Lisa Bebi and Scott Gressitt

Lisa Bebi is our Featured Artist this December in, The Gallery at The Brooks.  With a Dickens Christmas theme, who but Bebi would be our go to artist at the Brooks Gallery?  Bebi’s  ability  to intertwine with a technical nod to history, the twists of a Dickens tale with her own whimsical, mischievous twists, makes for a delightful exhibit.   Bebi pulls the heart and soul of Dickens stories, and inserts them in a wild ride of creativity that only Bebi could manage. Remember Valentine’s Octopus Grandma, “text me”?  She  equally enchants us in this exhibit with," Belle and the Pirate". Keep in mind, Bebi is one of very few artists, that relinquishes her egos hold on her works. Once completed, she puts her  interpretations forward for the audience to interpret themselves, thus allowing the viewer complete freedom and completing the circuit of art.

If perhaps not classic Christmas, they are classic Bebi. We are excited and honored to have her back at, The Gallery at The Brooks.

About the Artist

My painting is like jazz fusion. Not so much for my brushstroke work but because of the complex layers of seemingly unrelated stuff that somehow tie together.  My brushstrokes are speedy looking but I think my detail is described more in the subject matter rather than by way of tight brushstrokes, sort of reflecting  the fast pace of jazz and its many layers.           

I draw most my inspiration from early American contemporary artists. I liked the novelty of the pop culture and the way artists of their time expanded their basic ideas, one on top of the other...expanding what-ifs in art. I also like the complex, colorful and wonderfully lyrical abstracts of Wassily Kandinsky. Kandinsky set out and perfected painting musically so that the viewer could actually hear his paintings.           

The hardest part of being an artist is trying to relate to the real world. I know my passion makes me a different person; sometimes I would just like to blend in.  Most of the time I don't notice my differences, but when I do, it can be painful.

Belle and the Pirate

Christmas Past

                                                                    "As Big as Me?"

Christmas Past

Introducing Heartisan
Scott Gressitt

Scott Gressitt is an artist and craftsman living and working in North County SD.

Gressitt designs and builds custom furniture, art furniture and fixtures. Using

tropical and exotic hardwoods from around the world he sculpts and carves his sensuous and evocative creations. Flying Hearts, Lips and Daggers, are whimsical and yet, due to the medium, hefty; a desirous combination for his subject matter. The Brooks Gallery welcomes Scott Gressitt.

                                                      1ftx3ft stained wood heart

December 4 Art Walk is from 6-9pm and will feature numerous galleries, carolers, food, music, lights and murals to paint. Please stop by the Brooks Gallery is located in the Sunshine Brooks Theatre at 217N Hwy 101 and Share in the art experience.

The Photography of Allissa Thompson

The Gallery at The Brooks is delighted to showcase the photographic art of 
Allissa Thompson.

For this exhibit Ms. Thompson will be displaying her photographs of the iconic beach milieu of San Diego County, concentrating the bulk of her work on the eclectic Oceanside. Ms. Thompson's work ranges from the vibrantly enhanced summers day to the moody mist laden waters or early morn. Her lens captures emotions and angles we want to peer around, seascapes we want to inhabit. Each work conjures up a time spent indulged in southern California beach song; crisp, moody, lingering, with a confident beat one wants to repeat.

Allissa Thompson will be our solo artist through November. A reception for Ms Thompson will be held on November 6 , 6-9pm. during First Friday Art Walk

 

Ghost Harbor  8x12" metallic print  2014

House in the Sky  36x24"   photo on aluminum

Passage to the Sea    framed print

Sunset on the Strand  8x10" framed metalic    

Allissa Thompson was born and raised on a farm in Orange County, New York, but has called Oceanside home for the last five years.  Her creative passion was kindled by a high school photography class many years ago, yet set aside to study psychology and run track at Duke University.  Rediscovering her artistic roots in recent years has reignited an insatiable wanderlust; she trekked the Great Wall of China in 2014 and looks forward to seeing more of the world through her lens.  Most weekends she can be found hiking, chasing sunsets, and searching for new photographic adventures.  She is an award-winning member of Carlsbad Oceanside Art League (COAL) and Oceanside Museum of Art's Artist Alliance.  Allissa loves sharing the stories behind her photos, and is honored that people enjoy her work. 

Jason Adkins at The Brooks Gallery October 2015

The Gallery at the Brooks is exceedingly proud to have on exhibit the epic art moments of artist, Jason Adkins.

 Jason Adkins is our featured artist for the month of October. There will be an artist reception during our First Friday Art Walk, Friday, Oct. 2 from 6-9pm. The Gallery is located at 217 N. Pacific Coast Hwy, Oceanside. Please join us to meet Jason and view his grand works of art.

                                        Tantrum      72x51"      acrylic and spray paint      2015

                                                      Element I , Water      95x81"      oil paint  on canvas   2014

                                            Thrush    72x108"      oil and spray paint on canvas      2013

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A Tribute to Artist Robert Piser

The Gallery at The Brooks is excited and honored to have on exhibit the graphic works of the late artist, Robert Piser. On exhibit is the last of his personally signed fine giclee prints from his "Road Trip" series. These are all 'new media pencil' recreations of Travel Decals...

