There Is Always Something Happening At The Mendocino Art Center

There Is Always Something Happening At
The Mendocino Art Center
Yarrow Summers
July Gallery Exhibits
Main & Nichols Galleries
“SUDDEN VOICES”
Bay Area and Mendocino County Artists
August Gallery Exhibits
Main Gallery
DAVE FRIEDMAN
“Summer of ‘42”
Photography Retrospective
Nichols Gallery
YARROW SUMMERS &
THAïS MAZUR
“Dancing Between Worlds”
Painting & Sculpture
September Gallery
Exhibits
Main Gallery
OPEN STUDIO TOUR ARTISTS
All-Media
Nichols Gallery
TAPESTRY WEAVERS
Jean Pierre Larochette, Yael Lurie,
and Friends
Upcoming Events
51st Annual
Summer Arts &
Crafts Fair
Saturday & Sunday,
July 17 & 18,
10 am – 5 pm
“Summer of ‘42”
40th Anniversary Screening
August 28
Crown Hall
Sunshine Taylor
Artists Open Studio
Tour
September 18-19 &
25-26,
11 am – 6 pm
Visit www.MendocinoArtCenter.org
for updates
2nd Saturday Artists Receptions each
month at 5 pm
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Mendocino Art Center
45200 Little Lake Street at Kasten Street, Mendocino
707 937-5818 • 800 653-3328 • www.MendocinoArtCenter.org

Experience Inspiration At
The Mendocino Art Center
Retreat Style Workshops
Ceramics • Fiber Arts
Fine Art • Jewelry • Sculpture
51st Annual
Summer Arts & Crafts Fair
Saturday & Sunday, July 17 & 18,
10 am – 5 pm
51st Annual Thanksgiving
Arts & Crafts Fair
Friday & Saturday,
November 26 & 27, 10 am – 5 pm
Original High Quality Art from Juried
Northern California Artists
Unique Gift Items
Festive Food & Drink
Free Admission
Monthly Gallery Exhibits
Paintings • Ceramics • Photography
Sculpture • Jewelry • Wearable Art
Live Music at the Summer Fair
Mariko Irie
Susan Barnes
Jie Zhou
Open Daily • 10 am - 5 pm
Mendocino Art Center
45200 Little Lake Street at Kasten Street, Mendocino
707 937-5818 • 800 653-3328 • www.MendocinoArtCenter.org
Peter Bailey
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Seeing the Forest
and the Trees:
The Art of Linda MacDonald
by Marge Stewart
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by Dot Brovarney
Artist Linda MacDonald works on the edge, both
literally and figuratively. After living on the land out
Covelo Road for seven years in the 1970s, she and her
family moved into Willits. From this vantage point on
the edge of Mendocino’s inland forests, she’s spent
thirty years observing life in the woods as well as in her
community. MacDonald has chronicled her observations,
from the timber boom of the 1970s and 80s to
its bust in the 1990s and 2000s, in her artwork. Many
of her pieces record the continuing saga of the North
woods region – which has become largely a life-afterlogging
story.
The artist, who began as a painter, switched to
textiles in the 1980s, and soon combined the two,
before returning
to canvas
in the past few
years.
“ F i b e r
was just more
practical than
oil paints with
my studio in
the middle of
the house and
little kids running
around,”
M a c D o n a l d
explains. “And,
living out in
the country, I
got involved in
Photo by Ree Slocum
women’s quilting groups.”
Entering a Master’s program at San Francisco
State in 1989 pushed MacDonald to focus her work.
She says, “Graduate school was the catalyst for a shift
in my art work. I had to ask myself, ‘What do I want to
communicate’”
It turned out that the rural place she’d chosen to
live was a big part of the answer.
“What’s been interesting to me is what’s been
going on in Mendocino County,” explains the artist.
“Mendocino County’s problems reflect California’s
problems and I feel emotionally connected to them.”
Her breakthrough piece from this creative period was
the 1992 triptych titled Spotted Owl vs. the Chain Saw.
C o m p r i s e d
of separate
painted and
hand quilted
fabric panels,
the series
addressed the
conflict over
North Coast
habitat loss
that had been
mounting for
several years
among advocates
for the
environment,
forestry officials,
and log-

The Forest Drum
ging companies.
