Indelible Impressions, 8 Northern California Artists in Print

Opening Reception Thursday February 7th 4 to 6pm

and runs through March 1st at the Mendocino College Art Gallery located on the Ukiah Campus, 1000 Hensley Creek Rd, Ukiah CA.

Regular Gallery Hours Tuesday – Thursday 12:30 – 4pm
and by appointment at dbrowe@mendocino.edu

2 Wednesday open houses at the gallery this month for a few hours to allow the community to come and see it in expanded evening hours, they will be Feb 20 and Feb 27, 4:30 – 6:30.

Featured artists:

Tom Killion was born and raised in Marin County, California, where the rugged scenery inspired him from an early age to create landscape prints using linoleum and wood, strongly influenced by the traditional Japanese Ukiyo-ë­ style of Hokusai and Hiroshige.  In 1975 he produced his first illustrated book of woodcut prints, 28 Views of Mount Tamalpais, on UCSC’s Cowell Press. In 1977 Killion founded his own Quail Press, where he has printed handmade art books and over 400 relief prints, many incorporating increasingly sophisticated multi-block color techniques. In the last fifteen years Killion has collaborated with Pulitzer-prize winning poet Gary Snyder and Heyday Books to produce The High Sierra of California, Tamalpais Walking and California’s Wild Edge. His work has been featured on the PBS-TV program: “Craft in America,” and in recent shows at around the state, including the Santa Cruz MAH,  Ansel Adams Gallery in Yosemite and The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. His studio is in Point Reyes area on the Marin coast.

Harry Frank
I’m a graduate of the Boston Museum School (BFA 1976) where I studied ceramics, drawing and painting. In 1978 I was accepted to do graduate work in ceramics at The Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. From 1980 – 1983 I was a studio potter in Sonoma County, California, specializing in one -of-a- kind, functional porcelain.

My art sensibilities were largely formed by having grown up in NYC during the 60’s. I did a foundation year at the School of Visual Arts, spent countless hours walking through New York’s varied neighborhoods, and visiting all the city’s great museums. In addition to art, my passions at the time were comics, science fiction, and trying to understand what Alan Watts was talking about. Whenever possible, I sat alone on the beach, mesmerized by the beauty of the ocean and sky.

I’ve been making monotypes since 1998 and have been showing in and around the San Francisco Bay area since 2004. For the past 27 years I have been a high school art teacher in northern California, now retired.

Jonathan Palmer
Jonathan received his MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2013. He has exhibited his work throughout the United States and internationally including such venues as David Krut Projects Gallery in New York City, Linus Gallery in Los Angeles, the Center for Contemporary Art in Baton Rouge and Kyoto Seika University in Kyoto Japan. His work is in numerous collections throughout the United States such as The Rhode Island School of Design, Syracuse University, the Yale University library and dozens of personal collections. He teaches painting, drawing and printmaking classes at Mendocino College and the San Francisco Art Institute. He currently lives in Northern California with his wife and daughter.

Larry Thomas lives and works in Fort Bragg, California.  He taught at the San Francisco Art Institute for many years and held the positions of professor and chair of the printmaking department, dean of academic affairs and interim president prior to retiring in 2005.

His work is represented in the permanent collections of the Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, SFMoMA, the Oakland Museum of California, the Missoula Museum of Art, the Fresno Museum of Art and in the artists’ books collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Bancroft Library at U.C. Berkeley, the Houghton Library at Harvard, the Green Library at Stanford among other public and private collections.  His calligraphic work has been featured in multiple issues of both Letter Arts Review and Alphabet.

Thomas is the recipient of two NEA Individual Fellowships, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and of the SFMoMA’s SECA Award.  He was a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome, and a resident artist at the Sitka Center for Art & Ecology, The Ragdale Foundation, and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program.  He also served on the executive boards of the Alliance of Artist Communities, the Headlands Center for the Arts and on the advisory board of the Sitka Center for Art & Ecology.