May Flowers
May 2021 Virtual Exhibition
May Flowers is the last of three virtual exhibitions this spring at Coastline Art Gallery, which plays on various different ways of approaching symbolic periods throughout the season. We pushed through the Ides of March, we endured April Showers..., and we have now come out the other side with a bounty of beauty and enthusiasm for what is next. While there are no flowers expressed in this exhibition, we are using this idiom collectively as a metaphor for patience. Our collective tolerance for hard times will prove to be fruitful as we slip into the next season of warmth and contemplation of all things creative. Read more on the Coastline Art Gallery Blog.
The exhibition was available for viewing May 1 - 31, 2021.
Artists
Hilary Baker
Artist Bio
A Los Angeles native, Hilary Baker grew up among Hollywood's film and music industry professionals. Her paintings document Los Angeles's past through depictions of its iconic architecture and native wildlife. Baker received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles, and her Master of Fine Arts from the Otis Art Institute. She has exhibited widely throughout the United States and internationally, including the Skulptur Projekt Münster, Germany, The Institut Franco-Americain, Rennes, France, the University of La Verne, the American Institute of Architects, Loyola Marymount University, POST gallery, the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, and R.B. Stevenson gallery, San Diego. She lives and works in Ojai, California, in the shadow of the TopaTopa mountains.
Website: www.hilarybaker.com
Laurie Hassold
Artist Bio
Born in Louisville, Kentucky, but has spent most of her life in southern California. She lives in Costa Mesa with her husband, painter Jeff Gillette, and exhibits her work in Orange County, Los Angeles and New York. Many of the dichotomous themes Hassold works with today, such as life/death; art/science; mind/body and order/chaos, can be traced back to childhood experiences playing in her father's medical office. The first time she practiced pricking her finger to look at the blood through a microscope, she was amazed at all of the tiny squirming critters living inside the blood. Hassold achieved a MFA from CSUF.
Website: www.instagram.com/lauriehassold
Chris Hornung
Artist Bio
Chris Hornung is a musician, teacher, and publisher in Orange County, California. He received his Bachelor of Music degree from Western Michigan University and his Master of Music degree from Michigan State University. Born and raised in Michigan, Chris began studying piano at 6 and cello at 10. Switching to the double bass at 12, he decided to make this instrument his career. Beginning in high school, he performed in a number of rock and jazz bands, but decided to focus on orchestral playing. Touring Europe with a youth orchestra, he was inspired to become an orchestral double bassist.
Anne Austin Pearce
Artist Bio
Anne Austin Pearce was born in Lawrence, Kansas and studied at Kansas City Art Institute, Brighton Polytechnic, and the University of Kansas. She received her MFA in drawing and painting from James Madison University, where she was awarded a full scholarship. Pearce has been a fellow/artist-in-residence at UCROSS Foundation, Wyoming; Officina Stampiera del Notaio, Sicily; Rimbun Dahan, Malaysia; Draw International, France; and pARTage, Mauritius, and is the recipient of grants from the Lighton International Artist Exchange Program, Charlotte Street Foundation, and Rockhurst University. Pearce's work, encompassing drawings, paintings, sculptures, and mixed media installations, has been widely exhibited nationally and abroad and is held in museum collections including MDC Museum Art and Design, Miami; Spencer Museum of Art at University of Kansas; Daum Museum of Art, Sedalia, Missouri; and Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas.
Website: www.anneaustinpearce.com
Joel Woodard
Artist Statement
What are we? Who are we? Where are we going? How will we get there?
My work is a convergence of graphic shapes, patterns, symbols, gestured abstraction, and is driven by an obsessive search for unfamiliar and uncanny imagery. I'm continually interested in how the variety of texture, the unpacking and navigation of color, and automatism informs the anatomy of that uncanny imagery. I let as many different possibilities emerge as I can, and I challenge myself with the limitations of traditional media. The work is inspired by the philosophical questions of where human society is going in our fast-paced and technologically driven world, explorations of the primitive, and fascinations from evolution.
Artist Bio
I've been a student of art and a working artist for over 20 years. Born and raised in Northern California, my interest in art took root in the mid-90s with my many visits to art museums and galleries in San Francisco. Eventually moving to Southern California, I earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Drawing and Painting from Laguna College of Art and Design, and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Art from California State University, Long Beach. I also have 20 years' experience working in various capacities at Laguna Art Museum where I currently serve as the Director of Operations. I have also been involved with the art dept. at Coastline Community College. Beginning in Nov. of 2017 as an Embedded Art Tutor for drawing classes, then on to an English Writing Tutor through 2018, until finally being offered to teach Art History online in the spring of 2019, which I have done every semester since.
Website: www.instagram.com/joelwoodardart