Marcie Ann Long, a painter from Kelseyville, has accepted the invitation to show a variety of vineyard plein air paintings at the 24th annual Napa Valley Harvest Festival and Art Exhibition, 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 15, on the Lincoln Theatre grounds (near the Veterans Hospital).
This art and wine festival features 20 or more well known Napa wineries and restaurants as well as continuous musical entertainment.
Long and her studio partner, Steven Guy Bilodeau, opened the New California Gallery & Studio at 149 N. Main St., Lakeport, in November 2006. Long and Bilodeau met while members of the Konocti plein air Painters. Because both Long and Bilodeau are plein air painters the gallery is open irregular hours, usually when the artists are working in the adjoining studio, or by appointment.
Long sometimes shows her black and white photography, including duotones of the Pomo baskets from the Lake County Museum and landscapes of local Lake County scenes, as well as more exotic locales. Works by local artist JV Magoon and San Francisco painter Allen Freidlander add two more original visions to the mix.
Long has just been accepted into San Francisco”s Artists Alley, which has just moved to a new space at 863 Mission, across from the new Bloomingdales, in the heart of the evolving museum district. Your chance to enjoy Long”s love for plants, especially orchids, will be showing at the Artists Alley starting Sept. 15 through the holidays. Her brightly colored acrylic paintings strive for a realistic representation of enlarged blossoms and foliage while employing an expressionistic palette and calligraphic brush strokes.
If you would like to see Long or Bilodeau”s work you can call 279-1702 or 391-7147 cell, e-mail obi@jps.net, or just drop by. Preview their work at www.newcaliforniagallery.com.
