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SIDNEY GORDIN (1918-1996), 3-22-58, 1958 for P-TOWN IN S.B.: Sidney Gordin, Betty Lane, Judith Rothschild exhibition review in VOICE

Seaside Abstraction: P-Town in S.B. at Sullivan Goss

By Daisy Scott, VOICE Magazine

AUGUST 16, 2024

ABSTRACTING THE BEAUTY OF BEACHES, WEIRS, AND ORGANIC SHAPES, the artists of Provincetown. Massachusetts are synonymous with community and innovation as members o a world-class art colony.

Now through August 26th, Sullivan Goss - An American Gallery is sharing a slice of this Cape Cod hotspot. affectionately known as "P-Town." with its very own audience of Santa Barbara artists and art-lovers.

Photograph of HOLLI HARMON in Independent by Ingrid Bostrom

Illumination Through Art

By Leslie Dinaberg, Independent

JULY 25, 2024

Iconic California imagery runs deep in the artistic bloodlines of painter Holli Harmon. Whether it’s winding through the environmental landscapes of “The River’s Journey” (exhibited at the California Nature Art Museum, Santa Barbara City Hall, Sullivan Goss Art Gallery, and the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art) or embedded into the human landscapes of the ambitious “Portraits of the Central Coast” (exhibited as Revelations at the Elverhøj Museum of History and Art), Harmon’s thoughtfully immersive approach to what has been described as her “contemporary traditional” artistic style brings a beautiful blend of the head and the heart to the canvas. 

Sullivan Goss Show Spotlights Work of Artist Wosene Worke Kosrof

Sullivan Goss Show Spotlights Work of Artist Wosene Worke Kosrof

By Staff, Noozhawk

JULY 19, 2024

Sullivan Goss will present “Labyrinth of Words,” its third solo exhibit by contemporary painter Wosene Worke Kosrof. The exhibit runs July 26-Sept. 23 at the gallery, 11 E. Anapamu St., Santa Barbara.

The show features 16 new paintings and will be accompanied by a catalog that includes a new essay by Richard B. Woodward, the founding curator of the African Arts Department at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond.

PATRICIA CHIDLAW, Girl with Phone, Union Station, 2013

Erin Graffy: It’s All About the Art of Patricia Chidlaw, Peter Clark and Nir Kabaretti

By Erin Graffy, Noozhawk

JUNE 29, 2024

Patricia Chidlaw describes her works as “urban landscapes” to distinguish them from people-less outdoor scenes and seascapes in nature.

But that doesn’t tell the whole story of her art.

She could be described as an illustrator of everyday American life.

 

Moving Past Paint in California Art

Moving Past Paint in California Art

By Brian T. Allen, National Review

May 9, 2024

LAST month I wrote about Storm King, the art center in the Hudson Valley in New York dedicated to outdoor sculpture. I loved it. I realized then that I hadn’t profiled a living, breathing, working sculptor, so today I’ll write about Alex Rasmussen, a Santa Barbara sculptor who works in aluminum.

... Rasmussen is a case study in inventive, contemporary sculpture. He sculpts not stone or wood or plaster or wax or bronze or concrete but aluminum, and he knows it well.

MARIA RENDÓN, Light Landing, 2023

Monday Gallery

By Staff, Harper's Magazine

MARCH 11, 2024

Light Landing, a painting by Maria Rendón, whose work is on view through April 22 at Sullivan Goss, in Santa Barbara, California.

© The artist. Courtesy Sullivan Goss, Santa Barbara, California

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Angela Perko at her home studio | Photo: Ingrid Bostrom

Blended Books and Art

By Indy Staff, Independent

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Angela Perko is a self-taught painter here in Santa Barbara. Angela and her husband own a rare bookstore, and she credits the exposure to art books for sparking her interest in painting.