“Although some say my work is ‘environmental
art,’ I think of it as narrative about how we as humans
relate to nature,” MacDonald says.
Her wit and sensitivity have led MacDonald
to approach controversial subjects with a sense of
humor, defusing some of the tension. In Trespasser,
part of the Spotted Owl series, a logging operation
appears to inhabit her owl – its eyes become circular
saw blades and its feathers, log ends. As its feathers fly,
one can almost see the blades spinning.
Bearing witness to industrial decimation of large
stands of North Coast trees at a pace faster than they
could be replaced, MacDonald produced a number of
painted fiber pieces including Forest of 2 x 4s (2001)
and Tree Park (2002).
Logging as a viable industry in Mendocino County
has passed on. Nonetheless, MacDonald continues to
weigh in on the subject of North Coast forests, their
condition, and how people relate to them. Her questions
remain valid and compelling.
MacDonald’s recent work tackles issues such
as the value of wildlands and wildlife and whether
humans are willing to make compromises and sacrifices
to save them. As ever, her humor draws the eye
and her rich, detailed imagery commands attention.
Her narrative skills pick up from there, often guaranteeing
a wild ride.
The 2005 painted fiber work Trees, Lumber,
Houses, and People, comprised of twelve images in
stitched sections, essentially tells a story in a dozen
chapters. Chapter one shows the full forest, subsequent
chapters depict saws, axes, logs, milled lumber,
a house under construction, and the inevitable forest
of stumps.
The Forest Drum, (2006) done in oil on paper,
recalls the graphic look of some of MacDonald’s
early quilt work. Using her knack for double (and
even triple or sometimes quadruple meaning), the
artist conveys the overwhelming power of the timber
The Everything Tree
oil on canvas, 28”h x 20”w, 2009
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“machine,” with its stump treads, as it crushes great
swaths of forest like a tank indiscriminately plowing
down armies on the battlefield.
MacDonald’s 2008 oil on canvas, The Logging
River, is a visual metaphor for industry’s impact on
The Logging River
oil on canvas, 25”h x 31”w, 2008
watersheds. Logging tools and wood products float
in a narrow arc of river in the foreground. A single
row of trees stands at the water’s edge, hardly sufficient
to obscure the forest devastation in the background,
which occupies two thirds of the canvas.
The Everything Tree (2009) encapsulates
MacDonald’s narrative shift from harvesting
redwoods for timber profits to preserving
redwoods for tourist income. The humor in
the detail here is especially effective, playing
off the kitsch that is a tradition in
Redwood Country. The artist exaggerates
reality, but leaves kernels of truth aplenty.
The Everything Tree is, as MacDonald says,
“a high use tree,” now bearing the burden for
supporting a rural population without logging
jobs. A spotted owl perches on a branch;
a satellite dish is attached on the trunk nearby;
a television set tuned to an Indian chief
in full headdress sits in the canopy; strings of
Christmas lights twinkle; and a hanging rope
(or is it a swinging rope) dangles above.
Despite forest depletion and unemployment
on the North Coast, Linda MacDonald
remains optimistic. She sees hope in communities
coming together to create solutions
and believes that the environmental art
movement holds promise. Both represent
opportunities for people to ask questions
and construct their own narratives about the
environment they want for themselves now
and in the future.
To view Linda MacDonald’s work, go to
www.lindamacdonald.com or visit SFMOMA’s
Artists Gallery at Ft. Mason. Contact the artist
through her website if you’d like to receive
her monthly digital newsletter, North Woods
Notes.
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Trees, Lumber, Houses, People
painted & stitched fiber, 36”h x 48”w, 2005
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LING-YEN JONES AND MADELINE KIBBE:
Up In The Air
by Peggy Templer
Ling-Yen Jones and Madeline Kibbe, both artists from Point
Arena, discovered an affinity for each other’s work and for
collaborative exhibition some time ago. Their shared birthday – June
2 – may somehow have fated this artistically complementary friendship.
