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Patrick Moore Gallery and San Diego Visual Arts Network presents Movers & Shakers: Who’s Who in the San Diego Visual Arts World Reception Fri, Sept 5 from 6 to 9 pm Movers & Shakers: (plural noun) very important, influential or innovative San Diegans in the visual arts community. Mission: To recognize the people who make the San Diego art world spin through an online and gallery exhibition of portraits by San Diego regional artists. Goals
Description: Unyielding enthusiasm, imagination, dedication and an intense love of art, drives the individuals who shape the art community in San Diego County. Artists, art collectors, students, teachers and the community at large all benefit from the extraordinary efforts of those who help put the San Diego cultural scene on the map. Movers and Shakers: Who’s Who in the San Diego Visual Arts World will celebrate these influential people through a collection of their portraits. From Sept 5 to Oct 4, 2008, invited artists will exhibit portraits that will be featured at Patrick Moore Gallery. To celebrate the opening, a reception will be held on Friday, Sept 5 from 6 to 9 pm to honor the Movers and Shakers, as well as the artists who created their portraits. A second reception will be held on Friday, Sept 19, 6 to 8 during Kettner Nights. An educational event Collectors Cocktails: How to Commission Art will take place earlier that evening from 5-6 pm. San Diego Visual Art Network will be showcasing portraits in an online gallery with linked images produced by San Diego Visual Artists Guild. Artists and Movers and Shakers involved in this exhibition were invited to participate by the Movers and Shakers committee: Gerrit Greve - Derrick Cartwrigh t, (Director SDMA), Aaron Rix - April Game (San Diego Fine Art Society) Gail Roberts - Tina Yappeli (SDSU Gallery), Patricia Bean - Constance White (SD Airport), Lisa Roche - Ann Berchtold (SanDiegoArtist.com. L-Street Gallery), MOFO - Matt D’Arrigo (ARTS A Reason to Survive), Stuart Burton - Doug Simay (collector/gallery Simayspace), Raul Guerrero - Larry Poteet (lawyer, SDAI board member, art collector and Debra Poteet collector and both honorary VIP host for SD Art Prize), Jeff Yeomans - Hugh Davies (MOCA), Alida Cervantes - Jean Lowe (artist and lecturer UCSD), Kevin Conners - Victoria Hamilton (Executive director SD City Art and Culture), Denise Bonaimo - Arline Fisch (Master Jewelry Designer), Cheryl Tall - Sandra Chanis (Carlsbad Outdoor Arts Foundation, Oceanside Museum of Art Board of Directors), Jamie Roxx - Philly Joe Swendoza (Art Rocks!) and Alexandra Rosa (Art Rocks and RAW), Jennifer Trute - Dennis Paul Batt (Museum Artists Foundation, SDVAG), Lisa Smith - Mario Torero (Barrio Logen /East Village Art Association), Philipp Scholz-Rittermann - Mary Beebe (Stuart Collection UCSD), Irene de Wattville - Zandra Rhodes (International Fashion designer), Stacy Smith - Patty Smith (Art Expressions Gallery), Raymond Ellstad - Marie-Catherine Ferguson (California Center for the Arts), Mireille des Rosiers - Felicia Shaw (SD Foundation), Mario Torero – Naomi Nussbaum (Synergy Arts foundation and the BL/EV project), Mary Feener – Gustaf Rooth (Ray at Night founder and galleriest), Sidney Wildesmith - Catherine Sass (Port of San Diego), Doug Snider and Chris Brown – Nate and Ralyn Wolfstein (Wolfstein Sculpture Garden, Scripps Hospital), Pamela Jaeger - Robert Pincus (Art Critic, Union Tribune), Dave Ghilarducci and Cindy Bis-Sevon – Laurie Brindle and NCT Art Editors Laura Groch, Pam Kragen, and Gary Warth (North County Times), Diana Duval – Steven Churchill (Art of Photography), Isaias Crow (Crol) – Naimeh Tahna (Studio Vivace Healing Arts), Cynthia Colis - Lliz Edwards (Let's Play Downtown), Dan Camp - Jonathan Segal (Jonathan Segal Architecture and Development), Becky Cohen - Ellen Phelan (art artivist and educator) The Movers and Shaker committee is composed of the following who are giving of their times as volunteers to make this project successful: Mary Brooks, Michele Esposito, Denise Bonaimo, Mireille Des Rosiers, Dennis Paul Batt, Patricia Frischer We are sponsoring a special August Portrait Banner for all portrait artists listed on SDVAN. We are hoping this banner competition will allow 8-10 more artists to be focused on the month before the Movers and Shakers portrait exhibition takes place in September. Note: this competition is not for the artists already in the Movers and Shakers exhibition. Portrait images can be of any medium and any size, but the file size you submit should be 72 dpi and not more than 300 dpi in any dimension. You must be listed on SDVAN to be eligible. We are using the