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NEO MOD Recent Northern California Abstraction

Photo caption: Rex Ray, Teloschistes, 2003, Paper collage, oil and acrylic on linen. Courtesy of the Artist and Haley Martin Galleries

May 28-August 28, 2005 • Work Gallery     Neo Mod surveys the recent work of thirty-three artists representing the new abstraction in art emerging from Northern California. Large, brash, and expressed in a variety of materials and styles, this dynamic new work responds to the Bay Area's potent influences: computer technology, consumer consumption, and nature's abundance. Neo Mod offers a variety of innovative contemporary works, synthesizing computer-generated design with more traditional practices, and emphasizing sensuous surface, layering, pattern and imbedded imagery, and rich, lustrous color. Meet local Neo Mod artists Fred Slautterback and Chris Winfield on Third Thursday, June 16, 5-7pm. Sponsored by Keller Williams Realty. Admission to Third Thursday is free.           Under one Sky Photographs by Margo Davis Photo caption: Margo Davis, Ladi, Fulani Girl, Nigeria, 1981, Gelatin silver print May 28-August 28, 2005 • Coburn Gallery       Under one Sky unveils a selection of intimate black and white portraits from photographer Margo Davis' collection of nearly forty years' work. This series of quietly compelling images bears witness to the lives of rural and village people from every continent of the globe. With her camera, Davis captures the story of her subject, honoring the dignity of each individual and drawing together a collective portrait of our human family. Davis has taught photography at Stanford University, UC Santa Cruz, and UC Berkeley. Meet Margo Davis, Third Thursday, July 21, 5-7 pm. Admission to Third Thursday is free.           Arc of the Adobes : Santa Cruz to Monterey     May 28-July 31, 2005 • Upstairs, Gallery V   The distinctive qualities of the Monterey Bay Area's early adobe architecture and its inhabitants are revealed in this collection of vintage and modern photographs. In conjunction with this exhibition, a selection of adobe paintings from our collection will be on view.         Upcoming Exhibitions   Geography of Memory Works on Paper by Judith F. Baca     September 10-December 31, 2005 • Coburn Gallery   Amalia Mesa-Bains, Director of the Department of Visual and Public Art at California State University Monterey Bay will be the Guest Curator in this third in a series of collaborative exhibitions with the Monterey Museum of Art. Judith Baca, a celebrated muralist, focuses largely on California history, particularly of the Mexican and Native American period. Many of her rarely seen drawings, prints and digital works will be on display. The artist will be in residency at CSUMB and will present a public lecture accompanying her exhibition.         MMA Biennial Juried Exhibition     September 10-October 30, 2005 • Work Gallery   Watch for your application in May to the upcoming all-media juried exhibition opening in September. This year the juror will be Michael Schwager, Curator at the di Rosa Preserve in Napa, California, a museum with an extraordinary collection of San Francisco Bay Area art. Michael is also Director of the University Art Gallery and Professor of Art History and Museum Studies at Sonoma State University. This year, artists from Santa Clara and San Luis Obispo counties will be eligible to participate along with those from Monterey, Santa Cruz, and San Benito counties.           Monterey Sculpture Garden in Elkins Park         The Sculpture Garden in Elkins Park, located next to the Monterey Museum of Art and across from Colton Hall on Pacific Street, is a collaborative project of the Museum and the City of Monterey. Featuring Parenthesis, the red, painted aluminum sculpture by Norma Lewis, now jointly owned by MMA (purchased with support from the Frances S. Golden Fund) and the City, Elkins Park also currently has on exhibit these works generously loaned by the artists: Norma Lewis, Seadance, 1997, bronze, Jim Wood, Carmel Construction, 1994, painted steel, and Stefani Esta, Momentum, 2002, steel, and Calling, 2002, steel. The Monterey Museum of Art gratefully acknowledges a gift from the Will and Mary Shaw Family Trust for partial support of this project.               Long-Term Exhibitions: A Language Unspoken: Paintings by William Ritschel         A select exhibition of paintings by Impressionist William Ritschel, a long time area resident acknowledged as one of America's finest marine painters.           Jules Tavernier Paintings: From the Collection of Betty Hoag McGlynn       Jules Tavernier, (French, 1844-1889), Graves Slough, n.d.,         Drawn to the work of Jules Tavernier (1844-1889) during her research into Monterey's earliest artists, the late art historian Betty Hoag McGlynn was struck by his largely unacknowledged role as the first resident Bohemian artist of the Monterey Peninsula. Selected from works on loan from her family, Jules Tavernier Paintings from the Collection of Betty Hoag McGlynn will be on long-term display.                     http://www.montereyart.org