 Please click "One Nest: Earthworks" image for details!  Group Art Exhibition “It’s not one thing… it’s everything” opens November 6 at Canessa Gallery A new group exhibition inspired by – and commenting on – current times will feature paintings, sculpture and video at the historic Canessa Gallery in North Beach. This powerful collection of recent works promises to move, challenge, delight and inspire, featuring work by artists Jon Altemus, Peter Brown, Vicki Gunter, Dana Lawton and Robert Perkins. The collection, which ranges from allegorical to purely abstract, includes mixed media, paintings, sculpture, and a video montage. The exhibition opens November 6 and will be available by appointment through November 27. Location: Canessa Gallery, 708 Montgomery Street @ Washington, San Francisco Make reservations at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/its-not-one-thingits-everything-tickets-124950055981 @Itsnotonethingitseverything on Instagram   TRADING PLACES Canary & Elephant Series Exhibited @ Epperson Gallery in WHAT LIES BENEATH February 14 - March 15 2020    I would love to share my newest sculpture, Farewell To Spring, with you at Epperson Gallery. And I am happy to have a second piece, Humming Aquilegia, in this wonderful show.    ~ CANARIES & CLIMATE DISRUPTION ~ It's a bitter success, this opportunity to share When Our Ship Comes In with you. While walking the Berkeley Marina with my love, Peter, I saw a huge white and blue block, floating in the San Francisco Bay. It triggered memories of the faces of Alaskan glaciers and their calved icebergs. When he told me it was a car carrier ship, I 'saw' an arctic iceberg slammed up to the backend of that car carrying ship. These weird looking ships carry 13 stories of 5,500 climate-changing vehicles. This is a kinetic sculpture. Its ice-filled berg slowly melts, flooding the Americana scene of little red school house, corn field, white picket fence & American Gothics with apple pie & pitch fork. As the waters rise little messages in a bottle float. The cautionary, yellow, canary sits atop the American flag. This year, floods and fires have destroyed & ended many lives. This is happening now, time is running out, no more waiting for $-our-ship-to-come-in-$. Our beautiful earth is the only ship that matters. Melting Glaciers = Canary in the Coal Mine for Earth. Fossil Fuels + Corporate Profit = Elephant in the Room. I feel an urgency to create art in this revolutionary time and value clay’s infinite potential − mirroring our own. With love, Vicki   Vicki Gunter
Manzanita Sky ...In Everything Series Clay, Underglaze, Stain, Beeswax 26 X 36 X 6.5 . . . Vicki Gunter . Artist Statement . . . All living organisms store genetic information using the same molecules –Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) and/or Ribonucleic Acid (RNA). They are …In Everything. This genetic code of molecules is evidence of the shared ancestry of all living things. DNA forms a beautiful double helix that looks like a twisted ladder. Look closely at Manzanita Sky and see if you can see the DNA helixes on some of the branch tips! Manzanita, Means Little Apple & Arctostaphylos means Bear Berry. One of our most beautiful native plants, it is also nourishing & healing. I caress their wonderfully smooth bark regularly on trails in our California hills. As a native of California, the clay state, I love turning clay to stone. Inspired by its no-waste complexity, nature is my source and my anchor, in wild places and at home in East Oakland. My intention is to share work that stirs the visceral will to face our many challenges, with hope & joy, in the beauty that is in us and all other life. Beauty, that is under our feet and setting sail at our backs. Two sculptures from my ...In Everything Series have been selected by juror Jennifer Pearlmutter for Arts Benicia's In The Fields: Botanical Lore November 10 – December 21, 2018
Arts Benicia 991 Tyler Street, Suite 114, Benicia, CA 94510 707-747-0131 I invite you to explore my process as I created Casa Azul - “Feet, what do I need them for if I have wings to fly.” Frida Kahlo My first 37 years as an artist were as a dancer, choreographer & healer. I have worked with many people in pain. As a massage therapist, I have felt many different bodies, spines, hands, feet. Now, as a clay artist, spines sometimes subconsciously flow from my hands. I visited Casa Azul in 2013 photographing its vivid blue walls & green trim. Like many of us, I love Frida’s art. I imagine she was able to sustain & be true to her self, creatively, politically & sexually because of her art. When I began, Casa Azul, I looked at x-rays & photos of her broken collarbone, bolts in her spine, her studio, HER…painting a hammer & sickle on her body cast while trapped in it. I felt her true ‘house’, was her rib cage & heart. And of course, her arms, which, when faced with amputation of her leg, took flight. click for details: Bedford Gallery
Links to videos and blogs about my work and the Bedford Gallery: Casa Azul at The World of Frida from OverDressed for Life - blog City of Walnut Creek video of World of Frida Blog by Deborah Adeyanju about my solo show - Fall 2017 Clay & Earth What We Stand On
Three Clay Sculptures in Three Shows Coming Up! Mother Nature - Canary & Elephant Series The Artery Gallery's California Clay Competition April 27 - May 25, 2018 207 G St., Davis,CA Reception at The Artery Friday, April 27, 2018, 7-9 PM This piece is subtly kinetic... I do hope you can come see her! This series references, the canary-in-the-coal-mine as a cautionary alert of our social & ecojustice issues & the challenges of cleaning up after & removing the fossil-fueled, profit-driven Elephants in the Room. The exhibit is part of the annual California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art established by Natsoulas Gallery. The opening weekend includes lectures and demonstrations by contemporary ceramic artists. Many pop-up venues include numerous regional Universities and Colleges which exhibit the work of their ceramic students and instructors.  Manzanita Sky ...In Everything Series After Nature - (27 artists!) Art Works Downtown April 20–June 1, 2018 Reception: May 11 • 5–8pm The DNA genetic code of molecules is evidence of the shared ancestry of all living things. Look for the DNA helix in Manzanita Sky’s branch tips. My intention is to share work that stirs the visceral will to face our many challenges, with hope & joy, in the beauty that is in us and all other life. Beauty that is under our feet and setting sail at our backs. Abrams Claghorn Gallery - A very exciting project coming up in June 2018 - My poem Menopause will be interpreted by oil painting artist Carol Jenkins. I am honored to be interpreting Jeanie Ngo's poem, Soft Hands, with a new ceramic sculpture! Nine other poems are being interpreted by eleven artists. Two Current Shows Path ...In Everything Series Yosemite Renaissance 33 Yosemite's Museum Gallery All living organisms store genetic information using the same molecules –Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) and/or Ribonucleic Acid (RNA). They are …In Everything. This genetic code of molecules is evidence of the shared ancestry of all living things. DNA forms a beautiful double helix that looks like a twisted ladder. Can you find the DNA helix in Path? Do you recognize tracks of animals & plants that share the same path & DNA? Worm? Rabbit? Mt Lion? Snake? Raccoon? Human? Bird? California Bay Laurel? Live Oak? As a native of California, the clay state, I turn mud to stone, working with clay from the earth to defend the earth. I grew up surrounded by California hills of oaks, little family farms and creeks teaming with frogs. My family regularly camped and backpacked in Yosemite’s valley and high sierras. Inspired by its no-waste complexity, nature is my source and my anchor, in wild places and at home in East Oakland. It can guide us, as artists and citizens, by its responses to our actions.  Wildlands ...by a thread Abstract Sanctuary 5 Gillia Gallery Verum Ultimum Gallery in Portland Oregon. Abstract - existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence Sanctuary - a place of refuge or safety, a haven, shelter or preserve Is the Sanctuary of our natal Earth becoming an Abstraction to its human inhabitants? Check out all 40 artists here! February 10 - April 1, 2018
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