On View - Yū-gen | The Language of the Sea Photographs by Chuck Davis and Ryuijie
2024-08-30 11:00 - 2024-12-08 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 559 Pacific St, Monterey, CA, United States, California
Photographs by Chuck Davis and Ryuijie August 30 – December 8, 2024 Yū-gen | The Language of the Sea Yū-gen | The Language of the Sea celebrates the artistry born from an adventurous collaboration of best friends. Loosely translated as a profound and implicit sense of beauty, Yū-gen is the guiding vision for guest curator Richard Murai, a well-known local photographer, educator, and former Assistant Director at the Center for Photographic Art (CPA). Murai presents a unique and intimate creative conversation between two respected and prolific artists. Driven by a collaborative spirit and lifelong passion, Chuck Davis and Ryuijie embrace free diving as part of their artistic practice, finding both muse and canvas in the open ocean while acting as mutual lifelines in unforgiving waters. Expressing their vision with the traditional processes of silver and platinum printing, these stunning black and white images tell a visual story of both the exquisite beauty of the ocean and a delicate biosystem in peril.

On View - Imagining China: The Art of Belle Yang and Joseph Yang
2024-09-12 11:00 - 2024-11-24 17:00 | 559 Pacific St, Monterey, CA, United States, California
Imagining China: The Art of Belle Yang and Joseph Yang explores the powerful creative relationship between a father and daughter by assembling a selection of artworks, illustrations, and graphic novel panels that draw from their lived experience and shared memories. Together, the art of Belle Yang and her father Joseph Yang invites the viewer to accompany the artists on their visual journeys through China in the context of wars and political upheavals, their emotional growth in overcoming fear, and their mutual evolution as landscape painters. Curated by Oakland-based artist and scholar, Lydia Nakashima Degarrod, Imagining China uncovers how Belle and her father Joseph, both accomplished artists, found solace, resilience, and ultimately joy and deep satisfaction in creating art together.

"Macro to Grand Landscapes" Exhibiting at ArtWorks @Salinas
2024-11-01 00:00 - 2024-12-29 23:59 | ArtWorks @Salinas, 262 Main Street, Salinas, CA, 93901, United States
We’re excited to invite you to award-winning nature photographer David J. Gubernick’s stunning exhibit, “Macro to Grand Landscapes,” at ArtWorks @Salinas.
David’s exhibit beautifully captures Monterey County’s natural beauty, from intricate macro shots of flowers to expansive landscapes. In addition to this stunning exhibit, you can also see selected pieces from Kenji Tanner, Deborah Good, Shagufta Khan, Nathaniel Stapleton, Edgar Lorenzo, and Emerald McColey.
Stop by ArtWorks @Salinas at 262 Main Street in Salinas, Fridays through Sundays from 10 am – 2 pm.

Botanical Illustration: Autumn Plants
2024-11-09 10:00 - 14:00 | Lyceum of Monterey County, 1073 Sixth Street, Monterey, CA, 93940, United States
Join us for a day of botanical exploration on paper. Working with cuttings of local wild plants, participants will create botanical studies using pencil and color media. We will explore the shape, gesture, structure, texture, and color of our specimens to better understand and describe on paper each plant’s unique features. Learn botanical rendering techniques, terminology, tips and tricks, and gain a better appreciation for our local ecosystem through your art.

Carmel Art Walk
2024-11-09 16:00 - 19:00 | Throughout Carmel by the Sea, CA, 93921, United States
Founded and run by local artists, the Carmel Art Walk is a free and family-friendly event. Support our local artists and keep the HEART of Carmel beating strong! Carmel Art Walk is the second Saturday every month from 4pm-7pm and is open to the public. Tour artist-owned galleries and meet the artists who carry on the Carmel-by-the-Sea artist colony legacy. Follow the blue lanterns at each gallery.

Pacifica Quartet
2024-11-09 19:30 - 21:30 | Sunset Center, San Carlos St at Ninth Ave, Carmel by the Sea, CA, 93921
Pre-concert lecture at 6:30 pm.
The program includes pieces by Samuel, George and Antonín.

Performers

Simin Ganatra, violin

Austin Hartman, violin

Mark Holloway, viola

Brandon Vamos, cello

About The Ensemble

Formed in 1994, the Pacifica Quartet quickly won chamber music’s top competitions, including the 1998 Naumburg Chamber Music Award. In 2002 the ensemble was honored with Chamber Music America’s Cleveland Quartet Award and the appointment to Lincoln Center’s The Bowers Program (formerly CMS Two), and in 2006 was awarded a prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant. With its powerful energy and captivating, cohesive sound, the Pacifica has established itself as the embodiment of the senior American quartet sound.

The Pacifica Quartet has proven itself the preeminent interpreter of string quartet cycles, harnessing the group’s singular focus and incredible stamina to portray each composer’s evolution, often over the course of just a few days. Having given highly acclaimed performances of the complete Carter cycle in San Francisco, New York, Chicago, and Houston; the Mendelssohn cycle in Napa, Australia, New York, and Pittsburgh; and the Beethoven cycle in New York, Denver, St. Paul, Chicago, Napa, and Tokyo (in an unprecedented presentation of five concerts in three days at Suntory Hall), the Quartet presented the monumental Shostakovich cycle in Chicago, New York, Montreal, and at London’s Wigmore Hall. The Quartet has been widely praised for these cycles, with critics calling the concerts “brilliant,” “astonishing,” “gripping,” and “breathtaking.”

An ardent advocate of contemporary music, the Pacifica Quartet commissions and performs many new works including those by Keeril Makan, Julia Wolfe, and Shulamit Ran, the latter in partnership with the Music Accord consortium, London’s Wigmore Hall, and Tokyo’s Suntory Hall. The work – entitled Glitter, Doom, Shards, Memory – had its New York debut as part of the Chamber Music Society at Lincoln Center series.

The members of the Pacifica Quartet live in Bloomington, IN, where they serve as quartet-in-residence and full-time faculty members at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music. Prior to their appointment, the Quartet was on the faculty of the University of Illinois at Champaign Urbana from 2003 to 2012, and also served as resident performing artist at the University of Chicago for seventeen years.
