Thursday, June 3, 2021
FIRST FRIDAY ART WALK
DOWNTOWN OCEANSIDE CA
From the Oceanside Museum of Art
"Join us during Oceanside’s First Friday Art Walk for the opening of OMA West At The Seabird. The inaugural exhibition at our new annex gallery located inside The Seabird Resort highlights works from the permanent collection of Oceanside Museum of Art (OMA) that celebrate the natural and built environments found in the open air along the Pacific coast. Exploring the trajectory of Southern California painting from the plein air tradition to contemporary pop-surreal, this exhibition features artwork by Gibson Byrd, William Glen Crooks, Jean de Paul, Jeanne Dunn, Charles Arthur Fries, Raul Guerrero, Ruth Jameson, Vereara Maeva-Taripo, Lee Peterson, Scott W. Prior, Ernest Silva, and Jen Trute."
First Friday Art Walk
Friday, June 4, 5:00–8:00pm
AT OMA WEST AT THE SEABIRD
101 Mission Avenue
free admission
Sunday, May 23, 2021
As Americans joyfully look forward to getting back to normal, I find myself feeling very sad as the rest of the world is not in a normal state at all. India, millions of people literally dying in the streets, South American countries in a state unacceptable health conditions which will lead to northward immigration to our Country. I call this state of our collective mindset Oblivion. These thoughts have led to a new series of images, The one above is O no. 3
Oblivion
Noun: the act or process of dying out; complete annihilation or extinction: If we don't preserve their habitat, the entire species will pass into oblivion. A state marked by lack of awareness or consciousness.
For Me, the state of the human species is one of Oblivion. Our Planet Earth is a living entity. Looking at images of our human rampantly overpopulated cities, I see that our human species is like a virus eating away the resources of planet Earth. I am not a scientist, only an old artist who has seen the difference between what was and what is not in our Environment.
Born in 1935, I as a child was used to self reliance and subsisting on a need basis. We were happy with our lives being able to see the clear blue sky, the water so pure you could drink from any spring or creek, using our bodily energy to walk and bike when we could and a car when only necessary. Reading was the most basic form of entertainment. The Library was our place for brain adventures and it was the only place which was free for everyone to better ourselves in achieving our aspirations.
Our once pristine world is now a garbage dump from our human wants and as a collective life form, we are in a state of Oblivion. Human rights, needs are conflated with our human wants and this will be the end of our existence as a species...
Can we innovate our way out of our present state of wants driving human consumption of resources ? I'm not too optimistic. If our greatest achievement of the 20th Century was the creation of the Atom Bomb, it does not bode well for something to be invented to change the mindset of 7.9 billion humans that believe we have the right to do whatever we wish when ever we want just because we can. Going to Mars is such a waste of treasure and time when we have the perfect planet right under our feet, but are oblivious to what we should be doing to give our Earth the care and replenishment that is needed for all living species to survive. In reading Kim Stanley Robinson's book 'Aurora', he came to pretty much the same conclusion.
The inventions of medical cures for disease will not save our species as new and more virulent viruses will continue to emerge form the garbage soup we have saturated our planet with and will give the new virus life forms the diet that they need to emerge from, and the only thing we can do is rely on hope when we see our human lives die in the streets from lack of new medicines. The distribution of vaccines to 7.9 billion people in time for saving a life is not attainable.
In America, we disassociate ourselves from the 3rd world countries and continue our lives in a daily wants state of being. Meanwhile, the elements in the organic soup of our garbage will continue to thrive and beget new and uncontrollable disease and destruction of our Planets life forms ( forests, fishes, insects) which we need to survive into the Future. Thus, we, here, in America are in a complete state of Oblivion.
the song Oblivion is the muse for new images in my world of art.
R J
Monday, April 19, 2021
Music, Art and Great Tasty Eats...
Springtime is upon us with promises of renewal. Now that I have had my first vaccination of the Covid 19 virus, I feel more in tune with nature and the arrival of new opportunities to be my artist self and congregate with my peers in the many venues of art endeavors in Oceanside. Many venues exist in Downtown Oceanside and in East Oceanside. Art Walls O'Side born at the O'Side Bakery, is my next stop. Please join us in our celebration of the Arts and the Springtime vibrations on the 20th at the O'Side Bakery in East Oceanside.
Sunday, March 28, 2021
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
OPEN YEAR 2021
OMA is our joy, our passion, and our soul for the creatives who live, plan, and work here in this wondrous place of Art. It is with great hope and joy that we look forward to this new year of opportunity to reconnect with our artist friends and colleagues...
With the art world on hiatus for the past year, we have had the chance to work in our most prized place, The Studio. With our isolation, no interruptions, no time frames, just days and days of time for us to be in our scared place of creativity. Now with the reopening of the many art organizations, we can share once again with our friends and colleagues to make new connections and intertwine our collective creeds about what we know, how we create, and explore new horizons...
OMA Here we Come !
Ruth Jameson
March 24, 2021
Thursday, January 21, 2021
Today is the first day of a new Administration of our Nation. We have hope that the tried and true way of communication of truth to our People will give us a way to come together once more and be proud of our National ethos...
