C H R I S G W A L T N E Y FINE ART

EXHIBITION REVIEWS, ARTICLES

Marszalek, Norbert. “Interview with Chris Gwaltney” (July 6, 2009) neotericART.com

Carasso, Roberta, “In Review, 2008 A Great Year for Art Lovers” Orange County Register.com (Oct 10, 2008)

Carasso, Roberta, “Art Waves, Chris Gwaltney at New Peter Blake Gallery”
(Oct 10, 2008) Orange County Register.com

Walsh, Daniella, “The Art Attack” Riviera Magazine (Oct 2008) pp 50-51

Walsh, Daniella, “The Radar Art” Riviera Magazine (Mar 2008) pp 84-85

“Step into Color” Riviera Magazine (Mar 2007) pp 180-181

Thompson, Sandy, “Chris Gwaltney at Robert Green Fine Arts” Artweek
(Jul/Aug 2001 Volume 32 Issue 7/8) Cover + pg 20

Thomas, Linda, “A Circle of Orange” pp 150-151

Carrasso,Roberta, “…Dazzling Colors Mark Gwaltney Exhibit at Blake Gallery,” Orange County Register, Laguna News-Post, (Nov 4, 1999) p 24

Walsh, Daniella, “ Chris Gwaltney-Recent Paintings” Orange County Register Encore (Oct 4, 1998)
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EXHIBITION REVIEWS, ARTICLES cont'd

Delmas, Cinde, “Rich month for artwork in Marin”, Marin Independent
Journal (Feb 1995)

Mendenhall, Laurie, “Artistry in Teaching Art” Daily Pilot (Jan. 1994) Cover

Bryant, Kathy, “The Art of Living” L.A. Times, Design (Jul 1993) Cover

Carrasso, Roberta, “Currents”, Time/Space Gallery Catalog
(December 12,1992)

Bell, Joseph, “The Beginning Buyer’s Guide to Art” L.A. Times (May 1990)

Bryant, Kathy, “A Passion For Art” Orange County Magazine (Sept 1990)

Harbrecht, Gene, “Gwaltney isn’t sitting still with his chair theme,”
Orange County Register,(Apr 1990)

Schlosberg, Suzanne, “Art That Takes a Stand, and a Seat”
L.A. Times, Calendar, (Jan 1990)

Valdespino, Ann, “Paintings, Photos Go From Restful to Arresting,” Orange County Register, (Mar 1988)

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• The Laguna Art Museum put on a whopper of a show titled "In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz Factor." Conceived by curator Meg Linton, the show was a daring composite of 14 years of art from Juxtapoz magazine.

• Marge Chapman's exhibition titled "Retrospective – 30 Years of Art" at the Sandstone Gallery is a celebration of Chapman's 90th birthday and of her being the driving force of the gallery, the only original artist in the group.

• Linda Christiansen's paintings, shown at the Sue Greenwood Fine Art Gallery, are shimmering autobiographical works featuring the quintessential female. The central figure is alone in the world, always searching for ways to blossom into her optimal self.

• Claudia Meyer's art, seen at the Marian Meyer Contemporary Gallery, is distinctly playful, cubistic multimedia. The forms incorporate horizontal, vertical, right-angled and sectional rhythms in different formats. Using assorted materials, such as Plexiglas, metal, wood, stones and canvas, Meyer's creations are bursting with three-dimensional energy.

What a year!

Contact the writer at roberta.carasso@gmail.com

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• Mahvash Mossaed, one of the owners of the new DeMossa Gallery, brings sensitivity, intelligence, exotic Persian sensibility and worldwide acclaim to her work.

• The JoAnne Artman Gallery is also new. Artman brings edgier and experimental art to Laguna with local, national and international artists.

• Chris Gwaltney opened the new Peter Blake Gallery. His lush paintings are abstract in nature yet lean toward a sense of the figurative. Gwaltney's colorful images of "magic realism" are embraced by atmosphere of abstract and energetic shapes, an open-ended style that is completed by the viewer.

• Festival artist Pat Sparkuhl continues to take a profound look at issues affecting society globally. His challenging assemblages are exhibited in several galleries in the community, always to rave reviews.

• Edward Eyth holds the unique distinction of being the only living artist whose work was featured in the 2008 Pageant of the Masters. His bronze sculpture "Olympic Spirit" was displayed, but the highlight was its re-creation to monumental size in the pageant's tableaux vivant.

• Festival artist Jorge Fernandez learned his exceptional sculptural skills by traveling throughout Brazil, the Amazon, Latin America, Central America, the Caribbean and Mexico creating, improving and selling his clay figures each day.

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Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Roberta Carasso: In Review, 2008 A Great Year For Art Lovers
Art Waves

What a privilege 2008 was, to review many great works of art and meet scores of terrifically talented artists. Wasting no time, here are some memorable highlights of the year:

• David P. Cooke, landscape and figurative painter, funneled his passion for his Pennsylvania roots into a spellbinding series of the now-defunct Bethlehem Steel Mills. The silent mills made way for the new and modern, living only in Cooke's riveting paintings. Bradford J, Salamon adds another dimension to portrait painting as he encourages sitters to engage in a dialogue with the artist as he paints. The result translates into images that come closer to reality and capture the true nature of each sitter.

• Sian Poeschl, exhibiting at the Studio Arts Gallery, melds two of her passions: fused glass and her Welsh heritage. Rectangular glass, individual arrangements of various color patterns, in raised forms that contain a poem or lyrics written in Welsh by her great grandfather.

• Murray Krueger uses ZBrush, a computer-generated program that he meticulously develops to create a one-of-a-kind image of a digital sculpture. The amazing result is Krueger's modeling a human figure, turning and studying the form as if clay were in his hands.

• Peter Blake and his gallery celebrate 15 years of outstanding exhibitions. His new gallery on Ocean Avenue now offers an even higher level of art excellence.

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