Gallery
Closing Reception: December 12 | 2:00pm-4:00pm
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Jenny Wantuch
Harmony in Hues: Exploring Landscapes Through Perception, Imagination and Memory
October 25 - December 15
Cañada College Art Gallery | Building 9-152
The Cañada College Art Department is presenting "Harmony in Hues: exploring landscapes
through perception, imagination and memory", an exhibition of paintings by the Bay
Area artist Jenny Wantuch. The exhibition runs from October 25 through December 15, 2023, in the Canada Art
Gallery, Building 9, room 152.
Wantuch is showing 17 paintings in total. Nine of these paintings were commissioned
for Cañada College in 2021 and were completed in 2022. The commissioned paintings
are 8x8 inch oil paintings inspired by repeating patterns and architectural elements
that frames the beautiful vistas seen at Cañada College Campus. Wantuch is a former
student at Cañada College and completed an AA degree in Multimedia Art and Technology
in 2013. The commissioned paintings will be permanently installed in building 22 after
the exhibition. The other paintings in the show are larger in scale and focus on landscapes
from Northern California, except from "Wanaka Valley" which is from New Zealand and
based on one of her plein air paintings from the South Island of New Zealand. The
painting “Road Heading North” is inspired by her memory of growing up in Sweden. All
the paintings in the show were completed 2022-2023.
"Spending time with one of Jenny Wantuch's vivid landscapes can feel like passing
through a portal into a dreamy, color-suffused world: a place where we often seem
to be hovering at the edge between day and night, at sunrise or sunset. The soft hues
with which Wantuch describes gently curving hills, pristine forests or cloud dotter
skies complement each other—maize yellows and dusty violets; intense blue-greens and
hot magenta pinks; deep blues and glowing shades of orange. It is a place we long
to visit, and the road that she often incorporates into her compositions, winding
away into the distance, invites us to continue traveling deep into these scenes in
our imagination. "
Excerpt from catalog essay written by Maria Porges, October 2023.
Artist Statement: "My art is a celebration of the power of nature.The beauty of landscapes has always been a great source of inspiration for me. My artist studio is a place where I can immerse myself in my inner landscape of colors, shapes and patterns, inspired by the natural world. Taking artistic liberties in colors and composition is an integral part of my style. Painting from memory and my imagination allows me to create expressive landscape paintings that reflect both the beauty of nature and my personal interpretation of it.
Open Hours:
Mondays, 10:00am - 1:00pm, 1:30pm - 6:30pm
Tuesdays, 11:30am - 6:30pm
Wednesdays, 10:00am - 6:00pm
Thursdays, 12:00pm - 4:30pm
Hours subject to expansion.
The gallery is also open by appointment.
Please contact Hyla Lacefield at lacefieldh@smccd.edu or (650) 306-3460 for more information.
Commissioned Paintings for Cañada College, Building 22,
“Architectural Horizons 1-9”, 2022, oil on panel, 8x8 inches each.
Anna Valdez
Through Observation - An exhibition of Paintings
September 18 - October 26
Cañada College Art Gallery
The Cañada College Art Department is presenting "Through Observation", an exhibition of painting by the Bay Area artist Anna Valdez. The exhibition runs from September 18 - October 26 in the Canada Art Gallery, Building 9, room 152.
Valdez is showing nine still lifes, all completed in the last two years. Painted in a manner that at times may appear simple, these works are beautiful orchestrations of objects and spaces in her studio, featuring her collection of plants, books, fabric, and works of art. The large scale of some of the paintings, up to six feet across, can bring the viewers into that world of the studio. The familiarity of the objects combines with vibrant color, a freshness of paint application, and a feel for abstraction create a wonderful dual reality.
"I am always thinking about composition and how objects in my work are in relationship
to each other. I reference my immediate environment because I exist within that space
and thus it contains collected thoughts, experiences and memories. By collaging those
ideas in to a composition, each painting serves as documentation to that specific
moment in time."
The Cañada College Art Gallery is open Mon & Wed, 9-12:30, and on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9-1. For more information contact Bill Morales; 306-3343, moralesw@smccd.edu.
Empty Promises
Reception for the Artist
Monday , March 21, 6 - 8pm
MICHAEL J. RYAN "EMPTY PROMISES"An Exhibition of Paintings at the
Cañada College Art Gallery
February 16 - March 24
On Monday, March 21, from 6 - 8pm, there will be a reception for the artist Michael J. Ryan, in conjunction with the present exhibition, "EMPTY PROMISES". The gallery is located on the ground floor of Building Nine, rm. 9-152. All are welcome to join us for refreshments, music, and conversation.
The present exhibition consists of nine oil paintings representing plastic packaging that at times can be seen as both eerie and beautiful. The artist thus takes this mundane symbol of our throw-away consumerist culture, and causes the viewer to see the beauty in these forms.
Regular visiting hours are Monday & Wednesday, 9am - 2pm, and Tuesday & Thursday, 9am - 12 noon.
For more information about this art show, you can contact me, Bill Morales, at moralesw@smccd.edu, 650 306-3343.
An Exhibition of Painting
Building 9, 1st floor
Gallery Hours:
Mondays & Wednesday: 12noon-3pm
Tuesdays & Thursdays: 9am-1pm
Closed November 26, 2014
The Cañada College Art Department is proud to present "Portraits - an Exhibition of Paintings by Donna Cehrs" at the College Gallery in Building Nine. The show will run from November 11 until December 11.
Cehrs, who studied art at UC Santa Cruz, is known primarily as a painter of still-life. Her paintings concentrate on an intense scrutiny of her subject, which she paints with a determined realism. The last few years she has turned her attention to painting portraits, primarily of children and young adults. This present show at Cañada College consists of 28 portraits, all painted in oil on linen.
Donna has written about these works:
"The inspiration for my approach come from painting of the Italian (particularly Venetian) Renaissance and Flemish and German art of the 15th and 16th centuries, work I have spent a great deal of time studying in museums."
The Cañada College Art Gallery presents exhibitions to the public, focuses on an interdisciplinary interpretation of art and culture, and serves the public of San Mateo County, the college community, and beyond. Exhibitions and gallery events are free and open to the public.For more information, call (650) 306-3336.