Chelsey Fineberg’s ‘Watermelon’ is among the works on display at The Community Gallery in Redwood City as part of ‘Prismatic Visions: Art as Exploration.’
“PRISMATIC VISIONS: ART AS EXPLORATION,” AT THE COMMUNITY GALLERY IN REDWOOD CITY. The Community Gallery, on the lower level of 400 County Center in Redwood City, presents “Prismatic Visions: Art as Exploration” from Sept. 6 through Oct. 27. Featuring the work of Michael Broadhurst, Chelsey Fineberg and Joseph Omolayole, Abilities United artists living in San Mateo County, the exhibition explores how artists use the lens of their experiences to explore and interpret the wider world. Broadhurst, Fineberg and Omolayole each create paintings that reflect and reinterpret their worlds using vivid imagery and imaginations. While Broadhurst’s work depicts a utopic world where humans, nature, animals and imaginary creatures live in harmony, Omolayole explores the poetry of symbols related to the circle of seasons and the passage of time, and Fineberg combines abstraction, geometric shapes and text into colorful vignettes of her reality, populated with rainbow animals and multicolored objects.
Abilities United is a Palo Alto-based nonprofit serving children and adults with developmental and other disabilities, and their families, living in the Bay Area. Since its inception, Abilities United has offered people of all ages and abilities educational, therapeutic, recreational and vocational experiences to help them lead meaningful lives and resource connections that make it easier for them to lead the lives they chose. Since 2000, the mission of the Art Program at Abilities United has been to provide artists of all abilities and backgrounds access to the Bay Area art community by exhibiting and selling their work. Abilities United artists receive 100 percent of the proceeds from art sales. People from all walks of life, including art collectors and corporate executives, have purchased and supported its artists. For more information contact Shay Barnett, Abilities United Art Program Coordinator, at artprogram@abilitiesunited.org, call 494-0550 or visit www.abilitiesunited.org. To learn more about Abilities United artists and to view their portfolios visit www.abilitiesunitedart.smugmug.com.
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“FLOWER POWER”: FLORAL PAINTINGS IN OIL BY LINDA SALTER, AT THE PORTOLA ART GALLERY IN MENLO PARK. In the spirit of the “Summer of Love,” The Portola Art Gallery presents “Flower Power,” a collection of floral paintings in oil by Linda Salter. Salter said: “I like to imagine that I am painting a portrait of a particular flower and, as with a portrait of a person, I try to catch the mood or spirit of the flower.” Salter, who works primarily in oils and pastels, spent more than three decades as an instructor and administrator in California colleges, serving as president of Skyline College in San Bruno and chancellor of West Valley-Mission Community College District in Santa Clara County. Since retiring as chancellor more than a decade ago, she has studied with a number of artists who teach at local colleges, as well as at Gage Academy in Seattle, Scottsdale Artists’ School, and classical ateliers in the Bay Area. More information about her artwork is available online at www.lindasalter.com. “Flower Power” may be viewed through Sept. 30 at The Portola Art Gallery at Allied Arts Guild, 75 Arbor Road, Menlo Park. A public reception for the artist is scheduled for 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. 23.
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LACE MUSEUM HOLDS FALL SALE. The Lace Museum conducts its semi-annual sale on 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. 22-23. This fundraiser includes hundreds of vintage laces for special projects; vintage lace edged handkerchiefs; and vintage pillow cases, bedspreads, napkins and table runners. Vintage jewelry, needlepoint canvasses, craft books and magazines will also be offered. The museum gift shop offers heirloom quality lace products and a full line of lace making items. The Lace Museum is located at 552 S. Murphy Ave. in Sunnyvale. For more information go to: http://www.thelacemuseum.org or call (408) 730-4695.
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