Please join us for a Gallery Reception, NFT Launch Party & Online Fundraiser Auction:

SATURDAY, July 24th from 6-10PM!!

GDCA is pleased to announce our July, 2021 Group Exhibition, "Silhouette"

Featured  Artists 

Michele Castagnetti, Teri Dryden, Maureen Haldeman, Karen Hansen, Suki Kuss, Stephen Schubert , Linda Stelling & Cody York.

Exhibition Dates: July 7th - July 31st, 2021

ART WALK IS BACK - Thursday, July 8th from 5pm - 9pm. 

JOIN US FOR AN IN-PERSON GALLERY RECEPTION - Saturday, July 24th from 6pm - 10pm.

VIRTUAL CLOSING RECEPTION -  SATURDAY, July 31st from 6PM - 8PM (PST)!  

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GDCA is pleased to announce our July  2021 Solo Exhibition:

Cynthia Ann Swan:  "Deja Vu"

"Deja Vu" is a retrospective selection of the glass artist's most celebrated series.

Cynthia Ann Swan

“Dejavu”

ArtistStatement

"Déjà vu is a limited retrospective of my work created in three of my earlier collections, Autumn-Winter 2012, Black & White 2013, and Snowflakes 2013. The work has been curated to share four cohesive characteristics: chronology, palette, presentation, and nostalgic reference. The title intends a double meaning, the literal experience of viewing these pieces with the sense of having seen them before, and the figurative reflection of time and memory as emotionally charged moments of repetition.

These three collections were created at three different times, and embraced. three different concepts: seasonal change, one magical night of the Jellicle Moon, and the celebration of winter beauty contrasted against the threat of its destruction and the melting ice caps. What unites them is that they all represent a strong trigger for my own personal sense of déjà vu, back east winters of childhood memory.

Experts tell us that memory, stress, and fatigue create the perfect storm for déjà vu. No wonder, then, we are all part of this surrealistic collective reflection. The world has just passed through a tumultuous year of fear, loss, and sorrow. In the chaos, anger, and isolation, we have found ourselves grasping for bits of normalcy, the “beforetimes” of memory, before the sickness, before the death, before the disconnection. Have we been here before?Can we go back again?But we cannot go “home”, again. All we have is now, and “now... what”?  "

- Cynthia Ann Swan

Michele Castagnetti

"It is only through symbols of beauty that our poor spirits can raise themselves from things temporal to things eternal. - Abbé Suger

Teri Dryden

My process of uniting color, shape, line and texture focuses on finding that place by creating complex surfaces only to cover them, leaving only what is necessary." 

- Teri Dryden

"The circumstances we’ve faced during this past year have caused many of us to rearrange our priorities, change our focus, and allowed us time to contemplate things we did not have time to concentrate on before.

This refocus has had a definite effect on my life, as well as on my work.

As a visual artist, this shift has afforded me the time to slow down and appreciate scenes I have photographed before with a keener sense of awareness and to consider them from a different perspective.

I have always found solace at the seashore. The ocean with its various moods has inspired much of my previous work; many of my most contemplative photographs are of the sea.
In this series my perspective has changed from encompassing the whole landscape to contemplating the details of the Tidelands, the land submerged at high tide and revealed when the tide recedes. This overlap between land and sea exposes a subtle beauty that is not always immediately apparent; shifting light and shadows, textures, patterns, designs and miniature landscapes are revealed, including the magical world contained just below the surface of the shallow waters in the tidepools.

Just as the retreating tide reveals the Tideland, so does the ebb and flow of our personal tideland reveal and conceal different aspects of our psyches … and just as the ebb tide hides the sand below it, when feelings are dismissed or overlooked they don’t disappear but are just quickly hidden again.
It is by recognizing, accepting and honoring the feelings that lie below the surface, that we can better learn to understand one another, and ourselves, in the hope of becoming a more complete person." -  Maureen J. Haldeman

"These paintings are offered as serene resting places from our hectic, complex world. They are moments of reprieve." - Karen Hansen

Suki Kuss 

“In this latest exhibition, I have continued my exploration of balance, space and texture. In this new series, Altar of the Sun, I have created work with hand made and hand dyed sheets of paper. The papers have dictated a shift in my work as I’m using a colorful palette as well as wild bird feathers.

"Skid Row Conversations is an ongoing project- a journey of mine that began in the fall of October 2019 where I began roaming a section of DTLA (Downtown Los Angeles), a 4.32 square mile grid known as skid row having open conversations with its residents. The visual and abstract expressions presented in this series are a result of those conversations.

1. " Curving” A middle aged woman named " Gloria." I came upon her pushing along a shopping cart on 7th Street. Without much interaction she began to forage through her belongings and came to find a picture - she was proud to show. A woman in her early 20's, curvy-stunning-bright and beautiful.

2. " Weeping Woman" The outline of the woman figure holding a cup begging for spare change. We can see red tears trickling down her body creating a river below. She never once looked up at me.

3. " Yearbook" A three-dimensional abstract look into the souls of the cast of characters who live on Skid Row. This shadow painting is intended not by name but rather depth and color of the multiple personalities.

4. " Hobo Heaven"Conversation with a religious man who felt Skid Row was the last place he would live before heaven. I asked him what and where is heaven? He looked into my eyes then pointed to the sky above DTLA (downtown Los Angeles). - Bill Sherwood

"What is it like to inhabit this world expressing myself through color, form and movement?

I’m always trying a to scratch a little deeper into this question.

What is the space like between what is and what is about to be?

This is where my explorative enthusiasm comes out to play through my use of vibrant colors and my favorite tool, the spackle knife.

I drag and smear and tease out the painting watching it emerge and even changing my emotions as I go.

In  my work, “Above the City”, I started with a vertical blue color field and then layered on different areas to add both weight and lightness.

My color choices are designed to energize and soothe simultaneously.

Notice the fiery red and heavy blacks at the base which ascend to calming pinks and bluish whites above.

Emotions, thoughts, our choices and reactions to the world are hardly ever simple and linear.

I am usually trying to reconcile diversity and inner conflict, find peaceful places, seeking to find balance and integration.

Now I know much of this is unconscious.

My goal is to invite you to go on the ride and have your own experience.

My work acts like a chalkboard for my life changes and beliefs both good and bad as I explore this world through my art.

I created my work this way to attract you, move you, feed you and perhaps guide you to deeper place inside yourself.

I believe this helps us better connect to others as well.

May this assist you in any way that talks to you on your life journey." - Stephen Schubert 

Linda Stelling

"Sunlight feeds everything I do. The studio where I work is built like a big treehouse overlooking colorful gardens and water features and from this point of view I can focus my energy. ... I strive to bring as much joy and love into the work because I feel like this is why we are here on this planet, to “Dream Love” - Linda Stelling

"I follow my interests and listen to the language that begins to form around them." - Cody York