by Lonnie Burstein Hewitt, photos by Maurice Hewitt
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| TAIYO, acrylic on canvas by Pamela Nigro. Taiyo means SUN in Japanese. |
April 6th was opening day of an exhibition featuring selected artworks from members of the Artists Guild of the San Diego Museum of Art at PHES Gallery in Carlsbad.
Members were allowed to submit several images for consideration, and from over 120 submissions, 25 were chosen by gallery owners Paul Henry and Ellen Speert, whose initials form their gallery’s name. The project was originally proposed by Julie Weaverling, a member of the Artists Guild’s Exhibitions Committee who would like to see the Guild’s reach expand into North County and thought PHES would be a great place to start.
A number of the artists were present at the opening, and Paul and Ellen were happy to guide visitors through the show. Julie Weaverling provided refreshments and also had a painting on view.
You can see photos of eight
of the pieces here, and if you walk by the gallery some evening, you’ll see several
artworks through the window, all lit up. But it’s best to see them all, face to
face, inside the gallery, and the show runs through May 31st.
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| Waiting for the CT Scan, oil on canvas, by Cecelia Anastos. “I did this painting while waiting for the results of a blood test I took that could have been very bad news,” the artist explained. “It took weeks for the results to come back, and I was losing my head, so I have no head here.” |
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| Ladder to Nowhere, by Scott Bruckner. Douglas Fir on Parota Wood base. Height: 96”. |
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| Size Matters! A bronze 11x12x12 Oreo cookie by Maidy Morhous. |
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| Solo Flight, by Rosemary KimBal. Four brush strokes on handmade rice paper. “Two strokes, then I saw the bird,and I added two strokes for a beak,” said the artist, a master of the ancient art of Zen painting, which values a piece whose essence is revealed in the fewest strokes possible |
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| Awakening, by Julie Weaverling. |
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| Anticipatory Anxiety, by Vira Ustianska, oil on canvas. After coming here from the Ukraine with her young daughter, she set herself a goal: “I want to paint a thousand pictures of flowers, a long-term goal that reminds me: Don’t give up! Survive!” |
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| Hercules Aloe, by Will Gibson. A pigment print shot in daytime with infra-red photography. |
Selections from the SD Museum of Art Artists Guild
PHES Gallery
2633 State Street, Carlsbad, CA, 92008
through May 31, 2025
open from 2 - 7 p.m. - Thursday - Saturday
and by appointment: (760) 696-3022
Lonnie Burstein Hewitt is an award-winning author/lyricist/playwright who has been writing about arts and lifestyles in San Diego County for over a dozen years. You can reach her at hew2@sbcglobal.net
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