West Coast
Going for the Gold
Historic club brings together top artists from across the state and beyond
 NIGHT LIGHTS BY PO PIN LIN |
PASADENA • The California Art Club unveils its annual Gold Medal Juried Exhibition at the Pasadena Museum of California Art on April 27. The show draws on the rich history of both fine art in California and the club itself. Founded in 1909 by an informal group of male artists known as the Los Angeles Painters Club, the club aspired to encourage the participation of women and sculptors in the California art community. The CAC hosted its first Gold Medal Exhibition two years later, and it, like the CAC itself, has grown in size and diversity over the decades. The exhibition now features plein-air landscapes, portraits, still lifes, and sculptures by more than 100 of the nation’s leading fine artists, including Po Pin Lin, Nancy Popenoe, Ray Roberts, John Budicin, and Kevin Macpherson. The annual exhibition, which is the club’s largest fundraiser, supports the CAC’s mission to promote traditional fine arts, to create and promote exhibits that nurture understanding of art heritage and California history, and to furnish educational opportunities in fine arts. The show runs through May 18, and this year’s exhibition will also feature a lecture series on different facets of traditional fine art. For more information: 626.583.9009 or www.californiaartclub.com.
Denman’s Creatures
LAFAYETTE • Pacific Wildlife Galleries hosts a solo show featuring more than 20 new works by Andrew Denman April 12-May 3. The show highlights Denman’s acrylic paintings of wildlife subjects ranging from California birds to exotic species from across the globe. Denman frequents zoos, parks, and nature areas to ensure that he faithfully depicts his subjects. However, the painter emphasizes that while he prizes accuracy, he is an artist before a naturalist. This stance leads him to paint with a sense of fearless experimentation that combines hyper-realism, stylization, and abstraction in a distinctive fashion. He often incorporates subjects traditional wildlife artists do not; he paints animals in their natural habitats and juxtaposes them against abstract backgrounds and also paints landscapes and still lifes. For more information: 925.283.2977 or www.andrewdenman.com.
California Terrain
From palm trees to the Pacific Ocean
 EAST WIND-13PALMS BY HILDA E. KILPATRICK |
VENTURA • Hilda E. Kilpatrick’s solo show entitled The Season of Color runs April 1-27 at Buenaventura Gallery. Kilpatrick was born into a family of artists (her grandmother was a pianist and her mother an avid painter) in the art-filled colonial city of Trujillo, Peru, so it seemed natural that she, too, would become involved in the arts. Her career, however, has followed a less predictable trajectory — she initially earned a scholarship to pursue language studies in Italy and backpacked across Europe until her funds ran out. While abroad, Kilpatrick encountered the works of her favorite painters, Matisse and van Gogh. She then moved to the United States, where she furthered her education in the arts and studied under California artist Marcia Cummings. She has since won acclaim for her impressionism-inspired renditions of nature, which feature her adopted home state of California depicted in warm and sunny colors. For more information: 805.648.1235 or www.hildakilpatrick.com.
At the Movies & More
Whether you take a trip to your local theater or rent the DVD, see if you can spot Brad Durham’s moody treescape, between ways, or Vahe Berberian’s bold minimalist painting, eurus, in I Am Legend, a movie starring Will Smith as a brilliant scientist with an incurable virus. The artworks were licensed to Warner Bros. Pictures by Film Art LA, a Los Angeles-based company that represents artworks for reproduction in the film, publishing, and advertising industries…. The annual Masters of the American West Fine Art Exhibition and Sale unfolded at the Autry National Center in February. Robert Griffing’s council at slippery rock won the Masters of the American West Purchase Award. The Patrons’ Choice and Artists’ Choice Awards went to Morgan Weistling for his painting first dance, 1884
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