ArtWalk
“For over 20 years, the Galveston Arts Center has hosted ArtWalk approximately every six weeks in the heart of the historic downtown district. Not a street festival, ArtWalk is a coordinated evening of opening receptions and art related events that are hosted in existing commercial galleries, non-profit arts spaces and “other walls”—retail stores and restaurants. One of GAC’s largest programs, ArtWalk promotes the visual arts and supports our arts-based community, offering alternative places to see, purchase and learn about art.” (GAC)

ArtWalk Opening Receptions
Saturday March 6, 2010.
Most works to be on display from March 6, 2010 through April 15, 2010. Please contact venues for more information.

Galleries
Bogan Gallery on The Island: James Busby
Buchanan Gallery: John C. Dyes
DesignWorks: Cara Barer, Larry Horn
Galveston Art League: March Membership Show
Galveston Arts Center in Exile 2: Dornith Doherty
J. Bangle’s Silk Stocking Gallery: S. J. Cook
The Nonus Collection: Michel Guyon
Peck's Art Gallery: Jennifer Peck, Loretta Trevino, J. Vincent Scarpace, Mars Woodhill, Andre Gandin,
V. Starke Studio and Gallery/ Art Market
Wagner Sousa Modern Art: Tim Hailey
The Water’s Edge Studio and Gallery: Gayle Reynolds
Rene Wiley Studio - Gallery: Rene’ Wiley, James D. Phillips, Brenda Schlossenger, Dale Hooks, Tom Bates

Other Walls
The Emporium at Eibands: Bonnie Gloeckner
Galveston Outfitters: Sallie Anderson
Havana Alley Cigar Shop & Lounge: Alberto Godoy
Hutchings-Sealy Building Artists’ Lofts: Robert Mihoval, Jerry Graham
Island Divers Galveston: Jacqui Stanley
The Lunch Box Café: Sue Bown
Mamady’s Primitive Art from Africa
MOD Coffeehouse: Catherine Stroud
The Mosquito Café: Dune Tencer
Oasis Juice Bar: Courtney Meisleman
Tina’s on the Strand: Carmen Chandler
The Tremont House: Selia Qynn

News from the Galleries:

Bogan Gallery on The Island: James Busby
“Bogan Gallery is initiating something new in March! On Friday, March 5, from 7 - 8 pm, the artist James Busby, along with Bogan Gallery owner and Art Historian Susan Bogan, will give a presentation on Impressionism. Mr. Busby's one man show, "Primavera: Texas Wild" will be on view Friday evening as well, giving those who prefer not to participate in the bustle of the Artwalk a preview of his one man show. Bring a pillow or chair to sit on and join in the discussion Friday night. On Saturday, March 6, Bogan Gallery will remain open until 9 pm for the Artwalk.

Mr. Busby's work has evolved over time to his current preference for Impressionst-based landscapes, particularly the landscapes of Texas. Like the 19th-century French Impressionists, color and light play a major role in his work, as well as a focus on challenging perspectives. In this show, Busby has captured the blossoming colors of Springtime in Texas, where large blankets of color cover the sides of the highways and open fields.

So, whether you love the excitement of Artwalk, or prefer a more in-depth experience, Bogan Gallery will offer both options in March. Bogan Gallery is located at 2217 Postoffice. Normal hours are Thursday - Saturday from 10am - 5pm, and Sunday noon - 4pm, and by appointment Monday - Wednesday. Most major credit cards are accepted as well as check, debit cards, and cash. For more information and to view other artists the Gallery represents, go to the website, www.bogangallery.com or phone the Gallery, 409-765-1711.”

Buchanan Gallery: John C. Dyes
“Please make plans to join us for the next Galveston ArtWalk, on Sat., March 6, when we'll be celebrating FotoFest 2010 with the opening of "Resplendent Shores" by John C. Dyes. These dramatically scaled photographs feature Galveston's own beaches and wetlands. “Places of Rest: Retired Vessels, Marfa & Big Bend," with hand-tinted silver gelatin photographs by Reinhard Ziegler continues to show as well. In the Viewing Room, we present recent work by Margaret Smithers-Crump and Danna Ruth Harvey. Buchanan Gallery 220 25th Street Galveston Island, TX 77550 : Phone/Fax 409.763.8683 Hours: 11-6 Thursday though Monday, 12-5 Sunday, Tuesday & Wednesday by Appointment. www.buchanangallery.com