banner submission form online and you must enter your user name and password, log in and then click banner to submit an image. There is no entry fee. Due date, Monday, July 7. You need to also send your jpeg images to patricia@SDVisualArts.net . San Diego Visual Arts Network: SDVAN is a database of information produced to improve the clarity, accuracy and sophistication of discourse about San Diego's artistic and cultural life and is dedicated to the idea that the Visual Arts are a vital part of the health of our city. SDVAN hosts a free interactive directory and an events calendar covering all San Diego regions including Baja Norte with an opportunity section, gossip column and the SmART Collector feature to help take the mystery out of buying art. SDVAN is the proud non-profit sponsor of the SD Art Prize. This is the only site designed exclusively for the SAN DIEGO region and the VISUAL ARTS and is one of the most technically advanced sites of this kind in the country. Patrick Moore Gallery: Opened just two year ago, the new Patrick Moore Gallery in San Diego took over one of the most prestigious spaces on Kettner Boulevard. It joins its sister Salt Lake branch in representing regionally artists. New shows are mounted monthly with and emphasis on emerging regional artists. The gallery, directed by Mary Brooke is dedicated to providing a wide range of original artwork and includes contemporary traditional, representational, portrait and landscape works. For More information: patricia@SDVisualArts.net 760 943 0148 Movers and Shakers: Who’s Who in the Visual Arts in San Diego The original idea for a Portrait exhibition came from Julia Gill when a general request went out for projects to increase the awareness of the San Diego Visual Arts Network now that we had over 1000 resources listed on the site. We wanted to celebrate this benchmark and also create an exciting project that would continue to involve the visual arts community while at the same time reach out to the general population of the San Diego region. She thought that portraits photographs of Movers and Shakers would fit this bill especially if these works depicted their subjects in the midst of their work. On a trip to London in Jan-Feb of 2006, I was able to see the major retrospective of Hogarth at the Royal Academy of Art and this encouraged me to take the idea further and include all art forms. Hogarth portraits are documents of life in London in Georgian times that ring with life and still capture our interest to this day. The exhibition we are proposing could have been self-portraits of artists or portraits of artist in their studios or portraits of artist’s models or even portraits of animals or border guards or any number of subjects. All are of interest, but we decided on Movers and Shakers because we are interested in capturing a period in San Diego’s artistic life. Working with Denise Bonaimo to flesh out these ideas, we have come up with a proposal for an exhibition and an online gallery. Mike Von Joel in his article Here’s Looking at Me, published in State of the Arts, says “(Portraits) have been the mainstay of visual art ever since that first scratch on rock.” In fact, we can see the whole history of art in portraits. Portraits might not be considered to be the height of fashion now, but that is changing fast mainly because we have become a society not only fascinated by art and its economy but with self. With huge amounts of money spent to keep us looking good especially in Southern California, it is only natural to want to document that result. All major cities have some sort of gallery of portraits. In America’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington a law restricting portrait to those at least ten years dead was repealed in 2000 but we still have a long way to catch up to the National Portrait Gallery in London with it’s well supported yearly competition. Portraits of children are particularly absent in public collection perhaps due to the strict laws protecting them from pedophiles and pornography. Most good portraits are, in a way, portraits of the artist who create them. The best express a feeling about the human condition and are have exceptional clarity. They reflect not only the subject but also something of the time and place. They advance the scope of art. We want to see a physical resemblance but we also need the intellectual and emotional aspects of the subject’s personality revealed. We hope this combination of Movers and Shakers with artists does not result in Matisse’s famous sentiment, “God preserve me from the model!” But instead will urge our artists to dig deep to show their best about some of our brightest supporters. |
