Busacca Gallery

Description:

Mariposa Sage Landscape Abstraction by Julie B. Montgomery comes from the series, Mariposa. This work is painted in gray-green tones over ochre, and has a subtle layer of writing. Painted with Golden acrylic polymer based paints on canvas stretched with wooden stretchers, high gloss finish. Painted in Mariposa, CA, at the Bea Wise Studio while executing fellowship with Yosemite Renaissance Artist in Residence program. Mariposa Sage has shown at CFA Gallery, Hyde Street Gallery, San Francisco, and was featured in Marin Magazine. Santa Barbara. ARTIST BIOGRAPHY: BORN: 1970, Bremen, Germany, EDUCATION:The London Institute, Chelsea College of Art and Design, 2001,Sonoma State University B.A. Drawing, magna cum laude, 1997, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK, 1996, SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 2010, Caruso Woods Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA, 2010, Vault Gallery, Carpinteria, CA, 2008, Hyde Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2006, Belcher Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2004, Espacio S/N, El Bruc, Barcelona, Spain, 2004 Belcher Gallery, San Francisco, CA, SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 2010, Caruso Woods, Santa Barbara, CA, The Arts Center, Carpinteria,CA, 2009, Sylvia White Gallery, Ventura, CA, 2008, Hyde Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2006, Painting in the South of France, Live Worms Gallery, San Francisco,CA, Landscape:A Modern Interpretation, California Modern Gallery, San Francisco,CA 2005, Belcher Gallery, San Francisco, CA, SomARTS, San Francisco, CA, CFA Gallery, San Anselmo, CA, Belcher Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2004, Belcher Gallery, San Francisco, CA, LExposition des Artists, LAbbaye de Caunes Minervois, France, CFA Gallery, San Anselmo, CA, Embarcadero Center, San Francisco, CA, CFA Gallery, San Anselmo, CA, PRESS, PUBLICATIONS & TELEVISION: Santa Barbara News Press, Santa Barbara Magazine, Venata Magazine, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, California Home and Design, SF Magazine, Marin Magazine, The Marin Independent Journal, Midi-Libre, Le Depeche, LIndependent, Sonoma Valley Style, from Rizzoli Press, Productions from Universal. SELECTED PRIVATE/PUBLIC COLLECTIONS: Kaiser Permanente, Mr. Daniel Pattersons restaurant Coi, SF, Mr. Tim Bjorn, Denmark, Ms. Karin Dobbin, New York, Mr. Moche Tabibnia, Milan, Masia Can Serrat, El Bruc, Barcelona, Ms. Melissa Kurchen, London, Mr. Piers Tallala, London, Mr. Chad Hayek, Switzerland, ARTIST IN RESIDENCE & OTHER PROGRAMS: 2009, White Sparrow Artist in Residence, Boise, Idaho, 2007, California Tropics, Carpinteria, CA, 2005, Yosemite Renaissance, Yosemite, CA, 2004, Can Serrat, El Bruc, Barcelona, Spain, 2004, Berges, Caunes Minervois, France.

Reference:

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Abstraction, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landscape_art

Abstraction in art: Most typically abstraction is used in the arts as a synonym for abstract art in general. Strictly speaking, it refers to art unconcerned with the literal depiction of things from the visible world. However, refer to an object or image which has been distilled from the real world, or indeed, another work of art. Artwork that reshapes the natural world for expressive purposes is called abstract; that which derives from, but does not imitate a recognizable subject is called nonobjective abstraction. In the 20th century the trend toward abstraction coincided with advances in science, technology, and changes in urban life, eventually reflecting an interest in psychoanalytic theory. Later still, abstraction was manifest in more purely formal terms, such as color, freed from objective context, and a reduction of form to basic geometric designs. Landscape art is a term that covers the depiction of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, and especially art where the main subject is a wide view, with its elements arranged into a coherent composition. In other works landscape backgrounds for figures can still form an important part of the work. Sky is almost always included in the view, and weather is often an element of the composition. Detailed landscapes as a distinct subject are not found in all artistic traditions, and develop when there is already a sophisticated tradition of representing other subjects. The two main traditions spring from Western painting and Chinese art, going back well over a thousand years in both cases. Landscape photography has been very important since the 19th century, and is covered by its own article. The word landscape is from the Dutch, landschap originally meaning a patch of cultivated ground, and then an image. The word entered the English language at the start of the 17th century, purely as a term for works of art; it was not used to describe real vistas before 1725.[1]