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Night of Passion
2008 Ventura Music Festival
Art Auction
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Ventura Beach Marriott (Map)
2055 East Harbor Boulevard
Ventura, California 93001
Celebrate the 14th annual Festival with an evening of enchanting entertainment, fabulous food and wonderful wine, culminating with the auction of the "labors of love" created by local artists supporting the Ventura Music Festival!
$200 per person
Black tie optional
Art is an integral component of The Ventura Music Festival, enhancing each season's theme with visual essences. The proceeds of the auction and other sales of the art benefit the Ventura Music Festival and assist its Education Outreach programs.
All pieces are available for purchase, some prior to the A Night of Passion event.
As you scroll through the work of these artists and have questions about bringing
one into your home or office please call 805-648-3146. Buy
it Now Prices are
listed below.
Visit the works in their full glory at the following addresses
and times:
January 5, 2008 - February 3, 2008
Opening reception, January 5 - 6 at 9:00 p.m.
Artistis Union Gallery (Map)
330 South California Street
Ventura, California 93001
February 6, 2008 - March 5, 2008 from 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., Monday - Friday
Ventura County Government Center (Map)
800 South Victoria Avenue
Ventura, California
93003
Paul Benavidez
“Study of a Succulent” — $2,200
"Study of a Succulent" is pen and ink over archival paper. Professionally
framed, it measures approximately 18x20x1 inch. |
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Virginia
Buckle
“Primal Cry” - $1,320
A primal cry from China signals the emergence of a long suppressed artistic passion. Passion shakes
the human heart and must be expressed. Regardless of language or nationality, emotions are a
universal that we understand and share, needing no translator except our own hearts. |
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G. Ramon Byrne
“Luscious” — $13,200
"For me, creating 'Luscious' was an opportunity to explore the sensuality of the Rubinesque form in
its fullness and with passion," Bryne says. "The stone yielded itself to my hands in a most
accommodating manner, as I created this most wonderful feature of the female form." |
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Linda Carson
“Giselle” — $7,150
"Giselle is a ballerina whose passion has led her to utter exhaustion, and as she sits collapsed on a
stool gulping water to quench her thirst, she hopes to recover quickly and return to the theatrical stage
and her true passion - the dance," Carson says. |
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Michelle
Chapin
“In The Heat of The Moment” — $3,300
Carved of Canadian alabaster on marble, Chapin says her sculpture, "In the Heat of the Moment,"
was created during the ravenous fires that engulfed Southern California in October 2007. |
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Steven
Cook
“Surf
Passion” — $880
Steven Cook's painting, "Surf Passion" intends to show the youthful passion of heading into the
water for an evening session in late summer, a special personal memory of Cook's. It is oil on canvas
measuring 24x30 inches. |
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Susan Cook
“Woven Strings” — $2,750
Cook serves on the City of Ventura's Public Art Commission, is a board member for the
Buenaventura Art Association, and is an advisory board member for Bell Arts Factory and Ventura
Music Festival, and an active member of Studio Channel Islands Art Center and Focus on the
Masters. |
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Alex Cooper
“Blithe” — $1,430
"I am truly inspired by the industrial, angst-driven sounds of Trent
Reznor," Cooper says. "The raw texture of his music can be felt in my
provocative creations." My entry to the festival, "Blithe," represents sexual
passion in a pure, subtle, yet gritty form." |
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Robert C. Eyberg
“Glass Medicine Bag” — $2,200
The inspiration for Eyberg's festival art stemmed from a series of
commissioned art pieces for the City of Ventura Mayor Art Awards. "Glass medicine bags are my
interpretation of the spiritual culture of Native Americans," he says. |
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Elle-je' Freeheart
“Fire Within” — $4,400
Carved from alabaster on a concrete sculpture,
Freeheart's piece is entitled "The Fire Within." "My selection represents the release of burning desire
hidden with that deep, secret place that is home to our passions and our wildest dreams," she says.
The broken cement drainage pipe used as the base is a reminder that true passion is to be found
everywhere and it emerges equally from the commonplace to the refined." |
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Anne Graca
“Golden Eagle Aerie” — $4,400
"The eagle played a large role in the religion and cultures of many ancient peoples, and the sight of a
golden eagle was a strong omen," Graca says. "The passion it evoked in those who saw it is
legendary, and continues today." Her submission to the festival measures 40x30 inches acrylic and
mixed media painting of a majestic golden eagle nest, or aerie, titled "Golden Eagle Aerie." |
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James Graca
“Infinite Passion” — $4,400
With a 33-year Zen approach to life and creativity, having studied the Tao and Tai Chi, with Chinese
Taoist Master Ni, Hua-Ching, heir of an unbroken succession of 74 generations of Taoist Masters
dating from 216 B.C., "Infinite Flow of Passion" measures 30x48 inches and is acrylic on canvas. |
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Cecile Gurrola-Faulconer
“Huitzilopochtil Mask” — $1,320
"Huitzilopochtli" is a ceramic sculptured, raku fired mask that represents the Passion of the Aztec
God who sacrificed himself so there would be a sun for his people and the world, Faulconer says.
