Two Upcoming Shows

October 27 - December 3 Shoes

Opening reception on Thursday, October 27 from 6-7:30pm.

Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 6780 Depot Street Sebastopol CA 95472

November 30 - December 2011 5x5: Invitational

Opening reception on Wednesday, November 30 from 4-6pm.

Artists and public figures from across the nation have been invited to create 5-inch square works of art. Their creations will be for sale, with proceeds benefiting the Museum.

Westmont Museum of Art, 955 La Paz Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108

MBS Traveling Exhibit

This year, my book, Mollusca Gastropoda Fever, is in the Miniature Book Society's annual traveling exhibit. It will stop in Orange, CA, Ann Arbor, MI, North Texas State University in Denton, Dublin, Ireland and finally to the MBS Archive in the Lilly Library at Indiana University.

The stop in Dublin (7/29-8/1/11) was for the annual MBS Grand Conclave, a gathering of all their members.

New Book Exhibitions

I have work in two new shows that open in the middle of June. June 18 - August 7 BOOKWORKS: Triennial Member's Exhibition The opening reception is on Saturday, June 18 from 2-4pm

San Francisco Public Library Skylight Gallery, Sixth Floor 100 Larkin Street, SF, CA 94102

June 16 - July 23 Bibliophoria II Opening reception is Thursday, June 16 from 6-7:30pm.

Sebastopol Center for the Arts 6780 Depot Street, Sebastopol, CA 95472

In Material: Conversations on Qualities of Materiality by Satri Pencak

"From the work of three artists emerges a conversation about shared experiences expressed in different styles, media, and techniques. In Material, an exhibition at Quicksilver Mine Co. Gallery in Forestville, CA, features the work of Brooke Holve, Susan Field, and Elizabeth Sher....The culminating body of work is distinctive and yet self-reflective, showing unique and individual styles but also their connections, synchronicities, and eventual creation of new work based on their meetings, musings and conversations." Satri Pencak, Independent Curator and former Program Director of the Sebastopol Center for the Arts. The full review at www.satripencak.com

The Art of the Book

Two of my new books, Arbres arrencats d'ametles and 10 Views of Mt. Doggie, will be in the upcoming Art of the Book show at Donna Seager Gallery, March 18 through April 30, 2011. The reception for the artists will be held Saturday, March 26 from 6 to
8pm.
I'm honored to have been included in this show since it's inception. There is always a fabulous selection of books. Please come by and take a look.

Upcoming Shows

I hope you can join me at my upcoming show receptions or just come by the exhibition. Feb 1 - Mar 19 Reception is on February 10, 6-7:30pm Juror for The Art of the Line at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts in Sebastopol, CA.

Feb. 19 -Mar. 20 Reception is on March 5, from 7-9pm 100th Anniversary Exhibition and Celebration of International Women's Day at the 2nd City Art Council Gallery in Long Beach, CA.

March 4 - April 10 Reception is on March 5 from 4-6pm In Material at The Quicksilver Mine Co., Forestville, CA

March 4- April 23 Opening Reception is on March 4 from 7-10pm A Reader's Art 11: URBAN/URBANE at the Susan Hensel Gallery in Minneapolis, MN

March 29- April 29 Reception is on April 2, 1:30-3:30pm Of Water: Contemporary Paintings by Sixteen Bay Area Artists at Bay Model, Sausalito, CA

Bioneers 2010

"When I think about the Endangered Lessor Long Nosed Bat (pollinator of the Agave Plant from which Tequila is Made)I I Go Batty" was made

for Vanishing Pollinators

An Ecoart exhibit produced by WEAD, The Women Environmental Artists Directory For the 2010 Bioneers Conference, October 15 – 17 Marin County Civic Center, San Rafael

I had not known that the bats were pollinators or even that they were endangered until I started my research for this show. When I found out they are important pollinators of the agave plant from which tequila is made, I realized we definitely need this bat!

Appropriate to the 2010 Conference focus on food and farming, exhibit artists explore the urgent plight of endangered pollinators. Essential to survival of all plants and trees, fruits and vegetables, pollinators range from beetles, bats, butterflies, and moths to ants. The media often ignores the issue’s urgency. Fortunately, the federal government, recognizing incipient danger, is now initiating research to develop programs to deter decline.

Fall Shows and Screenings

Info below so if you're in the "hood" come on by....

Mapworks, Sept. 16-Oct. 23 Sebastopol Center for the Arts 6780 Depot St., Sebastopol, CA Opening Reception Sept. 16, 6-7:30 PM Docent Talk Sept. 20, 1 PM Sher in person

BELLA BELLA, Oct 7, 7 PM Another Perspective - Artist Work on Screen Ninth Street Independent Film Center 145 Ninth St., Suite 101, San Franisco Sher in person

 

BELLA BELLA, Nov. 15th in conjunction with Bella Felman's solo show San Luis Obispo Museum of Art 1010 Broad St., San Luis Obispo, CA