Robert Piser (1952 - 2014) was an American artist who came to prominence in the 1970s transition from Pop Art to post-modernism.

Piser was born in Connecticut, grew up in Tarzana, in the San Fernando Valley suburbs of Los Angeles. Piser lived and worked in Berkeley, later returning to Los Angeles where he worked as an art director and scenic artist in film, commercials, music videos and photo shoots. Piser studied art and fine art lithography at Otis Art Institute, California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco Art Institute and U.C. Berkeley.
He is perhaps best known in the 1970s as the inventor of the idea of using newspaper vending machines to distribute art. He produced "The Daily Palette", for six years, during which time he printed and distributed silkscreen art prints he made of his and other local artists' paintings and drawings, via newspaper vending machines around the San Francisco Bay Area.
Rober Piser worked in painting, drawing, sculpture, photography and fine art printing.

 

Sharing the July exhibition with Robert Piser is San Diego artist, Mary Fleener. On exhibit are works from her original Jazz Cats series, acrylic on canvas.

 

Born in Los Angeles when smog was at an all time high, Hollywood was still glamorous, and every woman's ambition was to own a mink coat. Inherited good art genes from my mother and never wanted to do anything else. Attended Cal State University at Long Beach and majored in Printmaking, but I really learned NOTHING and consider the work I do today as Self Taught.

In 1984, after reading an article in the LA Weekly by Matt Groening about "the new comics", I started drawing and writing my own comic stories. I'd always harbored a secret desire to be a cartoonist, and was greatly influenced by Robert Crumb and MAD MAGAZINE, so I started self-publishing my own "mini comics". First solo comic was HOODOO (1988), a tribute to the Harlem Renaissance writer, Zora Neale Hurston. Her folk tales gave me the idea to illustrate my own "party stories", and the best of these were collected in the book, LIFE OF THE PARTY (1994). This book has been translated into German and the Spanish edition will be out this year.
In Illustration work has been in THE SD READER, OC WEEKLY, VILLAGE VOICE, SPIN, GUITAR PLAYER, MUSICIAN, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, and projects like THE GUITAR COOKBOOK, WEIRD TALES OF THE RAMONES CD box set, STARTIME - the James Brown CD box set, Carlsbad Museum of Making Music - "Hands on the Future" exhibit, and CD covers for The Insect Surfers and Buddy Blue.
My paintings have been exhibited at La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Track 16, David Zapt Gallery, Laguna Beach Art Museum Annex, LACE (Los Angeles), COCA (Seattle), Southwestern College, Patricia Correia Gallery, Sushi Gallery and Ducky Waddle's Emporium.
I also enjoy making hand built ceramics and wheel thrown functional pieces that I glaze and fire in my own kiln. I also enjoy painting on velvet, that which we all consider the King of Kitsch, but which also makes my color and "cubismo" style of drawing even more dramatic and mysterious on the plush background of black velvet.
My home is in Encinitas, which I share with my husband, a dog, a cat, and lots of stringed instruments. We have a band called THE WIGBILLIES.

 

Oceanside's First Friday Art Walk, July 3rd, 6-9pm. Please join us and other local galleries for the fun.

 

artist Diana Carey

The Gallery at The Brooks is pleased to have on exhibit for the month of June, the thrown and splattered paintings of artist, Diana Carey

                    Jacaranda 4/ 24x24"  thrown and splattered paint on canvas  2015

Diana Carey's Tree Triptych is on semi permanent display in the lobby of The Sunshine Brooks Theatre. She is also our resident fine art curator. Come meet Diana and view her works during the Oceanside First Friday Art Walk, June 5 6-9pm in The Gallery at The Brooks. Yael and Vlad from Big Boss Bubeleh will be  performing in the lobby.

 

Life is not a straight line

Diana Carey’s paintings are painted with a gestural technique; throwing, splattering and dripping numerous layers of acrylic house paint onto prone canvas using brushes and sticks. The paintings subject matter varies from landscape to nests and tangles. The technique is abstract, the style, impressionism.

Many of the works are over eight feet. By virtue of size and technique the viewer is led into the tangled threads and splatters of paint to discover the substance and feel of the subject matter, the essence of the painted, formed amidst the perceived chaos of drips and splashes. A performance art visualized with impasto effect, one whose outcome is immediately recognized as being rendered with intent, without intention rendering technique. There is an element of unpredictability, due to the technique, which allows for the perceived chaos to coalesce into an image, with observation.

What may initially appear to be simple tosses of paint, is actually quite difficult. Numerous times paintings have been discarded because the work has not come together correctly to create the interpretational essence envisioned by the artist, which is the feel of the image, not a photographic representation, but the idea of the subject. The emotions invoked when one experiences that subject or environment, in a personal as well as universal manner, is what the artist strives to attain.