"After he died he returned as a hummingbird, the raku surface of this mask shimmers like the wings
of a hummingbird when in the correct light." |
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Maribel Hernandez
“Pasion de la Luna” — $770
Today, Hernandez continues to be inspired and driven to share the drama, style, passion and love of
her native culture. Her entry to the 2008 festival is 24x24 inches oil on canvas, "Pasión de la Luna." |
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Irena Jablonski
“Adjustment Break” — $2,750
Jablonski's contribution to the 2008 Ventura Music festival is titled "Adjustment Break,"
representing a young ballet dancer at her ballet class at California Art Institute in Thousand Oaks.
"She must live in the area and I hope she will see the painting at some point in her life," Jablonski
says. It is oil on canvas, measuring 24x36 inches. |
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Gerri Johnson-McMillin
“Sea Symphony” — $605
"My passion is the sea, a lullaby playing on the waves," she says. Her contribution to the Ventura
Music Festival is entitled "Sea Symphony and is created from fishbone, monofilament, glass beads
and fish scales." It measures 3x5 inches and comes with a display case. |
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Tom Kimbrell
(untitled music box) — $1,320
His entry to the Ventura Music Festival Art series is a rotating music box featuring local treasures.
"I pity inanimate objects and I envy their stoic persistence, even as the elements strive to obliterate
them," Kimbrell says. "I attempt to imbue them with meaning beyond their everyday existence. They
don't seem to mind." |
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Norman Kirk
(untitled jazz trumpet player) — $2,200
Kirk's colorful acrylic painting is a portrait of a jazz musician playing a sax measuring 24x24 inches. |
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Susan Krieg
“Con Fuoco” — $1,650
"The artistic journey is a transformational experience," Krieg says. Her
entry, "Con Fuoco," is executed in a raised and richly textured finish that
accomplishes a profoundly satisfying integration of mixed media. The title,
"Con Fuoco'" comes from musical direction and literally means with
energy, passion and fire. In Italian it means "with fire." It is mixed media
on canvas, measuring 24x18 inches. |
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Elana Kundell
“Dissolution No. 60” — $1,100
The art submitted for the festival by Kundell is oil on panel titled
"Dissolution No. 60," measuring 12x12 inches.
"For me, passion is life force, energy," Kundell says. "Through the process
of painting, that life force and energy is made tangible and communicable to
other people. The creation of that artwork changes the world that we know -
sometimes in mysterious ways.
Her "Dissolution" series, of which this artwork is a part, experiments with
the tension between focus and abandon, control and surrender. |
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Dan LaVigne
“The Muse” — $2,750
"The Muse" is oil on canvas featuring a figure holding a guitar and measuring 24x36 inches. "The
figure is part extension of the viewer and a classic interpretation of the creative muse," LaVigne says.
"It is through the muse the artist finds inspiration." |
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Wendy Lefkowitz
(untitled) — $770
"This year's theme of passion is expressed through movement, texture and color with collages
created in a burst of energy," Lefkowitz says. "I find a rhythm and build it to a crescendo, layering
each collage of torn art papers until the depth of feeling is conveyed." |
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Paul Lindhard
“Check Mark” — $6,600
"My sculpture, 'Check Mark,' is both a flourish and affirmative gesture, elegant and sensual,"
Lindhard says. "Like music, 'Check Mark' is a symbol brought to life; a sensual experience, it enters
us and plays the instrument of our being. Like notes in music, 'Check Mark' is the symbol enlivened
by the passion of the senses. |
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Sandra McCullough
(untitled) — $5,280
McCulloch has submitted a horizontal mixed media piece painted with oil measuring 101x 10-inches. |
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Leslie McQuaide
“Angel Supporting A Dying Earth” — $8,250
"This piece arises from my passionate conviction that Mother Earth remains
divinely protected despite human foibles that place her in such jeopardy," McQuaide
says. "Angel Supporting a Dying
Earth" is an assemblage measuring 70x24x36 inches.
