Where: Petaluma Arts Center
Event Date: April 13, 2013
Event Time: 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: 230 Lakeville Street Petaluma
Exhibit Dates: April 6 - June 2
For more details: http://petalumaartscenter.org
THE PETALUMA ARTS CENTER IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE
COSMIC TERRAIN- INDIVIDUAL AND COLLABORATIVE WORKS BY MARS-1, DAMON SOULE. AND OLIVER VERNON AND A LARGE SCALE MURAL ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE PHOENIX THEATER BY THE NORTHBAY ARTIST RICKY WATTS. APRIL 6, 2013- JUNE 2, 2013
In the Arts Center galleries
Mars-1, Damon Soule and Oliver Vernon transcend genres and labels with their surreal cosmic landscapes that rhythmically deconstruct and reconstruct the world as we know it. Richly detailed elements form and reform into revealing patterns and images, visual poems, and spontaneous narratives. The Petaluma Arts Center galleries will contain works by the individual artists, including three dimensional work, and a selection of their large scale collaborative canvases.
Compositionally complex, with intricate shapes and geometric patterning, the paintings pulse with life and dimensionality. In them we see recognizable elements of the natural world such as mass, space, depth, and movement that have been embraced and transformed by a strong creative spirit leading to a convergence of the celestial with the terrestrial. This work is a powerful new visual language of the moment.
The Phoenix Mural by Ricky Watts
North Bay resident Ricky Watts has grown up painting in and around the alternative music and arts theater now known as the Phoenix. He has a strong base in photo realistic illustration as well as an abstract sweep that moves toward the musical and the magical. He has also been an arts organizer, bringing groups of painters together to create together on a large scale, and he recently created a prominent mural for the stage at the Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco. As part of the Cosmic Terrain exhibition, Ricky will create a dynamic mural featuring interlocking waves of color on the massive south wall of the Phoenix Theater in Petaluma.
About the Artists
Longtime friends Mario Mars-1, Oliver Vernon, and Damon Soule have admired each other’s work, shared idea and engaged in creating works on a collaborative basis. They are based in San Francisco and have published three books together, 4 Words (2003), Convergence (2005) and Further (2010). Ricky Watts is a well known painter based in Sebastopol who has developed a strong body of work blending the “real” and surreal.
Please go to event website for links to artists online presence.