DesignWorks: Cara Barer and Larry Horn
Opening on March 6th at DesignWorks Gallery will “Tesserae” by Cara Barer (Houston, Tex.), and “Slow Bell” by Larry Horn (Galveston Island, Tex.). The opening coincides with the downtown Galveston ArtWalk®. DesignWorks Gallery is one of over 100 exhibition spaces in and around Houston participating the FotoFest2010 Biennial celebration of art photography. In “Tesserae,” Barer uses tesserae, or small squares that she cuts from larger photographic images, to create a new tiled image, one in which she explores nonconforming spatial relationships, thus creating her own distinctive view of the world. “Slow Bell” is a photographic and cinematic exploration of light and time. The exhibition consists of still photographs and films taken aboard the Galveston-Bolivar ferry, coming and going, day and night, in various exposures.

The gallery at DesignWorks, in Historic Downtown Galveston, is located at 2119A Postoffice Street in Historic Downtown Galveston. Hours are Wednesday through Saturday, 11 am to 7 pm, and Sunday, 11 am to 5 pm. Monday and Tuesday, closed or by appointment, 409.766.7599.

Galveston Arts Center: Dornith Doherty
“GAC is pleased to present Dornith Doherty at Mid-Career, featuring selections from the Altered Terrain and Archiving Eden series by artist Dornith Doherty, in conjunction with Houston’s FotoFest 2010 Biennial. The exhibition will open during the March 6th ArtWalk and remain on view through April 11, 2010. Curator Clint Willour will lead a gallery talk with the artist at 6:30 pm. Following the presentation in Galveston, the exhibition will be on view at the Martin Museum of Art at Baylor University in Waco. A full-color exhibition catalogue featuring work from both series will be available for purchase.

Curated by Clint Willour, the carefully distilled selection of work includes photographs from Doherty’s decade-long exploration of culturally reconfigured landscapes titled Altered Terrain. Using specimens and found objects collected on site, Doherty arranges a carefully constructed still-life tableau, projects other imagery onto it, and then photographs the assemblage with a view camera.

For the series Archiving Eden, Doherty explores the role of seed banks and their preservation efforts in the face of climate change, the extinction of natural species and decreased agricultural diversity. Working at both the National Center for Genetic Resources Preservation in Fort Collins, Colorado, and at the Millennium Seed Bank, Royal Botanic Gardens—Kew, Wakehurst Place in Sussex, England, Doherty used on-site x-ray equipment to photograph seeds and cloned plants from the facilities’ extensive storage vaults. The archival pigment prints include seed and plant x-rays arranged into mandala shapes, as well as organic designs that evoke tension between

storage and dispersal, and reproduction and extinction. The digital chromogenic lenticular prints include collaged x-ray images of seeds in blue, green, and brown backgrounds that shift in color

and shape (hologram-like) as the viewer moves past. This work questions the complex philosophical, anthropological, and ecological issues surrounding the role of science, technology, and human agency in the context of seed banks.

Dornith Doherty was born in Houston and received a B.A. from Rice University and an MFA in Photography from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. She currently teaches photography at the University of North Texas in Denton. She has received grants from the Fulbright Foundation, the Japan Foundation, the United States Department of the Interior, the Indiana Arts Commission, and the Society for Contemporary Photography. Doherty was awarded the inaugural fellowship from the University of North Texas’ Institute for the Advancement of the Arts, recognizing artistic contributions by outstanding faculty members. The fellowship and grant will support the artist’s continued work on the Archiving Eden series during spring 2010.

Galveston Arts Center is currently operating “in exile” from our second temporary downtown gallery space—the site of the former Maceo’s Spice and Import Company located on the corner of Market and 25th Streets. The administrative offices are also at this location. The gallery and selections from GAC’s museum shop, ArtWorks, are open to the public Wednesday through Sunday from 11 am to 5 pm. A flyer listing all ArtWalk participants with times and locations can be downloaded at www.galvestonartscenter.org.

2501 Market | Galveston TX 77550 | 409.763.2403 | www.galvestonartscenter.org

PeckArts Gallery: Jennifer Peck, Loretta Trevino, J. Vincent Scarpace, Mars Woodhill, Andre Gandin

“PeckArts opened in November 209 at 2208 Postoffice after artist Jennifer Peck found success selling at Galveston’s Artoberfest. Jennifer has a degree in art history and has run galleries in San Fransisco and Austin. She moved to the island three years ago and began painting full time. Jennifer paints “bright and happy island oriented collages on panel. Birds, sunsets, flowers, cocktails, and umbrellas come to life as she paints in a myriad of joyful colors. They celebrate the beauty of Galveston and tell a story of life at the beach!”

