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January Clean up days


Feb. 3-26 Reception Friday Feb. 3, 12-5pm Insight into Love a Valentine's Day Exhibition.


March 3-26 Reception Sat. March 4, 3 PM to 7pm: Bea Acosta, baskets & River Wilder, photographer


April 1-29 Reception Sat. April 22, 3 PM to 7 pm: Almost Fringe exhibition and Point Arena community event


May 4-28 Reception, Friday May 5, 3 pm to 7 pm: Siobhan, hand painted silk scarves & Nicolette Kaliebe hand painted leather


June 1-25 Reception,Saturday, June 3, 3-7 pm Jackie Gardner, assemblage and collage & Betty Covington, quilts fabric art


July 1-30 July 4th parade Pt. Arena, & reception TBD Emma Hurley and Rio, Ceramics and Clothing & Amanda Pence painting mixed media


Aug. 3-27 Reception Sat. August 5, 3-7 pm Maryse Frivold, beaded jewelry and Sarah Frivold. photography and graphic art


Sept. 1-24 Reception Saturday, Sept 2. 3-7 pm Deborah Threlkel, Abalone Queen Jewelry


October 5-29 Reception, Sat.7 , 3-7 pm Colette Coad, art glass & Miriam Owen, collage


Nov. 2-26 Reception Friday, Sept.3, 3-7 pm Jeannie and Michael Henderson, weaving, ceramic & Ink drawings


Dec. 2-30 Hometown holidays opening TBA Hometown holidays CHAC Holiday Magic fair opening



Insight into Love



FEBRUARY - VALENTINES EXHIBITION



When Valentine’s Day rolls around each year, hearts, chocolates, flowers and wine have come to symbolize romantic love. So, ask a group of artists to interpret other kinds of love through their art, and the result is a thought-provoking exhibit that will challenge the viewer to think, and maybe to love, differently.


This year, the collective is welcoming the community and inviting them to participate in expressing their love with an art wall. Guests can draw, paint, collage, write or place photos or objects onto a piece that will be hung in the gallery. Supplies will be provided, but personal additions or special objects are welcome to be included.


Featured guests for this show are Emma Hurley, Ocean-themed graphic design apparel line and functional ceramics and Lauren Sinnott, muralist, mixed media and fabric. The show runs from Feb. 3 to Feb. 25 during regular gallery hours.


Hurley was born and raised in Point Arena, and uses the natural world as her muse. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Conservation Biology with a marine emphasis from a liberal arts school in Prescott, Arizona. Bridging career work as a fisheries biologist and an environmental educator with her ocean-centric lifestyle of surfing, Emma created a line of ocean art apparel: NorthCoast Brine. Beginning with her original pen and ink drawings, images are screen printed onto her carefully selected garment line. Inspired by the life and environment of the cold brine waters off of Northern California, her goal with the line is to encourage stewardship and provide advice on sustainable seafood.


Sinnott lives in Point Arena and always supported her sons and herself with art and rentals.“ I took jobs ranging from ornate murals to dog portraits, from tombstone design to painting a grinning pirate on the High School basketball court floor. I sewed a life-size torso complete with all female reproductive parts for a doctor. I created the Velvet Vulva line of purses for the feminist and enlightened market. I painted curbs and hemmed pants. Business signs and design services were a mainstay. We took in a parade of roommates to make ends meet. The house was teeming with the boys and their friends, and is still full of books and paintings,” recalls Sinnott. Sinnott recently completed a huge historical mural on the north wall of the Ukiah Valley Conference Center. She says the mural is a public work for everyone and about everyone. It contains over two-hundred portraits so far and tells many stories of people who live here now. She is currently working on another mural in Fort Bragg, depicting the towns history “From Finland to Fort Bragg.“ See both at www.historymural.com.




video of OPENING RECEPTION, feb. 3
insight into love
valentine's day exhibition



A short video taken at the opening reception for the CHAC gallery, Point Arena, February art exhibit: 𝙄𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙤 𝙇𝙤𝙫𝙚. Local artist Jon Handel introduces the wide array of the gallery's Valentine's Day themed art offerings, and describes some fun, self-directed projects for visitors to create Valentine's Day cards or poetry for their loved ones. The materials are provided free. Gallery visitors provide the talent and creativity, and created items can be taken away by the romantics, or they can remain on display through February, 2023. The projects table and the Insight into Love art exhibit run through February, Fridays through Sundays, 11 - 4 PM.



MARCH EXHIBIT -
BEA ACOSTA & RIVER WILDER
BASKETRY, CERAMICS, AND PHOTOGRAPHY



The Exhibit will run from Mar. 3 to Mar. 26. The Reception for the artists will be held on Mar. 4, from 3 PM to 7 PM.


