Discontent in August — August show

Posted on August 1, 2013 by Deborah

“August. August.  We’re not ready for you.  Slip in like the fog and steal our summer.”

With that delicious tease, photographers Charles Wong and Irene Poon come to AWE Gallery August 3 through September 1, 2013.

Meet the artists at their reception on Sunday, August 4, Noon – 5:00 PM.  Join a lively community of artists in conversation and enjoy light refreshments.

Talented artists, Irene Poon and Charles Wong, slip into A Woman’s Eye Gallery in August and provide their sensitive and realistic photographs of urban life.

Wong studied with Minor White, Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham and Edward Weston at the California School of Fine Arts (now the S.F. Art Institute).  He has had exhibitions locally and nationally.  His Screen Shot 2013-08-01 at 6.34.38 PMScreen Shot 2013-08-01 at 6.34.06 PMlatest work is the publication of Sweet and Sour.  Wong recently had an exhibition with Irene Poon at the Smith Anderson North Gallery in San Anselmo.

Poon studied photography with Don Worth at San Francisco State.  Her work has been show in various local and national venues and has been published in Point and Counterpoint:  Black and White Photography.

While you slip into AWE Gallery during August to enjoy the photographs of Charles Wong and Irene Poon, make sure to visit the main gallery where the six AWE collective artists show their work.

AWE Gallery is open every Saturday and Sunday from noon – 5:00 PM and is located at 678 Portola Dr. It is next to the purple church (north/east side). Use the church parking lot at Portola and Sydney.

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Summer Palette with Tangerine Arts — July Show

Posted on July 4, 2013 by Deborah

alpaughspiralyellowroseloresJuly at AWE Gallery features mixed media from Tangerine Arts.

Meet the artists at their Reception Sunday, July 14, from 2:00-5:00pm.

You’ll be greeted with art, refreshments and the mellow sounds of the musical duo, Vivace.

The nine artists in Tangerine Arts are concerned with issues of growth and fruitfulness, closeness to nature and the earth, creativity and wholeness. They work in a variety of mediums, including ceramics, drawing, mixed media, mosaic, painting, pastel, photography, printmaking and textiles.  Preview their work at www.tangerinearts.net.

Exhibiting at AWE will be Jennifer Alpaugh, Tama Blough, Gale Frances, Alice Kelmon, Melinda Lightfoot, Kathy Miller, Nancy Mona Russell, Linda Salter, and Sharron L. Walker. Photo above — Jennifer Alpaugh’s Spiral Yellow Roselores.

This exhibit runs from July 5 – July 28, 2013.

AWE Gallery is open every Saturday and Sunday from noon – 5:00 PM and is located at 678 Portola Dr. It is next to the purple church (north/east side). Use the church parking lot at Portola and Sydney.

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Mother Nature’s Surprises and Splendor – June Show

Posted on May 25, 2013 by stacy

Mother Nature in Photos by Phyllis Bonner is on exhibit for the month of June at the A Woman’s Eye Gallery Annex.  The Artist reception and conversation is Saturday June 1.  Drop by any time from noon – 5:00 PM.

Phyllis 1At 88 years of age, Phyllis Bonner packs a great deal of experience  behind her debut exhibit at AWE Gallery.

Her childhood years playing with dad’s enlarger, her years traveling with the circus, the chronicles of her son’s baby steps and her film records of world-wide destinations all are prologue to this neatly distilled show.

Phyllis Bonner learned about the digital world and the digital darkroom ten years ago at the age of 78. She ventured into the world of flowers, then fruits and vegetables.  She discovered the beauty of the close-up. This exhibit is full of surprising beauty as she explores our natural world with her experienced eyes.

She is the “Grandma Moses” to digital photography and photographic art!

No better way to honor our elders than to view, appreciate, listen to and engage with their art!  Have a glass of wine/nectar in celebration.

AWE Gallery is open every Saturday and Sunday from noon – 5:00 PM and is located at 678 Portola Dr.  It is next to the purple church (north/east side).  Use the church parking lot at Portola and Sydney.

