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Stremmel Gallery Artist Chester Arnold Featured in SF Chronicle

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Chester Arnold’s “Small Time Operation”/Courtesy: Chester Arnold

In new work at Catharine Clark’s, Sonoma painter Chester Arnold unfurls further his metaphors for the artistic life: prospecting, mining and survivalism.

“60 Years in the Forest” (2012) suggests the self-portrait of a temperament, though not even Arnold’s friends will recognize him in the glum figure nursing a campfire – and perhaps some grudges – at the edge of a woodland clearing.

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From One to Another: Former UNR Student Kenoyer Profiles UNR Professor Bogard

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Rebekah Bogard installs “Options” at Stremmel Gallery.

Rebekah Bogard is a skilled ceramicist who creates beautiful androgynous ceramic creatures and complex environments. Along with working many hours in her studio on a regular basis she is an assistant professor at the University of Nevada, Reno. She creates stunning fictional animals that emulate vulnerable, beauty, and mystery. Her fantastical narratives come to life through complex gallery installations. During her Crush exhibition in 2010 Bogard filled the floor of the gallery with water. Her Flesh + Bone series is currently on view at the Stremmel Gallery in Reno, NV and she was recently in the Sloan Fine Art Gallery’s Awakened exhibition. Read More

RGJ Focuses on “Contemporary Ceramics”

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Turkey Stremmel with Patti Warashina’s “Vaso dei Flori”/Photo Courtesy Tim Dunn/RGJ

Ceramic artists are getting their long overdue recognition at Stremmel Gallery.

Although the gallery has included a few ceramic artists in shows over the years, “Contemporary Ceramics,” an exhibition that opened Sept. 20, is the gallery’s first group show.

Turkey Stremmel, the gallery’s artistic director, said being invited to Helena, Mont., last year to lead the live auction for the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts was a revelation. Read More

Art Ltd. on Robert Brady

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Troop, 2012, mixed media and wood, 43" x 14" x 11"

Literally, the first object that Berkeley-based artist Robert Brady made with clay changed his life. It was in his senior year of high school in Reno, Nevada, where he grew up. The art teacher handed Brady some clay and a rolling pin and told him to make something.  Read More

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