Taking photographs is, at its essence, painting with light, and sometimes a camera isn’t even necessary. Photographer and artist Carolyn Moore explores this type of photography using a light source – a light-sensitive material and objects to create beautiful lumens and photograms that evoke …
This year, we are celebrating the 150th birthday of Jo Mora, an Uruguayan-born American artist who put his artistic mark all over Monterey County. His illustrations, paintings, murals and sculptures are a celebration of the American West. An exhibit titled Jo Mora & Family Through the Le…
An exciting show arrived at the Monterey Museum of Art. Rex Ray: We Are All Made of Light is a retrospective exhibit of works by Rex Ray, or Michael Patterson (1956–2015). Born on a U.S. Army base in Germany and raised in Colorado, he became involved in the mail art movement, when he first u…
Originally from Sacramento, Ann Artz is an abstract painter who captures nature in a way many naturalists can only dream of. All you need to do is to look carefully, and wait for the miracle to unwrap itself. In her works from 2016, Artz found a new path with charcoal and graphite—on panel, …
Fine art photographer Meredith Mullins has great respect for the Japanese philosophy and the aesthetic of wabi-sabi. She might be sharing her time between Pacific Grove and Paris these days (Mullins is known for her photography of Paris), but she traveled to Japan enough to bring from there …
Local artists connect with the community in many ways. The Monterey Bay Plein Air Painters Association has been observing and artistically documenting the ongoing Fort Ord Dunes State Park dunes restoration and campground construction, to the delight and with the support of California State …
Work on Imjin Parkway in Marina is complete, a $40.5 million project that added four roundabouts, more lanes and other infrastructure from Imjin to Reservation roads. Standing in the middle of each roundabout are metal panels, 32 in total, representing everything that Marina is known for. Th…
Oil painter Wendy Chidester represents contemporary realism. She puts old, venerated objects – typically well-made, beautiful and solid – in the aesthetic and physical center of her pieces, paying homage not only to the sentiments those objects invoke (a pair of old-fashioned blue leather b…
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