For the passed few weeks I’ve been privy to some exciting rumors regarding a multi-venue arts evening in the Funk Zone (rumors I admit to purposefully passing along). I love the idea of fostering a greater awareness of the wonderful “funkiness” of the Funk Zone, but I’m even more excited by the fact that the increased economic vibrancy of the neighborhood seems to be helping to preserve its important unique qualities. Who would have thought that the development that always threatened the Funk Zone might actually save it.
Anyways, thanks to Mr. Edward Cella, I finally got confirmation of the multi-venue event, and it will be happening this Saturday. It has been two and a half years since I lamented the loss of Mr. Cella’s gallery to our large neighbor to the south. Thankfully, Cella is keeping a presence in town with shows at Cabana Home. This Saturday Cabana Home with host the opening of a show of new work by Mollie Favour. The reception starts at 4pm with a tour through the exhibit by the artist herself. I’ve posted all the information on the show below.
This will be one of THREE events in the Funk Zone this Saturday. I’ll be highlighting the other two events in the next couple of days. Stay tuned!
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Mollie Favour: New Works
September 17- November 5, 2011
Artist Talk and Opening Reception:
Saturday, September 17, 2011/ 4pm
CABANA HOME
111 Santa Barbara Street
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
805-962-0200
CONTACT:
Steve Thompson
(805) 962-0200
director@edwardcella.com
Cabana Home with Edward Cella Art +Architecture, presents a solo exhibition by painter, Mollie Favour. In this current exhibition, Favour creates lush and sensual abstractions of the leaves, flowers and reproductive systems of the figs and nasturtiums filtered through her imagination; yet, informed by a rich understanding of the history of botanical illustration. Combining the careful observations of the botanist and the intuitive understanding of an artist, the paintings operate in both microscopic and macroscopic scales offering insight to the dimension of another world.
In the artist’s work, seeds have the essence of hope for the future, the potential for metamorphosis and a glimpse into the infinite. The sprawling nasturtiums and the noble fig are perhaps commonplace to gardeners in Southern California, yet the artist draws our attention to their distinctive shapes, structures, colors, and textures. Favour began her study of figs along the steep winding alleys of the Tuscan hilltop city of Cortona and her fascination has continued visits to the back-yards of homes across Southern California. These plants are distinctive as the fig’s flowers are encapsulated on the inside of its fruit and pollinated by wasps whereas the nasturtium’s feathery flowers of striking color belie its seeming weed like ability to overtake whole hillsides.
Mollie Favour has exhibited since 1976 at numerous galleries around the United States, France and Italy. She has numerous public commissions including one of the largest handmade theater curtains in the world and murals for the Venice Public Library. Favour has been visiting professor at the University of Georgia, Studies Abroad Program in Cortona, Italy Mollie Favour, New Works, is the ninth in an on-going sequence of exhibitions organized by Edward Cella (323) 525-0053 steve@cabanahome.com
