Join us from 5-7pm for an Artist Reception and Mill Valley’s First Tuesday Art Walk featuring this month’s exhibits: “View from Calle del Mar” by Patricia Gwyllm Ziegler (Main Theatre Gallery) and “At Play in The Ineffable” by Mel Ziegler (Crescendo Gallery).
ABOUT THE EXHIBITS
“View from Calle del Mar” by Patricia Gwyllm Ziegler
Main Theatre Gallery
Artist Statement
“View from Calle del Mar” is an exploration of infinite possibilities within even the narrowest of limitations. Though it’s one view of simply the ocean and sky from one window, aims to show that every moment is a new view.
The ocean and sky trade cool and warm blues and greens, swapping intensities, playing with the light, employing the wind to whip up highlights, waltzing through its moods, changing and surprising.
Some nights rich in navy and Prussian blues saturate me with their calm and I can sit for hours staring at the stars. The dark and gloomy days have their own kind of beauty and a passion for drama that seems to know its time is limited. Sometimes fog erases the horizon, and the sea and sky appear as one. Other times the flamboyant display of colors and cloud shapes seems like nothing short of the universe’s narcissistic celebration.
I don’t aspire to copy these vistas. Instead I attempt to inhale their inspirations, exhale my thoughts and welcome their metaphors of air and water, heaven and earth, yin and yang, permanence and impermanence. I then paint the experience they have infused in my heart.
Featured Artwork (left):Moonrise, 46″x38″, medium: acrylic, gouache and oil on linen
“At Play in The Ineffable” by Mel Ziegler
Crescendo Gallery
Artist Statement
I paint what is at play within me, surrendering myself as a noun and sinking into the verb I can only be, as are we all. Materializing out of this exercise in color and form is energy, not ‘thing’. The energy takes command of my left hand, using a brush, acrylic paint, water and mediums to draw, rub, smear, and stain lines, marks and shapes onto the linen where they are left to live in dynamic relationship. The commitment of a stroke is answered by the subsequent stroke it suggests or requires, the choice of each color pushes the palette from inevitable to irresistible. The work is a flux of restless resolution until it finds itself. The commitments and choices are, of course, my doing but I cannot claim them as mine. The picture ultimately captured plays a hiding game with me until it renders itself into state that invites back the vanquished noun I call myself and appoints me Decider. Is it finished? Has the transitory authentically represented itself as the energy that percolated visually through me? Does it now agree to settle into a finality forever constrained by the stretcher bars? Is the movie ready to reveal itself in a single frame?
The work is my practice of sensitizing to the streaming of time in the bubble we experience as our world, material and ethereal. Zig- zaging through cause and effect, in a perpetual state of becoming and unbecoming, change is the only real thing. Ephemeral is all we are relegated. Painting is my easing into and merging with the long rolling Now, a flash of delivered color and form that winks back at the infinite from the ten thousand parts particularizing as me rendering.
Featured Artwork (right): Launching, 28″x25″, acrylic on linen
