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CALENDARMEETING: Date: October 10, 2019 Monthly Artists Networking Lunch

Location: Skirball Cultural Center 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90049

lunch $30, free parking

11:30 am – 2:00 pm Guest Speaker: James Panozzo, Executive Director, L.A. Launch

RSVP deadline: Friday, 10-3-19

Board Meeting: 10:30 am - 11:30 am Members are welcome to attend.

MEETING/LUNCH PAYMENT OPTIONS

1. Pay in advance & RSVP in ONE step via PayPal (credit card OK)

Go to WPW website: https://womenpainterswest.org/payments/Choose meeting locationUse your Paypal account or credit card NO ADDITIONAL COST (WPW will absorb Paypal fee)NO NEED TO RSVP

OR

2. E-mail your RSVP to Joan Baral, [email protected]

At meeting: Please have check ready with name, date, and amount, as that expedites ourprocess at the doorCash is also accepted, no large bills pleaseNo credit cards accepted

Susan C. Price, Treasurer

PRESIDENT'S LETTERWe are off to a fast start. Our show at SFVACC, "Falling Into Place" openson November 2. Our next show, "Square" will be at bG gallery in BergamotStation in January. In April we will be back at the Ebell for our spring show. AND, we are busy getting things ready for our 100th year celebrationexhibition at the Brand,"Women Painter's West: A Century of California Women

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Artists". I am SO excited about this event.

The committee is working to gather materials from former members. Special thanks to Ellen Levine whoworked through the summer to collect images and biographic information about former members. EachWPW member will be asked to select a picture from the past to inspire a new artwork. There is somethingthrilling about looking at these artist's work and feeling a connection to them. I hope you get to feel this too.More to come about our 100th!

We need help. We need someone to help with Exhibitions and another person to help update our website. Both of these volunteer jobs need someone comfortable using the computer and going on websites to fill ininformation. Contact me for more info about the work. The volunteer will have help and support andtraining.

I'm still collecting suggestions for the new Art Book Reading Group. If you have any book suggestions, nowis still a good time to send them in. I will publish a list of the suggested books and ask for interestedmembers to select their top choices. From the top picks the interested people will pick a book for the groupto read and select a date for getting together to discuss the book. Look forward to more about this inOctober.

I'll see you soon. Now, go to your studio and make some art.

[email protected]

FEATURESUPCOMING PROGRAM: James Panozzo, Executive Director, LA Launch

James Panozzo is the Founder/Executive Director of LAUNCH LA, anon-profit social enterprise he created in 2010 to oversee theproduction of TarFest annually while also providing uniqueprogramming and exhibition opportunities to important artists in LosAngeles. He served as the Director of Lawrence Asher Gallery from2004 to 2010, exhibiting emerging and mid-career painters, sculptorsand installation artists. James co-founded TarFest in 2003 andcontinues to develop and manage its programs, providingopportunities to emerging artists at venues in the Miracle Mile Districtof LA.

LAUNCH LA believes exposure to the arts enhances quality of lifeand strengthens community through the shared appreciation of

creative expression in all its forms and hybrids. LAUNCH LA is passionate about providing artists withquality opportunities to present themselves and their creations that reflect our times to a curious andenthusiastic audience at important happenings throughout Los Angeles.

LAST MONTH'S PROGRAM REPORTDeedee Cheriel Deedee Cheriel is her own muse: she paints autobiographical


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narratives in which animal-headed human figures represent herself as well as people close to her. Theartist’s characters are a colorful menagerie—birds, cats, bears, tigers, horses--- that sheanthropomorphizes to evoke powerful emotions and convey timeless messages. Cheriel mentioned a number of influences in her art, including British artist Tracey Emin, who createdvery personal, intimate work during the 90s. Silk-screening posters and LP album covers from her timeas a musician taught her about advertisement, graphic design, and the importance of the viewer’sinstant reaction to the work. The artist also spray-painted on the streets, influenced by Keith Haring,political posters, and protest art. A trip to South America exposed her to Gabriel García Márquez and the magical realist writers, and shebecame determined to create complex characters and narratives in her art. At that time she alsopainted the first of her animal headed human figures, a portrait of a young woman with the head of abird.

