From the Basic Premise:

FINAL PERFORMANCE : Wednesday, September 29, 6-9 PM

Gallery opens at 6, performances at 7:30.

The Basic Premise invites you to the final evening of performance and the opening viewing of material work created during Tara Jane O'Neil and Jmy James Kidd's September residency. The generative and performance-based phase of the project will conclude with musical performances by guest artists Rob Magill and Storey Littleton as well as a special bass and body duo by the artists in residence, and the exhibition phase, Point.Bang.Point.Loop., will begin with a selection of new paintings by O'Neil and Felt Loomed textiles by Kidd.

Work From Home features art by Virginia Beale, Liz Blum, Anahid Boghosian, Shannon Celia, Janice Chan, Michele Chapin. Connie Tunick, Taylor Crisp, Jess Csanky, Bernadette DiPietro, Lynn Ellen Coleman, Pamela Hill Enticknap, Gail Faulkner, Mardilan Lee Georgio, Susan K. Guy, Ray Harris, Bob Hernandez, Gina Herrera, Patricia Keller, Karly Kennedy, Chuck Kovacic, Bonnie Lambert, Jen LaVita, Beverly Lazor, George Lockwood, Alison Lowe, Janet Lucroy, Heriberto Luna, Lisa Skyheart Marshall, Jose Galvan Martinez, Sergio Martinez, Yolande McAlevey, Marie McKenzie, Richard W. Morgan, Vanessa Morrow, Charlotte Mullich, Tina Norén, Viktoria Romanova, Mariann Romero, Peter Ruiz, Nick Santos, Carolyn Schlam, Robert Scopinich, Mary Kolada Scott, Jules Smith, Pamela Strautman, Patricia Prescott Sueme, Nina Warner, Andrea Yomtob, and Kay Zetlmaier.

canvas and paper is a non-profit exhibition space showing paintings and drawings from the 20th century and earlier in thematic and single artist exhibits.

The new owner of Ojai Valley Imports, “J.R.” Geraldo Luna, suggested that artists paint art on the garage doors. OSA to the rescue! Shown are OSA artists Christine Beirne and Spark Taylor Stop by and say hi as they work on it, weekends. This project benefits the Ojai Studio Artists scholarship fund.

Our Exhibit Chair, Richard Amend, says this about our upcoming exhibit:

Finding Light is a riff on Amanda Gorman’s Inaugural poem, The Hill We Climb.

A verse in the poem reads, “Where can we find light in this never-ending shade?”

Within that question is the seeking of hopefulness. Light offers multiple vessels of interpretation – enlightenment(as in spiritual), lightness of being, the historical moment of Light & Space, the painterly push/pull of light and shade, the light at the end of the tunnel, and of course, turn left at the light. Also of consideration is the opposite posit of light, that of darkness.

How, in our studios, do we process thoughts such as these into form and expression? More info at ojaistudioartists.org.

From Maloof Foundation:

Matters of Gravity presents the work of two Ojai sculptors grappling with gravity in very distinct ways.

Tanya Kovaleski’s dynamically engineered wooden structures arch skyward in gravity-defying angles and curves, all painted in bold colors.

​Martha Moran’s rock stacks deal with mass and balance, rooted to the earth. Her Buddha Beach Maloof installation is an array of small rock stacks, inspired by Buddha Beach in Sedona, Arizona, a vortex spot filled with thousands of stacks.

Photos by Deborah Lyon for Ojai Studio Artists.

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Cover: “Milky Way and the Iron Tree Sculpture” by Lindsay Thompson, Ojai Studio Artists