Art Show at Gallery Saratoga in August

I apologize for the plug. I'm having an art show this August at Gallery Saratoga with Stephanie North, a noted jeweler in the Bay Area. The show will run from August 4 to September 6, and we will have a reception on Saturday, August 8, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. My wife and nieces will help me to serve snack and drinks and we'll try to answer any questions you may have. I would be happy to see you come.

I have been a member of Gallery Saratoga for 3 years now and have enjoyed being in the company of a lot of great painters, ceramicists, jewelers, silk artists, wood carvers, and gourd makers. Our gallery is a co-op gallery, which appeals to me because of the democratic nature of the decision making. I've learned a lot from being in this gallery about the business aspects of selling art, and notice that a lot of the conversations with other artists has to do with marketing and selling our work. If you're in the Saratoga area in California and you wish to visit Gallery Saratoga, you could drop by at 14435-A Big Basin Way, Saratoga, California 95070

Stephanie North has been a jeweler since she learned jewelry making (fabrication) as an art form from Earl Pardon at Skidmore College. She likes using combinations of metals, brass, copper or anodized Niobium or Titanium with silver. Although constantly experimenting with new or revised techniques Stephanie usually combines surface texturing or embellishment and the use of layered or fold–formed metal to add dimension to my fabricated pieces. Stephanie's work has been published in “Jewelry/Metalworking Survey Number 3,” edited by David LaPlantz, 1993 and has also exhibited in The San Jose Museum of Art, “Art By Design” Competition, 1995.

For the past 2 years, I've been doing a lot of pen and ink drawings and cartoons for the Tri-City Voice , a local California newspaper, and the church bulletins of my church. It's been a lot of fun, as I've wanted to be a cartoonist since I was a child, so having published cartoons for the Tri-City Voice has been a dream come true for me. I've been using a lot of the cartoon drawings for paintings that'll be shown in this years show. As I'm trying to make artwork for a broad audience, I won't show much political work for this show, though I'll frame a few of last year's political cartoons from the elections. Recently I bought a few sheets of scratchboard from an art store in San Francisco, and have grown to love working on this media.

Comments (1)

Angelo Lopez

Thanks Pam. I'm not really sure what scratchboard is made of. It's black, and you scratch out the white, sort of like a photo negative. It has the look of woodcuts, only it seems easier to do. A really good art store should carry scratchboard. If you want to try it out, buy the strong board and not the flimsy paper version of scratchboard. When I was in college I bought some cheap flimsy scratchboard and it always tore when I tried to scratch it. The stronger board scratchboard doesn't tear and it looks better. If I had that kind of scratchboard in college, I probably would've fell in love with the media a lot sooner.

Posted by Angelo Lopez | July 24, 2009 12:53 PM

Posted on July 24, 2009 12:53

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