Ansley Pye is the debut artist for Sunset Sundays tonight
What makes art important? Why do we do it? Why do we look at it? What happens when time passes, times change, life moves on... what remains to remind us of what came before?
I am a believer in the value and importance or art because it is what makes us human. Like fish swimming through water, we swim through the culture of our time and place without being aware we are doing it. The art history of our particular moment is being created around us. Like the fish in water, it is sometimes difficult to be aware of and to respect the importance of what is happening around us.
Sunset Sundays endeavors to help you slow down and see the people around you creating our art history, the visionaries translating the zeitgeist of our moment so that the rest of us can see it. How many times have you seen something in a photograph, a painting, or a sculpture that stopped you in your tracks... the picture was of something ordinary that - captured, distilled and re-presented through the eyes of the artist - made you see the object differently, made you see the world differently. It happens more often than you realize.
TO QUOTE WYNTON MARSALIS ON THE IMPORTANCE OF THE AMERICAN ARTS:
“The best of the American arts and the way they’ve been sung and
swung provided human meaning to the questions posed by the Founding
Fathers more than 150 years earlier. It told you to be yourself and
love what made you, you. It told you to listen deeply to others and
find the beauty of originality in them. And through swing, the most
flexible rhythm ever played, it told you how to balance your
individuality with the desires of the group. It told you we have a
history, a depth, a tradition that requires skill and study but demands
you apply those skills to search the frontiers of your soul. It told
you that innovation and creativity hold hands with the tried and true.”
With all of this in mind, Ansley Pye is a natural choice to debut this series. Her work is reminiscent of the great Dutch still life painters of the 17th century in that it is simple in its approach and subject matter, but imbued with tenderness and insight that makes us slow down and look hard at these ordinary leaves, apples, eggs... at the wonder they represent. At the beauty in the microcosm, about the capturing of the charm and character in the beaten up, bruised and worn. Who among us can't identify with that?
Please join us tonight - May 17th from 5:00-7:00pm at Hacienda de las Rosas and enjoy a glass of wine and hear one of San Diego's quiet visionaries share her work and her self with us...
Freelance journalist Phoebe Chongchua interviewed the artist at ArtWalk a few weeks ago and created the video below. For a preview of the artist talking about her work, click the link below with the following log in information.
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Hacienda de las Rosas Winery is a family-owned boutique tasting room located in Old Town San Diego , CA near Juan Street and Wallace. It is owned by William Holzhauer and Tammy Rimes. SDFAS is proud to partner with William and Tammy as part of our mutual effort to nurture the arts in San Diego - especially art created by women. I encourage anyone who enjoys a good glass of wine and who tends to lean toward the local to discover Hacienda de las Rosas (Love the Il Fuego cab/syrah blend!).
Location: 2754 Calhoun Street in the Fiesta de Reyes Center - IMPORTANT ->You will not be able to see the wine tasting room from the street. Come as you are and enjoy!
p.s. Click here for more information about the work of Ansley Pye
Sunset Sundays: another way San Diego Fine Art Society is helping to inspire a creative community!