Artist Whitney Brooks Abbott | Credit: Ingrid Bostrom

Capturing Carpinteria

By Roger Durling, Independent

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Driving through the Carpinteria Valley to meet esteemed painter Whitney Brooks Abbott, I notice the abandoned greenhouses on the roadside near her house. They stand there in a ghostly manner, both worn out and defiant, surrounded by the beauty of the natural landscape. Not surprisingly, when I walk in Whitney’s studio, I see “Field Notes,” the main work of her first solo show at Sullivan Goss in five years — a painting of the greenhouses.

NATHAN HUFF, Arranging Stars, 2023 for NATHAN HUFF review in VOICE

Climbing into Nathan Huff's Forest for the Trees

By Kerry Methner, VOICE

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

WITH A VISUAL LANGUAGE ALL ITS OWN, Nathan Huff’s third solo exhibition at Sullivan Goss is now open. Many will remember the ladders, small boats, and oaks that populated his earlier works. They return again, though subtly changed, evoking even more clearly earthly transience and a pull to the ethereal realms.

WOSENE: Beyond Words Cover for Art & Antiques article

Beyond Words

By Staff, Art & Antiques

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

A new book has just been published on the art and life of artist Wosene Worke Kosrof called WOSENE: Beyond Words.

NICOLE STRASBURG , You're Swell, 2023

By the Sea, Out of Mind at Sullivan Goss in Santa Barbara

By Josef Woodard, Independent

August 24, 2023

Making my way in to see Nicole Strasburg’s new Sullivan Goss exhibition Surfacing, diverse enticements were there to behold in this spatially generous, three-gallery-deep art space. This summer’s triple play of shows includes Holli Harmon’s intriguingly multifaceted To Feast on Clouds and the seasonal group show spritzer dubbed Summer Fling in the large middle space, including colorful, eye-buzzing works by Penelope Gottlieb, Robert Townsend, and one of Hank Pitcher’s fetching surfboard “portraits.”

By association, Strasburg’s conceptually elastic variations on seascape paintings should also qualify as summery fare. And yet these seaside scenarios, taken individually and as a variegated and integrated ensemble, can take on introspective and artistically adventurous sub-turns, far from the realm of idle beachgoer’s escapism.

1815 Laguna | Credit: Betsy J. Green

An Artist's Home with Exotic Details

By Betsy J. Green, Independent

AUGUST 10, 2023

I love to write about artists’ homes. They are never ordinary. This home is no exception. It was built by landscape artist Lockwood de Forest, with help from his son-in-law, architect Winsor Soule. There are numerous examples of de Forest’s paintings in Santa Barbara at the Sullivan Goss Gallery, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the Santa Barbara Historical Museum, and will also be in the future Chrisman California Islands Center in Carpinteria.

HOLLI HARMON, August Hath 31 Days, 2023

Expressions of Hope & Joy

By Isaac Hernandez de Lipa, Voice

AUGUST 4, 2023

TWELVE GOUACHE PAINTINGS ON FABRIANO WATERCOLOR PAPER may be Holli Harmon’s crown jewel. Each one features a month of the year reproduced from an 1866 Farmer’s Almanac, when hand labor began to be replaced with machine farming. Each piece, inspired by her sketchbook, represents a month of the year at the Jalama Canyon Ranch, floating over deep blue cyanotype prints made using autochthonous vegetation.

NICOLE STRASBURG, Pulchra Mysterium - Beautiful Mystery Triptych, 2023 for SBSiteline mention

Two Shows open July 28 at Sullivan Goss

By Erik Torkells, Sitelinesb.com

JULY 24, 2023

Two shows open July 28 at Sullivan Goss: 1) Holli Harmon’s To Feast on Clouds: “An impressive group of 89 paintings of clouds rendered onto vintage tableware will take over the walls of one of the gallery’s spaces. The accumulation of clouds from sunny to stormy and everything in between creates a conversation about water, where it comes from and how it works in relation to the food we grow that eventually ends up on our tables.”