As Ling-Yen, a jewelry designer, says, “We play off the same birthday
idea, and we like the ‘two and two’ possibilities – two visions and two
ideas unified.” Madeline, a silk artist, says that, with two artists, “you
can set up contrasts;” in their case, contrasts of scale (Madeline’s large
silk kites, Ling-Yen’s small silver jewelry pieces) and material (silk and
metal). Two years ago they collaborated on a show, “Metal and Silk
Integration,” at the Gualala Arts Center. This summer, their collaborative
show, “Up In The Air,” will be at the Gualala Arts Center’s Dolphin
Ling-Yen Jones, Two Crane - Necklace
Gallery in downtown Gualala from July 3 through August 4. A recent
exhibit at the Point Arena LightStation led Kibbe to contemplate the wind. The title “Up In The Air” is intentionally
ambiguous and refers not only to the artists’ reluctance to pin themselves down with a themed exhibit
but also to the state of the world and the sense of uncertainty that pervades contemporary life. The show will
include works which pictorially
depict the winds as well as
kites and birds and the ideas,
thoughts and whispers that are
carried on the wind.
Photo by Hap Sakwa
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Ling-Yen Jones studied
metalsmithing at Humboldt
State University, from which
she received her BFA. She was
greatly influenced by instructor
David LaPlantz, who impressed
on her that, in the competitive
world of jewelry design, it
was crucial to make the most
intimate, personally expressive
pieces possible. Other influential
people included metalsmiths
Susan Elizabeth Wood and Jeff
Ling-Yen Jones, Unmentionables II - necklace sterling silver, copper, Mexican opal, clear quartz
and images
Photo by Hap Sakwa

Georgantes, coordinators of the Mendocino Art
Center’s jewelry program, where Ling-Yen took
many classes and did several assistantships. She cocoordinated
the program with Susan Wood for two
years.
Ling-Yen works primarily in silver, incorporating
pearls, copper, gold and semiprecious stones
Madeline Kibbe, The Lady and Her Tiger
Photo by Hap Sakwa
into her jewelry. According to Ling-Yen, “these elements
are integrated into a new piece that can represent
new beginnings, change, hope, and further
growth in one’s self.” A current design, which she calls
Unmentionables, features Asian faces. Unmentionables
is a reference to the fact that in long-ago Japan, only
royal faces could be portrayed. Images of the common,
everyday people were taboo. Those faces of the
everyday – “graceful, feminine, and romantic” – are
celebrated in Ling-Yen’s jewelry.
She loves that jewelry, although an art form, can
actually be worn every day, and that it has personal
and even historical value distinct from its monetary
value.
Madeline Kibbe, The Girl and Her Bomb
Photo by Hap Sakwa
After graduating from the Rhode Island School
of Design twenty years ago, Madeline Kibbe came
out to Point Arena to take care of a friend’s cat
and “forgot to go back.” She characterizes herself as
“always an artist,” starting out as a painter and then
a printmaker. Her work has always been infused with
patterns, and twelve years ago she started painting
on silk. She makes “practical stuff” – apparel, robes,
scarves, duvet covers, and lampshades. The 2008
American Craft Council Show gave her the opportunity
to introduce a successful line of table lamps with
silk shades. Reflecting the duality of her nature, she
also enjoys making Chinese-inspired centipede kites
of silk, and one of her kites was selected by Milton
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Ling-Yen Jones
Glaser to be exhibited in the Smithsonian Institute. Each one of her kites tells a story. The kites are composed
of disks, graduated in size, which at first featured mythical creatures and animal faces, but more recently are
more abstract and often feature women’s faces (and various other body parts – “nefarious women,” Kibbe calls
them.) She purposely limits the materials used for these and other sculptures. Silk, French silk dyes, rattan,
bamboo, and glue – this small array of materials defines all of her silk sculptures and interiors.
Madeline will have silk kites, lamps, and sculptural pieces called “The Animals Are Watching” (featuring
animal eyes and mixing the kite and sculpture forms) at the exhibit. Ling-Yen will have silver jewelry, including
kite earrings!
