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2024 50|50 Show at Sanchez Art Center
The 50|50 Show offers an astounding array of artwork in a variety of mediums from fiber to watercolor, oil and acrylic. Mixed media to ceramic and glass. Photography, collage, encaustic to print and more. Art enthusiasts making purchases after the opening will get to immediately take their newly acquired artworks home. From Fri, Sept 13 through the show’s closing on Sun, Oct 6, galleries are open Friday, Saturday, and Sunday 1– 5 pm. Visitors are also welcomed in the afternoon during the week by advance appointment. 70% of art sales go directly to the artists. Proceeds from the opening fundraiser and 30% of art sales support Sanchez Art Center, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization with a mission of Creating Community through Art.
Participating California artists create 50 small artworks within a time span of 50 days, a journey requiring an artistic vision, bold imagination, and staying power to undertake and complete. The result of the +50 artists’ accomplishment is an astounding array of original art that along with the affordability of the small (6” x 6”) artworks makes the 50|50 Show, the most highly anticipated exhibition of the year. Since the first show in 2009, 48,700 small (6” x 6”) affordable artworks have been created by +950 artists!
Andra Norris, the principal of Andra Norris Gallery, Burlingame, exhibiting works by established and mid-career international artists with Bay Area ties, juried the 2024 50|50 Show. Utilizing her practiced eye for what bridges artists, collectors and enthusiasts, as well as a focus on California’s vibrant aesthetic with a global edge, she delved into the over 160 entries to create a show of more than 50 California artists with a depth of themes and artistic mediums ranging from fiber to watercolor, oil and acrylic. Mixed media to ceramic and glass. Photography, collage, encaustic, print and more.
Developing an overall theme that will absorb their artistic practice over 50 days is the starting point for the artistic process. Current events, historic memories, real and imagined flora and fauna are interspersed with feelings from love to sadness. Studies of light, scenes from outdoors and in, mingle with explorations of decay and renewal and portraiture, with environmental issues and feminism also threading their way through the exhibition. Erika Adkins, Half Moon Bay, working in encaustic and secondhand books, asks “Why would we choose to restrict intellectual growth?” in her installation “50 Second Looks at 50 Banned Books”. Through photographic visual imagery, Sriharsha Annadore, San Jose, created a study of liquid and personal experience in “Color of Water: My Immigrant Life’s Reflections”. Fuzz E. Grant, San Francisco muses about species, creating “Nomebas: A New Species from the Detritus of Humanity” in 3D sculpture. Continuing his layered paper collage work, Michael Gabriel, San Francisco, takes us back with “Peel Slowly and See: An Andy Warhol/Velvet Underground Tribute”. Reflecting on the waste generated by consumption, Hilary Couch, Los Angeles, has developed her body of work titled, “When Our Rainbows Become Plastic” using reclaimed polyester (plastic) bags. Limiting herself to a simple palette with paper stained with turmeric to create vibrant yellows, paint skins and repurposed paper, Dee Mostofi, Berkeley, has created “Desert Visions: Revealing Self and Joy Through the Unexposed Landscape”. Cutting, gluing, sewing, stitching, San Francisco based Saskia van Kampen’s work “Sewn Mixed Media Collage Done Through a Blithe Feminist Lens” is rooted in design, feminist theory, and handcraft processes.
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