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SUMMARY:Accepting Submissions: "Make Merry at The Cherry"
DESCRIPTION:The Cherry Center invites fine artists across all disciplines—including painters\, sculptors\, and photographers—to submit original works for its annual December Fundraising Extravaganza. \nAlso\, if you have an extraordinary painting\, drawing or photograph from your personal collection. \nThe exhibition opens on December 11\, 2026\, with proceeds from all art sales directly benefiting the center’s year-round cultural and educational programming. \nSubmissions will be accepted from November 1 through November 30\, 2026. \nPictured: “Small Boat” – Ann Artz
URL:https://carlcherrycenter.org/event/the-nine-days-of-artmas-call-for-artwork/
LOCATION:The Carl Cherry Center\, Fourth and Guadalupe\, Carmel\, CA\, 93921\, United States
CATEGORIES:Cherry Gallery,Highlight
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SUMMARY:Studies: From Thought to Form
DESCRIPTION: In a culture accustomed to polished final products\, the messier\, more vital work of artistic invention often gets left on the studio floor.  Beginning November 13\, the Carl Cherry Center for the Arts confronts that gap with Studies: From Thought to Form. Bringing together a formidable roster of twelve regional and international artists—spanning classical draftsmanship\, modernist abstraction\, satire\, and figurative bronze—the show places preliminary sketches\, compositional drafts\, and technical maquettes alongside completed works to chart the precise trajectory from initial spark to finished object.  Studies operates as a kind of visual forensic exercise\, laying bare the false starts\, structural anxieties\, and sudden breakthroughs that guide an artist’s hands before a work ever meets a gallery wall. \n“We so often encounter art only in its finished\, immaculate state\,” says curator\, Kris Swanson. “Studies: From Thought to Form invites the viewer straight into the working studio\, revealing the rigorous internal dialogue and quiet labor required to bridge the gap between an idea and its material reality.” \nThe exhibition presents a study in contrasts\, showcasing how vastly different traditions treat the discipline of preparation: \n\nWill Bullas — Pairing formidable technical skill with sharp-witted humor\, the Vietnam veteran and Brooks Institute alumnus (under Ray Strong) demonstrates how meticulous drafts lay the groundwork for narrative satire.\nRichard Greathouse — An American painter who has exhibited with the Florence Academy of Art and Haynes Galleries\, Greathouse’s preparatory studies record a stark\, visceral confrontation with the natural world.\nSarah Healey — Raised on Big Sur’s Partington Ridge and educated at London’s Sir John Cass Institute\, Healey uses mixed-media studies to map the unseen forces of her native terrain—fence lines\, animal paths\, air\, and temperature.\nChris Leib — Trained at UC Berkeley and the Academy of Art\, Leib’s detailed classical studies underpin surreal\, darkly humorous compositions featuring astronauts and bonobos.\nClair Livingston — Contributes refined fine art studies that bridge conceptual experimentation and precise execution.\nSusan Manchester — A draftswoman and printmaker who studied under Giorgio Morandi in Florence and Gordon Cook at SFAI\, Manchester’s exquisite observational drawings of feathers and flora—held in collections including the Smithsonian—serve as quiet meditations on impermanence.\nAlicia Ponzio — A Florence Academy of Art graduate and former instructor\, Ponzio’s preliminary plasters and bronzes capture the delicate mechanics of human emotion and fluid form.\nKatrina Pura — Drawing on her rural ranching heritage and Florence Academy training\, Pura’s graphite and watercolor studies capture the light and structure of California’s Central Coast.\nKirstine Reiner Hansen — The Danish painter merges Old Master rigors with abstract disruption\, using preparatory layers inspired by vintage cinema and fashion portraiture to construct her figures.\nKris Swanson — Offers process-driven studies that examine the mechanics of form and spatial logic.\nJoaquin Turner — Contributes light-focused plein air studies that capture the fleeting\, atmospheric shifts of the local landscape.\nPer Elof Nilsson Ricklund — The painter brings classical European technique and intense observational rigor to preliminary studies of the human figure and surrounding terrain.\n\nAn artist’s reception will be held Friday\, November 13th from 5-7pm. The event is free and open to the public. Gallery hours are Wednesday through Saturday from noon to 4pm or by appointment.
URL:https://carlcherrycenter.org/event/studies-from-thought-to-form/
LOCATION:The Carl Cherry Center\, Fourth and Guadalupe\, Carmel\, CA\, 93921\, United States
CATEGORIES:Cherry Gallery,Highlight
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