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UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
August 1 – October 18, 2009

Echo of the Whole: Call For Entries '08-'09
Adrienne Allebe, Stephanie Dotson, Tera Galanti, Servando Garcia

“Gather a shell from the strown beach/And listen at its lips: they sigh/The same desire and mystery,/The echo of the whole sea’s speech.” The title of this year's Call For Entries exhibition, Echo of the Whole, is excerpted from Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s poem titled The Sea Limits. Like the shells in this poem, the selected Tri-County artists—Adrienne Allebe, Stephanie Dotson, Tera Galanti, and Servando Garcia–echo the artistic practices and characteristics found within the art world as a whole, and reflect the many sides of Santa Barbara County’s own diverse artistic region.

CFE is an annual juried exhibition open to all visual artists living and/or working within Santa Barbara, Ventura, and San Luis Obispo counties. This program is designed to encourage artists from the local community to present new work in relation to the alternative arts context of CAF. CFE reflects CAF’s mission to sustain and encourage contemporary art and artists –ensuring that creative expression and appreciation flourishes in and beyond our community. CAF will open the application process for next year’s exhibition ‘09-’10 at the end of June. Additional information for the ‘09-’10 selection process will be made available on our website by mid-July, 2009.

 

Allebe
Adrienne Allebe
Centrifuge, 2007
Dotson
Stephanie Dotson
Paperrun, 2008 (Detail)
Galanti
Tera Galanti
For Ruby, 2009

Garcia
Servando Garcia
Searching, 2009

 

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Kim Fisher
New Work

For her exhibition in Santa Barbara, LA-based painter Kim Fisher will focus on a study of sea shells, inspired by the world-renowned collection found at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. Since being introduced to the collection by CAF's Executive Director in the summer of 2008, Fisher has been invited by the SB Museum of Natural History's researchers, to their archives. At CAF, Fisher wil present large sculpturally abstract shell paintings based on this unique collaboration between the arts and science.

Fisher’s artistic practice lies in collage studies she culls from fashion magazine pages, that are then translated into highly abstracted, layered, and complex paintings, so optically precise that they could be mistaken for photographs. Though Fisher has rendered other natural objects–like the phases of the moon–the exhibition at CAF will be the first to exhibit her new body of work concentrated exclusively on sea shells.

Kim Fisher received her MFA from Otis College of Art and Design in 1998, and her BFA from the University of California in 1996, both in Los Angeles. She has had solo exhibitions at China Art Objects, Los Angeles, CA; John Connelly Presents, New York, NY; and the Modern Institute, Glasgow. Fisher exhibits internationally and participated in the 2004 Whitney Biennial at The Whitney Museum of American Art and the 2004 California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Beach, California.

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Fisher
Kim Fisher
Labradorite 31, 2004

 

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