“Artist Loretta Trevino’s oil paintings are intended to represent solitude. She likes to paint in quiet; while many artists listen to a number of things while working, Loretta listens to her heart, and in her process paints a peaceful silence. Inspired by the lone houses she’s seen in the country as well as around the Island, she takes those images back to her studio. A master of color, she brings things to a new level by allowing her houses and the landscape to tell its tale in beautiful and unexpected hues. In her paintings, houses get a third dimension and an extra atmosphere. Her horses come to life and wake in colors totally unfamiliar to their world. Loretta lives and works in Galveston and is truly a unique painter, always seeking knowledge to understand her painting better and living the life of an artist on the Island.”

“Mars Woodhill is showing her organic, saturated abstracts. Woodhill has a B.A in History and Art from Austin College. She has been focusing mainly on her abstract paintings and producing abstract metal sculpture. Mars lives primarily in Houston and part-time in NYC where she draws from the many artists she is influenced by there. You can see her enthusiasm for her unique painting process as well as her love of the power and mystery of color. After spending time, and now showing, at PeckArts she is working on new paintings reflecting the Islands relaxed vibe and colors.”

The original works of J. Vincent Scarpace, best known for his abstract fish art, represent, in his own words, “a personal journey through the use of the basic of art elements: line, shape, and color - resulting in an arrival, just past experimentation, at unique works of art which purposely resemble fish.” He’s followed his passion for the creative process, discovering that therein may lay the true reason for his next work of art – the pursuit of one’s own creative potential."

PeckArts will introduce Andre Gandin’s brightly painted steel birds and flower assemblage sculpture on March 6, 2010 PeckArts goal is to introduce Galveston’s art lovers to an array of fresh, exciting and fun artists, showing modern and contemporary works..”

PeckArts, 2208 Postoffice, Galveston, Texas 77550
Cell:512.576.8233 Gallery:409.621.1500 www.PeckArts.com

MOD Coffeehouse: Catherine Stroud
“Catherine Stroud, a new member of the Galveston Community, arrived on the Island in November of 2009. Returning from a three-year stint in beautiful France, she did not at all expect, not in the slightest, to find a home anywhere in America that could rival those previous years abroad.

But, alas! Galveston surprised her and, happy as a fish in water, she painted...and painted, and painted. Now directing her artistic efforts in new directions, away from canvas and oil and towards the recycling of Old into New, she, nonetheless, is delighted to present you with those M.O.I. paintings, along with three others that were made in France. Enjoy and b

e happy.” MOD CoffeeHouse 2126 Postoffice St. Galveston, TX 77550 (409) 765-5659

Oasis Juice Bar: Courtney Meiselman
“Often a slab of spilled plaster is a starting point for Courtney Meiselman’s artwork, similar to a canvas for a painting. Corresponding to this industrial materiel, Meiselman will often collage compost, concrete, paper, and other mixed media to depict an abstracted and rather isolated landscape. This sculptural approach is not the only means Meiselman is creating; yet she also constructs similar settings through drawings and watercolors on paper. Meiselman’s most recent series takes this peculiar scene, and transforms characters, known as “Blockheads” and “Bullet people” within the space. The symbolism and narrative quality add another layer to communicate to the viewer. Within the landscape, there are frequently displayed blocks. These blocks give a striking resemblance to the Blockheads’ foundation. Both are designed purposely with broken edges, and slanted angles to evoke a sensation of instability. Balance and tension teeters within the merging environments that each piece creates. The bullet people are capable of demonstrating much more mobile qualities, than the Blockheads. The uniform costuming that the Bullet people posse suggests a blanket demeanor personality, and for the most part they are wondering around aimlessly. The narrative read among all the work leaves a mystery for the viewer. Each piece only suggests assets to the larger story, as though Meiselman has ripped out a single page from a picture book. Oasis Juice Bar, 409 25th Street, Galveston, TX 77550 Hours: 10am - 6pm Closed Sundays & Mondays (409) 762-8399

