Group Exhibitions in Seattle, Berkeley and San Diego & a Publication

Last year was a fruitful year for me - two more paintings published by Pomona Valley Review, and I participated group shows at two galleries in Berkeley, and for the first time, in Evergreen Association of Fine Arts Gallery in Seattle, which just concluded last week.






The painting went to Seattle was a 2008 painting, Upstream, depicting struggling yet determined fish in stream.

 

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Just before the year end, I got accepted into two group shows in Expressions Gallery, Berkeley and The Studio Door in San Diego - another city conquered.

My portraits of old women, Century's Greeting and Fruition will be exhibited at Expressions Gallery, 2035 Ashby Ave. Berkeley, California, 94703:
January 17, 2015 - April 10, 2015.  Opening night: January 17, 6-9 pm.

 


The painting to be shipped to San Diego is another animal painting, Crow, depicting a lone crow in a desolate urban space, and the show is aptly titled "The Crow Show: A Tribute to Raven".

The Studio Door
Exhibition Dates: February 2 - 27, 2015 Mission Valley Reception: February 5, 2015 6:00 - 9:00 PM Ray Street Reception: February 6, 2015 6:00 - 9:00 PM

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My lucky abstract painting, July Meteors, has just be published by an online literary journal, Shark Reef, based in San Juan Islands of Washington State, after it made an appearance at an exhibition/auction, Collect!, in Berkeley Art Center last year.  Another piece published by Shark Reef, is a drawing, Ink Drawing Night City 3.

 

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Finally, one of my three paintings included in the last Expressions Gallery show, Changes, was chosen by Berkeley Planning and Development Development (2120 Milvia St) for the gallery's Off-site Shows: February 6 - July 31, 2015, and the display is open to view from Monday to Thursday, 9 AM - 4 PM.


One Fine Day

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Oil Painting "Upstream" Goes to Seattle

Last week, I shipped to Seattle my 2008 oil painting, Upstream, which has been selected for the juried show, 2014 Evergreen Association of Fine Arts (EAFA) Open Exhibition, at EAFA Gallery in the Seattle Design Center (5701 Sixth Avenue South, Suite P292, Seattle, WA 98108).

This modest painting, measured 24" by 18", semi-abstract in style, clearly influenced by Chinese ink painting, depicts a fish or two struggles to swim upstream, against the current.  It is fitting for the painting to travel to Seattle, because it was in that city when I witnessed an amazing salmon run in Chittenden Locks Fish Ladder several years ago.

 

This painting was not a frank documentation of that fish ladder scene; rather, when I painted it, I was trying to capture a free spirit, a spirit to overcome adversaries.  I deliberated chose a black and white color scheme, and a bold, almost abstract outline, as I was mostly interested in something elemental, less representational.

This work surely has a charmed life and earned a fair bit of recognitions - in 2009, it was published in The William and Mary Review by The College of William and Mary, Virginia, Volume 47.

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