Artist Mathieu Gregoire is known for his large-scale public projects, as well as more intimate temporary installations using found and fabricated objects. His skill at the latter is on display this month in his first solo show at the Athenaeum.
Through a grant provided by the Kenneth A. Picerne Foundation, Janene Farmer will offer free art classes to elementary and middle school students starting Jan. 8 at the North University Community Branch Library, 8820 Judicial Drive, San Diego.
If you’re looking for out-of-the-ordinary gifts this season, how about this: an ornament-making class at Stone and Glass in Rancho Bernardo? Or a special group tour of Garry Cohen’s Glass Ranch in Escondido (bring your own group) including glassblowing demos?
Ed Hujsak spent much of his adult life around metal. A rocket engineer by training, the 88-year-old La Jolla resident now makes metal sculptures and re-landscaped his front yard to showcase them.
The current show at the La Jolla Art Association (LJAA) gallery, which will be on view until Dec. 2, honors Spanish-born master painter Sebastian Capella. In the front room of the gallery you will find 50 paintings by 50 of Capella’s students. In the back room are seven of Capella’s recent large, colorful landscape paintings.
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in La Jolla celebrates the opening of a three-museum exhibition, “Behold, America!” — a grand collaboration with American works from the collections of MCASD, San Diego Museum of Art, and Timken Museum.
The latest public art work in the Murals of La Jolla art series was installed on Nov. 13 at 7744 Fay Ave. Titled “Applied,” by artist Richard Allen Morris, it is the eighth in the series being funded by the La Jolla Community Foundation.
“Structures Poetry Humans,” an art project by Wes Bruce, explores the poetic relationship between people and the structures they inhabit. It is on display at Lux Art Institute in Encinitas through Dec. 29, 2012.
After what is now being called a “temporary closure,” UC San Diego’s University Center is looking into reopening the Crafts Center, which closed on Sept. 26. The Crafts Center offered classes in jewelry making, glass blowing and ceramics, among others; hosted annual exhibits and held fundraisers. A student fee funded the Center.
In case you didn’t know, La Jolla has about 20 self-proclaimed femme fatales. They hosted a reception for the exhibit “Femme Fatales,” which celebrated the virtues of Femme Fatalism at the La Jolla Art Association gallery.
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