Last week the tried way of creating my art works are evolving to the digital more than ever. With my hands of 85 years becoming shaky and having a life of their own, the Wacom Pad and stylus give me back my control of the images in my minds eye to come to realization. The Canvas and the gleaming Oils, will always be my hearts desire, but time marches on and the hands need the comfort of the digital help. Of course, the creative process is the same. Computers don't make the image, but rather give me the ability to bring the images to life.
In this new day of beginnings, for our Country and the Artists who give us inspiration and hope, I will use whatever way I can to bring the new and the hope to fruition. May our American People do the same to give us all the inspiration and hope for a new future with grace and dignity...
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.
Sunday, October 13, 2019
NEW OPENING AT THE O'SIDE BAKERY
GRACE SHELLY
ABOUT THE ART & HOW IT’S PRESENTED:
It is eclectic. My first love is abstract and impressionistic art, but I do representational art as well. I am especially moved by the local nature of California’s coast: the ocean with all of its changing light, majesty and beauty, coastal and tropical botanicals and palm silhouettes of all kinds.
It is about imagination and experimentation. Intentional camera movement technique (ICM) while shooting creates light paintings that are captured as I move the camera while taking the shot. Abstracts have also been shot inside of a mylar shopping bag or created from reflections in a puddle after the rain. A curling piece of bark becomes an ocean wave calling local surfers. Agave Cacti become seascapes when turned on their sides.
It has a contemporary look.
I print my images on various substrates: on acrylic sheets; on large canvases finished with epoxy, or brushed aluminum gallery wraps. All are very contemporary looks. On the metal wraps, the brushed aluminum shows through giving the images a depth and a metallic shimmer that I love. The canvas with epoxy is a gorgeous finish!
ARTIST’S BIO:
I was born and raised in the spectacular natural beauty of Alaska. Nature and the environment still inform the work that I do as an artist today. I left as a young adult hungry for exposure to urban environments and the arts and culture they have to offer that I missed as a child. Currently, I live and create in Carlsbad, California near the Pacific Ocean. I am largely a self-taught artist and creative. When I retired from the workaday world in 2015, I experimented with a variety of media and eventually settled on digital photography and mixed media as my primary modes of expression. Using everyday experiences as a starting point, I directly respond to the present circumstance and moment, not knowing exactly what my camera lens will capture. It is with the alchemy of imagination, experimentation, and editing that the visual gift emerges.
Thursday, July 18, 2019
DON REEDY
Diagnosed with stage IV prostate cancer in 2018 I picked up acrylic paint and canvas to hide
away my fear and anger, to cry out with great joy over newness and hope, and to express
abstractly how I was living out this disease. Perhaps it’s not a coincidence that I am a
passionate and emotional man, living with great faith in a world that eludes common sense.
“Cancer made me do it” is the best why for my work, and a miracle from God immersed me in a
world of color, texture and raw emotion that explains how. Each time I stand before a canvas I
am flooded with an awareness of our physical and spiritual journey, and my hands form the
paint and canvas to bring that awareness to the surface so that we can share and converse
over these most wondrous gifts.
Creating what I feel allows you to see my spiritual and emotional journey so that we might share
and come closer together. Painting immerses me in both my time and God’s time, and every
work expresses an abundance of truth about my life that I hope will cast light upon your own.
Friday, June 28, 2019
MICHAEL ROSENBLATT
ONE OF THE ORIGINAL ARTISTS FROM ARTISTS ALLEY
ONE OF THE ORIGINAL ARTISTS FROM ARTISTS ALLEY
Tony Gywnn
Recently featured on Fox Sports telling the story of Michael Rosenblatt one of the original artists of Artists Alley. Back in the day, we were nine artists who filled the spaces with art and music. The tradition stays alive with the First Friday Art Walk.
Thursday, May 16, 2019
JANINE FREE
OPENING
JUNE 13, 7:30 PM
at
O'side Bakery Oceanside
Presented by the Oceanside Cultural Arts Foundation
Born and raised in France, I moved to San Francisco at the age of 22, in search of adventure and broader horizons. As a child, I carried my father’s equipment while he filmed and photographed the places we visited in Europe. I have been traveling since, with a camera as my best friend.
I learned the intricacies of the darkroom with a San Francisco fashion photographer. I became familiar with the computer world while I worked as a Research Librarian at QUALCOMM. Since 1987, I have lived in Leucadia, a small beach town in North County San Diego.
In 2008, I started a project documenting how women were represented in different countries through the mannequins living behind store windows. It soon turned into an art form, as I used the reflections off the glass of the stores to create surreal, multi-layered images. I like to spend time in large cities here and abroad, walking in the streets, searching for their urban essence through architecture, street art, and store mannequins.