Nicole Strasburg’s Surfacing: “Long associated with 12 x 12 inch paintings on birch panels that seem to float away from the white walls of the gallery, the artist has, in the last two years, adopted a slightly larger square format of 14 x 14 inch panels with beautifully-finished wood sides. Impressive suites of paintings in both formats can be seen and purchased in this special exhibition. They will be joined by a focused presentation of larger paintings that revel in the endless forms and colors offered by those places where ocean, sky, and land meet.”

New York Times photo of 36 Hours: Santa Barbara

36 Hours: Santa Barbara

By Freda Moon, New York Times

JULY 13, 2023

Santa Barbara, with fewer than 90,000 people, barely makes it into California’s 100 largest cities. But this coastal enclave has an outsize role in the state’s history.

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...[H]ead a couple blocks north on Anacapa Street to Sullivan Goss, a private three-room gallery around the corner from the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, where pieces can cost as much as a home down payment and the collection leans heavily on evocative portrayals of the American West. Catch the current exhibition by the Santa Barbara-based artist Robin Gowen, called “Last Shadow & First Light” (through July 24), of large-format paintings of Central California’s distinctive landscapes.

NATHAN HUFF, Gathering, 2023 for LOTUSLAND x SULLIVAN GOSS: Where the Wild Things Grow review in VOICE

You Can't Spell Lotusland without "S-o-u-l"

By Isaac Hernandez, VOICE

JULY 7, 2023

IF THE JOB OF THE ARTIST IS TO REVEAL NEW EXPERIENCES, the exhibition Where the Wild Things Grow has succeeded. Even if you've been to the magnificent Ganna Walska Lotusland gardens, you'll see the place anew thanks to 28 different artists who have transferred their Lotusland experience onto paper, sculpture, and paintings. If you listen carefully, you can hear the plants talk.

LYNDA WEINMAN , Flora Serpent Centerpiece, 2023 for KEYT piece on the LOTUSLAND x SULLIVAN GOSS: Where the Wild Things Grow

Public invited to Sullivan Goss X Lotusland Art Reception in Santa Barbara

By Patricia Martellotti, KEYT

JULY 7, 2023

The community will have a chance to meet local artists while also supporting Lotusland at the same time in Santa Barbara on Thursday from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m.

Sullivan Goss Art Gallery in Santa Barbara is excited to collaborate with Lotusland in Montecito.

Opening at Sullivan Goss...

Opening at Sullivan Goss...

BY ERIK TORKELLS, Sitelinesb.com

Opening May 26 at Sullivan Goss: a solo exhibit by Robin Gowen. “Last Shadow & First Light is an expansive overview of Robin’s enduring relationship to the landscape of the central coast. While she is adept at painting still life, figures, and architecture, the paintings in this exhibition celebrate her deep knowledge of the unpeopled places she visits regularly. Meditations on vast expanses of rolling hills along with native oak and sycamore trees are the main compositional elements.” Below: “Bitterwater Creek Cattle.”

BETTY LANE (1907-1996), Charlie with Beer, 1983 for Santa Barbara Newspress article

Art Exhibit Features Grandmother and Grandson

By Marilyn McMahon, Santa Barbara Newspress

MARCH 28, 2023

She was born in Washington, D.C., in 1907 to a military family of high standing. He was born in L.A. in 1968 to a Hollywood family of note.

East Coast, West Coast. Modern, contemporary. Grandmother, grandson.

Betty Lane, an artist first and foremost, but a diarist, too. Christopher Noxon, a writer first, but then an illustrator and now a painter.

CHRISTOPHER NOXON , Meditation Mount, 2023 for Sitelinesb.com article

Odds & Ends

By Erik Torkells, Sitelinesb.com

MARCH 27, 2023

Opening March 31 at Sullivan Goss: paintings by two artists, Betty Lane and Christopher Noxon (whose studio was a highlight of last fall’s Ojai Studio Artists tour). Below: Noxon’s “Meditation Mount.”

