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PRESS RELEASE
Event Dates: June 4-5, June 11-12, 2016 (Saturday and Sunday) 10am–5pm
NEW ARTIST SNAPSHOTS 2016:
Live from New York...
it's Barbara Stout. Studio # 44
Barbara has lived in Sebastopol since December,
coming from Oswego New York, where she was a
full-time artist and taught drawing part-time at the
State University of New York. She has shown her
work internationally at the China National Academy
of Fine Arts in Hangzhou and in Australia, and in
galleries on both coasts of the USA.
Her well-lit and charming studio on Palm Avenue
shows her watercolors to advantage. She uses
warm, meditative earth tones laid on contoured
paper, often several ripped sheets layered in a
collage. Her themes come from the natural world:
sea, sand, trees, pebbles and leaves. Leaves are a common theme in her work, sometimes startling
yellows that surprise among the quieter colors, sometimes overlaid in an abstract design against another
motif, such as a pair of hands suggestive of in prayer. The Chinese influence is evident in the designs,
in the tree set on a cliff overlooking the ocean, for example, and with her use of Chinese seals found in
the corners of her paintings which carry meanings, such as “Listen with the heart”.
Now that she has moved back to the coast that inspires her, the local environs have become prominent
in her newest work.
Painting: Watercolor collage and ink wash
Showing at: 7382 Palm Ave. Sebastopol, CA 95472
www.barbarastout.com
282 S. High Street, Sebastopol, CA 95472
Linda Galletta, Executive Director
707.829.4797 info@sebarts.org
Monica Bryant joins
Art At The Source
Studio #73
Monica Bryant admired Christo’s
Running Fence while a student at the
University of Hawaii, and she was
delighted to move to Sonoma County
in 1979. She has since taught art for
more than 20 years in the county’s
high schools and institutes. Her work
has been exhibited in museums and
galleries from Singapore to San
Francisco, and of course, in many
local venues and events such as Art
Trails.
Her work is highly distinctive and personal. She has recently revisited The Beauty Project, which
reunites eleven artists’ concerns for feminist issues in a San Francisco exhibit called Glass Slipper to
Glass Ceiling. Her work includes large installations and murals (she was the lead Artstart artist in
2002, for the Press Democrat Mural The 50 Who Shaped the 20th Century in Sonoma County), and
smaller, personal pieces made from papier mache, watercolors or mixed-media images from her time in
Singapore. Currently, she works with Photoshop to marry photographic images with acrylic and
watercolors. She says, “I use Photoshop to crop, zoom, and change colors. I create digital images from
photographs or my drawings. I print them (or have them printed) and then glaze layers of paint.”
Mixed Media: Mixed media paintings, drawings and objects
Showing at: 3840 Finley Ave., Bldg 33, Room 208, Santa Rosa, CA 95407
www.monicabryant.com
282 S. High Street, Sebastopol, CA 95472
Linda Galletta, Executive Director
707.829.4797 info@sebarts.org
Karen Ryer: Seventy
and still going strong. Studio# 55
Karen describes her work. “I used to do classical pieces. A lot of
eggs. They’re a wonderful shape, full of meaning. And figures.
Like that one over there. That’s a 1000 pound piece of marble.”
She points to a white female figure about five feet tall.
“I’m collaborating with a student on that piece. But I don’t have the
strength I used to have and now I’m mainly doing funny things to
put in your garden. I’m experimenting with applying color to the
marble. I’m making things to put stop signs in. People would come
by and look over the fence and see these small sculptures in my
flower beds and want them.”
It’s not a surprise people want them. Her work is graceful and
flowing, with clean lines and perfect finishes. She moved from Guerneville a couple of years ago
where she had a gallery and, for twenty years, supplied stone from Italy and Brazil to sculptors all over
the States. She now concentrates on selling high quality sculpting tools and “making funny things to
put in your garden”.
While this is not her first Art at the Source open studio stour, she is returning from an absence. Seventy
and still going strong!
Sculpture: Stone carving abstract & figurative
Showing at:970 Cunningham Rd., Sebastopol, CA 95472 www.karenryer.com
— Interviews by participating artist Mike Laflin
282 S. High Street, Sebastopol, CA 95472
Linda Galletta, Executive Director
707.829.4797 info@sebarts.org
Media Contacts: Dennis Bolt / AATS Publicity Chair and artist
(contact for images, interviews, press releases, etc.)
dennisboltstudio@gmail.com 707.829.3722
Linda Galletta, Exec. Dir, Sebastopol Center for the Arts lindag@sebarts.org 707.829.4797
282 S. High Street, Sebastopol, CA 95472
Linda Galletta, Executive Director
707.829.4797 info@sebarts.org