A wise renaissance angel, sporting well-worn eyeglasses and a perspiring brow, passionately shelters
the earth in her glass-domed belly. Her wings spread wide in a protective stance and an old saw
blade, positioned above the globe, helps deflect further destruction. |
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Bob Moskowitz
“Euterpe” — $6,600
Moskowitz is submitting "Euterpe" - a mixed media creation on canvas. "Euterpe
is one of the nine muses arousing the creative passion in the composer," he
says. The piece measures 48x48 inches. |
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Marjorie Moskowitz
“Color Field IV (Purple Is Passion)” — $7,150
Nature, the incomparable designer, stirs our creative passion and reminds us that all things are
connected. "My painting invites the viewer to step into a pliable, welcoming and intense but
unknown, mysterious, and complex world," Moskowitz says. "The tension created by these opposing
forces is seductive and passionate. The landscape stops the eye; it is prophetic and beautiful yet
subject to the constant force of nature. The goal is to see, capture and embody those moments when
we see nature for its own particularity and for its own passionate force." |
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Natasha Orlov-Mellman
“Isla Mujeras” — $550
Mellman says the inspiration for her piece, titled "Isla Mujeras," is passion that is restless that yields
only to the dance and is stilled by the dance of light and shadow, if only for a moment. |
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Julia Pinkham
“A Note of Passion” — $4,400
Having lived most all of her life by the sea, Pinkham's artwork is strongly influenced by the natural
world, and in particular, the ocean. Her current abstract surrealist works in mixed media and acrylic
on canvas reflect her ongoing interest in natural forms, expressing a spontaneous sense of freedom,
energy and movement. |
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Len Poteshman
(untitled) — $3,850
Poteshman's work often combines human and animal elements
resembling the works of 1800s French Illustrator J.J, Grandville who is
credited for having inspired later Surrealists. |
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Bob Privitt
“Adam's Apple” — $2,420
"'Adam's Apple,' refers to the Garden of Eden and
mankind's passion to have our own way," Privitt says. "The
radiating penstaffs point to every person's potential for
writing a new and different passion." The ceramic sculpture
wall hanging measures 17.5x 20x3.75 inches. |
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Roxie Ray-Bordelon
(untitled) — $2,750
"My paintings are metaphoric statements of human emotions and passion: submerged and unconscious,
and breaking surface into consciousness," she says. |
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David Rivas
“Tempest” — $2,200
"I am submitting a forged titanium sculpture on a volcanic stone base entitled 'Tempest,'" Rivas says.
"This sculpture of passion, released in the spiraling form of a tempest storm as it spins out of the volcanic
stone base presents free flowing grace and energy captured in the sometimes raw, sometimes polished
surfaces of this exotic metal." The piece measures 29x11 inches on an 8x14 inch base. |
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Camille Louise Scott
“Deep Listening” — $3,300
"Passion is the outpour of emotion that drives the artist or musician to produce moving work," Scott
says. "Compassion is the act of sharing the burden of this feeling and help alleviate the suffering."
Her assemblage piece is titled "Deep Listening." |
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Carol Simson
“Sunflowers” — $880
"The artwork I am donating to the Ventura Music Festival is titled,
'Sunflowers', a 31x 38 -inch framed piece painted in watercolor on a full
sheet of 300 lb. Arches rough watercolor paper," Simson says. |
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Lisa Skyheart-Marshall
“Immaculate Adoption” — $1,100
"This painting was inspired by my trip to Italy, where everywhere there
are paintings of the Madonna with her baby," Marshall says. "I thought
about how passionately devoted we humans are to our pets and how
much love and attention we shower upon them and my imagination
evolved from there into the inspiration for this piece." |
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Larissa Strauss
“Blue Ikebana” — $2,200
For the festival, Strauss has created a 16x20- inch stained mosaic piece with
Italian gold glass called "Blue Ikebana. "The colors are intense and the flowers
in bloom are an expression, a symbolic manifestation of passion," she says. |
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Sylvia Torres
“Earthly Meditation” — $5,500
At 24x24 inches, this work is an abstracted landscape about the Earth, entitled "Earthly Meditation"
in encaustic. "Peaceful, powerful, beautiful, fierce and sometimes deadly; whether man becomes the
victim of his own pollution and exploitations or not, the Earth will go on, will adapt, renew, and
regenerate," Torres says. |
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Paul Zanotti
“Ambrosia” — $3,300
Titled "Ambrosia," Zanotti says his inspiration for this mosaic depicts a Roman nymph from an
ancient Roman mosaic. |
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