For a wonderful glimpse into the “synchronicity” of these two artists, visit YouTube.com and search for
the clip called “Metal and Silk Interpretation,” an interview with Ling-Yen and Madeline done at the time of
their show two years ago. This clip can also be seen on Ling-Yen’s Web site at www.ling-yendesigns.com. View
Madeline’s work at www.madsilk.com
Ling-Yen Jones’ jewelry is carried by the Mendocino Jewelry
Company in Mendocino. Madeline Kibbe’s studio is open by
appointment. Both artists welcome commissions.
Photo by Bill Apton
Ling-Yen Jones, Two Pins
Photo by Hap Sakwa
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Madeline Kibbe, Mitosis of Crimson
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FIRST FRIDAYS IN FORT BRAGG
Most galleries and businesses holding First Friday art openings
are open from 5:30 to 7:30 pm.
SECOND SATURDAYS IN MENDOCINO
Most galleries and businesses holding Second Saturday art
openings are open from 5 to 7:30 pm.
FIRST FRIDAYS IN UKIAH
Opening art receptions the First Friday of every month 5 to 8 pm.
LAST SATURDAYS IN WESTPORT
Galleries & businesses holding Last Saturday art openings are
open from 5 to 7:30 pm.
WESTPORT
GALLERY THIS
Highway 1, Main Street
707 964-2027
FORT BRAGG
ART EXPLORERS
305 E. Redwood Avenue
707 961-6156
BRAGGADOON
435 N. Main Street
707 964-5050
DAN HEMANN SCULPTURE AND
THE GREEN DOOR STUDIO
121 E. Laurel Street
707 964-6532
DIRT CHEAP
17975 N. Highway 1
707 964-4211
EDGEWATER GALLERY
356 N. Main Street
707 964-4668
ERIN DERTNER STUDIO
137 E. Laurel Street
707 964-7781
FABRIC INDULGENCE
101 B. Boatyard Center
707 964-6365
FAMILY HANDS
200 Redwood Avenue
707 961-0236
FRAME MILL ARTWORKS
116 Laurel Street
707 964-6464
GARDEN ART & GIFTS
1230 N. Main Street
707 964-7897
GLASS FIRE ART GLASS GALLERY
18320 N. Highway 1
707 962-9420
A unique display of art glass,
including jellies, vessels, lighting,
sculpture and jewelry. Visit the
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HEADLANDS COFFEEHOUSE
120 E. Laurel Street
707 964-1987
MENDO BISTRO
Company Store at N. Main
707 964-4974
MENDOCINO COAST DISTRICT
HOSPITAL
700 River Street
707 961-4610
MENDOCINO COAST
PHOTOGRAPHER GUILD
& GALLERY
344 N. Main Street
707 964-4706
NORTH COAST ARTISTS
362 N. Main Street
707 964-8266
PARTNERS GALLERY
335 N. Franklin Street
707 962-0233
PIACI PUB & PIZZERIA
120 W. Redwood Street
707 961-1133
RACINES OFFICE SUPPLY
344 N. Franklin Street
707 964-2416
RUBAIYAT BEADS
222 E. Redwood Avenue
707 961-0222
TOTO ZAIDA
142 E. Laurel Street
707 964-8686
V’ CANTO
124 E. Laurel Street
707 964-6844
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45050 Main Street
707 937-3235
ARTISTS CO-OP OF MENDOCINO
45270 Main Street
707 937-2217
CELTIC CREATIONS
Above Gallery Books
707 937-1223
COLOR & LIGHT GLASS STUDIO
10525 Ford Street
707 937-1003
DAZZLING LITES ON THE COAST
42580 Little Lake Road
707 937-0837
707 226-2815
GALLERY OF THE SENSES
45104 Main Street
707 937-2021
GARTH HAGERMAN
Nature Photography Gallery
45021-C Little Lake Street
707 937-1987
HIGHLIGHT GALLERY
45052 Main Street
707 937-3132
ICONS
10483 Lansing Street
707 937-1784
MENDO BURGERS
10483 Lansing Street
707 937-1111
MENDOCINO ART CENTER
45200 Little Lake Street
707 937-5818
MENDOCINO CAFÉ
10451 Lansing Street
707 937-6141
MENDOCINO GEMS
10483 Lansing Street
707 937-0299
MENDOCINO JEWELRY STUDIO
45104 Main Street
707 937-0181
MENDOCINO SANDPIPER
45280 Main Sreet
707 937-3102
MENDOCINO COAST
PHOTOGRAPHER GUILD
& GALLERY
344 N. Main Street,
Fort Bragg
707 964-4706
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6 Albion Street,
Mendocino
707 937-5005
Where you will find beautifully
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and hand chasing.
