Giorgi Gallery
is pleased to invite you to a concert “Caffe degli Artisti” featuring French and Italian songs by Due Zighi Baci on Saturday, January 21st 2012 at 7 pm
Giorgi Gallery presents
“Holidays in Paris”
Four French-American artists will present their most recent work at Giorgi Gallery. The show “Holidays in Paris” will be on display December 8th to 31st. Opening reception is on December 10 from 5 to 9 pm. The gallery visitors will then have the opportunity to meet the artists, enjoy some live music while sipping some wine: A great evening in perspective.
Fabienne Bismuth, Sculpture; Joe Boissy, Paintings; Elisabeth Michel-Meyrueix, Jewelry & Valerie Sobel, Mixed Media & Wearable Art.
French singer, Catherine Vincenti will perform with French opera arias and songs from well-known French singers like Edith Piaf or Yves Montand.
“Holidays in Paris”: a beautiful night, a night of beauty. Come enjoy this special event with us.
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Paul Graf has a degree from CCAC, and is currently a member of the Sculpture Faculty at the Academy of Art University in SF, as well as a yearly guest instructor at the Mendocino Art Center.
These “sculptural drawings” reflect his approach to the interface between 2 & 3 dimensional art, & the raised textures that are the graphic results. In different lightings and viewed from different angles, many aspects of the image come forward or recede as you move about. Rhythmic forms with subtle shifting are used to create atmospheres, or small worlds in their own right.
Tango Dancers
Dante sculptures combines ancient and modern rituals, extracting archetypes and stylized motifs. She pays homage to the many facets of the human spirit, characterized by warmth, humor and sometimes political commentary.” Much of her sculpture explores the dynamics between round organic forms and hard rigid angles. By exaggerating this interplay, her work creates a sense of tension which is both lively and sensual.
Dante has exhibited in numerous shows in the United States and Italy. She has been showcased exhibits such as “Art on the Rock at Alcatraz”, and “The Day of the Dead” Exhibition at The Museum of Mexican Art. In 1990, she received the prestigious Art of Peace Award from the Artist Embassy International for her sculpture “Woman’s Liberation”, which was chosen by the Oakland Art Commission as a gift to Nelson Mandela and the people of South Africa.
Elisabeth studied art and history in Paris and when she moved to the United States she started designing jewelry. When she travels around the world, she finds beautiful, antique, vintage or ethnic brooches and pendants that will become the focal pieces of her unique necklaces. She sometimes keeps those incredible finds for years before finding the right stones to compliment them. She works with fancy semi-precious stones and precious metals.
For her, a necklace is like a painting, colors and textures have to flow and blend together. And like paintings, she signs all her necklaces and bracelets with her unique tag.
She has been participating in artist’s open studios and art shows since 2003.
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Joint Album Release Concert: Jessie Turner and Emily Bezar
Sunday, December 4th 7pm – 10pm
The Giorgi Gallery 2911 Claremont Ave., Berkeley
Tickets: $12 at the door Reservations are recommended
please contact: demivox@emilybezar.com
Oakland singer-songwriters Jessie Turner and Emily Bezar present an evening of jazz, original songs and international music in celebration of the release of their new albums, Turner’s “Jazz International”, and Bezar’s “Fooled By Yesterday”.
JESSIE TURNER
Singer and songwriter Jessie Turner, best-known for her original compositions, follows the lead taken in her last CD in which she began her affair with international music. In this, her first CD primarily of covers, she takes us on a romantic journey through the Mexican Corrido, French Cabaret, Bossa, American Jazz, and other varied selections. This seemingly disparate collection of songs is firmly melded together by Turner’s supple vocals — pristine in the classical pieces, subtle and smoky in the jazz ballads, and many shades between and beyond.
http://jessieturner.bandcamp.com/album/jazz-international
EMILY BEZAR
Emily Bezar is an alchemist, a truly unique singer and composer who draws freely from classical, jazz, rock, pop and electronic music to create a sound world all her own. Her soaring voice and keyboard-centric arrangements have earned her comparisons to Kate Bush and Tori Amos as well as to jazz icon Keith Jarrett and rock legend Frank Zappa. Since 1993 she has released 5 albums of original music on her own label, DemiVox Records. Her new album ”Fooled By Yesterday” is her first recording to include keyboard improvisations and interpretations of classical and jazz standards.
“Haunting art-rock…beautifully synthesizes elements of new music, jazz and pop.” – Downbeat
http://emilybezar.bandcamp.com/album/fooled-by-yesterday
Giorgi Gallery
Hosts an afternoon tea and Fashion show with 4 Berkeley Designers
Sat Dec 3rd 2- 5pm
- Fine Chinese Green Tea- Taro Tea Cookies and other tea snacks
2911 Claremont Ave. Berkeley, Ca 94705
510-848-1228 www.giorgigallery.com
Xiaoyan Lin’s designs are a collection of modern woman’s clothing utilizing fine and unique European fabrics. It embodies simplicity, an elegant Asian influence, and architectural lines. Xiaoyan only produces limited quantities for high-end boutiques nationwide. Her pieces are truly beautiful and one of a kind.
Valerie Sobel’s designs are all about color and texture. She finds inspiration in her natural surroundings and uses materials such as wool fiber, silk and cotton. Each object is individually designed and handcrafted to create a unique piece of wearable art.
