Jan 1

Jan 1 Arts Winter 2022

Oceans

PORCH GALLERY | SHANA MABARI
***310 East Matilija Street*** | March 26 – May 23

In 2020, Los Angeles-based contemporary Light and Space artist Shana Mabari became the first artist-in-residence on a maritime mission lead by the non-profit Sea Shepherd Global, the world’s leading direct-action ocean conservation organization. For five days, Mabari sailed their vessel M/Y Bob Barker off the west coast of Africa, a clandestine operation part of Sea Shepherd Global’s ongoing efforts to combat illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing in the waters of Benin. It resulted in the arrest of a trawler illegally fishing in protected waters just outside an important ecological reserve.

The Eyes

CAROLYN GLASOE BAILEY FOUNDATION | ROSHA YAGHMAI
***248 South Montgomery Street*** | March 12 - May 7

The eyes is a site-responsive installation that draws attention to the architecture, geology, and history of place. This intervention by Yaghmai seeks to shift and blend vision, unearth and expose knowledge, while creating a multidimensional psychedelic space. The Ojai Institute and Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation gallery space becomes a platform for accessing the esoteric history of Ojai, while being transformed into an imagined portal through which one might transcend time and space. Additional sculptural works in the show explore material and meaning, offering many interpretations and avoiding specific revelation. Or perhaps the works reveal more to the individual upon closer examination.

Miracles in Letting Go

SANTA BARBARA COMMUNITY ARTS WORKSHOP | LOVE NGUYEN
***631 Garden Street, Santa Barbara*** | Opening: Saturday, April 16th, 2 - 5 PM

Whenever I felt I had to choose between two things,
I always ended up taking it all in.
I never wanted to choose one against the other,
but to harmonize and fuse them into one.
Perhaps this comes close to the concept of the yin and yang
which need each other to complete each other.
- Anais Nin

Bring a cushion if you'd like to sit for gong bath at 4pm or feel free to sit or lie on floor.

OLO

$5.00

Every month

Ojai Locals Only

Matters of Gravity

MALOOF DISCOVERY GARDEN | TANYA KOVALESKI & MARTHA MORAN
***5131 Carnelian Street, Rancho Cucamonga*** | June 5, 2021 – May 2022

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.