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Fashion Show & Afternoon Tea Saturday, December 3rd

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Nov 282011

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

giorgigallery@gmail.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

"Holidays in Paris" 4 French Artists at Giorgi Gallery until Dec. 31st

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Nov 212011

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.

http://www.sculpturebyfab.com http://rightfocus.com/

www.em-meyrueix.com http://www.zoobywooby.com/

Wine Tasting & Jazz Piano Nov. 19

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Nov 162011

Sarah Whitecotton, Encaustic & Acrylic Paintings Nov. 24 to Dec. 4 at Giorgi Gallery

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Nov 092011

Giorgi Gallery Presents

SARAH WHITECOTTON

Encaustic & Acrylic Paintings

November 24, 2011 – December 4, 2012

Reception, November 26, 6-8PM

www.sarahwhitecotton.com

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.

"A Thousand Stories for a Little Pianist" by Katrin Arefy, Book Launch at Giorgi Gallery

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Nov 092011

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, Paintings, Watercolors & Mixed Media

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Oct 122011

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

sarahsart@bigplanet.com

www.sarahwhitecotton.com

Sarah Whitecotton exhibits at Giorgi Gallery from November 1st, 2011 to January 31st, 2012.

Fabienne Bismuth, Sculptor

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Oct 122011

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.

http://www.sculpturebyfab.com

sculpturebyfab@me.com

George Long, Abstract Painter at Giorgi Gallery Nov.3 to Nov.22

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Oct 112011

George Long Abstract Paintings

Opening Reception Nov. 5th 5 pm to 9 pm

Exhibition runs Nov. 3rd thru Nov 22 th

www.georgelongartist.com

George Long has been painting and living in San Francisco since 1977 and developing an abstract style reminiscent of the New York school of abstract expressionism. From large canvases to small works on paper he tries to capture the spontaneity of line and the kinetic energy behind the strokes. He is in collections in New York, California, and Europe.

2911 Claremont Ave. Berkeley /@ Ashby

Gallery hours Thur-Sun 12-6pm

510-848-1228 or 510 234-2989

www.giorgigallery.com handsonsculpture@sbcglobal.net