Painter Jack Stuppin has made his home in west Sonoma County for more than two decades now, but his name and his work continue to travel afar. One of his landscape paintings, "Olana Forest," will be included in the new exhibit, "Paintbox Leaves: Autumnal Inspiration from Cole to [...]
An old Ford. A roadside barn. A patch of stormy sky. A brush in a jar. A lone surfer. A woman alone in a rowboat. Those are all images found in the paintings of Don Alan Bishop, and yet the subjects are secondary to his elusive style and [...]
Water, water, everywhere. But you won't need a swimming suit. The main gallery at Sebastopol Center for the Arts opens "H2O," an exhibition featuring 60 artworks in a variety of media that consider water in all its forms, with a reception from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, July [...]
Sebastopol artist Ned Kahn is known for his bold artwork, including "Digitized Field," his shimmering installation on the side of the AT&T building in downtown Santa Rosa. You can see him in person when he speaks at 7 p.m. Wednesday, July 28, at the di Rosa art and [...]
Do you think of motorcycles as an art form? If not, the Sebastopol Center for the Arts would like you to think again. "Art in Iron," a two-day motorcycle exhibition, runs Saturday and Sunday, July 24-25, at the center, 6780 Depot St. The event includes bikes an invitational gallery exhibit, [...]
Petaluma artist Hans Skalagard, 86, found happiness mixing saltwater and oil paint. Skalagard has produced some 3,500 painstakingly accurate nautical paintings since he created his first in 1943, while serving as a World War II merchant marine. Starting this weekend, you'll get a chance to see some of [...]
Santa Rosa's Phantom Gallery, which moves as needed from one vacant downtown storefront to another, will reopen this week with a new show at a new location. The opening reception for "Cal-ci-fied," a multimedia exhibition of work by Santa Rosa artist and naturalist Anneliese Vobis, runs from 5 to 7 [...]
Santa Rosa artist Mario Uribe is nearly as well known for his love of Japanese art and culture as he is for his own brushwork and public sculptures. Uribe's Backstreet Gallery and the South A Street Arts District invite fellow fans of all things Japanese to his second annual "High [...]
It's time to go back to college. But don't worry. You don't have write term papers, pass exams or pay tuition. You can just enjoy the work of 13 Sonoma State University bachelor of fine art students in "BFA Exhibition 2010," opening today (Thursday, April 15) at the [...]
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.