Bea Acosta is a local artist known for her ceramic masks and pine needle baskets. Acosta’s pine needle baskets use needles from across the USA , her favorites are the Montezeuma pine and Chir Pine. Bea looks for flexible, supple needles that have already fallen from the trees. Using a variety of colored wax linen , beads, cabochons, and recycled jewelry her baskets can bloom into normal form baskets or creations (nonbaskets) incorporating geometric shapes , angles and negative space. Her creations talk to Acosta, soon the artist and the materials meld, glide and flow into the existence of a pleasing form. Bea has the knack of combining colors that entice and stimulate the brain . “FORMS FROM NATURE” will exhibit new work using cordage Acosta has made from local Watsonia leaves, Amaryllis leaves, sea grass, and sweet grass. Making cordage is a many step process from gathering and drying the leaves to mellowing, splitting to finally wrapping . A neutral or brown wax lined thread is used to weave the baskets. Bea has incorporated buttons, albalone shell, pottery beads and stones into the basket forms. These small baskets embody the organic natural life surrounding our coast communicating and giving homage to Mother Earth.


River Wilder recently moved to the Mendocino Coast from San Francisco, and has been a fine art and commercial photographer since 1988. Fusing narrative portraits and still lifes with coastal environments far and near, her work aims to capture the transitory landscape between memory and the moment. She has assembled for this exhibition a self curated series of images from her Limbic Art collection, chosen from over 30 years of archives for the purpose of exploring and examining a complex relationship of monochromatic exposures with expressionistic color. Using various photographic techniques, including film, darkroom, and digital capture to first create monochromatic images, River then goes about carefully painting in specific colors selected for their emotional impact or narrative qualities.






The following pieces are from the artist's studio collection, or may be on exhibit with other selections at our Point Arena gallery. You may telephone the gallery or use the email form on our About page to inquire about current availability, or if you have any enquiries about the pieces shown here.



Acosta



Acosta



Acosta



Wilder



Wilder



Wilder



November exhibit -Chinese Brush Painting & jewelry
Andrea Allen & Ling-Yen Jones



Ling-Yen Jones is well-known on the local art scene as well as internationally-known for her intricately hand-tooled silver jewelry, incorporating semi-precious stones, pearls, copper and a large dose of whimsey. Her style ranges from the traditional to the modern, and is completely unique. All of her pieces are individually handmade, and are therefore one-of-a-kind or in small series with repeating motifs. Jones trained with David Laplantz at Humboldt State University, at Monterey Peninsula College, and various Mendocino Art Center workshops and assistantships.


In addition to a grueling travel schedule to exhibits and show venues all over the country, she is also the gallery coordinator of the Coast Highway Artist Collective in Point Arena. “I define jewelry as creations, which are useful, artistic, symbolic, identifying and an expression of personal ideas,” says Jones. “In my earring line some of the motifs I use are leaves, birds, and windows. When these elements and others are integrated into a piece they can represent new beginnings, changes, hope, and further growth in ones self. My intention for each one-of-a-kind piece are that it is clean looking, distinctive, and artistically rendered.” Jones continues “the pieces with the Asian-like faces are inspired by the feminine, graceful and romantic scenes of the Ukiyo-E period of Japanese art.


The piece “Unmentionables” has different faces, all expressions of surprise, serenity, wonder, and ecstasy. On the back of the piece there are hidden hand cut flowers, roller printed leaf patterns, and scenes of paired lovers. Ukiyo-E, or images of the floating world, were representations of the everyday life of Japan in the 16th through the 19th centuries. This piece brings together my own interest in the expressive power of faces, while exploring the serenity and grace of the everyday in my own time.


” As a Chinese Brush Artist, Andrea Allen has developed a unique style that combines the traditions of the Chinese Masters with a subtle, contemporary flair. She studied with a Chinese master for six years and has been painting in this ancient style for over three decades.

Allen utilizes many ancient Chinese techniques such as grinding her own Sumi Ink, often mixing it with watercolor, loading the calligraphy brush, and applying it to handmade rice paper, with a minimal number of strokes to complete each painting. She carefully balances the painted and unpainted spaces in each composition, creating a tranquil flow throughout each painting. Ancient Chinese symbolism and philosophy influence her work, enhancing the feeling of vital energy and serenity. The inherent effect is for the viewer to be effortlessly invited into each painting, to experience a peaceful balance and harmony in a timeless continuum.

Allen has exhibited extensively throughout the Bay Area, Marin County and the Mendocino coast. She also has collectors throughout the United States and Asia. She also teaches classes for beginning and experienced students. She welcomes creating custom paintings upon request.



video of artist interviews AT OPENING RECEPTION, November 4: Andrea allen, chinese brush painting,
& Ling-yen jones, jewelry



Interviews with artists Andrea Allen and Ling-Yen Jones describing selected pieces of their work for the November, 2022 exhibit at the Coast Highway Artists Collective (CHAC) gallery in Point Arena, CA. Andrea discusses her Chinese Brush Painting techniques employed on a variety of framed and screen-hung paintings, ceramic dishware, vases, and other ornamental ceramics. Ling-Yen discusses her inspirations and materials shown in her unique jewelry evoking historic Edo Period art styles in Japan. Her bracelets, necklaces, rings, and accessories feature carved sterling silver shapes, semi-precious stones, and engraved designs of exotic cranes.



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