NEWSLETTER

• A Letter From the President
• Calendar of Upcoming Events
• Our Big, Big Announcement
• Update Slides for Curator's Choice Exhibit by 3/31/06
• Digital Imaging Workshop at Colortek DigitalPlus – 4/22/06
• Reminder: Newsletter Goes Electronic in May
• EcoArts Announces 2007 Show Requirements — Meets 3/5 & 4/2/06
• Women Around Town
• Member News

A LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT

There is so much wonderful news to share from our active committees — Exhibitions is gearing up for a new Curator’s Choice show, Programs has an Artist’s Talk and Digital Imaging Workshop in the works and Communications is shifting to a monthly newsletter schedule in May. And, Recognition and Advocacy announces the ‘dynamic centerpiece’ of our 30th anniversary celebration — Multiple Vantage Points: Southern California Women Artists, 1980-2006 at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (see OUR BIG, BIG ANOUNCEMENT). The exhibition is being curated by Dextra Frankel and will showcase leading LA women artists who have been key innovators during this period. Kudos to the SCWCA board for thinking big— Barnsdall has 10,000 sq feet — and to each member who turned out for a PlanFest session with their great suggestions. It’s a delight to witness the incredible thinking, generous spirits and multiple talents that we have in our community of women artists. If you’d like to be more personally involved in these key areas, please drop me a line or give a call. Staying connected and involved makes all the difference!

Sandra Mueller

sandramueller@scwca.org or 310-459-1948

It is with deep appreciation that we thank Marilynn Band for her many contributions as our newsletter designer and Member News Editor

OUR BIG, BIG ANNOUNCEMENT

“We’ve got news to share that will impact the women’s arts community.” - Ann Isolde

SCWCA and the Southern California Council of the National Museum of Women in the Arts (SCC NMWA) are co-sponsoring an exhibition with the working title Multiple Vantage Points: Southern California Women Artists, 1980-2006. Curated by Dextra Frankel, this groundbreaking show will present work in a broad range of media by a diverse group of LA-based women artists who have energized the art scene since the 1980s. The exhibition will be on view at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (Barnsdall) from 2/25 to 4/15/07.

"Co-sponsoring a major exhibition of this breadth will bring long overdue recognition to leading women artists from our region," said Kathy Todd, SCC NMWA President. The exhibition complements and overlaps with WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, 1965-1980, which focuses on the founding developments of the international women’s art movement and is being curated by Connie Butler for MOCA. Dextra Frankel is a curator, exhibition designer, researcher, administrator and former gallery director and Emeritus Professor of Art at CSU Fullerton.

UPDATE SLIDES FOR CURATOR'S CHOICE EXHIBIT BY 3/31/06

SCWCA will host a Curator's Choice exhibition of members work in the office/gallery in June. The show will run from 6/3 – 7/31 with the opening on 6/3. It is supported, in part, by a grant from the Los Angeles County Arts Commission. Member Michelle Cairella, Fullerton College Gallery Director will select works from the SCWCA artists' registry of current members. Preference will be given, but not limited to, images created in the last two years. Selected pieces must be no larger than 18" x 24" (framed), be available as represented by the slide in the registry and be ready to hang. A $15 hanging fee is due when selected artwork is delivered on Saturday, 5/20. Send slides to the SCWCA office at 2100 N. Main St. #A-5, LA, 90031 by 3/31.

DIGITAL IMAGING WORKSHOP AT COLORTEK DIGITALPLUS – 4/22/06

Save the date for this workshop at Colortek DigitalPlus labs in Culver City on Saturday, 4/22/06 from 2 to 4:30 pm. This will be a great opportunity to get answers to all your questions about digital imaging. Jim Rodgers will lead us through the process of photographing a painting, producing various film outputs, scanning the film in different formats (gif, jpeg, tiff, png), printing the scans on a variety of printers, and discussing how to prepare images for the web. He’ll also address the advantages of film vs. digital photography and more. Cost is $20 ($35 nonmembers). To register, make your check payable to SCWCA and mail it to SCWCA, 2100 N. Main Street, #A5, Los Angeles, CA 90031.

REMINDER: NEWSLETTER GOES ELECTRONIC IN MAY

SCWCA eNEWS becomes the official SCWCA newsletter on 5/1. Members will receive monthly issues at the first of the month plus reminder eblasts before programs. Print flyers will be sent for major programs & postcards for exhibits. And, for those without email, we will print out and mail the monthly eNEWS. We plan to call each member in March to address questions. You can update your address by emailing enews@scwca.org.