BETTY LANE (1907-1996), Untitled (A Tree in the Forest), 1941 for SURREAL WOMEN article in Arts & Antiques

SURREAL WOMEN

By Staff, Art & Antiques

MARCH, 2023

Through April 24th, Sullivan Goss will show Surreal Women as a companion exhibition to its REAL WOMEN: Realist Art by American Women exhibition of 2021. The exhibition embraces intuition, bypassing the intellectual constructs of Breton’s infamous manifesto to go straight for the heart. 

PAUSHA FOLEY, The Watcher, 2022 for SURREAL WOMEN article in VOICE

SURREALISM: Departure from Reality

By Lynn Moss Holley in VOICE

MARCH 10, 2023

HONORING WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH and paying tribute to women who joined the Surrealist Movement that began in France entered the America in the 1920s, Sullivan Goss curators Susan Bush and Jeremy Tessmer chose fifteen contemporary women artists for Surreal Women, on view through April 24th.

Sandi Nicholson, Amie Raney, Savanna Jani, and Jill Jani with Lanny Raney (left) and Jeff Jani standing (photo by Priscilla)

A Helen Believe Bash

By Richard Mineards, Montecito Journal

MARCH 7, 2023

Montecito dynamic duo Bill and Sandi Nicholson co-hosted a boffo bash at the Sullivan Goss Gallery for a new feature documentary, Helen Believe, which debuted at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.

The Art of Playing with Technology: Lynda Weinman at Santa Barbara’s Sullivan Goss Gallery ‘Lynda.com’ Founder Discusses Her Creative Evolution

The Art of Playing with Technology: Lynda Weinman at Santa Barbara’s Sullivan Goss Gallery ‘Lynda.com’ Founder Discusses Her Creative Evolution

By David Starkey, Independent

FEBUARY 6, 2023

It’s always fascinating to see how creative people evolve and continue to create in different ways throughout their lives. Lynda Weinman was an early pioneer in computer and web graphics who went on to cofound (with her husband, Bruce Heavin) Lynda.com, one of the first online educational enterprises to teach digital tools and skills. They sold the company to LinkedIn in 2015, and Weinman began to pursue an interest in ceramics. She discovered 3D clay printing in 2020, and today she is one of its foremost pioneers, working fluently with geometric and parametric forms. Her 3D-printed ceramic and plastic sculptures are currently on view at Sullivan Goss, An American Gallery.

Photograph of PATRICIA CHIDLAW by Ingrid Bostrom

Reel Meets Realism

By Roger Durling, Independent

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

“Crop the bottom!” said the comment on Instagram about Patricia Chidlaw’s painting for the 38th Santa Barbara International Film Festival poster. It was a reaction that we expected. But it is the bottom half of the piece (which showcases a parking lot with cars stationed against a wall) that elevates the work to the sublime.

“To be sure, Patricia’s work beautifully captures environments while not editing out the visual noise of power lines, graffiti, and disrepair,” says David B. Walker, CEO of the Nevada Museum of Art, where Chidlaw had a major exhibit in 2014. “These elements play antagonist roles in her eloquent compositions.”

LYNDA WEINMAN, Hilbert Noodle Table, 2021-2022

New Forms for Natural Subjects

By Ricky Barajas, VOICE

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

AS TECHNOLOGY GROWS AND IMPACTS THE WORLD AROUND US, people turn to the natural world for reprieve and inspiration. Regenerate, the latest exhibition at Sullivan Goss, is bursting with figures that reference but also morph natural figures, shaping them into something are as familiar as they are unrecognizable. Featuring the artworks of J. Bradley Greer and local artist and SBIFF Board of Directors President Lynda Weinman, Regenerate asks viewers to consider their position in between nature and technology and if these things are as far apart from each other as one might initially believe.

