Feautured Santa Barbara Artist: Priscilla Bender-Shore
Detail of Stone Frieze: Forms of Time, 1998, a triptych, (18" x360" overall), is a deconstructed narrative, addressing the shift from randomness to transformation.
Since 1968, Priscilla Bender-Shore's work has reintroduced the human image into the visual vocabulary. Educated at Cooper Union, Yale, St. John's, and UCSB, her MFA work and thesis, The Human Silhouette, broadened the dialog on the figure as motif. She was an instructor of drawing and painting at Santa Barbara City College from 1971 to 1996. She has a long resume of both jurying and curating local, regional, and national exhibitions in painting, drawing, and photography. In 1988 she won a national painting competition award, a coveted six-month residency at Monet's home in Giverny, France. Her work has been widely exhibited in the United States and Europe.
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Ori Gersht: Lost in Time at Santa Barbara Museum of Art
May 20 – September 4, 2011
Ori Gersht depicts scenes of natural beauty that perceptively disguise and reveal a history of violence. Featuring selections from a trilogy of works based on 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-century European still-life painting, and two new series based on Japanese history and scenery, this exhibition represents five years of recent work by the artist. :: more
Is it premature to predict the death of the paper book? With sales of e-readers recently outpacing that of real books, it may seem like the end is near. But even so, according to that logic, that's a lot of "useless" books that are left out there. Not so for Turkish designer Ragip Erdem of New York-based Erdem Designs, who handcrafts these lovely lamps from recycled books and which are fit for the die-hard book lover. :: more
With Sales of Film Rolls Dwindling, How Much Longer Can Photographic Film Hold On?
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP). At Image City Photography Gallery, Gary Thompson delights in pointing out qualities of light, contrast and clarity in one of his best-selling prints — a winter-sunset view of Yosemite National Park's El Capitan peak shot with a hefty Pentax film camera he bought in 1999 for $1,700.
His wife, Phyllis, a latecomer to fine-art photography after they retired from teaching in the 1990s, favors a Hasselblad X-Pan for panoramic landscapes, such as a time-lapse shot of a harbor in Nova Scotia. :: more
Progressive Danish architect Bjarke Ingels recently unveiled his lastest masterpiece in NYC. The West 57th residential tower is an unique growth from BIG’s other residential projects in Copenhagen. In his fearless designs, Bjarke Ingels often tries to achieve a balance between playful and practical approaches to architecture :: more
As seniors begin to celebrate their final year in high school, their thoughts quickly race to senior prom, senior pictures and grad night. However, it is just as important that they focus some of their energy into applying for college scholarships :: more
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Is it premature to predict the death of the paper book? With sales of e-readers recently outpacing that of real books, it may seem like the end is near. But even so, according to that logic, that's a lot of "useless" books that are left out there. Not so for Turkish designer Ragip Erdem of New York-based Erdem Designs, who handcrafts these lovely lamps from recycled books and which are fit for the die-hard book lover. 
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP). At Image City Photography Gallery, Gary Thompson delights in pointing out qualities of light, contrast and clarity in one of his best-selling prints — a winter-sunset view of Yosemite National Park's El Capitan peak shot with a hefty Pentax film camera he bought in 1999 for $1,700. 
