Gettin' mighty crowded (Updated Sunday, February 27, 2005, 5:51 AM)
With the Rogue Festival kicking off this week and the Fresno Philharmonic and Tulare County Symphony both performing next weekend, and Leonard Nimoy in town to boot, the Valley arts calendar is going to be unusually crowded. The 2005 edition of the Rogue, which will feature roughly 150 performances, kicks off Thursday during ArtHop. Some of the ArtHop exhibits will be part of the festival, but there will be plenty more to see. Think of it as an arts bonanza. And the good thing about art exhibits is that they last for a while, so if you can't see everything during ArtHop, there will be time later. For more info about ArtHop, visit http://www.fresnoarts.org/, or call the Fresno Arts Council at (559) 237-9734. For more info about the Rogue Festival, visit roguefestival.com, or call (559) 709-1464. Ashtree Studios once again will play host to the main visual portion of the Rogue, and will feature the works of five visual artists through March 31. Featured artists will be Aileen R. Imperatrice, Shannon Johnson, Robert Weibel, JoAnne Yada and Jami Zechman. The opening reception, 5-9 p.m. Thursday, also will feature back-to-back live preview performances from the Rogue. Ashtree is at 1035 N. Fulton St. Regular gallery hours are 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays, 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Fridays and 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturdays. For more info, call (559) 268-3693.
Fresno artist Marcos Dorado also will have a Rogue-affiliated show, titled "Neo-Eroticism (The New York Show)," opening Thursday during ArtHop at the new 3 Brush Gallery, 2932 Fresno St. For more info, call (559) 442-0072. Gallery 25 and Fig Tree Over at Gallery 25, at 1526 Fulton St., gallery member Piet Ogata will display a new body of work, featuring large-scale oil paintings with horses as the subject matter. Guest artist Reza Assemi will exhibit work from a series called "Empty Spaces." The series is made up of work that explores through realism something that has held value. The exhibits will open during ArtHop, 5-8 p.m. Thursday, and will continue through March 27. Regular gallery hours are noon-3 p.m. Fridays and 1-4 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. For more info, call (559) 264-4092 Right next door to Gallery 25, at 1536 Fulton St., Fig Tree Gallery will exhibit an invitational featuring work by guests of gallery members. Artists who will have work on display include Dal Henderson, Adam Longatti, FranCisco Vargas and Jami Zechman. The exhibit will open during ArtHop and run through March 27. Another reception will be held 2-5 p.m. March 6. Regular gallery hours are noon-4 p.m. Fridays-Sundays. For more info, call (559) 485-0460. Chris Sorensen Studio Chris Sorensen Studio will feature the paintings of Chris' son, John Sorensen, in "30 Years of John," Tuesday-March 31. The exhibit will be open during ArtHop, 5-9 p.m. Regular hours are 9 a.m.- 4 p.m. Mondays-Fridays. The studio is at 2205 S. Van Ness Blvd. For more info, call (559) 237-4934. College of the Sequoias Down in Visalia, the College of the Sequoias Art Gallery will present an exhibition of paintings by Irena Kononova, a Russian-born artist who lives in the Bay Area. Kononova will be present during the opening reception, 5-7 p.m. Tuesday at the gallery, and will discuss her unusual technique of combining oil paint, sand and marble dust on canvas. Kononova grew up in St. Petersburg, Russia, where she attended art school, before moving to the United States in the 1980s as a teenager. She graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. She also received a master's degree in art from Leningrad State University in the former Leningrad, Russia (now St. Petersburg). She has exhibited all over the United States, as well as internationally. The College of the Sequoias Art Gallery is located on the ground floor of the Fine Arts and Mathematics building, room 214A, on the COS campus. Regular gallery hours are 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Mondays-Thursdays. For more info, call (559) 737-4861. -- The Fresno Bee |
