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UPCOMING SHOW PREVIEW / SANTA BARBARA, CA
November 19-December 4, 2016Waterhouse Gallery
La Arcada Courtyard, 1114 State Street, Suite 9 | Santa Barbara, CA 93101
(805) 962-8885 | http://www.waterhousegallery.com32 years and counting
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aterhourse Gallery in Santa
Barbara, California, is celebrating
its 32nd anniversary of bringing top-
quality contemporary landscapes, urban
and figurative paintings to collectors in
California and beyond.
The show, which opens November 19 and
continues through December 4, will feature
artists such as Peter Adams, George
Bodine, Suchitra Bhosle, James Crandall,
Romel de la Torre, Casey Childs, Jeremy
Lipking, Matt Smith, Albin Veselka, Kyle
Ma and many others. As many as 90 pieces
are expected to be on view.
Michael Fitzpatrick will be bringing
his painting Island Sounds, which was
inspired from an idea of a model the
painter hired. “She is a young woman who
lives in rural Maui. She plays the ukulele—
in this case a baritone ukulele—works as a
farmer and chef and lives in a community
that works mostly on barter,” Fitzpatrick
says. “She came to Northern Cal to visit
her father for the summer and answered
an ad I ran for models. I was intrigued by
her story so we staged this scene near my
studio in Napa, California. The painting
is done mostly with a squeegee to createa quiet energy.”
In Hsin-Yao Tseng’s oil Chinese Old
House Interior, the painter lets soft light
cascade into two rooms that are joined
by a door that frames the subtle presence
of reflected sunlight. “It’s a depiction of
my grandmother and my mom’s former
home in Taiwan. I was visiting home this
past winter, and my mom took me there to
show me where she grew up. I felt really
emotional once I walked into this nostalgic
interior,” Tseng says. “This room used to
be my mom and her brothers’ study room.
That is exactly the meaning of the Chinese
character showed above the door. I could
see there were lots of stories in this houseeven though no one was living there
anymore. I looked beneath and painted the
surface to reveal what’s hidden and painted
the feeling.”
Tseng continues, “I am super excited
and grateful to be part of this great show.
I think this is my eighth time showing in
the Waterhouse anniversary show. I have
always had a wonderful time meeting new
artists and clients as well as catching up
with some old, good artist friends.”
In a portrait titled Pig Tails, Marci
Oleszkiewicz paints a young girl in a pink
overcoat with an oversized button. “My
painting Pig Tails was inspired by a trip
I took several years ago to China. It was1
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