August 2021 Featured Artis
August 5th ~ August 29th
ROBERT NELSON
"WHAT ?!!!"
Whimsical, recycled material assemblages.
Gallery 621's Show for August 2021 will be “WHAT ?!!!” featuring Artist Robert Nelson. Cast-off materials found just about anywhere but most often along the Benicia shoreline stir Robert's imagination and fulfill his sense of saving our planet one art piece at a time.
Cracked, broken down, rusted materials that would have continued on to the Bay and the Ocean are redeemed. Even the clarinet is making a comeback.
California waterways and coastlines have been an influential part of Robert's life. His scouring of beaches and shorelines yields treasures Robert uses to create and sometimes tease us with very thought provoking and often witty assemblages.
Reception: August 7th 4-6PM
Gallery Hours: Thursday-Sunday, 12 to 6 pm
July 2021 Featured Artist
Daniel Hunter
July 1 to August 1
June 2021 Featured Artist
Bobbie Altman
June 4 - 27
My Life Transformed:
Searching for the Beauty of Imperfection
April 2021 Featured Artist
Jerrold Turner Small Works Auction
Jerrold Turner Small Works
Auction for Gallery 621
https://www.32auctions.com/JerroldTurnerG621
A long-time member of Gallery 621, Jerrold Turner is offering this selection of artworks to be auctioned to benefit Gallery 621. Jerrold's generous offer recognizes the value of Gallery 621 as one of the Bay Area's premier galleries of contemporary art, as well as the difficulties galleries and artists have faced during the past year of sheltering-in-place and gallery closures.
Jerrold Turner is one of the Bay Area’s prominent Plein Air painters and a founding member of the Outsiders, a group of plein air painters whose colorful, Fauvist style relates back to such groups as the Society of Six, the Fauves and other colorist schools. Jerrold graduated from UC Berkeley with BS and MS degrees in engineering. He is primarily self-taught in art and painted with Lundy Siegriest and Terry St. John. His early influences were Daubigny, Matisse, William Keith, Seldon Gile and Lundy Siegriest.
Jerrold is very influential in the arts of the San Francisco Bay Area. He has exhibited extensively in solo and group shows and his art work is in collections throughout the United States.
February 2021 Featured Artist
SONIA GILL
"LIGHT IN DARK TIMES"
February 5-28
Tiptoe Through The Tepco, Oil on Canvas
“My dishes, like the people in my life, have been collected one at a time for a wide variety of reasons and needs. Their visual relationship, as they are drying sink side, brings to mind the relationships I have to and with the people of my life. Some stand by themselves, some lean on others, some block the light from their neighbors and some reflect the one next to them in a distorted yet pleasing way that enhances the composition and allows the viewer to find comfort in a visually complicated work.
The Holiday Show
November 2020 Featured Artist
October 2020 Featured Artist
Nikki Basch Davis
October 2 through November 1
September 2020 Featured Artist
ROBERT NELSON
September 4th through September 27th
Robert Nelson’s art involves primarily recycled materials assembled into whimsical Assemblage Sculptures. A lot of Bob’s sculpture materials are found along Benicia’s shoreline. This trash trove might have floated out on to the Bay and Ocean if not saved for Bob’s creations. As a retired County Planner he is acutely aware of our Throw-away Society and our ever growing landfills. With that in mind the hidden message in his work is Let’s do a better job reducing trash and how we dispose of it. Driven by his sense of community, vivid imagination and wicked sense of humor he’s doing just that.
Always a fan of Outsider and Folk Art, Bob adds visual movement to his sculptures bringing what was static trash a new life and story. Robert Arneson’s work has long been a favorite of Bob’s so he enjoys keeping Arneson’s mischievous and playful touch alive and well in Benicia.
August 2020 Featured Artist
Gallery 621 Featured Artist
for the month of August:
Daniel Hunter
PAGES
from the book
Everything Explained
Once again, Hunter has developed a new style of work for his featured show. The work is a selection of pages from an imaginary book, Everything Explained. Each page features enigmatic lines of text in rich colors and shapes, surrounded by the border of contrasting colors and shapes. The effect is intriguing, and challenges the viewer in terms of whether to regard the pages as mysterious text or as paintings. Viewed either way, the work ranges from bright and playful to more dark and serious, and leaves the viewer to wonder what secrets were contained in missing pages.
Each page is painted with enamel on 16” X 20” thin wooden sheets that are affixed to wooden panels. Hunter uses a reverse process in which he first applies blended color, then a material that preserves that color while he adds another layer of paint. Layer upon layer is built up in this way until he is satisfied with the result….or sands down the paint and starts again. This is a very similar process he used when working with layers of ceramic glaze on his clay work.
Hunter’s new work can be seen at Gallery 621 from August 7 to September 6, Friday through Sunday from 12:00 to 6:00 PM. The gallery is located at 309 First Street, Benicia. There will not be a reception for this exhibition. Please wear a face mask. Hand sanitizer is provided at the door.
Page 7, from the book Everything Explained