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2012 Left Coast Annual

2012 Left Coast Annual at Sanchez Art Center

The 2012 Left Coast
Annual Juried Exhibition
(formerly known as Arts on Fire) opens with a gala reception for the entire community
on Friday, April 13, from 7 to 9 pm. There will be great art, great food, free
parking, and hands-on art activities, plus an art book boutique, free
entertainment, and music from the Jazz Cats.

The focus, of course, is on the artworks selected by juror
Michael Schwager, Professor of Art History and Museum Studies and Director of
the University Art Gallery at Sonoma State University. Over 180 artists from
all over California submitted over 500 artworks, and of these, 63 works by 48
artists were accepted for this exhibition. Mr. Schwager is known for his
interest and expertise in contemporary Bay Area art. He holds a BFA from the
California College of Arts and Crafts and an MA in Museum Studies from JFK
University. Prior to Sonoma State, he held positions at the San Francisco Art
Institute, the Richmond Art Center, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

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Sponsors and supporters for this gala opening, as well as
other Sanchez Art Center programs, include the Art4MooreFoundation, Art Guild
of Pacifica, Bleyle Elevator, Inc., First National Bank of Northern California,
Pacifica Performances, David & Lucille Packard Foundation, Silicon Valley
Community Foundation Donor Circle for the Arts, and Target.

The newly named Left
Coast Annual
will fill both the Main and West Galleries, while the East
Gallery will present the 2011 Arts on
Fire Awards Exhibition,
featuring works by 2011 award winners Timothea
Campbell and Anne Subercaseaux, who were awarded $250 plus an exhibition by Arts on Fire juror Alison Gass,
Assistant Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art. Campbell’s award-winning pieces are the intricately drawn Oaks #16 and Oaks #17, with twining, delicate curlicues of branches and leaves,
all drawn in walnut ink on paper. Subercaseaux’s blue and green oil paintings, Reflection: On Crossing XIV and Reflection: On Crossing XXV, depict
light and water seen in an abstracted way. Both these artists seem to have a
gift for bringing an ineffable quality of experience into the foreground and,
in this way, talking about the parts of life we often forget to notice and
appreciate.

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Both exhibits run through May 20. Michael Schwager will give
a Juror’s Talk on closing day, Sunday, May 20, at 3:30 pm.

On Friday, April 27, from 7 to 9 pm, Sanchez Art Center will
host “Local Stories,” an evening of recorded oral histories of Pacifica and the
Coastside, from the “California of the Past” Digital Storytelling Project. The
presentation is the second of Sanchez Art Center’s new Soirée Series and is
part of Pacifica’s 3-Day Literary Festival called Lit Wave, which is sponsored
by Pacifica Library Foundation and Pacifica Friends of the Library. “Local Stories”
will take place in the Main Gallery, surrounded by the artworks of Left Coast Annual.

Sanchez Art Center is located at 1220 Linda Mar Blvd. in
Pacifica, 1.5 miles east of Highway 1, in the building with the beautiful
mural. Following the opening night, galleries are open Friday, Saturday, and
Sunday from 1 to 5 pm through May 20, and by appointment. For more information,
call 650-355-1894 or visit www.sanchezartcenter.org.

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