AVENUE ART
If you're looking for art for your home, Avenue Art in downtown San Mateo features painting, photography, assemblage, glassware and more - all by a very talented group of local artists. Their work is in a wide range of styles with something to suit just about every taste. Julie Goodenough, PAC Board member interviewed of few of Avenue Art's artists so that you can get an idea of what you'll find when you visit the gallery.
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For many of us, our pets are part of the family. Jackie Jones combines her life-long love of animals with her love of art in her pet portraits. She expresses the subject's personality in each piece. Jackie says, "Perhaps I was a poodle in a past life!" She paints the human animal as well and welcomes commissions for portraits of all the members of your family. |
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Mixed-media artist Amanda Krauss devotes her time and art to birds. She captures her subjects in vivid colors using paper collage, paint and texture, and donates much of her time to the Audubon Society. |
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Artist Becka Brayer breathes new life into intriguing old and found objects. She loves the natural aging that occurs with the passage of time and exposure to the elements. Her work emerges from the rubble, often skewed, off balance, or damaged. Brayer recognizes the beauty in the lines, form, texture and color found in discarded items. By combining her treasures with glass, metal, plaster, clay and plastic, she creates pieces that stir emotions, memories, and nostalgia.
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Photographer and Belmont resident Brian Madden's work explores "the inexhaustible intricacy, beauty, and mystery of our world." He enjoys "the interplay between the determinate and indeterminate, the structured and the chaotic, the objective and subjective, that is found throughout nature." His images are serene and meditative, enhancing the spaces where they are displayed. |
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Bea Sharp began working in glass thirteen years ago when her husband brought home a microwave kiln from the local hobby store. Since then she has become a talented artist creating exquisite fused glass dishware and jewelry. Bea loves "how light reflects to reveal character, color, saturation and tone. That a liquid can be a solid mass and vice-versa is just astounding to me." Her serving dishes, platters, and coasters make wonderful wedding and anniversary gifts, not to mention lovely items to use and display in your own home.
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Shelley Bond's mantra, taken from “Steel Magnolias” is, "The only thing that separates us from the animals is our ability to accessorize". Her slightly eccentric, one-of-a kind jewelry is created around vintage and acquired high-quality pieces. |
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Avenue Art
60 Third Avenue #110
San Mateo, CA 94401
(650) 579-4462
www.avenueart.org
Article by Julie Goodenough
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