Santa Barbara International Film Festival set to bring in stars and an economic stimulus

Santa Barbara International Film Festival set to bring in stars and an economic stimulus

By John Palminteri, KEYT

JANUARY 18, 2023

Just in front of the 2023 Academy Awards, the Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) is bringing some of the industry's top stars for a multi-day event of films and tributes. SBIFF Executive Director Roger Durling says in its 38th year, the festival will have 52 world premieres, 79 U.S. premiers and 43 countries will be represented. The festival runs from February 8 to 18. The date has moved in recent years to stay close to the Oscar nominations and awards ceremony. Durling enthusiastically talked about the event as he unveiled the poster from acclaimed local artist Patricia Chidlaw inside the Sullivan and Goss art gallery in downtown Santa Barbara.

38th Santa Barbara International Film Festival poster image with painting by PATRICIA CHIDLAW

FILM FESTIVAL UNVEILS 2023 POSTER AND PROGRAM

By Cherish, EDHAT

JANUARY 18, 2023

The Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) has unveiled its poster and programming for this year's festival set to kick off on February 8.

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A press conference was held at the Sullivan Goss art gallery on Wednesday morning where Santa Barbara artist Patricia Chidlaw was announced as the creator of this year's poster.

EDGAR EWING (1913-2006), Spanish Saddle (Rose Parade Series), 1955

Turning Eyes to the Sky

By Ricky Barajas, VOICE

January 6, 2023

From "Dude" to "Dude" - cultural stereotypes live on in new images. The land of the West is just as captivating as the figures who used to roam it. Where there once cowboys blazing the trail of Manifest Destiny, we now have surfers who keep their gaze fixed on the horizon, waiting for their opportunity to work with the ocean around them.

WERNER DREWES (1899-1985), Storm Clouds (a.k.a. White Storm Cloud), 1977

American West exhibit to grace Santa Barbara gallery

By Dave Mason, Santa Barbara Newspress

January 5, 2023

Sullivan Goss: An American Gallery is presenting “The Search for the Modern West” as its first exhibit for 2023.

The exhibit features paintings, sculptures and prints that address the mythology, history and real life experiences of the American West. 

JOSEPH GOLDYNE, Waterfall Drawing 14, 2021-22 for Santa Barbara Newspress article

'Imaginary Falls'

By Marilyn McMahon, Santa Barbara Newspress

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

“Imaginary Falls in Charcoal, Ink and Oil,” a solo exhibition by Joseph Goldyne, is on view through Dec. 26 at Sullivan Goss: An American Gallery, 11 E. Anapamu St., Santa Barbara.

“Mr. Goldyne is a well-regarded and widely-collected print maker, but these imaginary waterfalls are all unique works executed with neither press nor plate,”  said Jeremy Tessmer, gallery curator and director. “Instead, the plurality of works in the exhibition represent the artist’s first efforts in charcoal presented in context with three paintings in oil and india ink.”

JOSEPH GOLDYNE, Waterfall Drawing 15, 2022 for article in Art & Antiques Magazine

SANTA BARBARA SUBLIME

By Staff, Art & Antiques

NOVEMBER, 2022

On Thursday, November 3rd, Natalie Arnoldi and Joseph Goldyne will share a space at Sullivan Goss gallery in Santa Barbara, California. Their complimentary solo exhibitions of paintings and drawings of the natural world promise a contemporary view of the sublime. 

 

WOSENE WORKE KOSROF, The Inventor V, 2022 for article about the artist in VOICE

WOSENE WORKE KOSROF riffs on life in Beyond Words

By Kerrie Methner, VOICE

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

NUANCED, tantalizing, messy… reflecting the accretion and assimilation of a lifetime of rich experience, the 16 canvases that make up Beyond Words at Sullivan Goss speak volumes about the fullness of the years Wosene Worke Kosrof has lived. From his birth in 1950 and early years in Ethiopia, to his immigration to the United States in 1978, to his relocation to California in 1991, Kosrof has traveled, savoring experiences, and exploring new worlds as they opened to him.

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