Friday, November 27, 2020
Painting by artist unknown augmented by RJJ.
What has this year given to the Arts? Theaters are closed as are the Museums, Galleries, and Outdoor venues such as our Internationally Famous Artists Alley. This year has made it more intensive, and innovative in our approach to create, and participate in the Arts. The Challenge has been for me as an artist to wonder if it is all for naught. For the isolation from my usual gatherings and art groups has been daunting and depressing.
Alone in the Studio, I work on, realizing that I'm one of the lucky ones that really has my own thing which no Pandemic can take from me. The time is spent, and I have a product, one which does not need a store, or venue to make it happen. Therefore, why the depression? Throughout history, the creative in the arts has had a need however intermittent, to interact with other creatives. The deprivation of this essential interaction, is one that cannot be underestimated. Enter a new and wondrous technological tool.
Zoom to the rescue. A “Prince on a white horse”, a new way to interact and have personal contact with the many groups and venues and is a the path for artists to connect. The personal connection of face to face with another artist is there again, albeit, a much different way. Still, it is magical, real, and instant communication with another being that you can devour the day's need, and of future offerings that you have in common. Intense is this need for communication with our peers, and with this new Zoom Prince, we are once more connected to our art world and beyond.
The Oceanside
Museum of Art has had many events this past year that have been
presented on line.
While other venues are still shut, the Museum has carried on with
dazzling programs and online openings of exhibitions.
Please visit OMA and take in all of the current offerings, and
revisit online the many past exhibitions.
As this Year 2020 comes to a close, I have come to the realization that this year has given to me personally, resilience, self reliance, and overcoming the challenge of isolation. However the most gratifying gift of all is one, of taking into my world of art, a new and universal way to communicate with my art groups, colleagues, art institutions, and the essential peer interaction. So now on with it...Zoom forever...
Saturday, October 24, 2020
Saturday, October 17, 2020
ROBERT PARKER
Robert Parker is one of the most beloved artist in the Arts in Oceanside and beyond. His music is both haunting and full of life's forces in all genres. This song is for his Love who passed this month. She is remembered by all who remembers her smile...
https://www.robertparkerpiano.com/
Sunday, August 9, 2020
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| Photo by RJJ, with art works created by other artists are added for visions of the future. |
The Covid -19 virus has altered our
lives probably forever. All of the artists activities have been
suspended for the time being. Hopefully, we will in the near future
be able to have the First Friday Art Walks resumed, the Museum open,
and the markets featuring the many articles and artist demonstrations
that have made our Artists Alley world famous.
As an artist I find that it is
confounding that there are not the interactions between our art
groups that make us feel challenged, inspired, and give us
opportunities to show our works. We work on in our studios, and the
great outdoors which give us the energies that flow from the natural
world of wonderments. The images that folks have of the artist in the
upstairs garret as a lone creative force don't know that the
interactions with other artists are the infusions of encouragement
that keep the lone artist in the studio going with works of
creativity.
I look forward the reopening of The
Artists Alley Collective and the many other groups who inhabit this
place which I could see great art events thriving, so long ago when I had the first gallery and
studio in The Alley. I paint on, with the birdsong and the summer
sunshine giving me succor and inspirations during this challenging
time of this great American Challenge of sharing the responsibility
and the courage to keep us safe.
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| patio studio, work in progress...RJJ |
Saturday, July 18, 2020
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Michael Rosenblatt
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| Mural installed at the Marriott Hotel Oceanside CA
Michael Rosenblatt was one of the
original Artists of Artist Alley back in the 90”s. He was the
energy of many late nights in the Alley, and he is now a celebrated
Artist of many collectors and City installations.
His video on NBC news: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlVJXhGXAN0&feature=youtu.be |
Saturday, April 11, 2020
Walking
for the Arts of our Imaginations...
Due
to the covid 19 disaster, I have not had art events to report about.
I value all of your visits to this site about the Arts in the City of
Oceanside CA. I have as many been walking my immediate neighborhood,
and met many wonderful folks and their furry four pawed friends.
As the weeks go by, I am meeting folks I did not know that they even
lived here. This shows, that as we have in the past, not going out on
a daily biases to exercise in a way that is free and has a positive
impact on our neighborhood.
I
have started a Neighborhood blog which is centered on Rancho
Hermosa Oceanside. It is a retirement community of 55 and over.
I'm among the most senior of age groups and it is wonderful to meet
my younger new friends and their pups.
Please
follow this effort, and if you have neighborhood stories to tell
please feel free to put them in the comment section. Thank You,
Ruth
Jameson
Saturday, February 8, 2020
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| O'side Bakery Art Walls program. Hanna Russell and Ruth Jameson with painting by Hanna. |
Art Walls for Students @ O'side Bakery
When I created the Art Walls program
for the Oceanside Cultural Arts Foundation in 2018, I had the vision
that someday this program would be available for students of our
Oceanside High Schools.
That dream came true last month when
the ACE Studio and OCAF had a student exhibition from the El Camino
High School. It was my great honor to meet and to become the owner
of one of the paintings from this exhibition.
Hanna Russell, a truly remarkable young
woman of great potential has created several Stippling
Paintings for this show. It takes an incredible amount of time,
talent, and passion to create this type of art work. Stippling has a
long historical place in the world of fine art. It is like not other
kind of painting as it is done with a pen and ink which it's self a
challenge that is not for the faint of heart, but for those who has the passion of the vision in their mind's eye and the patience to just do it.
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| Example of Stippling |
Hanna has that Heart in her works.
Thank You Hanna for your energy and ability to bring to our viewing
your works so endearing and beautiful.
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