It is an honor to announce, “Friendship Bracelet” has won a 2nd Place Award in the upcoming Artist’s World Magazine International Art Show. The exhibit will be held January 21st, 2010. Contact Johnny Otilano, Curator at http://www.artistsworldmagazine.com
An Exhibition and Sale by a Collection of the Finest Artists in the United States
The Randy Higbee Gallery is hosting the third 6″ Squared Exhibition and Sale. Once again, we will bring nationally acclaimed traditional representational artists to a spectacular venue in Orange County, California.
I am honored to announce two of works juried into the Fall 6″ Squared Exhibition and Sale hosted by Randy Higbee Gallery:
“Rolling Hills,” 6 x 6″, oil on panel
“Signpost,”, 6 x 6″, oil on panel
A Gala Artists’ Reception will be held Saturday, December, 3rd, 2011
The show will run through December, 23rd, 2011
Randy Higbee Gallery, 102 Kalmus, Costa Mesa, California, 92626, 714.546.2156
The Bakersfield Californian, Wednesday, May 4, 2011
During a preview of Monica Nelson’s solo show last week what impressed me most about her oil paintings is their radiance. She handles light in a way that creates a pleasing glow, both in her landscapes and her portraits.
“I love playing with the light at different times of the day,” the artist explained, indicating a deeply shadowed desert scene of a single Joshua tree that is silhouetted against the gleaming rays of the rising sun.
Nelson’s exhibit, which includes both portraits and landscapes, opens Friday evening at Juliana’s Art Studio and Gallery.
Another distinctive feature of her work is her attention to detail. This is especially evident in four 6-by-6-inch landscapes that are hung in a vertical line. The upper two show scenes along the hiking trail along the Kern River, done at midday. The lower ones reveal the freshness of the grasslands near New Cuyama late in the afternoon after a rainstorm.
A Bakersfield resident for nine years, Nelson got her start at age 15 as a graphic artist in her family’s advertising company in Cincinnati. Then from 1988-90 she majored in graphic art and journalism at Kent State University and about six years ago began studying fine art with Anthony Ryder in Santa Fe, N.M., and in Los Angeles.
Her exhibit can be seen at Juliana’s through May 31.
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