If you wish to see more of my work, I would be very pleased to hear from you. I can be reached by email at: janinefree@gmail.com
The exhibition runs from June 11 - August 11, 2019
Thursday, March 21, 2019
CHERYL EHLERS
ART WALLS @ OCEANSIDE BAKERY
EXHIBITION APRIL 16 ~ JUNE 10, 2019
OPENING APRIL 18. 7:30 PM - 9:30 pm
Cheryl Ehlers was raised in Europe, and currently resides in North County, Carlsbad, CA. Her creative process is reflective of mental imagery and emotions. She enjoys allowing the mind to take over the art during the process, capturing a flash in time that morphs a thought, and transforming it into art. Her works are bold, colorful and vary in styles. A majority of her art is published and she has painted for Independence Peace Day, “Silent Beauty”, United Nations, (UNESCO) Paris, FR; “Gator on the Bay”, San Diego, CA; “Sail into San Diego”; TICA; Cure for Cancer, Maui, HI.; “Reach for the Stars”, Auckland, NZ, and recently for The Ocean Agency, “Hypnotic Movements”, in support of programs protecting the coral reefs. Presently, working as an Arts Program Assistant for the City of Encinitas.
Ehlers has a BA in Commercial Textile Design, Fashion Institute of Technology, Manhattan, NY. She has broad interests, and in 2009, she founded The Stardust Arts and had taught over 11,250 under-served youth the fundamentals of creative art. The program is solely funded by local grants and is recognized by the California State Assembly and the San Diego Board of Supervisors. She collectively has published chronicles on genealogy and biographical histories which are housed in public libraries in Texas, Georgia, Illinois, New York, The National Archives in Washington, DC, Wisconsin and New Zealand. (1997-2014).
She is a published visual artist, awarded recognition by the California State Assembly and the San Diego Board of Supervisors for her accomplishments in art in local communities (2009, 2010). In 2014 she was named Volunteer of the Year by the Encinitas 101 Mainstreet Association CA, for her curative efforts with the community emerging artists. She has been awarded numerous Visual Art grants, and continues to pursue her efforts to reach out and education the public on art. “Art at its best is creative, imaginative, and a valuable universal language”.
Visit her website at https://cherylehlersart.com , Video: “Pieces of Jazz” at https://youtu.be/toklhkf5Idg
Thursday, January 17, 2019
Susie Zolghadri
I was born and raised in the green mountains
of Vermont. Memories of my childhood always
bring me back to nature. The early flowers and
birds that welcome spring, the luscious green
leaves and warm nights of summer, the beautiful,
magical colors of autumn and the white snows
of winter. I currently reside in San Diego, California
and find myself surrounded once again with
nature. Mountains, desert and ocean inspire me
to continue creating.
Saturday, August 4, 2018
Fred Tomaselli
In viewing Fred Tomasellis's works the
space in your mind will expand into a new and “Dislocated Reality”.
Like looking into a vortex, one work has an unrelenting pull,
physically drawing you ever closer to the work until, your are
standing with your nose an inch from the painting. The detail of his
works is seductive and a new exciting experience.
Rarely do I write about the exhibitions
at our Oceanside Museum of Art, for writers far better than I do the
reviews for our local publications. However, this time, I because of
my great enchantment of his works, I happily dare to give this humble
blog a heads up for our Local and International followers the chance
to experience his work. The two YouTube videos will give a good
overview of his works and more, to have a chance to hear and see his
process in constructing art forms which will be new to most of you.
I have worked in resin, and know how
deadly this medium can be. Using respirators is mandatory or as I did
sometimes work underwater to take the deadly dust away. Never though,
did I consider using a blowtorch to finish my sculptures. The heat
raises the tiny bubbles in the resin so they will surface and
dissipate with the finishing. So, I can relate in some small way to
his process with the resin. The small pieces of illustrations of
birds and leaves of the actual visual aspects are beyond my
head-space to digest. The minute pieces of materials used are truly
Mind-blowing.
July 28th to December 2nd
at the Oceanside Museum of Art
704 Pier View Way
Oceanside CA 92054
Ruth J Jameson
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| Pelé R J Jameson Cast Resin sculpture |
Monday, June 18, 2018
The
Art Walls O'side Project
Last Thursday
evening was the premier of a new project of the Oceanside Cultural
Foundation. The Art Walls O'side Project is an out reach to the East
Side of Oceanside and beyond to share the Fine Arts created by our
area Artists. So many are in our region without a gallery to exhibit
their work. So many walls of possibility...
Our first Venue
for this project is the O'Side Bakery in East Oceanside located at
the intersection of El Camino Real and Mission Ave. Address is 3815
Mission Ave, suite 101. 760.305.9500.
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| Patrick Neil Brown |
The Exhibition
will change every two months and will present a new artist the
“opening “ to be tbd.
The turnout was
amazing and all were enchanted by the Art of Patrick N. Brown, Music
by Robert Parker
with solo added by Noah Lightfoot. The tasty treats
by the O'side Bakery. Out of this world bites of french inspired
talent gave us Chocolate Truffles, Petite Macaroons, and more. Wine
by Butterfield Satation from Fratelli's Restaurant. The evening was graced
indeed by the music of Robert Parker who has the magic hands at the
piano that kept us all blissful with memories of today and yesterday.
Fine Art, Great
taste treats, and happy music, can't beat that. Wouldn't even try...
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| Noah Lightfoot |
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