Lucy Boyd-Willson

Techne

"a state involving true reason concerned with production". Aristotle

The Techne Art Center partnering with the Artists Alliance of the Oceanside Museum presents the Exhibition; Flora and Fauna, a celebration of environmental inspiration. Each artist has a unique and personal inspiration with and of techne. Charles Thomas has curated this offering of our regional San Diego artists with sensitivity and a gifted brilliance for understanding of the art works of each artist listed:

Hongzing Ye

Erick Perez, Jennifer Steffey, Oriana Poindexter, Sylvia Fernandez, Reginald Green, Stephen Harlow, Christine McKee, Annalise Neil, Nanette Newbry, Briana Miyoko Stanley, Rhonda Anderson, Lucy Boyd-Wilson, Micki Brown, Lisa Croner, Ellen Dieter, Gail Wagner, Hongxing Ye, Brenda Hope Zappitell, Robin Raznick, True Ryndes, Safa Salman, Scott Bruckner, Vicky DeLong, Megan DeRoma, and Susan Osborn. The show continues until October 12^th.

The Gallery becomes a surreal garden of delights. However, I will write about one artist and let the reader explore the images of the other artists. I was enchanted by the work of Lucy Boyd-Wilson.

An artist who as a child, Lucy was at home in her wooded environment and loved with the small creatures who hid in the brambles. The imagery on the wall screen, brings to the viewer her companionship with nature infused with musical sounds. As the images swirl and transform before your eyes, you emotionally walk into these wondrous places of plants, trees, and forms of her imagination. The room becomes a glowing world reflected from these evolving and compelling stories. The Lilly Pond story blended into the Root Rise story and so on.     I had the feeling of becoming nature and blending into a different place of existence. I lingered long in this room of other-worldlyness, and wondered the many what ifs, this kind of experience could have on human lives, if everyone could have this respite from the madding crowd of present day life...

Many kudos to Charles Thomas for bringing together the Artists Alliance of OMA, and for giving North County, the Techne Art Center, a place which shines with excellence and joy.

 

Simone Biles

Laser beams and Balance Beams

Artistry of Light and Simone Perfection

Last Tuesday I went to the new Frontwave Area and experienced Perfection. Simone Biles the greatest gymnast of all time performed on the Balance Beam with hot tempo-ed music and colored laser beams flashing and pulsing with rhythm. This was not the Olympics. The background sets, were overlay-ed with the images of what Simone was preforming on the beam, onto the giant screen in real time. Gold Over America Tour was here in Oceanside CA, our beautiful City by the Sea. 

What is Art? Most will immediately think of the visual arts or the performing Arts. For me, the art of human achievement in any endeavor to the highest level can be thought of as Art. The athletes who preform at the extreme levels can be seen better in slow motion and the lines of their bodies are beautiful and amazing. Who can forget Michael Jordan with his jump shots in slow motion. We see the lines of his grace and ability combined into an aerial dance. Simone does this we think routinely. Not so. Perfection comes only with unrelenting determination and physical programming of her mind melding with her mussel structure.

“To be an elite athlete is one level. To step up to Simone’s level involves an absolute keen understanding of her body and the input signals that come to it. Biles stands out from other gymnasts both in terms of how she senses her body in space and how she hones her muscle memory, as well as her having one of the most phenomenal bases of strength and conditioning that I’ve ever seen in an athlete”. Gina Pongetti, a former gymnast and physical therapist.

To see her in person, Simone this amazing artist of physical art is a once in a lifetime experience. The other athletes in the program of dance combined with their special events were dazzling and unforgettable. All together, Oceanside has a new place for the Arts, both the art of the visual, and the Art of the exceptional and wondrous sports world.

It is my hope that this new venue will be the home of not only sporting and concert events, but in the future will be the home of a Visual Arts Festival. The Grounds are constructed in layers of special set apart areas which would be conducive to setting up Artist displays. Oceanside Master Plan for the Arts.