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Located in glass-walled lobby at
555 County Center building,
Redwood City, CA
Lobby hours: Mon-Fri, 9am to 5pm
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Arabella Decker and Ruth Waters
May 7 - October 31, 2008 |
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| Community Gallery |
Located in Hall of Justice, lower level
400 County Center
Redwood City, CA 94063
Gallery hours: Mon-Fri, 8 am to 5 pm |
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Art by Foster Children
August 1 - 29
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Nicolai Larsen
"Buddha on my Dashboard”
Sept. 1 through Oct. 31,
Monday - Friday, 9 to 5
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Nicolai Larsen tells stories – with paint. People. Travels. Dreams. Encounters. All sorts of experiences find their way to his canvasses, and now to the walls of the Caldwell Gallery in Redwood City’s County Government Center.
Larsen refers to his current work as Postmodern Surrealism or, alternatively, as Archetypes of the New Millenium.
Larsen’s recent work juxtaposes fashion models, burning appliances, and random imagery set in a landscape of the subconscious. His ideas are drawn from dreams, disjointed images, and reflections from newspaper headlines. His work is a form of therapy to process issues such as worldwide social disruption, war, disasters, global warming and Reality T.V. The paintings provide a sense of wonder, propose questions, and share comic relief.
Born in San Francisco and a long-time resident of Redwood City, Nicolai Larsen studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and the Academy of Art College. He was employed as a CETA program artist, and later designed sets for Marine World USA. He formed his own visual arts company in 1982, specializing in murals, trompe l’oeill, fine art, signs, and architectural finishes.
“Buddha on my Dashboard” represents Nicolai Larsen’s search for the sanctuary of nirvana, with the landscape and ocean as paradise, all viewed through the windshield of a moving vehicle.
For further information, please call the Peninsula Arts Council at 650-591-2101 or contact the artist directly: email him at nicolai@nicolailarsen.com or call 650-365-7939 or 650-722-1160.
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Caldwell Gallery
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County Government Center
400 County Center
Redwood City
Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 9am to 5pm
650-594-1577
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JoAnneh Nagler
"The World Is My Canvas"
July 1 - August 29
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When JoAnneh Nagler paints, she “courts a kind of tingling surrender to hues, shapes, and textures as they pass through me.” The results, large acrylic paintings on canvas and board, will grace the walls of the Caldwell Gallery from July 1 through Aug. 29.
Nagler has traveled extensively. She comments, ”One of the greatest gifts I’ve been given from traveling is the sense of feeling myself connected to the other side of the earth. It’s a sensation of knowing beyond my own time and space, of being moved by places and reminiscences of history and culture which resonate so far beyond anything in my little, goal-oriented American world.
“For me, there is nothing like the revelation of a new land I am about to fall in love with. To walk the earth of another country is to see things and sense things anew, and – now I’m realizing – to feel a vibrancy of colors not known at home.”
Nagler’s new contemporary abstract paintings are theme-based studies of color and light from travels in Nepal, Thailand, Egypt, Israel, Italy, Honduras, and South America.
This “Renaissance woman” is also a freelance writer, singer, and songwriter. Her paintings have been exhibited extensively in galleries and private salons in Southern California. Nagler’s writing credits include essays, television scripts, and folk songs. |
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CONTACT PERSON:
Ruth Waters, 650-594-1577
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