Spring Open Studios- Highlights & Ice Flowers

Next weekend we have our annual Spring Open Studio event at SOMA Artists Studios. For more information please go to www.somaartiststudios.com or visit my website (www.jennywantuch.com)

During this event I am showing works on paper created in 2012. I was inspired by the images I saw on my trip this winter to Sweden; Ice, frost, darkness contrasted with high key values of patches of snow. I call the series "Highlights & Ice Flowers". The art work is mixed media (charcoal, ink, graphite, acrylic, tape and pastel) on paper. Here are a few of them:

From the
top: Ice Flower II, Ice Flower III, Ice Flower IV, Highlights II, Highlights VI, Highlights VII   www.jennywantuch.com

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

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

SFMOMA, Oil on canvas, 36 x 48 inches

SEACLIFF, Oil on canvas, 30 x 40 inches

Teamwork

Wind and wings.

This one needs explanation: This is the entrance to Fort Mason in San Francisco, and where I take improv classes. Improv is a wonderful way to work on teamwork skills.

Direction

A sense of direction.