Jenny Wantuch: March 2011

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Spring Open Studios

YOU'RE INVITED!

SPRING OPEN STUDIOS 2011

SOMA ARTISTS STUDIOS

689 BRYANT @ 5TH

FRIDAY NIGHT RECEPTIONApril 1st 6pm - 9pm
SATURDAY & SUNDAY April 2nd & 3rd 11am - 6pm

30+ artists will be displaying their work in an incredible variety of media, including jewlery, collage, glass, drawing, mixed media, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture,and more!
As the SOMA neighborhood has expanded and matured, other artist groups have moved into the area culminating with more than 100 artists participating in Open Studios this year. Come and support your local artist! We have art for every taste and for every pocketbook. Affordable art for the home, the spirit and the soul.

PARTICIPATING ARTIST
Louis Bording Shuhwa Chen Linda Sanders Colnett Flora Davis Renee Eaton Anna Efanova John Fitzsimmons Kat Flyn Keiko Fujimoto Jeremie Garza
GETBIZI Jeremy Gray Tama Greenberg Jana Grover Wesley Ito Martine Jardel Russel Kiehn Kue King Wendy Tremont King Erika Meriaux Margaretha Miglo
John Mickelson Richardo Norte Kristina Quinones Judy Reed Nanci Price Scoular Janet Seifert Anne Subercaseaux Kim Uno Jenny Wantuch Jonah Ward Elena Zolotnitsky

My studio show from Spring Open Studio 2010

Figure in Landscape II

This painting is also in my series of contemplative figures in landscape. It is titled "Longing" and was juried into Gallery Route One's annual juried show. This year Rene de Guzman, senior art curator at the Oakland Museum of California, was the juror. http://www.galleryrouteone.org/

The painting was inspired by a visit in Sweden in the fall, I walked around a lake with my dear friend Petra (http://www.petra10001.blogspot.com/). I took many photos from the walk and this painting was initially inspired by one of the photos of Petra looking over the water. I wanted to make it a self-portrait, and so I took another picture of myself in the same pose. Well, Petra's daughter says "mom" when she sees this and for people that don't know Petra, they believe it is a self-portrait.

I realized it doesn't really matter, the "self" in this, is the memory of feelings in a serene landscape that I think most of us have within, at least that is my wish.

"Longing", 30 x 40 inches, Oil on canvas prepared with fiber ground

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

SOMA Artists Studios

SOMA Artists Studios was established in 1989, and selected “Best of the Bay” Best Artists Collective in 2010, SOMA Artists Studios include artists who are both established and emerging in their chosen fields.

http://somaartiststudios.com/

I moved into Studio 18 at SOMA Artists Studios in August 2010 after I participated in OS in Spring 2010. It is a great creative space, and 35 other artists have private studios here. We participate in Open Studios twice a year. Spring Open Studios is coming up soon, April 1-3, 2011.

Studio 18 Moving-in-day, August 2010

Getting ready for Fall Open Studios, October 2010.

A cityscape sketched out to the right, and a landscape painting ahead. I love the skylight in my studio!

Preview Show for SOMA Spring Open Studios 2011

ARC Studios hosted a preview show for SOMA San Francisco, Spring Open Studios, called SOMANIA, earlier this spring. Below is a snapshot of artwork by artists from SOMA Artists Studios, 689 Bryant Street. My contribution was an abstract figure painting, painted from a live model (third from left, top row, and also the one he is pointing at:).

Artwork from SOMA Artists Studios at the SOMANIA show Spring 2011.

Abstract Figure No. 4, 11 x 14 inches, Oil on panel

Group Show at San Francisco Convention & Visitors Bureau

I am participating in a group show at San Francisco Convention & Visitors Bureau (SFCVB) during Spring 2011. The other day I walked in to take a peek at the show and found my paintings in their main lobby.

The Main Lobby at SFCVB