Water’s Edge Studio and Gallery:
Gayle Reynolds
Due to the fire November 9 at The Water's Edge Studio and Gallery, ArtWalk will be held on March 6 and on April 17,at their temporary digs at 2602 Avenue M. This is a yellow corner store at 26th and M. The gallery is open Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 10:00 till 5:00. Occasionally it is open on Wednesdays and Sundays, but since it is not a sure thing, a phone call to 409-763-7101 could arrange a meeting. Painter Gayle Reynolds will title her collection of paintings for March 6 "Continuing to Paint Galveston," and the paintings include houses and birds and other interesting things she is finding to paint in Galveston. Admittedly, this is a very general theme, and one which will be continued in the April 17 ArtWalk which is tentatively titled "Variety. www.galvestonwatersedge.com

Rene’ Wiley Studio and Gallery: Rene’ Wiley
Now well established in Galveston’s downtown art community, is the Rene’ Wiley Studio and Gallery at 2128 Postoffice Street. Artist Rene’ Wiley’s newest exhibition is titled “Harbor Reflections .” She has been working on a series of harbor scenes that depict vessels and, more interestingly, the morning and evening light that surrounds them. Her focus is not so much on the subjects as the light, colors, and patterns of the sky and subjects reflected in the water. She will continue to have most recent collection of abstract bird paintings available, as well as her signature Galveston alleys and street scenes.

The gallery will be featuring several artists for the March 6, 2010 ArtWalk Opening Reception. Newest to the Gallery is Tom Bates collection of oil paintings depicting sea turtles. Brenda Bunten-Schloesser is featuring her beautifully crafted textile pieces depicting local Galveston scenery. Dale Hooks is showing his gorgeous wooden bowls turned from the “Iked” oak trees destroyed on Broadway. James Phillips’ outstanding wood sculptures from reclaimed wood after Hurricane Ike are also available.

Rene’ Wiley Studio and Gallery is located at the corner of 22nd Street and Postoffice Street, next door to Mod Coffeehouse, at 2128 Postoffce Street. Hours are daily from 11 am to 6pm. For more information call (409) 750-9077 or visit www.renewiley.com

Art on the Island: Weekends in March

Artist Boat: “Discover the wonders of Galveston Bay and your artistic side via kayak.” If an eco-Art experience sounds like something you would be interested in, a guided kayak tour with water coloring instruction can’t be beat. March 2010 dates included March 18-21, 27 and 28. Check out www.artistboat.org or call (409) 770-0722 for more details and booking. ($25-$50 per person)

Galveston Arts Center: Spring Art Making Workshops for Children and Adults
“Escape for a few hours of creativity one Saturday per month with the Galveston Arts Center. Classes are held in the basement kitchen at Moody Mansion, 2618 Broadway at 27th Street. Children's classes are appropriate for students ages 6 to 14. Each class is limited to 15 participants. Dress for mess! Saturday, March 27 2010, Mandala Making with Cherie Ray Contact Robin at 409.763.2403 for more information and to register.

Oil Painting Workshops with Rene’ Wiley:
One Day workshop will be held on Friday March 5, 2010, and a Three Day Workshop will be held on March 18, 19, 20 2010. It will be hosted at the beautiful retreat property owned by artist Sue Bown. Room and board included. Please call the gallery at (409)750-9077 for rates and more information.

Life Drawing/Painting/Sculpting Sessions: Artists meet bi-weekly to work from live models in a professional and casual setting, without an instructor. Artists must bring their own supplies. Sessions held every other Sunday from 1-5pm. Please contact Derek Anderson at his studio, 2224 Church St., (409) 750-3773, for dates and more information. ($15 per artist)

Meet the Artists: For a unique opportunity to meet Galveston artists, visit one of these artist owned and operated galleries or studio spaces:

Derek Anderson, 2224 Church St. Studio (409)750-3773 · Milton Ausherman at Wagnor Sousa Modern Art, 404 25th St. · Jennifer Peck at PeckArts Gallery, 2208 Postoffice St. · Gayle Reynolds at The Water’s Edge Studio and Gallery, 2602 Avenue M · Virginia Starke at Art Market/ Studio and Gallery, 2001 Postoffice St. · Bud Clayton Thomas, Studio at 518 23rd St. (325)660-7798 ·Rene’ Wiley at Rene’ Wiley Studio and Gallery, 2128 Postoffice St. (409)750-9077

There are plenty of commercial galleries and open studio spaces to explore on Galveston Island, and many businesses downtown exhibit and sell local artist’s work as well. Most downtown art spaces are within walking distance from each other, so don’t hesitate to explore downtown on foot.

If you would like to be included in next month’s Arts Column please contact Rachel Wiley at Rachel@galvestonparrot.com.