Her travel to India to meet her paternal family was life-changing and opened a new world of wonders:the color of the hundreds of sculptures in the temples, the clothing and textiles worn by the people, andthe aging and textured walls made her appreciate the layering of materials and the beauty of wornsurfaces, and she began to reproduce these elements in her own work. Cheriel’s love of thelandscapes and fauna of her native Oregon also influenced herto depict her hybrid protagonists in lush natural environments. Cheriel talked in depth about her technique and materials: theuse of found wooden supports, house paint, and the sandingand exposing of her works to the natural elements to facilitatemultiple layering and the creation of beautiful patinas. Shealso explained how she uses masking tape, alternatingpainterly surfaces with surfaces that are flat andgeometric. She also confessed that finding her own languageand style were her hardest challenges as an artist.


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Cheriel told us that her art allows her to remain open and vulnerable, able to understand human beingsand ultimately to create and celebrate a safe place for women, children, people of color, and thecreatives of the world.

UPCOMING EXHIBITS: FALLING INTO PLACE

San Fernando Valley Arts and Cultural Center (SFVACC) 18312 Oxnard Street, Tarzana, CA 91356, (818) 697-5525Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11:00 am – 5:00 pm Exhibit Dates: October 29 – November 23, 2019 Reception: Saturday, November 2, 2019, 5 pm-7 pm; Awards Presentation at 6:30 pmJuror: Holly Tempo

Artwork Take-in: Monday, October 28, 1:00 – 3:00 pmArtwork Pickup: Sunday, November 24, 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Accepted artists will be asked to assist with take-in, hanging the exhibit, sitting the gallery, andpreparing the reception.

JUROR'S STATEMENT

The juror, Holly Tempo, shared her decision process, offering members the form the exhibit took as sheworked with the artists' entries.

... My interpretation of the show theme took two tracks. The first I think of as meditations on the autumnlandscape: a homage to a season of harvest, transitions, and endings as we "fall back" to shorterdays". This grouping features lots of ruddy tones, purples, grays, and a few blues. The second track Iam calling gravity/gravitas, which includes works that flow or pull the eye down, carry a lot of visual orconceptual weight, or are imbued with a certain seriousness, solemnity, or drama. - Holly Tempo

WPW FUTURE SPECIAL EVENT 100TH YEAR CELEBRATION and BRAND GALLERY EXHIBITION

January 23- March 9, 2021

Before we realize it January, 2021 will be upon us. Plans are moving ahead and I’d like to share a fewupdates.

1. The name of the show is: "Women Painter's West: A Century of California Women Artists"

2. The plan is that every WPW artist entering the show will have the opportunity to “be inspired” by amember artist of the past, and “respond” with her own work ofart. A website will be forthcoming with images for you tochoose.

3. We will be offering some workshops, so let me know if youare interested in teaching and what medium.

4. Anyone interested in joining our committee?

5. We will need graphic design help with the logo and catalog.

It’s all very exciting and love the help from all of you.


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Please contact: Diane Karpel [email protected]

The Brand Library & Art Center Gallery offers visitors aprofessional gallery experience in one of the most stunningexhibition spaces in Southern California.

SOCIAL MOMENTS

Susan Price and Arlene Weinstock bond with a fashion statement.(Susan Gesundheit photo)

Jeanne Iler and Mardi Georgio


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Diane Dubin, Suki Kuss, Sondra Jolles, Darlene Mellein(Suzanne Ettinger photos)

MEMBERS NEWSPam Douglas invites everyone to the debut of SANCTUARY, a 60-foot installation at TAG Gallery. Theexhibition runs from Sept. 24 to Oct. 19 with a reception on Sat., Sept. 28 from 5 to 8 pm. Pam says,"We are in a startling time, hearing the cries of children torn from their parents. Around the worldrefugees seeking sanctuary compel this work in a visceral response." The exhibition has life-sizedrawings of parents seeking refuge and children caged behind ropes. She says, "This work avows theirhumanity." SANCTUARY is a multi-year project. This is Part I, and two more parts will come in 2020and 2021. A 52-page exhibit catalog available at the reception raises funds for UNICEF.

Thank You to the Newsletter Production VolunteersPatti Ogden, Editor

Brenda Anderson, Suzanne Ettinger, PhotographsNancy Goodman Lawrence, Members' News Editor

Annie Clavel, Email and ProofreaderEllen Levine, Proofreader

Arlene Weinstock, Website and Tech SupportArlene Weinstock, President

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WPW Directory has been updated. Below is the link to the directory HERE.If you want a pdf file to print, please, send an email to Annie Clavel: [email protected]

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