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Seeing is Projecting, Art by Judith Williams

Posted on May 2, 2013 by stacy

Artist Reception:  Saturday May 4 from 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM

web-002Judith Williams has painted a series of dolls from her imagination.  They each have assigned personalities that create complex non-verbal stories. The viewers will certain flesh out this stories in their mind’s eye.

The doll paintings are on display along with another imaginary realm using shoes for inspiration.  The shape of the shoe and its multiple functions, literal and metaphorical, provide a new way to view this classical fashion icon.

“Seeing below the surface” is what appeals to Judith Williams.  Her resulting art pieces are creatively mounted for hanging and display.

Web-001This unique exhibit is an whimsical and provocative treasure.

The show is on Exhibit every Saturday and Sunday in May from 12:00 noon to 5:00 PM at the A Woman’s Eye Gallery, 678 Portola Drive, San Francisco.

Stop by to meet Judith and join in the party celebrating creativity and the soul of imagination!

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APRIL – Zaubermarchen/Tales of Magic

Posted on April 3, 2013 by stacy
Zaubermarchen/Tales of Magic
by Roxanne Worthington
Opens Saturday, April 6 and runs through April 28
Meet the Artist on Sunday, April 7, from 1:00 – 4:00 PM
 

Fairy tales, fables and fantasy – these are the timeless stories that have fascinated Roxanne Worthington and influenced her dreams since childhood.  For this artist, the challenge and the creative process is to take those stories and make them real, to make that inner world come to life.

Using photography as a base, but adding other tools in the artist’s repertoire is her was to bring those stories out of the dreaming mind and into physical reality.

Show runs April 6-28, 2013 — Saturday/Sunday noon – 5 PM

Sunday, April 14, 2PM AWE Ekphrastic Poetry Collective (Jane Green, Kit Kennedy, Sherri Rose-Walker, Nancy Wakeman) will respond in words to Roxanne Worthington’s Zaubermarchen/Tales of Magic.

As always: free parking, accessible by public transportation, light refreshments, great conversations

See you there — many times.

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The CLIR Annual Show

Posted on February 27, 2013 by stacy

The CLIR Annual Art Show this year is exhibited during March at A Woman’s Eye Gallery.  The artists’ reception is Saturday, March 2, from noon – 5:00 PM.  Drop by and meet the artists and hear about their work.

Each year, the artist members of the Center for Learning in Retirement (CLIR) convene to show their work.  Some artists have been life-long professionals and others are talented amateurs.  All have beautiful and evocative pieces using various media.

CLIR, a San Francisco based organization, provides a venue for those over 50 years of age who enjoy new learning and social opportunities.

See it all at the AWE Gallery Annex and the resident artists’ show in the gallery proper at 678 Portola Dr, San Francisco.  (Next to the purple church.  The gallery is Red and Yellow across the street from Mollie Stones-Tower Market and parking is available in the church lot.)

A Woman’s Eye Gallery specializes in the arts of women and features new exhibits, poetry salons, concerts, artist conversations as well as regular shows!

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Elizabeth Hack and February Activities at AWE

Posted on January 29, 2013 by stacy
  • Art Show, San Francisco Peace and Hope Reading and Celebration
  • AWE (A Women’s Eye) Gallery
  • 678 Portola Drive, San Francisco, CA 94127
  • E Hack ArtElizabeth Hack
  • Mixed media paintings
  • February 2 – 24, 2013
  • Opening Celebration
  • Sunday, February 3, 2013
  • 1pm-4:30pm
  • San Francisco Peace and Hope Reading 2:00pm
  • Al Young  California Poet Laureate Emeritus
  • Dan Brady, Jane Green, Kit Kennedy, Patrice Haan, John Rowe,
  • Vince Storti, Nancy Wakeman, Sherri Rose-Walker and Judy Wells
  • Harp music provided by Patrice Haan
  • San Francisco Peace and Hope is a literary publication
  • that promotes peace through poetry, writing and visual art.
  • www.sfpeaceandhope.com
  • Gallery hours:
  • Saturday and Sunday, noon to 5pm and by appointment
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Travelers on the ART Road

Posted on November 15, 2012 by stacy

FREE Holiday/Christmas music will be presented at 2:00 PM,  Saturday, December 15 in the AWE Gallery Annex with a reception.  2:00 – 3:00 PM – a concert not to be missed.  Vocalists/guitarists Alison Newvine and Dionne Kohler will perform classical, original and contemporary  songs.  Their voices are a cross between Carol King and Madonna, Norah Jones and Joan Beaz.

