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The Churchill Arts Council will present the mid-summer version of its popular Art Bar on Friday night, July 24, from 5-9 p.m., at the Oats Park Art Center.
This community-wide open house will provide an opportunity to visit with family and friends as well as view the two visual art exhibitions currently on display.
The first of the two exhibitions on view is “Inventions,” a selection of recent large-scale, abstract paintings by Harry Reese who teaches in the College of Creative Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
The paintings were made during two separate but intense periods of six-to-nine months each over the last five years. They have surfaces that have to be seen in person, up-close, to be fully appreciated. The artist has applied many, many layers of thin acrylic paint by a number of ingenious hand-controlled methods — such as shaking the canvas — resulting in illusions of depth on the surfaces.
These paintings are not attempts to paint faithful portrayals of “things” that can be observed in the “real” world, but, rather, a record of the artist's ongoing attempts to find something that he's looking for. He's not painting what he's seen, but rather recording the process of the search for what he wants to see.
The other exhibition on view at the Center is “Print Projects: Turkey Press / Edition Reese,” a selection of bookworks produced by Reese in collaboration with his wife, Sandra Liddell Reese.
These prints — excerpts really from the art of producing hand-made books — are illustrative of the validity of Guy Davenport's statement that “art is the attention we pay to the wholeness of the world.”
They are an overview of the couple's work over the last 30 years and include poems and other materials by a wide range of authors from classic modernists such as Ezra Pound and Marshall McLuhan to more contemporary authors such as Michael Hannon and Jonathan Williams.
All of the works on view stem from the couple's belief that the book functions in many ways—as both vehicle and container for thought, emotion, communication and pleasure. Their methods to express this are varied ranging from some of the oldest print technologies — handset letterpress type — through “non-art” materials such as photocopies and carbon paper to some of the latest digital printing methods.
So, plan on dropping by the mid-summer Art Bar at the Art Center on July 24 to enjoy a cocktail and these unique visual art shows. For information, call the Churchill Arts Council at 423-1440.
This community-wide open house will provide an opportunity to visit with family and friends as well as view the two visual art exhibitions currently on display.
The first of the two exhibitions on view is “Inventions,” a selection of recent large-scale, abstract paintings by Harry Reese who teaches in the College of Creative Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
The paintings were made during two separate but intense periods of six-to-nine months each over the last five years. They have surfaces that have to be seen in person, up-close, to be fully appreciated. The artist has applied many, many layers of thin acrylic paint by a number of ingenious hand-controlled methods — such as shaking the canvas — resulting in illusions of depth on the surfaces.
These paintings are not attempts to paint faithful portrayals of “things” that can be observed in the “real” world, but, rather, a record of the artist's ongoing attempts to find something that he's looking for. He's not painting what he's seen, but rather recording the process of the search for what he wants to see.
The other exhibition on view at the Center is “Print Projects: Turkey Press / Edition Reese,” a selection of bookworks produced by Reese in collaboration with his wife, Sandra Liddell Reese.
These prints — excerpts really from the art of producing hand-made books — are illustrative of the validity of Guy Davenport's statement that “art is the attention we pay to the wholeness of the world.”
They are an overview of the couple's work over the last 30 years and include poems and other materials by a wide range of authors from classic modernists such as Ezra Pound and Marshall McLuhan to more contemporary authors such as Michael Hannon and Jonathan Williams.
All of the works on view stem from the couple's belief that the book functions in many ways—as both vehicle and container for thought, emotion, communication and pleasure. Their methods to express this are varied ranging from some of the oldest print technologies — handset letterpress type — through “non-art” materials such as photocopies and carbon paper to some of the latest digital printing methods.
So, plan on dropping by the mid-summer Art Bar at the Art Center on July 24 to enjoy a cocktail and these unique visual art shows. For information, call the Churchill Arts Council at 423-1440.
The other exhibition on view at the Center is “Print Projects: Turkey Press / Edition Reese,” a selection of bookworks produced by Reese in collaboration with his wife, Sandra Liddell Reese.
These prints — excerpts really from the art of producing hand-made books — are illustrative of the validity of Guy Davenport's statement that “art is the attention we pay to the wholeness of the world.”
They are an overview of the couple's work over the last 30 years and include poems and other materials by a wide range of authors from classic modernists such as Ezra Pound and Marshall McLuhan to more contemporary authors such as Michael Hannon and Jonathan Williams.
All of the works on view stem from the couple's belief that the book functions in many ways—as both vehicle and container for thought, emotion, communication and pleasure. Their methods to express this are varied ranging from some of the oldest print technologies — handset letterpress type — through “non-art” materials such as photocopies and carbon paper to some of the latest digital printing methods.
So, plan on dropping by the mid-summer Art Bar at the Art Center on July 24 to enjoy a cocktail and these unique visual art shows. For information, call the Churchill Arts Council at 423-1440.
These prints — excerpts really from the art of producing hand-made books — are illustrative of the validity of Guy Davenport's statement that “art is the attention we pay to the wholeness of the world.”
They are an overview of the couple's work over the last 30 years and include poems and other materials by a wide range of authors from classic modernists such as Ezra Pound and Marshall McLuhan to more contemporary authors such as Michael Hannon and Jonathan Williams.
All of the works on view stem from the couple's belief that the book functions in many ways—as both vehicle and container for thought, emotion, communication and pleasure. Their methods to express this are varied ranging from some of the oldest print technologies — handset letterpress type — through “non-art” materials such as photocopies and carbon paper to some of the latest digital printing methods.
So, plan on dropping by the mid-summer Art Bar at the Art Center on July 24 to enjoy a cocktail and these unique visual art shows. For information, call the Churchill Arts Council at 423-1440.
