MARCH ART EXHIBIT Cynthia Myers, Glass, and Peter Dobbins, Photography: March 4 - 28, Reception Mar. 5, NOON - 5 PM

Our March Exhibit will feature two visiting artists who are outstanding in their work.

Peter Dobbins started his career as ship’s photographer on the U.S.S. Rochester, often the Flag Ship of the Seventh Fleet in the Far East, He attended the U. of Alabama, and the Art Center School in L.A.—a leading fine and commercial art school—to study in their photography department (now the Art Center College of Design).

After a few years of working as a photo-assistant for advertising free-lancers and agencies in L.A. and the Bay Area, Peter co-founded Cohen Dobbins Photography, with a studio in the Ramparts village area, later moved to Beverly Hills. In Peter’s take on his work:

“Dealing with art directors and agencies was certainly stressful but boy was it a hell of a teacher! A client would call with the need for any kind of photograph from, still life, aerial, landscape, portrait, underwater, industrial, fashion to??? Often, needed props required our manufacture as well, sometimes on very short notice with a bit of bargaining thrown in. Too often an agency would leave our small business hanging and after a couple of years of increased stress and overhead we were ready for a change and I left the business to Mike. I spent the next year shooting a little for The LA Times Magazine but mostly shooting just for myself, but I was seriously burnt out and my wife and I decided that moving to the country was the thing!

“I am some kind of a Zen Buddhist. I love the Japanese poetry forms of haiku and senryū, austere poetry that is meant to give you an instant visual hit of truth from mere words. In my images, I seek something similar to the audial experience one feels in the immediate aching silence at the end of the last note of an organ in a cathedral or a gong in a temple as those last notes are still ring in your head.

“The large piece hanging free is of Point Arena denizens who came to town in costume on a Halloween night back in the ‘80s. It is not wholly mine but was setup and shot by Cohen Dobbins photography- getting together for the purpose of creating a Point Arena self-portrait. (A pro bono job that we did again by popular demand the following year).”

Selected photos by Peter and glass pieces by Cynthia are shown following. We will have some notes on Cynthia Myers work later.