The Gallery at The Brooks

is incredibly pleased and honored to have on exhibit the works of internationally acclaimed artist,

Charles Bibbs

 

opening reception May 1

6-9pm

217 N. Coast Hwy 101

Oceanside

 

 

 

 

 

 

Charles Bibbs

With skillful manipulation of pen, ink and acrylic, Charles Bibbs, fuses art with empowerment.  Bibbs engenders his works of cross cultural renderings, African American and Native American, with majesty, dignity and strength while retaining an overwhelming sense of spirituality and grace. His colorful illustrations cross ethnic, gender and generational barriers while remaining characteristically and identifiably the works of, Charles Bibbs.

 

 

“My most important goal is to make profound aesthetic statements that are ethnically rooted, and at the same time, arouse spiritual emotions within all of us” Charles Bibbs

 

 

Setting up the Kauffman exhibit

Paul Kauffman 

The Gallery at The Brooks

April 2015

First Friday, Oceanside Art Walk April 3   6-9pm

Oceanside Days of Art , April 18th & 19th. 10am-5pm

 

The Brooks Theatre

217 N. Pacific Coast Hwy.

Oceanside CA.

 

 

 



lighting the exhibit

 

hanging the paintings

 placing the work

Paul Kauffman exhibit

The Gallery at The Brooks is pleased to announce an exhibition of works by artist,

 Paul Kauffman.

April 3-19th

You can meet Paul Kauffman during  Oceanside's First Friday Art Walk, Friday April 3 from 6-9pm and during Oceanside's Days of Art,  April 18th & 19th from 10am-5pm.

He will be demonstrating his work during Oceanside's Days of Art on the 18th & 19th from 1-3pm. There will be an artists reception on April 18th from 2-5pm.

217 N. Coast Hwy 101, Oceanside

760 433 8900

 

 

 

Please Wait in the Parlour   24x20"   acrylic and pastel on canvas

Making a Good Entrance   48x36"   acrylic & pastel on canvas 

Purple Orchid   60x36"   acrylic and pastel on brown paper 

 

 

The sky is blue, the air is crisp, the birds are singing and the flowers bloom. My sprit is filled with hope. I am feeling grounded and at peace. Life is beautiful. And so I paint.

 

The sky is blue, the air is crisp, the birds are singing and the flowers bloom. My spirit is restless, distracted and anxious. And so I paint.

 

The sky is blue, the air is crisp, the birds are singing and the flowers bloom. My spirit is filled with doubt and all kinds of fearful uncertainties. All reference points are blurred. And so I paint.

 

The sky is blue, the air is crisp, the birds are singing and the flowers bloom. My spirit is once again feeling grounded and life is filled with adventure and unlimited possibilities. And so I paint.

 

 

Using brushes, sponges, fingers, acrylic and pastel, Paul Kauffman creates a passion play of art. With little pre-determined intention, and without catering to a critical audience, he is able to develop a painterly play between himself, and his materials. A play that develops through detailed drawing, pastel overlays, the use of negative space and acrylic applied in both watered and impasto technique. The result is a rather Electric Impressionism. A lively jolt to the otherwise beautiful serenity of a Sunday morning repast. Diana Carey (curator)



      Lisa Bebi is The Gallery at The Brooks, Featured Artist for February 2015.  Bebi’s work emphasizing the theme of LOVE, will be on display in the gallery all month. A reception and demonstration of her art technique will be held on February 6, from 6-9pm during Oceanside’s First Friday Art Walk.

    

            About the Artist

            My painting is like jazz fusion. Not so much for my brushstroke work but because of the complex layers of seemingly unrelated stuff that somehow tie together.  My brushstrokes are speedy looking but I think my detail is described more in the subject matter rather than by way of tight brushstrokes, sort of reflecting  the fast pace of jazz and its many layers.           

            I draw most my inspiration from early American contemporary artists. I liked the novelty of the pop culture and the way artists of their time expanded their basic ideas, one on top of the other...expanding what-ifs in art. I also like the complex, colorful and wonderfully lyrical abstracts of Wassily Kandinsky. Kandinsky set out and perfected painting musically so that the viewer could actually hear his paintings.           

            The hardest part of being an artist is trying to relate to the real world. I know my passion makes me a different person; sometimes I would just like to blend in.  Most of the time I don't notice my differences, but when I do, it can be painful. 

 

Lisa Bebi is a contemporary visual fine artist who works predominantly with paint, papers and mixed media with a strong inclination toward creating personal works and color. Her award winning artwork has been featured widely in magazines, galleries and is held in private collections all over the globe. Her work has been shown in solo and group shows nationally. Lisa Bebi received her B.A. in fine art from San Diego State University in 1977. Later studied art at the College of Art in London.

Lisa Bebi is our featured artist, her work will be favored in the gallery this month. We also have work exhibited by our represented artists, Julia C R Gray, Ellen Dieter, Cathie Joy Young, Mary Fleener, Donna Butnik and Diana Carey. Lastly, there will be a few Hearts of Stone on hand to celebrate the month of Love, and a sign up sheet will be available for a Hearts of Stone workshop.

Oceanside's First Friday Art Walk, Feb. 6 , 6-9pm. the Gallery at The Brooks is located at 217 & 219 Pacific Coast Hwy, Oceanside.