Jewelry by Dante Designs & Elisabeth Michel-Meyrueix
Giorgi Gallery Presents
SARAH WHITECOTTON
Encaustic & Acrylic Paintings
November 24, 2011 – December 4, 2012
Reception, November 26, 6-8PM
Encaustic is a painting method known as hot wax painting, Sarah uses melted beeswax applied to a rigid, porous, surface such as wood, stone, or plaster. She reheats the wax into a smooth or textured finish. Powdered pigment and oil paint and other mediums can be used to color the wax. Damar resin is used as a hardening and stabilizing agent for the wax. Heat guns, torches and irons are used to manipulate the wax and to apply heat to bond each layer together. The wax can be reheated and reworked, and because it is impervious to moisture it will not deteriorate.
Giorgi Gallery will hosts Katrin Arefy book launch party. Please join us for a short music performance and reading followed by wine, hors d’oeuvres and book signing.
Three local writers will read at the event, and three of her best piano students will perform their own pieces as well as pieces by Liszt, Tchaikovsky, and Scriabin. The performance will be short and suitable for both children and adults.
When: Sunday, November 20th , 6:30pm to 8:00pmThe reading and piano performance starts at 6:30pm.
The readers are W. Ross Ayers, Chana Wilson and Tobie Shapiro. The pianists are Elaine Jutamulia, Alborz Yazdi and Ruthie Dineen.
About the book: A Thousand Stories for a Little Pianist is a unique piano book that integrates the rich tradition of the Russian school of piano with beautiful folk and children’s songs mostly from Iran. The unique approach and teaching philosophy in this book focuses on love of music and creativity.
The book includes a full description of the teaching philosophy, 71 pieces of suggested music for beginning piano students and some dazzling full-page color illustrations.
A Thousand Stories for a Little Pianist is now available on Amazon.com.
http://www.amazon.com/Thousand-Stories-Little-Pianist-Imaginations/dp/1466239409/ref=pd_rhf_dp_cpp_tab0_p_t_
Katrin Arefy
Founder and Artistic Director Golden Key Piano School
1809 University Ave. Berkeley, CA 94703 Office: 510-665-5466
Web site: www.goldenkeypianoschool.com
Sarah Whitecotton has been an artist for more than 40 years. She received her B.F.A at the University of Oklahoma where she won several commendations in painting. One of her award winning work is owned by the University Museum.
In the late 1950’s she spent a summer session in Oaxaca and Mexico City where she became strongly influenced by the Mexican muralists and Rufino Tamayo. Her later paintings show this influence with her use of rich earth colors and muted pinks and greens reminiscent of Tamayo’s work.
After she switched to painting with her left hand in the 1970’s because of an old injury to her right hand that never healed properly, her works became more detailed and patterned with many layers of paint. She also experimented with collage using found objects, various papers and torn pieces of discarded art work.
Whitecotton has been described as a narrative painter. She has a unique style and is influenced by the surroundings and environment in which she lives. The California figurative artists, the Impressionists, the Fauve school of art and the German Abstract Expressionism have also had significant influence in her development as a professional artist
Her book, Sarah Whitecotton- Acrylics, Watercolors, Mixed Media, 1996-2010, is available for viewing and purchase: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1386120?ce=blurb_ew&utm_source=widget
Sarah Whitecotton exhibits at Giorgi Gallery from November 1st, 2011 to January 31st, 2012.
Fabienne Bismuth, a French-American artist puts femininity into three dimensions, capturing the power, glamor, beauty and vulnerability of the female form in bold yet sensuous bronze and cast stone sculptures. A biochemist by training, an artist by heart, influenced by great Bay Area instructors, Fabienne’s love for the human body evolved from a molecular level to an emotional one when she decided to pursue her passion as a sculptor full-time in 2001.
More recently her work has evolved to represent the powerful and fierce women. Those who could be seen in fashion magazines as well as in daily life: entrepreneurs, businesswomen, mothers and spouses who need to fit in so many different roles that they sometime forget their own self to become object of desire and admiration.
Esthetic, tenderness, attitude, translated in colorful, emotional bronzes sculptures have allowed FaB’s award-winning artwork to be represented in collections worldwide and to be been shown in galleries in California, Arizona and France.
Women are strong, sensuous, graceful.
I capture their feelings in movement, color and passion
I create each sculpture with my heart. My raw material is emotion, pain and joy, love, impossible dreams and terrible suffering.
My medium is clay. Energy, tenderness, struggle and bliss flow from my hands to model it. A pressure of the thumb, the cut of a tool, and the first line appears.
I let water drops fall on the piece. The journey is smooth, dripping from a shoulder to the hips, rolling down to die at the feet. The light bounces of the surface, the shadow becomes the curve’s secret. Round, sharp, deep; little by little the shape emerges.
I cast the finished piece in stone or bronze, to give it strength, texture and color.
Now the story is told, my work is ready to be seen, to be touched. My sculptures are voluptuous, please caress them. Their lines are smooth and strong. Like women they need to be loved. They have emotions, listen to them. They speak of the fight to become who we are, the dream for a world of harmony, the beauty of being alive, of being a woman, a human.
They tell our story.
