Jul 1

Jul 1 Arts Summer 2021

Screen Shot 2021-08-11 at 4.19.18 PM.png — Tara Jane O’Neil and JMY James Kidd

THE BASIC PREMISE | RESIDENCY
***918 E. Ojai Avenue*** | September 2021

From the Basic Premise:

FINAL PERFORMANCE : Wednesday, September 29, 6-9 PM

Gallery opens at 6, performances at 7:30.

The Basic Premise invites you to the final evening of performance and the opening viewing of material work created during Tara Jane O'Neil and Jmy James Kidd's September residency. The generative and performance-based phase of the project will conclude with musical performances by guest artists Rob Magill and Storey Littleton as well as a special bass and body duo by the artists in residence, and the exhibition phase, Point.Bang.Point.Loop., will begin with a selection of new paintings by O'Neil and Felt Loomed textiles by Kidd.

OLO

$5.00

Every month

Ojai Locals Only

Work from Home

SANTA PAULA ART MUSEUM | GROUP SHOW
***117 N 10th Street, Santa Paula*** | September 18, 2021 to January 9, 2022

Work From Home features art by Virginia Beale, Liz Blum, Anahid Boghosian, Shannon Celia, Janice Chan, Michele Chapin. Connie Tunick, Taylor Crisp, Jess Csanky, Bernadette DiPietro, Lynn Ellen Coleman, Pamela Hill Enticknap, Gail Faulkner, Mardilan Lee Georgio, Susan K. Guy, Ray Harris, Bob Hernandez, Gina Herrera, Patricia Keller, Karly Kennedy, Chuck Kovacic, Bonnie Lambert, Jen LaVita, Beverly Lazor, George Lockwood, Alison Lowe, Janet Lucroy, Heriberto Luna, Lisa Skyheart Marshall, Jose Galvan Martinez, Sergio Martinez, Yolande McAlevey, Marie McKenzie, Richard W. Morgan, Vanessa Morrow, Charlotte Mullich, Tina Norén, Viktoria Romanova, Mariann Romero, Peter Ruiz, Nick Santos, Carolyn Schlam, Robert Scopinich, Mary Kolada Scott, Jules Smith, Pamela Strautman, Patricia Prescott Sueme, Nina Warner, Andrea Yomtob, and Kay Zetlmaier.

Henri Matisse

CANVAS AND PAPER | THREE WORKS
***311 N. Montgomery Street*** | August 5 – October 3

canvas and paper is a non-profit exhibition space showing paintings and drawings from the 20th century and earlier in thematic and single artist exhibits.

Screen Shot 2021-07-20 at 12.29.30 PM.png — Ojai Valley Imports Mural

***996 East Ojai Avenue*** | AN OJAI STUDIO ARTIST PROJECT

The new owner of Ojai Valley Imports, “J.R.” Geraldo Luna, suggested that artists paint art on the garage doors. OSA to the rescue! Shown are OSA artists Christine Beirne and Spark Taylor Stop by and say hi as they work on it, weekends. This project benefits the Ojai Studio Artists scholarship fund.

**Finding Light**

OJAI VALLEY MUSEUM | OJAI STUDIO ARTISTS GROUP SHOW
***130 W. Ojai Avenue*** | August 20 - October 11, 2021

Our Exhibit Chair, Richard Amend, says this about our upcoming exhibit:

Finding Light is a riff on Amanda Gorman’s Inaugural poem, The Hill We Climb.

A verse in the poem reads, “Where can we find light in this never-ending shade?”

Within that question is the seeking of hopefulness. Light offers multiple vessels of interpretation – enlightenment(as in spiritual), lightness of being, the historical moment of Light & Space, the painterly push/pull of light and shade, the light at the end of the tunnel, and of course, turn left at the light. Also of consideration is the opposite posit of light, that of darkness.

How, in our studios, do we process thoughts such as these into form and expression? More info at ojaistudioartists.org.

Matters of Gravity

MALOOF DISCOVERY GARDEN | TANYA KOVALESKI & MARTHA MORAN
***5131 Carnelian Street, Rancho Cucamonga*** | June 5, 2021 – May 2022

From Maloof Foundation:

Matters of Gravity presents the work of two Ojai sculptors grappling with gravity in very distinct ways.

Tanya Kovaleski’s dynamically engineered wooden structures arch skyward in gravity-defying angles and curves, all painted in bold colors.

Martha Moran’s rock stacks deal with mass and balance, rooted to the earth. Her Buddha Beach Maloof installation is an array of small rock stacks, inspired by Buddha Beach in Sedona, Arizona, a vortex spot filled with thousands of stacks.

Photos by Deborah Lyon for Ojai Studio Artists.