927-THE UNCONVENTIONAL

FIRST PLACE

WADING FOR EQUALITY

    I'm surprised but pleased to tell you my paper mache sculpture won first place in our annual 927 ART SHOW.

    927 dates to the early 1970's when the local arts community created an annual event for wacky, ironic, zany and satirical art, often with a political edge. It is unconventional and unexpected art but is always a lot of fun.  The 927 derives from what was then the only pre fix in our local phone number. Today the entries come from all over California's central coast.

    WADING FOR EQUALITY features a woman created from faces of other women, family, friends, equal rights pioneers and powerful women. She is wearing boots and wading on a stand that is covered with a variety of topics-discrimination,  sexual harassment, equal pay, rape, reproductive rights, pregnancy leave, body image, glass ceiling and under representation.

   Here's a look at other pieces that placed or won honorable mention.

 Best of Show

What Me Worry by William Barnhill

 The Candidate by Art Van Rhyn

 A Bad Week in the USA by Penny Fitzgerald

 Mosaic Mermaid by Sara Blair Field

 Mr Pothead by Richard Morris

 Do You Know the Way to Morro Bay

by Tish Rogers

 And You Wonder Why I Hate Garden Work

by Franz Affentranger

   In the past the 927 show has been up for only a weekend. This year in the Cambria Center for the Arts the exhibition will hang all month.

     Art Van Rhyn, one of our favorite people and an accomplished artist as well as the cartoonist for The Cambrian, our weekly paper, was one of the founders of the 927 Show. Art's sense of humor is on of the joys of our village and art colony. In the last few years he has added glass blowing to painting, sculpting and drawing. 

    If you are near the California Central Coast I hope you'll visit the gallery at the Cambria Center for the Arts and enjoy our artistic humor and observations.

    Thanks to this year's Judge, Sam Peck, an acclaimed artistic photographer.

    Thanks to my husband Tom for his continued support and encouragement. He also helps me with the title of my work.

927 2013

NON TRADITIONAL FUN

    Summer fun in the Cambria artist colony means 927.  It is a tradition here on the Central California Coast where artists who live in the 927 prefix, create something non-traditional and out of our normal comfort zone.  You can see some pretty wild and creative things.  You may recall, my Well Traveled Lady sculpture, won a couple of years.  You can see her below.
    Here are my offerings this year.

QR-T  

as in QR art

    QR codes are everywhere, so I decided to use the interesting positive and negative space in lines and boxes to create a painting.  If you notice in the bottom left is a real QR code.  That is my code and will link you to this blog.

VINTAGE CAMBRIA

    Cambria is on the western edge of what has become California's most popular and prolific wine region, the Paso Robles Appellation.  More than a couple of the artists enjoy the local vintage, as do most Cambrians so, here is

Chateau Cambria

   Our cats and an occasional friend who wondered into my work space were mystified by the strange object that started taking shape.  It is a paper mache tribute and statement.

   After creating the form with cardboard, I covered it with multiple layers of paper mache.  

  Then I covered it with a layer of plain brown paper.  Then the

paint and label.

   Cambria is a village with a lot of opinions.  Of course everybody thinks their opinion is right, so on the front label where wine makers list the grape, I created a blend of 50% conservatrol, 50% liberale and 100% convinced.

   The back of the bottle reads "Chateau du Cambria is an aged blend of hard oak opinions with a complexity that lingers.  There is a slight hint of arrogance, an undercurrent of pine and pacific fresh overtones.  It pairs well with conversation and food.  May be hazardous to your health if taken too seriously."

     It is fun every year to see what kind of "non conventional" creations that members of our colony come up with.  Thanks

for visiting, and Cheers!