And finally… The third awesome event this weekend. Hopefully you aren’t worn out from the the Tennis Club’s 2nd Friday exhibition. Because Saturday has both the Art Fund’s Independent Artists Awards, but also an open studio party in Goleta that is guaranteeing to be incredibly fun. Part of what makes events like this so fun is having a reason to visit a part of the local area you would have NEVER have gone to otherwise. This funky space is tucked away in a cool industrial complex near old town and is populated by an eclectic group of hard-working, talented, and fun artists. Their inaugural party was one of my favorite events of the entire year. So save your energy and make the extra effort to hunt this place down. You won’t be sorry.
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The Can(n)on Studio Firing and One-Year Anniversary Party
Saturday, September 10, 2011, 6 – 9 pm, Video screening at 8 pm, Free
The Can(n)on, 375 Pine Avenue, Unit 16, Goleta, CA 93117 – Street Parking
A rare experience to view completed works and works in progress in this normally by-appointment-only private art studio complex. This year’s open house will consist of work on view by studio members Elizabeth Folk, Saul Gray-Hildenbrand, Kimberly Hahn, Zacarias Paul, Steve Soria, and James Van Arsdale. In addition there will be free treats by Goodland Kitchen, a wine tasting by LaTour Winery, and a vinyl party throughout the evening as well as a video screening of works by studio mates Elizabeth Folk and James Van Arsdale at 8 pm. Feel free to bring a favorite record to throw on the turntable as we celebrate our first year at the Can(n)on Art Studios in Old Town Goleta!
Elizabeth Folk is a sculpture, installation, performance, and video artist living and working in the Santa Barbara area. Many of her works exist as insertions into public spaces that invite audience interaction or collaboration. Folk’s Just Play! Restaurant, a life-sized restaurant board game, was featured at the Santa Barbara Contemporary Art Forum, and you may have seen Glory Spa, her mobile spa vending machine engaging a space in your neighborhood. Folk received her Masters of Fine Art from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2009, and her Bachelors of Fine Art from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 2007. She teaches for the College of Creative Studies and the Art Department at UCSB, and 4-D and New Genres at SBCC.
Website: www.elizabethfolk.com
Saul Gray-Hildenbrand was born In Petosky, MI, in 1977. He received his B.F.A. from Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI and studied sculpture at Kingston University, Surbiton, England. Saul works in a variety of media from oil painting to ceramic sculpture. His work is influenced by folk and modern art. Saul’s paintings, drawings, and sculptures are a reaction to the world around him – sometimes mundane, sometimes ironic, and sometimes absurd, with a sprinkling of dark humor and misanthropy. The figures often reside in an ambiguous space, and their expressions come from observations of people in public spaces. The artist is attracted to anonymous figures and open narratives. Saul’s daily cartoon blog, The Bellicose and the Bucolic can be found at www.city2.org. He is also the head-preparator at the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA.
Kimberly Hahn was raised in California and Texas, and now resides in Santa Barbara where she is actively involved in the local art community. She studied at Central St. Martins College of Art and Design, London, England and the University of Texas, Austin, Texas where she received a B.F.A. Hahn works in many media with a focus on photography. She has been in numerous exhibitions including A Communion of Saints: Santa Barbara and San Antonio, David Shelton Gallery, San Antonio, TX; Eating Apples in Paradise, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA; California Visual Artists, Second City Art Council Gallery, Long Beach, CA; and Revisiting Beauty, Orange County Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Ana, CA.
Zacarias Paul was born in 1974, in Buenos Aires, Argentina and currently lives and works in Santa Barbara, CA. Paul’s artwork explores the recontextualization of the commonplace by revisiting the languages of minimalism through geometric abstraction, deftly traversing various mediums such as painting, printmaking, photography and video. The process, the materials and the spaces created are the substance of his work, where the viewer becomes an ever changing element in the cycle of the creation of it.His work has been exhibited in France; Los Angeles, CA; San Francisco, CA; and Santa Barbara, CA.
Steven Soria received an B.F.A. in Sculpture at Cal State Long Beach, Long Beach, CA and has pursued contemporary and tradition techniques utilizing various media including painting, sculpture, installation, and video art. Soria’s work explores the many facets of multi-media installation, and blurs the lines between high and low-tech objects. His work is influenced by family trades: auto body, auto-mechanics and leather crafting. He is a third generation leather-smith. Soria’s work has been shown in galleries throughout the Southern California area, with a concentration in Los Angeles including Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, A&D Museum, Los Angeles, CA, and Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA. He currently works just north of his home town, Santa Barbara, in Old Town, Goleta, CA where he has a shared art and design studio, The Can(n)on.
James Van Arsdale is a mixed-media installation artist, designer, and musician. He received an M.F.A., Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX and a B.F.A., University of Texas Austin, Austin, TX. His artwork has been shown in many solo and group exhibitions including recently Eating Apples In Paradise at the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum and Color System, Color Strategy at the University of Texas Dallas, Dallas TX. Recent solo exhibitions include (Safe Inside My) Green Zone at the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, and Everything You Hear Is True at Left Coast, Goleta, CA. He was a recipient of the William T. Colville Foundation’s Artist Grant in 2009. From 2006 to 2010 he performed in the indie-rock band The Coral Sea. He lives and works in Santa Barbara, CA.
