Gallery Director Turkey Stremmel discusses John Belingheri’s unique method of creating his surfaces.
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.
The online digital catalog for Stremmel Gallery’s “Configurations,” exhibiting from November 8 through December 8, 2012.
Curious about “Configurations”? Turkey Stremmel dishes on what makes this exhibition special.
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
“Tea Cup & Saucer with Dancing Skeletons,” by Susie Ketchum/Photo courtesy: Allison Young
The Contemporary Ceramics exhibit at Stremmel Gallery is a survey of top-notch examples of some functional, some conceptual work that shows how ceramics, even though it “arrived” as a fine-art medium long ago, still has a self-conscious streak. Read More
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
To view a short virtual tour of “Open Space”, click here.
Craig Mitchell, 'Trout Heaven II', oil on linen, 20 x 24 inchesCraig Mitchell gets to combine his love of nature and the outdoors with fine arts.
Craig Mitchell gets to combine his love of nature and the outdoors with fine arts. He travels all over, but said he found the perfect spot about 40 miles north of Winnemucca in Paradise Valley, where ranches lie at the foot of the Santa Rosa Mountains. Read More
Ahren Hertel, featured in Stremmel Gallery’s “UNR Emerging Artists” show back in 2009, has developed a new body of work that visualizes the everyday damage we do to the environment in his latest exhibition “Sticks and Stones”. Read More
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