Another first this year was a ceramics gallery, a photography gallery, and several beautiful installations, including Flora Kao’s lush morphing of the local pier and a Taiwanese avocado grove, below.
719 works of art were submitted with 148 being shown.
Here’s a small taste:
Scott Trimble, above, an artist local to Hermosa Beach, with his beautifully evocative oil on linen work, “Worry Not, for perfection is merely a notion.”
Above, L. Aviva Diamond with her delicate black and white photography – a simple feather and water droplets create a lustrous universe in “Tiny Immensity #11.”
Below, Peggy Zask’s incredible, life-size metal sculpture of a horse is poignant and perfect.
Below, artist Steve Seleska stands next to his richly textured abstract mixed media work.
Below, Kristine Schomaker’s jubilant black and white image of her body in motion captures a reflection of another body contemplating her work, “Plus 14 (Crowne Plaza, October 7, 2017.”
Below, Erika Snow Robinson uses mixed media to explore “The Landscape of Cancer (Sucks).”
Lena Moross’ large-scale watercolor is a visual feast, above; equally immersive is Cudra Clover’s painted silk “Mr. Limpet’s Secret Garden,” below.
Showing the wide range of materials used to create in this exhibition, below, Nancy K. Boyd works in fused glass with “Setting Sun.”
Photography on metal, below with Katrim Cooper’s “Poolside 1.”
Above, Susan Melly with her table sculpture.
A terrific fundraiser at the opening: attendees could pose against a chosen background for a photograph mounted on wood – no ordinary snapshot souvenir, as seen above.
The bling-tastic work of Diane Strack, above.
Katarina Stiller’s ceramics, above.