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Disney Wizard
Jul 12, 1999, 3:00:00 AM7/12/99
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Watercolor Partners: Over at the Buenaventura Gallery, the main gallery
is host to two artists bringing distinctly different approaches to the
watercolor medium. Faith Fellman's fastidious, angular pieces celebrate
architecture, often of the funky and/or vintage variety. She takes, and
gives, pleasure in her depictions of the warbling roofline of an old
English teahouse in Carmel or the imported vernacular architecture of
Chinatown in Los Angeles. Charming desolation greets us in the
dilapidated edifice of "Deserted Store." Often, these structures fill
the picture frame with their misshapen forms and exuberant color
schemes. And Fellman has no compunction about assisting in the process,
adding her own elements of visual exaggeration in a piece like "Home for
Cats," in which a rambling Victorian house is a backdrop for a coterie
of feline inhabitants. The artist's cartoon-like distortions accentuate
the unusual designs, recalling the buildings in Disneyland's Toontown,
in which architectural logic doesn't quite add up, except by 'Toon
logic. JoEllen Stevens heads off in another direction, tapping the
watercolor medium for its impressionistic attributes. "San Antonio
Creek" is a soft-edged patchwork of colors verging on abstraction. She
dips further into abstraction in her "Free Pour" series, using paint in
a literally flowing way, avoiding the brush. Stevens also periodically
reins herself in to create more traditional pieces, such as "Ojai Post
Office," a straightforward image of that landmark building. But then she
is back out again for "Grape Universe," with fruits dangling in a
strange thicket of visual stimuli that's not quite of this world. Or,
more to the point, it's in a world of its own. DETAILS Faith Fellman
and JoEllen Stevens, through July 17 at Buenaventura Gallery, 700 E.
Santa Clara St., Ventura. Tue.-Sat., 11 a.m.-4 p.m.; 648-1235. Josef
Woodard, who writes about art and music, can be reached by e-mail at
joe...@aol.com.
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is host to two artists bringing distinctly different approaches to the
watercolor medium. Faith Fellman's fastidious, angular pieces celebrate
architecture, often of the funky and/or vintage variety. She takes, and
gives, pleasure in her depictions of the warbling roofline of an old
English teahouse in Carmel or the imported vernacular architecture of
Chinatown in Los Angeles. Charming desolation greets us in the
dilapidated edifice of "Deserted Store." Often, these structures fill
the picture frame with their misshapen forms and exuberant color
schemes. And Fellman has no compunction about assisting in the process,
adding her own elements of visual exaggeration in a piece like "Home for
Cats," in which a rambling Victorian house is a backdrop for a coterie
of feline inhabitants. The artist's cartoon-like distortions accentuate
the unusual designs, recalling the buildings in Disneyland's Toontown,
in which architectural logic doesn't quite add up, except by 'Toon
logic. JoEllen Stevens heads off in another direction, tapping the
watercolor medium for its impressionistic attributes. "San Antonio
Creek" is a soft-edged patchwork of colors verging on abstraction. She
dips further into abstraction in her "Free Pour" series, using paint in
a literally flowing way, avoiding the brush. Stevens also periodically
reins herself in to create more traditional pieces, such as "Ojai Post
Office," a straightforward image of that landmark building. But then she
is back out again for "Grape Universe," with fruits dangling in a
strange thicket of visual stimuli that's not quite of this world. Or,
more to the point, it's in a world of its own. DETAILS Faith Fellman
and JoEllen Stevens, through July 17 at Buenaventura Gallery, 700 E.
Santa Clara St., Ventura. Tue.-Sat., 11 a.m.-4 p.m.; 648-1235. Josef
Woodard, who writes about art and music, can be reached by e-mail at
joe...@aol.com.
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Secrets of the Temple of the Forbidden Eye™ or
How to Survive Disneyland's® Indiana Jones™ Adventure are revealed in
this crumbling dusty leather journal. (o=8>
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