts.org; (949) 494-1145
Festival of Arts 650 Laguna Canyon Rd, Laguna Beach Looking back over the past 30 or 40 years, a panel of long-time exhibitors will reflect on experiences and share stories from their time at the Festival of Arts. Jacquie Moffett, the Festival’s longest exhibiting artist, will lead this fun discussion. Free with Festival Admission. LagunaFestivalofArts.org; (949) 494-1145
Thursday, August 14, 2014; 7pm-12am
Saturday, August 23, 2014; 5:30-11pm
Laguna Gallery of Contemporary Art 611 South Coast Highway, Laguna Beach Lgoca.com (949) 715-9604
Festival of Arts, 650 Laguna Canyon Road, Laguna Beach This celebrity-hosted private event begins with star-studded red carpet arrivals and a concert with music legend Al Jarreau. Enjoy exhibited original art and a performance of the 2014 Pageant of the Masters. LagunaFestivalofArts.org; (949) 494-1145
Festival of Arts Art Talks: “View from VeniceVenice, Italy That Is”
White Party…...” Intimate Artist Bio Series” group show…Artist’s tell all…...
Saturday, August 16, 2014
Music Under the Stars Summer Concert Series
Mission San Juan Capistrano 26801 Ortega Hwy, San Juan Capistrano Featuring a primarily tribute band lineup, celebrating a variety of timeless and nostalgic classics in popular music at the beautiful and historic setting of the Mission. Lawn seating is $30 per person; reserved tables available for purchase $140-$450 6:30- 9:30 pm.; Gates open at 5:30 pm Missionsjc.com/activities/signature_ MusicUnderStars.php; (949) 234-1315
Wednesday, August 20th, 2014; 9am
Casa Wellness Wednesdays – Casa Yoga
Casa Romantica Cultural Center and Gardens, 415 Avenida Granada San Clemente Admission: Casa Member $10, Non-member $15, Student Free Casaromantica.org; (949) 498-2139
Festival of Arts Art Talks: “Deja Vu”
Celebrity Benefit Concert and Pageant
Saturday, August 23, 2014; 8pm
Kenny G
Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, 8808 Irvine Center Dr., Irvine The silky smooth sounds of the saxophone superstar are perfect for a summer evening beneath the sky! Tickets $25+. PacificSymphony.org; (714) 755-5799
Saturday, August 23, 2014; 5-8pm
Mid-month Mingle
Orange County Creatives, 761 S. Coast Hwy, Laguna Beach Join the Orange County Creatives Artists for an informal evening of art and conversation. OrangeCountyCreativesGallery.com; (978) 473-9658
Sunday, August 24, 2014; 10am
Laguna Nursery Garden Walk
1730 South Coast Highway, Laguna Beach Meet at 10am at the Nursery and discover Laguna Beach lagunanursery.net; (949) 494-5200
Thursday, August 28, 2014; 12-1pm
Festival of Arts Art Talks: “Art of Documentary Photography”
Festival of Arts 650 Laguna Canyon Rd, Laguna Beach Festival of Arts exhibitor Tom Lamb will lead a discussion focusing on the impact of documentary photography in the world of fine art. Festival Artists will join him in sharing insights on the ever-changing aspects of photography and how documentary photography has impacted social change. Free with Festival Admission. LagunaFestivalofArts.org; (949) 494-1145
Friday, August 29, 2014 - September 1, 2014; 9-7pm
U.S. Sand Sculpting Challenge & 3D Art Exposition
1140 N. Harbor Dr. Downtown San Diego, Cruise Ship Terminal Pier ‘B’. Astonishing sand sculptures, amazing artwork by local artist and lots of fun for the whole family. Triciaskoglund.com www. ussandsculpting.com
Saturday, August 30, 2014; 8pm
Tchaikovsky Spectacular
Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, 8808 Irvine Center Dr., Irvine Thundering cannons and fireworks in Tchaikovsky’s “1812” Overture, plus Rachmaninoff and “Pictures at an Exhibition.” Tickets $25+. PacificSymphony.org; (714) 755-5799
Saturdays, August 30, 2014; 6:30- 9:30 pm.
Music Under the Stars Summer Concert Series
Mission San Juan Capistrano 26801 Ortega Hwy, San Juan Capistrano Featuring a primarily tribute band lineup, celebrating a variety of timeless and nostalgic classics in popular music at the beautiful and historic setting of the Mission. Lawn seating is $30 per person; Reserved tables available for purchase $140-$450 Gates open at 5:30 pm Missionsjc.com/activities/signature_MusicUnderStars. php; (949) 234-1315
Ron Azevedo Fine Art Photography
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Art Resources AL GORDON Fine Art Photography
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CASA COASTAL
Aloha Spirit
CHARLES GITNICK
Hawaiian Shirt & Ukulele Exhibition
July 8 - September 7, 2014 July 8 - Casa Coastal Luau July 10 - The History of the Aloha Shirt August 14 - San Onofre Wednesday Night Ukulele Players September 4 - History of Ukuleles
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“Sixteen Candles” acrylic and replica guns on canvas 31.5 x 41.5 inches
CharlesArts.com
CUNNINGHAM / HAIGHT DUETS collaborative mixed media / oil paintings
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Young Artist
SOPHIA LANDER LBAM: What school do you attend?
SL: I’m in 5th grade at Top of the World School in Laguna Beach
LBAM: How did you become interested in art? SL: I don’t really know. It’s just a way of expressing myself.
LBAM: When did you first start creating art?
SL: Before I moved to TOW (in second grade), I
was at a school where the students were assigned every week to build “construction creations”
out of cardboard boxes, egg cartons and other
recyclable things. Eventually, my parents showed some of these to Cheryl Ekstrom, and asked if I
could do some work with her in her studio on weekends. I did that for about a year and a half.
LBAM: Where do you find your inspiration?
SL: I like to get ideas from machines and other things that move. Sometimes I get ideas from things I read about in
fantasy books, or see in movies, or come across when I’m traveling.
LBAM: Do you have a mentor?
SL: That would be Cheryl Ekstrom. My parents got to know Cheryl before I was born, and they have a few of her pieces in the house. Cheryl’s a great
teacher. She is kind, helpful, and patient. And she lets me use power tools!
LBAM: What is your favorite medium?
SL: I like sculpting a lot. But lately I also enjoy
making movies and computer art and animation.
And I still like to create things out of recycled items.
LBAM: What other hobbies do you have?
SL: I play a lot of tennis and enjoy running. I also
like baseball and ice skating. I also enjoy traveling with my parents.
LBAM: What advice would you like to give to other children to encourage them in art?
SL: I would say you don’t have to try to be very creative with your work, but you have to enjoy
doing it and try your hardest to imagine what your piece is going to look like in the end.
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