AWE Gallery Events and More

Artist’s reception Saturday October 3, Noon – 5:00 PM.

The show begins with some fairly straightforward watercolor examples of colorful containers, interpreted on rice paper. Then it morphs into photography with more bright and shapely containers, this time interpreted to bring out interesting features. What is held in containers? Sometimes water. Now comes a wall of water. Here are delightful little macros of dancing and fanciful fluids. Finally there is a wall of just plain fun with abstract images that cover the rainbow of colors and challenge the imagination. Alice Steele’s work is truly a Color Carnival.

Gabriele Schroeder uses metal, wooden, bone, crystal, ceramic and hand-blown glass beads to create jewelry that rejoices in and celebrates women’s power and beauty. Her jewelry reminds all who wear it of their innate self-worth and beauty and their interdependence with the living spirit that pulses through all life on earth and sets us humans free to love and act graciously.

The show will be at the AWE Gallery the entire month of October (hours: Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday from 12:00 noon – 5:00 PM and by appointment. 415-731-6470)

50 Years of Black and White from Chinese-American Perspectives

Renewed photojournalists Irene Poon and Charles Wong will be exhibiting at A Woman’s Eye Gallery for the month of September.

The Artists’ reception is Saturday September 12th from 12:00 noon – 5:00 PM. Both Charles Wong and Irene Poon were born in San Francisco’s Chinatown. In the 90s Poon became immersed in discovering Asian American art as well as confirming her identity as an Asian American artist. Poon was active many years with the Chinese Historical Society and served on its Board of Directors as well as curated shows celebrating Chinese American artists. Her book Leading the Way celebrates 25 Asian-American artists of the older generation, including SF Chinatown’s Dong Kingman and Jade Snow Wong. Both Irene Poon and Charles Wong were included in the recent De Young exhibit “Asian-American-Modern Art: Shifting Currents 1900-1970”. It was a welcomed return where they first exhibited in the 1950s and 1960s.

The show will be at the AWE Gallery the entire month of September (hours: Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday from 12:00 noon – 5:00 PM and by appointment. 415-731-6470)

Personal Visions, the work of Joan Field, Jane Postiglione and Pat Prettie

Dance into the world of the inner soul of these women through their photographic captures of life from the details of nature to the tangos of Argentina! Artist Reception is Saturday August 1 from noon to 5:00 PM. Enjoy wine and figure foods while meeting the artists. The show will be at the AWE Gallery the entire month of August (hours: Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday from 12:00 noon – 5:00 PM and by appointment. 415-731-6470)

Rebecca Jackrel “Endangered” Nature Photography

Rebecca Jackrel is a freelance photographer from San Francisco, California, who shares her love of wild creatures and places through her photography. Rebecca’s work has been honored by selection for the Art Wolfe Environmental Photography Invitational, the North American Nature Photography Association, the Marin County Fair and elsewhere. Her show ’Endangered’ will showcase images of animals at risk in the Bay Area and beyond which include the California Clapper Rail, Polar Bear, Black-browed Albatross and many other species.

Guild of Natural Science Illustrators- California (GNSI)

“Natural Expressions” Pen & Ink, Watercolor, Oils GNSI is a non-profit organization founded at the Smithsonian Institution in 1968. The Guild sets high professional standards for its membership, provides opportunities for professional and scholarly development, encourages and assists member networking, and promotes the art of scientific illustration. GNSI-California is the second-oldest chapter on the West Coast, and comprises illustrators throughout Northern California. Our meeting locations have included The Oakland Museum of California, and the Science Illustration Program studio facilities located at UC, Santa Cruz. We offer workshops and field trips, lectures and demonstrations by professional illustrators, as well as opportunities for group exhibitions. Our current membership specializes in myriad subject matter ranging from birds and botanicals, to oceanic specimens and medicine. Members’ illustrations can be found in: text books, field guides, technical manuals, websites, museum exhibits, interpretive signs, scientific journals, and popular magazine articles, among other venues.

“In Her Garden” – Drawings, Prints, Photography by Virginia Stella

As a child, I went to church on Sunday mornings and often roamed the galleries of the Cleveland Art Museum in the afternoon. Other Sundays I spent in the parks gathering pods and leaves to play with. My early interest in mysticism, art and plants all came together as an adult. I have been an artist of earth and sky for many years. I use drawing and printing mediums and photography. The sacredness and beauty of the natural world and the wonder of the life cycle inspires my work. I have studied art at Dominican University and the Pacific School of Religion. I am co-ordinator of art exhibits at Marin General Hospital.

The Dee Levin Collection “A Retrospective” Watercolor, Fiber Art, Paper Constructions

Dolores (Dee) Levin (1933-2008) was a well-known San Francisco artist whose work, until the 1980s, focused on weaving. She then broadened her studies into papermaking and watercolor painting. Her work was influenced by her world travels and studies in Chinese calligraphy and art. Never afraid to experiment, Dee’s work always had the stamp of her distinctive artistic originality. This collection of her work contains examples of her work which are now in the collections of her friends. Some is for sale. Proceeds from these sales will benefit the City College of San Francisco art department galleries.