September’s exhibits include a Paper Works exhibition and a Mendocino Open Paint Out Featured Artist Preview. Enjoy snacks and wine and meet the exhibiting artists.

2nd Saturday Reception: September 10, 5 pm – 8 pm

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Paper Works

The “Paper Works” exhibition, features paper art by Lucy Beck, photography on handmade Japanese paper; Rachel Binah, sculptural paper works; John Fisher, handmade paper sculptures; Shirley Freriks, rust prints on paper; Joelle Jones, prints on paper; Debra Lennox, chine colle; Susan McKinney, paper collage; Sandy Oppenheimer, paper collage portraits; Robert Rhoades, handmade paper sculpture; Jane Rice, hand cut paper screens; and Marvin Schenck, linocut prints.

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Mendocino Open Paint Out Featured Artist Preview Exhibition

The Mendocino Art Center presents the work of eight Mendocino Open Paint Out featured artists as part of the fourth annual Mendocino Open Paint Out, a plein air festival, September 19-25. The featured artists will paint along the Mendocino Coast all week, as well as host demonstrations and judge the work of the 50 Mendocino Open Paint Out participating artists visiting from four different states.

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Nancy Mona Russell, “Landscapesque”

Nancy Mona Russell shows her abstract paintings in “Landscapesque.” “My paintings are abstractions of visual memories, or, rather than being something remembered, the work is a process of discovery,” Nancy says about her work. Her acrylic paintings start with charcoal on the gesso surface. Sometimes it is a road map for the painting, and other times the drawing is only the departure. The surface, colors, and shapes take on a life of their own, a distillation of the experience of making the artwork. The oil stick paintings are made, without a brush, using oil sticks composed of pigment with linseed oil and natural wax. “The immediacy of painting directly on the surface is almost like painting with my hands, reminiscent of the joy of finger paint as a child,” Nancy reflects.

For more information, call the Mendocino Art Center at 707-937-5818, ext. 14.