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Dan Taylor on the fine arts scene.

Tom Everhart’s Snoopy paintings on display in Healdsburg

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The characters from Charles Schulz’s “Peanuts” comic strips have appeared in many media, from animated films to plush dolls. Among the most interesting  “Peanuts”-inspired projects are the paintings and silkscreen prints of Southern California artist Tom Everhart. The new Norcal Modern gallery at 115 Plaza St. in Healdsburg is showing some of Everhart’s fanciful depictions of Snoopy and his friends, featuring 11 new silkscreen editions and six original paintings, through the month of April. After meeting Schulz in 1980, Everhart… Read More »

Graton Gallery opens 7th annual ‘Invitational Exhibition’

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One of of the more interesting art exhibits in Sonoma County every year is the “Invitational Exhibition” at the Graton Gallery, in tiny but lively downtown Graton. Owned and operated by a partnership of nine local artists, the gallery picks the best among the owners’ working artistic peers in the area for an annual show. The seventh annual “Invitational Exhibition” features 34 of Northern California’s most well-known and admired master painters, printmakers and sculptors. The show opened Jan. 15 and… Read More »

‘The Last Hurrah’ at Quicksilver Mine Co.

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When Khysie Horn, owner and founder of the Quicksilver Mine Co. art gallery in Forestville, titled her current exhibit “The Last Hurrah,” she meant it. As she announced last summer, Horn will close her gallery at the end of this year. “I have been doing this for almost 30 years, half my life,” Horn said then. “And I am in ready for, and in need of, a change.” “The Last Hurrah” features the work of nearly 100 artists and craftsmen… Read More »

Robert Chavez art exhibit comes to Santa Rosa

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Los Angeles artist Roberto Chavez has worked for decades as both a painter and a teacher. Now, at age 80, he is recognized as a major force in California art. The Santa Rosa Junior College will display 60 of his paintings and drawings, including several very large pieces, Nov. 15 through Dec. 13 in the Agrella Art Gallery in the Doyle Library on campus, 1501 Mendocino Ave. The exhibit, “Roberto Chavez, Paintings and Drawings,” opens with a reception from 4… Read More »

Sebastopol Center for the Arts moving to new site

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The Sebastopol Center for the Arts is on the move, and that is not meant metaphorically. The center, housed for years at 6790 Depot Street, is moving to the Sebastopol Veterans Memorial Building, 282 High St., next to Ives Park. “We agreed to a 30-year lease on the building,” said Linda Galletta, executive director of the Sebastopol Center for the Arts. “We have a remodeling budget of $800,000. We are remodeling the auditorium to create a gallery space in the… Read More »

Sonoma County Museum is both subject and site of coming art show

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You’ve heard of NIMBYs. Those are the folks who show up at public hearings to say they don’t oppose the construction of the latest big facility of some sort, as long as it’s “not in my backyard.” Now it’s time for the “IMBYs.” “In My Back Yard” is a concept promoted by Sonoma County artist and curator Pat Lenz. What it means is that art photographers take pictures of arts display spaces, such as galleries and museums, from all angles,… Read More »

Ragan Fine Art in Healdsburg opens new show at new location

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As event titles go, it’s a little long, but it’s bound to have broad appeal. This weekend, Richard Ragan Fine Art & Oriental Rugs and the Hudson Street Wineries present “The Integration of Fine Art and Fine Wine.” The event celebrates the recent relocation of Ragan’s Healdsburg gallery, which opened last year on Healdsburg Avenue, to Old Roma Station, home of the Hudson Street Wineries, at 420 Hudson St. in Healdsburg. An exhibit of paintings by Sylvia Verange of Corte… Read More »

Campus gallery to be named for former SRJC president

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  The first-floor art gallery in the Frank P. Doyle Library at Santa Rosa College will be named this month in honor of Dr. Robert F. Agrella, former superintendent and president of the college. The dedication ceremony will begin at the gallery at 4 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 27, follow by a reception from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Agrella retired earlier this year after 22 years with Santa Rosa Junior college. The gallery’s current exhibit features Japanese ceramics, with selected works… Read More »

‘Go Figure’ art show opens in Healdsburg

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No wonder artists love to portray the human figure. The source material is always readily available. A landscape artist has to drive out to the beach or up to the mountains,  but there is always some body around. “Go Figure,” the new exhibit at the Healdsburg Center for the Arts, opens Thursday, Aug. 2, and runs through Aug. 27. The exhibit includes figurative images ranging from classical to whimsical in style, in paintings, assemblage, collage, metal, photography, glass, clay and… Read More »

Quicksilver art gallery in Forestville to close at end of 2012

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Khysie Horn, longtime Sonoma County gallery owner and arts advocate, said today (Friday, July 6) that she plans to close her Quicksilver Mine Co. art gallery in Forestville at the end of the year. This is “a decision that has been a long time coming, as you might imagine, but pretty much comes down to the fact that I have been doing this for almost 30 years, half my life,” Horn said. “And I am in ready for, and in… Read More »