April Showers
April 2021 Virtual Exhibition
Ever the optimist, Coastline Curator David Lee presents Part One of an exhibition which gets us halfway through a weather idiom: "April showers… (bring May flowers)."
April Showers brings together a group of artists working within their own mediums of painting, drawing, and photography. These artists share in the universal experiences of transition, endings, new beginnings, and in-between seasons highlighting the deeper meaning of April Showers: good things will come after hardship.
The exhibition was available for viewing April 1 - 30, 2021 on the Coastline Art Gallery Blog.
Artists
Barbara Brown
Artist Stats
- Los Angeles, CA
- MFA, Laguna College of Art and Design
- Painting
Artist Statement
I am a narrative, realistic artist interested in painting imagery relative to dramatic events in our lifetime and the personal effects on those that live through them. My current body of work stems from my experience of both losing my home in the 2017 Thomas Fire, the largest California wildfire at that time, and the subsequent rebuild and life during the Covid-19 global pandemic. I work to represent both the visual and reflective iconography of the day.
Douglas McCulloh
Artist Stats
- Los Angeles, CA
- MFA, Claremont Graduate University
- Photography
Artist Bio
Douglas McCulloh is an artist and senior curator at UCR ARTS: California Museum of Photography. His work has been shown nationally and internationally in more than 250 exhibitions including: Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing; Musée de l’Elysee, Lausanne; Musée Nicéphore Niépce, France; La Triennale di Milano, Italy; Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City; Institute de Cultura, Barcelona; Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles; Southeast Museum of Photography, Florida; Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans; Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.; and Cooper Union School of Art, New York. McCulloh’s most recent books are In the Sunshine of Neglect, Inlandia Institute, and The Great Picture: Making the World’s Largest Photograph, part of the Legacy Project Collaborative, Hudson Hills Press, New York.
Steve Metzger
Artist Stats
- Orange County, CA
- MFA, CSUF
- Painting
Artist Bio
I was born in Duluth Minnesota to parents who met at the Kansas City Art Institute. My Mother was there on a scholarship in sculpture and my dad was studying commercial art on the GI bill. I grew up with art, began playing upright bass in school at the age of 10. In 1960 my family moved from Dodge City, Kansas to Anaheim, California. I started painting the summer after my sophomore year at Valencia High school in Placentia.
Bradford Salamon
Artist Stats
- Los Angeles, CA
- BA, CSULA
- Painting
Artist Bio
After being the official artist for the Grammy Awards in the 1990s, Salamon began painting more personal work of his family, friends and fellow artists. Portraiture has remained a significant interest throughout his career. His subjects currently vary widely from narrative scene paintings to allegorical compositions, everyday objects to his Mélange series depicting various California neighborhoods using strong color in multiple perspectives. His most recent works are large portraits of artists using drafting pencils on multiple sheets of vellum paper. Salamon has produced dozens of short films, creates figurative sculptures in various mediums and is also a museum curator and punk rock performer. Salamon has exhibited widely for 30 years. He has had 5 solo museum shows, over 30 solo gallery shows and is in over a dozen permanent museum collections.
Natasha Shoro
Artist Stats
- Orange County, CA
- MFA, CSUF
- Painting
Artist Bio
Natasha Shoro, a contemporary visual artist lives and works in her Irvine studio. Born in Ithaca, New York to Pakistani parents, Natasha’s genres include abstract mixed media paintings to site specific installations addressing topics from her life experiences with multi-cultural influences. She finds inspiration from her travels and expresses aerial cartographies and organic patterns found in nature on the themes of Earth, Air, Fire and Water.