Mike Depew

Chet Atkins

SERIOUS WHIMSY COMING IN JUNE

For the upcoming Arts Alive! Opening we will be featuring the works of Chet Akins and Mike Depew. The ancient art of Raku firing will be our focus with the two artists giving their unique views of their world of clay. One traditional, the other more modern with a whimsical touch of yesteryear. Come and enjoy a completely different kind of show with these two artists that have the magical touch of Raku alchemy.

Cinco de Mayo was a great evening for Kronos...More folks came than we could count, and the music, food, and great conversation made for an unforgettable night!

We thank you one and all for sharing this spectacular exhibition, and hope those who couldn't make it last Saturday, will find time this month. The show runs through May 31, or call for a private viewing. 707 - 443-1991.

Yael Bentovim

"The Fibers of Being"Yael Bentovim is an artist whose hands with extraordinary skill and magnificent energy, create works in fiber that are other worldly. The colors of her works are manifestations of the rainbow and vibrate with the energy of the sun.

"The basket is an ancient form that existed throughout the ages. It is connected to human activity since the dawn of woman. From hunting and gathering to agriculture to modern industry this useful form serves not only function but art as well.The circle is an idealized perfect form that suggests unity in all that there is. The flow and soft curves give me a sense of closeness to nature because the circle unlike the rectangle is an organic form."

"The core of my baskets is made of at least three layers of paper pulp. To create the images inside I use fiber, glass, paint, paper pulp, clay and other found objects. The natural forms around me often inspire the images. Some evolve and take a life of their own."

Yael draws her inspiration from her life's history, and the world around her. She seeks to combine the minutia of the smallest particles of fiber and fused glass. She transforms these disparate elements into works that are original in concept and shape.The result is a metaphorical story of life. Her sculptural shapes which are in the form of a basket or bowl, give the viewer an answer to the question . of how can we make from nothing, something of great value of purpose. The shape gives a rationale to our inner thoughts of where we can collect our treasured experiences, and reflects our ability to gather the smallest particle into the collective whole of life.

Tryggvi Larum

“The Love of Redwood”.
Tryggvi Larum is not enamored of just any wood. Redwood is his passion. Other woods he has turned and sculpted with love and dedication, but Redwood is his “other self” that is waiting for his incredible insights of form and design. This wood of our North Coast that is the most noble of all living things is Trigvvi’s grand vision of his life’s family history, and lore.

”The purpose of my work is to give new life and authentic expression to the tradition of Icelandic and Nordic art. As an Icelandic immigrant to this country, I want to bridge the ancient perspective of my ancestors and the magnificent materials available here in my adopted land. The purpose of my art is, then to be a voice of artistic expression celebrating a cultural heritage passed down through generations as part of my ethnic community’s collective experience. I want this voice and the products of my hands to echo the haunting imagery of my people’s long artistic tradition.”

I have visited in person the home he has built, the workshop that invites the viewer to touch the many woods that await the master’s skill. The sunlight beams through the spaces, and warms the studio with the fragrance born of carving, shaping and honing the wood into what we call art. As with marble, sculpting in wood is a subtractive method of sculpting. As you take away the material, the form is realized, and it has to be perfectly visualized as it can not be put back to try again. With bronze, you can always in the original, be it clay or wax, reshape and add to the original to make the work come to perfect proportion. Wood is unforgiving, but it is full of life and grace, and in the hands of Tryggvi, it becomes a “touchable” poem.

ARTS ALIVE MAY 3, 2008

Come and celebrate Cinco de Mayo with us this May 3, when John King and Dogbone will provide the music...Our Artists are Tryggvi Larum and Yael Bentovim...

ARTS ALIVE! APRIL

ELEGANCE IN THE FOUND ...


"We are very excited to show this new work by Anthony Johnson. His work is elegant and engaging with his found objects becoming an elementary form that we have seemed to see before".

Memories Small

Crescent Moon

Art of Paris

The Art of Paris...SEE THE VIRTUAL GALLERY LINK ...WE HAVE GUY FROM PARIS TO SHARE WITH YOU HIS COLORS AND POETIC BRUSH... i.s shown on a Video Bar at the end of this Blog. The first and last selections are my favorite by far. Check out the little menu on the video screen for many options for viewing. In the first frame, there is some performance art that is very cool. Some of the Van Gogh paintings were new to me...This is the last frame in the series of four...

GARY TODOROFF

TWO ARTISTS OF PHOTOGRAPHY FOR KRONOS GALLERY IN APRIL

From 10,000 feet and looking southwest into the sun, a polarizing filter keeps reflections down to show a Pacific quilt of blue and green.

Olympus E-330, 14-54 1/1600, f5.0, 14-54 f2.8/3.5 at 37mm, ISO200, -0.3ev, RAW capture.

[[ March 2008 Note: The above photograph won the "Judges Choice" award from the 120 prints submitted at the Professional Aerial Photographers Association conference in Redondo Beach California. See last photo on the PAPA 2008 awards page. ]]

JULIE CLARK

"I make art to allow myself a concrete means to peek into a world that is not evident in day to day existence. It is a world that’s full of childhood imagination that changes with time. My goal is to create a representation that has no clear time line and merges present and future. Photography is a medium that I can go back in time with, straddle the past and present, making moments ambiguous. Expressing the consistency of human circumstances is significant to me. Presently we live our lives individually from one another but common themes such as happiness, love, despair, anger, greed will always tie us together and are a part of being human. Expressing these themes and the dramas of life is central to my art". Julie Clark

A NEW VENUE FOR KRONOS GALLERY

We are in the process of Installing a Showing of Carl Baggett's work in the Chamber of Commerce in the Pierson Room. We are calling this new venue..."Kronos Galleria at the Chamber of Commerce.
http://www.kronosgalleria.com/
Kronos Galleria for a shorter moniker. This show will be up for two months, then a new group of Artists and Art Work will be there for our Humboldt County visitors to view. There is a steady stream of folks who are coming here for the first time...traveling up and down the Coast and partaking of our artists and their work.We will be using pay pal for the expediting of sales...in time it will be added to our Web Site as well. You will find a link on the right in the Links List.

We will of course still be at our primary location in the beautiful Grove Building in Old Town Eureka at 317 Third Street. If you are interested in showing your work at the Galleria please contact the Gallery at 707 - 443-1991.

ARTS ALIVE! March 1, 2008

It was a great Night for all...the fabulous music by Mike Craghead, the turnout, and most of all Tina Rousselot's wondrous paintings...

TINA ROUSSELOT

In a world of layered glazes, using the precepts of 16th century techniques, I build constructions of light attuned to the synergy created, each one a structure of experiences. I am a result of my life experience.
I am interested in setting up a dialogue of color, a subtle connection of interior to exterior, to carry on a conversation of contrast: vibrancy and weight / quiet, contemplative lightness. I want you to move from one to the other. I am interested in interior conversations and the movement and emotions of color and mood: from the dynamic to ethereal: from energy to calm refection. And finally the balance of opposites coming together and speaking in their own voice.

Arts Alive! A great night with Friends

A Painting that glows with the poetry of color..."Rosy Fingered Dawn"

Rousselot "Millefleur No. 2"

Rousselot "Corfu"

Jameson " Transformation"

The Golden Horse Series are original Giclée Prints one of a kind which are hand touched with acrylic paint by the artis Ruth Jameson.

Golden Horse No 5

Golden Horse Series No. 7

Golden Horse Series no. 8