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The Village Theatre and Art Gallery in Danville presents its ninth annual Juried Art Exhibition, “Into the Blue,” starting next week.
Some 43 artists from across California will have their artwork put on display inside the gallery to showcase the color blue from various perspectives and through different media.
“This year’s theme is a color rather than a specific subject matter or medium as in years past,” stated in-house gallery curator Marija Nelson Bleier.
“Once the artwork arrives to the gallery, I get to work organizing how I want the work to hang on the walls, which is kind of like putting a puzzle together,” she said. “I aim to place works next to one another as though they are having a conversation. Each show says something different.”
Outside the gallery on the patio, Bay Area sculptor artist Matt Gil will have his large-scale, bright blue, abstract sculpture, titled “Pot Luck,” on view through the end of the year. The artist will also have a smaller abstract sculpture as part of the exhibit inside the gallery.
Bay Area artist and art professor Leo Bersamina is the juror for this year’s exhibition.
Bersamina was born in San Francisco and started studying art and design in Santa Cruz, before continuing to study art at San Francisco State University and then Yale School of Art. Afterward, he lived in New York City before returning to California to teach.
“The reality is, no two jurors are alike, and jurying a show is not an easy job. All jurors have a different process in selecting work for a show; there’s an art to curating an exhibition and one can never know what the final result will be,” Nelson Bleier said.
The opening reception will take place on June 28 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. and includes complimentary refreshments and live music by musicians from The Jazz Room.
The exhibition runs until Aug. 17 and the artwork will be for sale. The Village Theatre and Art Gallery, 233 Front St., Danville, is open to visitors Wednesdays through Fridays from 12-5 p.m., Saturdays from 11 a.m.-3 p.m., and Mondays and Tuesdays by appointment only. On Sundays, the gallery is closed. Admission is free.
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