Three San Francisco watercolorists will exhibit “Travelers on the Art Road” at A Woman’s Eye Gallery Annex for the months of December 2012 through January 2013.  Join the artist for an opening reception on Saturday December 1 from noon – 5:00 PM

Alice Ducayet, who has studied Japanese brush writing  and art, has used some of these techniques in her sensitive artwork.

Interior designer Mimi Makowsky has been experimenting with transfers as a substitute for collage.  Naturally drawn to structure, Mimi has created elegant works in watercolor.

Allan Ridley’s experience with plein-air painting has taken him to interesting places; his experience with meditation has enabled him to interpret these scenes in a unique manner.

ANNOUNCING: Ambush Review # 3 Contributor’s Reading at A Woman’s Eye Gallery Annex, Sunday, December 9, 3-4:30 PM

Hosted by Kit Kennedy
with Editors Bob Booker & Patrick Cahill
& Special Guest Aidan Cahill, Classical Guitar,
& Poets Al Averbach, Sharon Coleman,
Lucille Lang Day, Grace Marie Grafton & Ken Saffran

We hope to see you there for this end of the year celebration with friends, poets, artists, writers and contributors to San Francisco’s Ambush Review.

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Genderqueer Portraits and Stories

Posted on October 2, 2012 by stacy
  • Drawings and Paintings
  • ELIZABETH “OSCAR” MAYNARD
  • STARTS SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6
  • ALL WEEKENDS THROUGH October 28
  • WELCOME THIS ARTIST AT HER RECEPTION
  • SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6
  • FROM NOON TO 5:00PM

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Elizabeth “Oscar” Maynard describes herself as ” a queer southern butch boi, from Carolina” She is a free-lance activist and artist who  attended Antioch College and majored in Art/Psych/Gender Studies.

Since 2006, stenciling has been her primary medium with a background in drawing, painting and photo.  She began an M.F.A program at SFAI Fall 2011.  She just finished a project titled Femme Agency, which looks at the way queer Femme women reclaim and complicate femininity.

She is invested in social justice movements, accountability and direct communication and these passions are woven into the work.  Conceptually, she is drawn to mapping narrative onto place, bodies, and cultural iconography. Narrative resonates with her because she is rooted in a Southern US cultural tradition of story-telling. She is eager to do work that ties history to location, and restores meaning to words or images that have evolved beyond their historical context or original meaning.

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Wonderland of Flora

Posted on August 31, 2012 by stacy

Photography by Alice Heimsoth starts Saturday, September 1 and runs through Sunday September 30.  Artist will comment on her work and answer questions at 1:00 PM and 3:00 PM on Sunday August 2. (Reception August 2 from noon – 5:00 PM).

Alice Heimsoth draws upon her spiritual relationship with nature to seek out the microcosms that exist beyond our normal field /of vision and attention span.

Her exhibit at AWE Gallery explores her love of nature and her unique perspective and process. Using a macro lens and a meditative stillness, Alice offers a glimpse into her wonderland of flora and phenomenon.

“Photography is a very intuitive process,”  she says. Whether a plant or a flower, an event or ritual; Alice has the ability to capture the moment and a spiritual essence of her subjects.

Alice’s other work can be viewed at www.aliceheimsoth.com

  • The Gallery is open weekends from Noon to 5:00pm.
  • Free parking behind the purple church.
  •  
  • A Woman’s Eye Gallery specializes in the art of
  • women artists and features new exhibits frequently.
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