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| JUDI A. GORSKI (JAG) JAG's Art Studio at the Beach 2366 48th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94116 (phone) 415-716-3004 (fax) 415-665-JAGS (5247) (e-mail) JAGsPaints@aol.com (website) http://www.jagsart.com/ ARTIST’S STATEMENT People from all over the world come to San Francisco’s Ocean Beach to appreciate its beauty and add to it their own energy, colors and memories. I’m one of those people, making paintings from the heart about the place where I love to be living. HISTORY & EDUCATION Born and educated in New York through high school, I grew up spending winters in Queens and summers on Long Island at the beaches near the Hamptons. I studied art at the University of Miami and the University of North Florida before hitchhiking from Florida to San Francisco in the early 1970’s, and making it my permanent home in 1978. While working full time in law offices, I continued to take classes at the San Francisco Art Institute, the San Francisco Academy of Art, and San Francisco State University, where in 1991 I graduated as a painting major with a B.A. in Art. Since then, I opened JAG’s Art Studio at the Beach where I create and sell my original fine art paintings, limited edition giclee prints and other hand-made items. INSPIRATION & INFLUENCES My love of the beach and the life that surrounds it is an ongoing inspiration that influences most of my artwork. For the past several years I have been creating a series of paintings about surfers and beach life. Most of the pieces in this series are painted realistically in acrylic on canvas. For a change of pace, I’ve done another group of abstract mixed-media paintings, entitled Time Pieces, which are textured canvases with small pieces of mirrors, sand and broken watch parts embedded in thickly applied acrylic paint. My portfolio also includes impressionistic and representational paintings of California native flowers, and some scenes by the Russian River in Healdsburg, a small rural town in Sonoma County’s wine country, where I often spend long weekends with family and friends. Painters who have added to my inspiration and motivation include famous names like Robert Bechtle and David Hockney; Paul Pratchenko, my favorite and most inspirational professor at SF State; oil painter E. Dale Erickson, who taught me perspective and realism and whose work I collect and continue to study; and my good friend Anna Conti, with whom I have painted, and whose work I both admire and collect. ART GALLERIES Studio 333 Art Gallery, 333 Caledonia Street, Sausalito, CA (March 1 – April 15, 2007) SOBI Artists’ Gallery, 1111 Howard Street, Burlingame, CA (September, 2004 - 2005) SELECTED SOLO SHOWS ArtSpan’s SF Open Studios, 2366 48th Ave, S.F. (Oct., 2007, 2001-2006,1998,1993-1996) Paradise Surf Shop, 3961 Portola Drive, Santa Cruz, CA 95062 (June 1 – June 30, 2007) Caffe Union, 1830 Union Street, San Francisco, CA 94123 (April 1 – May 31, 2007) Java Beach Café, 1396 La Playa St., San Francisco, CA 94122 (Sept. 2, 2005 – present) Kaila’s Corner Cup, 3655 Lawton St., San Francisco, CA 94122 (Nov. – Dec. 2006) Proximity Real Estate, 1221 Bridgeway, Suite #1, Sausalito, CA (March 1 – April 30, 2006) Pier 23 Restaurant, on the Embarcadero, San Francisco, 94111– Nov. 15-Dec. 31st, 2003 Sequoia National Bank, 699 Portola Drive, San Francisco, CA 94127 – March, 2001 Java Beach Café, Judah & La Playa, San Francisco, CA 94122– December 1997, 1996 SELECTED GROUP SHOWS Studio 333 Art Gallery, 333 Caledonia St., Sausalito, CA (March 1 – April 15, 2007) Kaila’s Corner Cup, 3655 Lawton Street, San Francisco, CA 94122 (October. 2006) SOMARTS Art Gallery, 934 Brannan Street, San Francisco, CA 94103 (October, 2006) Spring Art Show-Paintings & Glass, JAG’s Art Studio, 2366 48th Avenue, with Kelcie Tinker & Marilyn Warden, glass artists (April 29-May 1, 2005; May 6-7, 2006) SOBI Artists’ Gallery, Grand Opening , 1111 Howard Street, Burlingame, CA(Sept.,2004) WISE Surfboards, 800 Great Highway, San Francisco, CA 94121 (Jan. 2003 – present) Sunset Artists Society, Sunset Community Festival, 28th Avenue @ Lawton Street, San Francisco, CA (Sept., 2003) Sunset Artists Society, Hall of Flowers, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA (May, 2002 & May 2003) Sunset Neighborhood Beacon Center’s Artist Collaborative, 27th Avenue & Taraval Street, San Francisco, CA (June, 1998) ONGOING EXHIBITS Wise Surfboards, 800 Great Highway, San Francisco, CA 94121, (415.750.WISE), open 7 days a week, has an ongoing exhibit (since January 2003) of my Surfers and Beach Life paintings and giclee prints for sale; Java Beach Café, 1396 La Playa (Judah & La Playa), San Francisco, CA 94121, open 7 days a week, 5:30 am – 10 pm, has an ongoing exhibit (since September 2004) of my Surfers and Beach Life paintings and giclee prints for sale; exhibit changes periodically; JAG’s Art Studio at the Beach, 2366 48th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94116, (415.716.3004), has an ongoing daily exhibit of more than 100 pieces of my handmade artwork including original paintings, giclee prints, mixed-media pieces and mobiles. TEACHING POSITIONS 2007, Painting from the Heart – private lessons in my studio on how to paint with acrylics: one student at a time: six 2-hour sessions. JUROR FOR ART SHOW July, 2005, participated as a juror of the Fine Arts submissions for the Celebration of Craftswomen Show, that took place at Ft. Mason, San Francisco, in November, 2005. