Sonoma State University’s outdoor art collection got a boost today (Thursday, Aug. 23) with the installation of the late Berkeley sculptor Stephen De Staebler's “Winged Figure Ascending, 2011” near the new Green Music Center box office. The bronze statue is on loan to SSU from the artist's estate [...]
If you’re driving through downtown Santa Rosa’s Courthouse Square, see if you notice what’s gone. “Renaissance,” Robert Ellison’s brightly painted steel sculpture of a giant pair of scissors, installed downtown in 2007, has been relocated to the A New Leaf Gallery in Sonoma, Tara Matheny-Schuster, City of Santa [...]
Construction of the new Sutter Medical Center next to Wells Fargo Center for the Arts north of Santa Rosa is prompting the relocation of a monumental sculpture at the center’s entrance. Sonoma Mountain sculptor Robert Ellison’s 1981 welded steel sculpture, “Arch Tworain,” which stands 28 feet tall, will [...]
One of my father's favorite jokes was to take a cliche and turn it upside-down: "Everybody's crazy except you and me, and sometimes I'm not so sure about me." Or: "Things will get worse before they get worse." Or, appropriate to today's topic: "I know a lot about [...]
Stayed tuned for details of a contest in which there are no prizes, just a great chance to vent. But first, this message: Not all art hangs on a wall. Some gets right in your face. Every day. The beauty of public art is it reaches everybody. The drawback is [...]
What is art? Whether it’s oil on canvas or actors on stage, dancers on their toes or comedians doing stand-up, Press Democrat staff writer Dan Taylor covers the fine and lively arts in Northern California. Meet the people, go behind the scenes and get ahead on what’s coming up.