Art Galleries

Citing a lack of financial contributions, Lincoln Arts, the nonprofit behind the nationally known Feats of Clay sculpting competition, abruptly announced Friday that it was ending operations.

Christopher Taggart started his college studies in physics and switched to art when he went to graduate school

Free pass to the museums? Capital! For just one day, you're invited to ogle many of the region's priciest possessions and priceless artifacts, and it won't cost you a penny.

You would expect an exhibition at a college gallery to be educational. Gioia Fonda's show at the James Kaneko Gallery on the American River College campus is that in spades.

A huge farm machine rises up over tiny field workers in Jeff Myers' "Field Boss," a dynamic large-scale painting at the Alex Bult Gallery.

Alex Bult Gallery Old farm equipment, city grids and agricultural landscapes morph into each other in Jeff Myers' new paintings at Alex Bult Gallery, 1114 21st St., Suite B. (916) 476-5540.

A young boy sits in front of a dark opening into a decaying structure. He is wearing the mask of an old man and holding a doll in one arm.

An early California plein-air painter, a groundbreaking feminist artist and a hometown boy who has become an international artist will be the subjects of three retrospective exhibitions at the Crocker Art Museum in 2012.

Something there is that doesn't love an unmarked wall calendar, as Robert Frost might have said. Maybe it's those geometric rows of blank squares, fallow as winter fields, bereft of plans and absent of activities, longing to be filled lest we fret living out our days in idle tedium.

Kenneth Potter, an internationally renowned artist in Fair Oaks who was a leading exponent of the California Style of watercolor painting, died Tuesday of lung cancer, his family said. He was 85.

On the face of it, "The Big Show" at Axis Gallery seems an incongruous title. But the "big" of the title refers to more than size.

Here are our picks for Second Saturday art gallery showings.

Italian art seems to be everywhere this fall. "Masters of Venice," which opened in October at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, offers a rare look at Italian painters from Venice in the 16th century.

Oliver Jackson and Peter Wayne Lewis have a few things in common. Both are abstractionists and both do works that come from a process that is intuitive, meditative and improvisational.

In an image not easy to forget, a coyote is captured howling at not the moon but a street light.

At 18, Matt Bult has opened his own gallery in midtown Sacramento, something he has wanted to do since he was 15. The 2,000-square-foot pristine white space is one of the handsomest in Sacramento.

This month Beatnik Studios presents its largest show ever, a three-person exhibit by prominent Chicano artists who first appeared on the Sacramento scene during the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Edward Rivera, a noted Sacramento painter and leader in the Chicano art movement who was a police officer for almost 30 years, died Oct. 31 of liver disease, his family said. He was 68.

The brand-new Alex Bult Gallery has its grand opening Saturday with a show of works by prominent Northern California artist, Mike Henderson, who teaches at the University of California, Davis.

"Sensual" and "opulent" are words that come to mind when describing the 50 magnificent paintings in "Masters of Venice" at the de Young Museum in San Francisco.

With his long white beard and somber expression, Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) looks like a biblical patriarch.

One of the most beloved figures in Sacramento art, ceramist Ruth Rippon, is being celebrated with a show of works by former students at Alpha Fired Arts.

Public servants will step into the role of servers this Sunday at Ella Dining Room & Bar as Sacramento City Council members and county supervisors try a fresh approach to raising funds for the arts.

Clayton Bailey is a mischievous satirist with counterculture sources such as Mad magazine, Zap Comix and items found in the back of funny books, such as whoopee cushions and hot pepper gum.

The Nevada Museum of Art touted its rare U.S. exhibition of Raphael's "Lady With the Veil" with the slogan: "Reno's Got the Girl."

La Raza Galeria Posada, one of the Sacramento's oldest Latino arts nonprofits, will likely lay off its staff and close doors if it does not raise $50,000 by the end of the year.

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The rich diversity and stunning beauty of North American Indian baskets is celebrated in "The Spirit of the Basket," a show of 85 intricately woven utilitarian and decorative containers in the Library Gallery at California State University, Sacramento.

For a guy who has spent most of this decade working on and off a project, you'd think Stephen Sposito might be tired of it by now. He insists he's not.

In the 1980s, ceramic sculptor Joe Mariscal taught at Deuel Vocational Institution in Tracy, where he developed relationships with inmates that formed the basis of a powerful body of work.

An exhibit said to offer new insights into the Holocaust will be on display beginning today at California State University, Sacramento.

Michael Bishop's exhibition "Istanbul and California" is, as the title suggests, really two shows.

For the last year, Michael Bishop, who is known for public art works at Sacramento's Central Library and Alhambra water tower, has been living and working in Istanbul as a Fulbright Fellow.

Visitors to downtown Davis will be seeing double – or maybe even quintuple – as they walk the streets Saturday, but it won't have anything to do with the Wicky Wacky Woos served at Bar Bernardo.

Dolores Dietler is putting her collection of works by renowned artists Robert Arneson, Roy De Forest, David Gilhooly, Maija Peeples and others up for auction at Sacramento's Jay Jay Gallery.

A burst of riotous color greets you at La Raza Galeria Posada this month in an exhibition of ballet folklorico costumes from Sacramento's Instituto Mazatlán Bellas Artes. Placed around the room in a dynamic display are sumptuous and intricate costumes worn by performers in this professional dance company.

Editor's note: The Ticket section is all about arts and entertainment. So, this year, we decided to have a little fun with the participants of the 13th annual Race for the Arts.

The Sacramento Ballet will revive its sensual story ballet, "Dracula," at the Community Center Theater just in time for Halloween. The Bee's Jim Carnes wouldn't miss it.

The Axis Gallery's annual exhibition of artists from around the country is an antidote to this year's sprawling, uneven State Fair show.

Editor's note: The Ticket section is all about arts and entertainment. So, this year, we decided to have a little fun with the participants of the 13th annual Race for the Arts.

Nathan Cordero uses scraps of found wood, dried magnolia leaves, utility knife blades and paper to make his compelling artworks on view at the Nelson Gallery at the University of California, Davis.