MENDOCINO ART CENTER
45200 Little Lake Street,
Mendocino
707 937-5818
John Fisher sculpture
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New gallery exhibits each
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BAR & GALLERY
10450 Lansing Street
707 937-4843
OLD GOLD
6 Albion Street
707 937-5005
PANACHE GALLERY
10400 Kasten Street
707 937-1234
PANACHE ON MAIN
45120 Main Street
707 937-0947
PRENTICE GALLERY
45110 Main Street
707 937-5205
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45050 Main Street
707 937-0173
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707 937-BEAD
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Hwy. 1 & Comptche-Ukiah Road
707 937-5615
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45280 Main Street
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8211 N. Highway 1,
Little River
707 937-2810
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6031 S. Highway 1
707 877-1128
POINT ARENA
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215 Main Street
707 882-4042
GUALALA
ALINDER STUDIO GALLERY
39165 S. Highway 1
707 884-4884
BLUE CANOE
Anchor Bay
707 884-1800
THE DOLPHIN GALLERY
An associate of Gualala Arts
Center
39225 Highway 1
707 884-3896
GUALALA ARTS CENTER
46501 Old State Highway,
off Highway 1
707 884-1138
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Cypress Village
707 884-1531
PLACEWARES + LYNDON
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Cypress Village
707 884-1184
THE SEA RANCH LODGE
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An associate of Gualala Arts
Center
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707 785-2371
S/K GALLERY
Cypress Village
707 884-3549
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Cypress Village
707 884-4484
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ROOKIE-TO GALLERY
14300 Highway 128,
Boonville
707 895-2204
UKIAH
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215 W. Perkins #105
462-3446
ART CENTER UKIAH –
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203 S. State Street
707 462-1400
Classes Adult & Children
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CINNABAR CERAMICS GALLERY
106 W. Church Street
707 621-1135
CORNER GALLERY
201 S. State Street
707 462-1400
A cooperative gallery featuring
24 local artists. Visual arts, photography,
ceramics, metal work,
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CRAFTSMAN ESTATE
FINE ART & ANTIQUES
396 N. State Street
707 463-3900
GRACE HUDSON MUSEUM
431 S. Main Street
707 467-2836
GRACES ON MAIN/
HOYMAN-BROWE STUDIO
323 N. Main Street
707 462-5911
707 468-8835
MENDOCINO ENVIRONMENTAL
CENTER & GALLERY
106 N. Standley
707 468-9800
NOMAD’S WORLD GALLERY
290 S. School Street
707 463-2949
TIERRA
312 N. School Street
707 468-7936
TRIBE 13 GALLERY
221 N. State St.
707 391-6791
WESTSIDE RENAISSANCE
GALLERY
1003 W. Clay
707 462-0083
WILLITS
BLUE SKY GALLERY
21 S. Main
707 456-9025
WILLITS CENTER
FOR THE ARTS
71 E. Commercial Street
707 459-1726
LAKE COUNTY
ANTIQUES
9495 Main Street, Suite 4
(Corner of Main & 1st Street)
Upper Lake
707 275-8762
DIEGO’S GALLERY
9495 Main Street, Suite 3
Upper Lake
707 350-4209
GRACIOUS LADIES
9460 Main Street
Upper Lake
707 275-2307
LAKE COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL &
MAIN STREET GALLERY
325 N. Main Street
Lakeport
707 263-6658
LIGHTNING ROD GALLERY
9475A Main Street, Upper Lake
707 275-8018
PERLZ
3970 Main Street
Kelseyville
707 279-2080
THE GOURD GALLERY
6197 E. Highway 20
Lucerne
707 274-2346
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Steven P. Worthen
707 964-2480,
707 813-7669
Joanna Fleming
707 357-1060
INLAND
Jill Schmuckley
707 391-8057
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