OPEN STUDIOS 2016 (Oct. 22-23) featured eight GAW printmakers: Jean Capron, Marcia Clay, Melanie Dorson, Mariko Jesse, Eddie Lee, Clare Metague, Andrey Semyonov and Barbara Stikker.
The event was a big success! Bustling with visitors from start to end, the workshop never looked livelier. With wine, food, music, and above all ART in plenty, viewers delighted in the confluence of talent and pleasure. From Barbara Stikker’s wild-eyed images of owls to Melanie Dorson’s dreamy little girls in dreamland (that those wild-eyed owls seemed to stare at from across the studio) wonderful images abounded. Every wall dazzled the eyes, with Mariko Jesse’s world of delicately etched teatimes, Eddie Lee’s meditative suite of colorful shapes like an expression of consciousness itself, Andrey Semyonov’s poetic renderings of places you cannot place but feel, Clare Metague’s linocuts so redolent of tropical joy that they seem to breathe, Jean Capron’s exquisite and sometimes impossibly tiny depictions of graceful goddess-like women, and Marcia Clay’s lively San Francisco full of city dwellers–the 2016 Open Studios collection truly showed off what we do here at the Graphic Arts Workshop.
And lots of sales, of course, kept us smiling!