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS October, 2006, my painting, Surfer Dog, was published as part of an advertising campaign to highlight the artwork of Sunset District artists who participated in ArtSpan’s 2006 Open Studios; the ad ran for 4 consecutive weeks in the San Francisco Bay Guardian during the month of October. July, 2004, my painting, Halfway There, was leased by Photo Stylist, Laura Thomas, for publication and use as a backdrop in a proposed Hewlett-Packard television commercial. January 2004, issue of The Sunset Beacon, headline front page feature article entitled, Painting the Sunset, about my art studio, my artwork and me. Photos of me with my dog, Hunter, in front of a local mural I helped to paint and also at home in my studio. September 28, 2003, The San Francisco Chronicle, Sunday issue, Datebook Section cover story regarding the mural restoration on Ortega Street in the Sunset District; I am mentioned as a volunteer and quoted. COLLECTORS My work has been acquired by more than 250 private art collectors located throughout the United States; in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Ohio, Oregon, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, and New York. My paintings are also in private and corporate collections in Israel, Japan, Nicaragua and Switzerland. ART-RELATED COMMUNITY SERVICE 2006 – Donated artwork to and assisted at the 2006 art auction sponsored by ArtSpan in San Francisco; assisted at ArtSpan’s members preview party preceding October 2006 Open Studios. Helped create, produce, advertise and distribute the 2nd Sunset Artists’ brochure regarding Open Studios in the Sunset District. Secured a venue for the Sunset Artists to display their work in a group show previewing 2006 Open Studios in the Sunset District, along with 4 consecutive weeks of free advertising in the Bay Guardian newspaper regarding same. Coordinated a series of 6-week art shows by individual local artists at Kaila’s Corner Cup, a café in the Sunset District, September 2006-2007. Created and donated quilting squares to the Neighborhood Parks Council’s fundraising effort. 2005 – Assisted in the production, advertising and distribution of the first Sunset Artists Open Studio brochure, for the purpose of bringing art buyers to the Sunset District to visit local artists in their art studios. Participated as a juror of the Fine Arts submissions for the Celebration of Craftswomen Show, that takes place at Ft. Mason, San Francisco. 2004 – Assisted in guiding volunteers in mosaic tiling for the 16th Avenue Tiled Steps Project, which is an effort to tile 120 steps in a public area of the Sunset District in San Francisco; also donated a painting for fund raising for this project. 2003 – July-October, volunteered to paint with other neighborhood artists to restore a 1978 mural depicting the history of the Sunset District that was destroyed by graffiti and old age. The official public unveiling of the mural took place on October 4, 2003, at 9:30 am at the West Sunset Playground on Ortega and 40th Avenue, San Francisco. 2002 – Consulted and collaborated with a team of artists who painted ceiling murals in the ultrasound rooms of UCSF’s newly renovated Women’s Medical Center at Sutter and Divisadero Streets, San Francisco. Donated artwork to KraftSeed, 1395 Bancroft Ave., San Leandro, CA., to support a fund raising event to provide art supplies to children of domestic violence and homelessness who reside in a shelter. I was the key speaker and host to the SF Link Chapter of Hadassah (a Jewish women’s organization) regarding art collecting, painting and starting an art business. 1998 – ArtSpan’s Open Studios Workshop, How To Prepare for Open Studios – One of three speakers on a panel giving advice and guidance to artists participating in open studios for the first time regarding displaying, pricing and selling art and general preparation of the art studio before the public arrives. 1993-1999 Donated paintings to the following California organizations to help with their fund raising events: San Francisco ArtSpan, Art for AIDS, Spectrum, Jazz for the Homeless. |
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