Days of Heaven: Jeanne D'Orge and Brad Schwieger
2021-02-19 - 2021-03-26 | The Carl Cherry Center, Fourth and Guadalupe, Carmel, CA, 93921, United States
Days of Heaven: Jeanne D’Orge and Brad Schwieger art exhibition opens Friday, February 19, 2021. The exhibit can be seen during regular gallery hours: Wednesday through Saturday from noon to 4:00 pm or by appointment.
One of Carmel’s preeminent visual storytellers, Mrs. Carl Cherry (Jeanne D’Orge) employed Modernist forms and muted colors to narrate an internal experience so readily indefinable in her paintings of processions, landscapes, rituals and ceremonies. This month, the Cherry Center unites one of Cherry’s most groundbreaking series—Paintings Under Glass (1947–1954)—with the ceramic work of Brad Schwieger.
Cherry’s use of blues and greens, contrasting with the whites of the figures, grants the work a nocturnal, dreamlike quality. Some critics have questioned the extent to which the piece draws on spiritual principles, suggesting instead that it might depict figures from Mrs. Cherry’s own imaginative pantheon, as its visionary intensity seems to suggest. The work is complemented by Mr. Schwieger’s large, vase-like ceramic sculptures, which suggest and refer to the Mrs. Cherry’s figures.
Brad Schwieger has participated in more than 300 exhibitions including: The Seto Ceramics and Art Glass Center, Seto Japan, 2002; The 2nd Cheongju International Craft Competition, Korea, 2001; American Shino, Babcock Galleries, New York, New York, 2000 Different Stokes: International Wood Fired Ceramics Invitational, at The University of Iowa Museum of Art in Iowa City, among others. He was an Artist in Residence at The Archie Bray Foundation for Ceramic Arts in Helena, Montana and the Watershed Center for Ceramics in Maine, both in 1998. He has conducted more than 50 workshops and lectured across the United States, Europe and Asia. His work has been published and reviewed in American Craft, Ceramics Monthly, and many other periodicals and books.
The exhibit will run in the gallery through March 26, 2021.

2021 Thinking Out Loud Regional Art Competition
2021-03-13 - 2021-05-11 | Online Event, Fourth and Guadalupe, Carmel-By-The-Sea, CA, 93921, United States
The Carl Cherry Center for the Arts is proud to announce the 2021 Thinking Out Loud, a regional art competition that challenges high school students to create works inspired by their lives. Students from across Monterey County were invited to digitally display their artwork across a wide range of media. Visit the online exhibit here.

Established in 1948, the mission of the Carl Cherry Center for the Arts is to enhance the quality and diversity of artistic, educational and cultural programs in Monterey County by encouraging public programs and interactions between artists and the community.
Thinking Out Loud is made possible, in part, through a grant from the Arts Council for Monterey County, and funds from the Hazen Family Foundation, Monterey County Board of Supervisors, Carmel-by-the-Sea Rotary, Nancy Buck Ransom Foundation, Pebble Beach Company Foundation, and the Yellow Brick Road Benefit Store.
Pictured: “Apple of My Eye” – Claire Giffen