ECOARTS ANNOUNCES 2007 SHOW REQUIREMENTS — MEETS 3/5 & 4/2/06

To participate in their March 2007 collective exhibit (expenses will be shared), artists must join EcoArts by May 2006, attend at least 8 of the remaining 12 meetings, bring their art-in-progress for group feedback 3 times during the year, and submit their work for a final screening process.

On Sunday 3/5, at 1 PM EcoArts will discuss Transportation and on Sunday 4/2, they will discuss Water in addition to reviewing members work. Meetings are held at Linda Lundell’s studio, #B7 at The Brewery. Contact: lindalundell@scwca.org.

WOMEN AROUND TOWN

by Suvan Geer

The seductive Zen-like, matt glazed porcelain ovoid forms of 91-year-old NY artist Rose Cabat run from delicately small to monumental. At Couturier Gallery on La Brea. To 4/1.

Female figures carved from wood and skillets cast in bronze make a poignant visual narrative of personal growth and questioning for Alison Saar’s exhibit Coup at LA Louver in Venice. To 3/25.

The horizon as a shifting landscape with the power to overwhelm as well as disappear links to images of Judie Bamber’s mother and feminism in new paintings and drawings at Angles Gallery in Santa Monica. Also showing are the decadent and voluptuous pin-up girl paintings of Xiomara De Oliver who play off the political innuendo in historic Italian frescos to address issues of power in sexuality and gender. To 4/1.

Clytie Alexander’s single-color sheets of perforated aluminum suspended lightly out from the gallery wall are all color and cobwebs of shadow. At Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica. To 3/25.

Graceful plastic horses tiptoeing through surreal landscapes of oversized objects explore the dynamics of human relationships in Kirilyn Barber’s colorful photographs at HAUS in Pasadena. To 3/25.

Liza Ryan examines the fluid nature of metamorphosis in her photo-based images by drawing, collaging and cutting the surface of her photos to fuse the human body with nature. Griffin in Santa Monica. To 3/11.

HTTL://Hacking the Timeline, a group digital art exhibition of 17 seminal artists whose art and advocacy in Los Angeles during the last 25 years were key in developing the computer as a tool for making art. Included are Rebecca Allen, Kit Galloway, Kate Johnson, Sherrie Rabinowitz, Nina Rota, Carolyn Stockbridge, and Annelise Varaldiev. At 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica. To 4/8.

Large-scale digital photographs of a seemingly empty “Events Park” that is surrounded by a huge mirrored wall in Brazil is coupled with short video loops of a film set and turn the gallery into an unstable visual ground of real/unreal places in Irit Batsry’s Through the Looking exhibit at Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica. To 3/11.

Drawing & Drawn is a loosely organized exhibition that includes drawings that are either a record of an action, a drawing for its own sake, or drawings that deal directly with the process of making a drawing. It includes seven L.A.-based artists including Alicia Beach, Kim Fisher, and J.P. Munro. At Cerritos College Art Gallery. To 3/9.

The abstract landscapes of Astrid Preston become more so as she paints thousands of leaves into hyper yet rhythmic patterns at Craig Krull Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica to 4/8.

MEMBER NEWS

Joanne Beaule Ruggles exhibited at the Laguna Art Museum’s All California Juried and Invitational Exhibition, at the National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society’s Best of America, and the International Society of Acrylic Painter’s 9th Annual. She has also received the Miriam Russo Enders Award for Works on Canvas and the Irwin Zlowe Memorial Award for two of her paintings.

Ione Citrin is exhibiting mixed media at the Visalia Art Center in Visalia, CA titled I Close My Eyes So I Can See from 2/7 to 3/18.

Barbara Smith is exhibiting at The Pompidou in Paris, France opening March 7th. The show is titled L.A.-Paris 1955-1985. The show also includes Rachel Rosenthal.

Marsha Schweitzer has prints on exhibit at the show L’Dor V’Dor, at Hebrew College, Newton MA, from 1/30 to 3/31 and at National Printmaking 2006, College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ, from 1/18 to 2/15.

Cynthhis Friedlob is exhibiting at the Fine Arts Federation Membership Show at the Creative Arts Center Gallery, from 3/3 to 3/23.

Three Women Artists: Ann Isolde, J. Natasha Kostan, and Launa D. Romoff, The Source on Lake Gallery, Pasadena, CA, from 4/22 to 6/3.

Deadline for next eNEWS Friday, 4/21/06. Send article information to enews@scwca.org. Send Member News to membernews@scwca.org and include your name, exhibition title, venue, media, dates and URL for gallery if available. If sending by regular mail, it may take an extra month. Member News will be updated monthly on scwca.org and eNews will link to it. Submit to Mail to SCWCA, ATTN: Member News, 2100 N. Main St., #A5, Los Angeles, CA 90031.