January 2012 Newsletter

President’s Message Calendar: January 12, 2012 It is hard to believe that the New Year is Luncheon meeting: 11:30 here. I wish all of you a happy and Guest Speaker: Don Bachardy productive year with many sales. I want to thank Bev Grossman and the February 9, 2012 illustration by Louis Gadal Luncheon meeting: 11:30 VIVA staff who worked tirelessly to Guest Speaker: Paul Pitsker present us with a wonderful and unique gallery in which to exhibit and take workshops. VIVA is missed by all of us artists; Exhibition Encino Terrace Center perhaps never again will we have such a forum to be proud of February 15 to May 11 and to call ours. We look forward to exhibiting at other venues (see prospectus in this newsletter) that come our way, but never will we have anything to compare with VIVA. New members and those members who havenʼt been attending our luncheons and hearing our guest speakers are truly missed. Our Membership Chair, Diane Karpel, and her committee are looking for ways to include those of you who work and cannot attend. We need to get together informally on days that are suitable for everyone. Please e-mail me or Diane Karpel with your ideas and wishes. We need your input and your action to make WPW even better.

Work often, reach deep inside yourselves to find new and exciting ideas, and continue to keep those brushes wet. With best wishes, and have a great New Year. Lynn Gadal [email protected]

January Speaker: Don Bachardy

Our January 2012 guest speaker is acclaimed portrait artist, Don Bachardy, who has been making portraits from life for more than 50 years and to date has done well over 10,000! Please note that he will not be showing slides, nor will he bring any of his art. (If you have any of his published materials and choose to bring them to the meeting, he would be happy to autograph them - perhaps to auction or raffle as a way to raise money for WPW). He will be fielding questions from the audience, so I suggest that if you aren't familiar with his fascinating life and work, you do a bit of preliminary investigating and come prepared to ask questions!

continued on next page There is an abundance of material available on the internet (do a Google search for Don Bachardy and click on Images or Videos) in books (Stars in My Eyes, Christopher Isherwood; Last Drawings by Don Bachardy, Drawings of the Male Nude) and on film ("Chris & Don: A Love Story," "The Eyes of Don Bachardy"). The following are some additional links to get you started: http://5magazine.wordpress.com/2010/09/20/don-bachardy/, http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Bachardy, http://www.craigkrullgallery.com/Bachardy/index.html.

Essential to Don Bachardy's life story is his three-decade relationship with the British writer, Christopher Isherwood, who was 48 to Don's 18 when they met in 1953. Isherwood was already a widely known novelist and memoirist and had many celebrity friends of the day: actors, directors, writers, artists and composers. With Chris' encouragement and connections, many of these stars including Bette Davis, Ginger Rogers, Igor Stravinsky, Salvador Dali, Ellsworth Kelly and W.H. Auden posed for portraits by Don. The book, Stars in My Eyes, is a collection of celebrity portraits along with Don's detailed notes about the portrait sittings.

Don Bachardy was born in Los Angeles in 1934. He Studied at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles and the Slade School of Art in London. His first one-man exhibition was held in October 1961 at the Redfern Gallery in London. He has since had many solo shows in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Houston and New York.

Bachardy's drawings and paintings are in the permanent collections of many major art museums and galleries, including the Metropolitan in New York, the de Young in San Francisco, the University of Texas, the Huntington Library and Art Gallery, UCLA, the Fogg at Harvard University in Cambridge, Princeton University, the California State Capitol (official portrait of Governor Jerry Brown), the Smithsonian in Washington, and the National Portrait Gallery in London. Don Bachardy has had three solo shows at Craig Krull Gallery, Bergamot Station in Santa Monica. The latest, as part of Pacific Standard Time, consisted of portraits made over the last 40 years depicting acclaimed artists from Southern California, including Peter Alexander, Lita Albuquerque, Larry Bell, Billy Al Bengston, Robert Irwin, Ed Moses and Ed Ruscha.

Bachardy still lives in the Santa Monica home he shared with Christopher Isherwood.

Betzi Stein, Program Chair

Don Bachardy

Self-Portrait Billy Al Bengston As you can tell by the photos, our DECEMBER HOLIDAY LUNCHEON was a great success. Everyone enjoyed exchanging canvases and shopping! - and of course, the camaraderie and holiday spirit!

Vendors and their wares

Bettye Barclay Ellen Grim (right) with shopper, Norma Klein Vicki Daniel

Joan Foster Judith Lindenberg Sherrill Kahn (right) with shopper, Kathy Sandel

Small Painting Exchange Shoppers

Erella Teitler admires Susan Loraine Veeck, Bev Grossman and Rosmanʼs knit sweaters Virginia Sandler (with newly purchased scarf)

Virginia Sandler, Special Events Chair, sets up table for art exchange

Suki Kuss scores a bottle of auctioned wine donated by Susie Gesundheit

Photos on this page courtesy of our wonderful Historian, Ellen Price and Lois Ramirez Marge Rheuban, Sondra Jolles Susanne Belcher and Rea Nagel (rear) MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE REPORT

The membership committee is offering a field trip event and a networking group to further enhance our already wonderful WPW experience! See below for details.

Our membership drive is also beginning, so if you know artists who are interested, please have them contact one of us.

1. WPW is invited to join the SMMoA Members docent led tour of the Beatrice Woods exhibit at Santa Monica Museum of Art, 2525 Michigan Avenue, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA 90404 Saturday, January 28, 2012, 10:30 am by RSVP ONLY, 20 maximum, by Tuesday, January 24, 2012 Susie Gesundheit 818-216-8901, [email protected]

Nourish Mind, Body, and Spirit Join SMMoA Executive Director Elsa Longhauser and Deputy Director Lisa Melandri for an exclusive exhibition tour of Beatrice Wood: Career Woman, Adam Berg: Endangered Spaces, and Georgi Tushev: Strange Attractor. Continental Breakfast will be served. NO FEE FOR TOUR, $5 DONATION RECOMMENDED LUNCH AFTER THE TOUR AT BERGAMOT CAFE

2. We are starting an art networking group to meet once a month, with our first meeting on January 19 at 7 pm in Sherman Oaks. If you did not already sign up and are interested, please contact Diane Karpel or Susie Gesundheit. This will be a planning get-together to discuss ideas and possible events. We will notify you with the specifics.

Membership Committee: Diane Karpel, 818-368-4286, [email protected] Susie Gesundheit, 818-216-8901, [email protected] Harriett Lahana, [email protected] Exhibition Opportunity MEMBERS’ NEWS Encino Terrace Center Nancy Lawrence

To submit your art events, send your information to Once again, we have the wonderful opportunity to exhibit our work Nancy Lawrence @ [email protected]. All at the Encino Terrace Center. As you know, exhibit venues are submissions must be sent no later than the 10th of each month. hard to find these days and this is really an excellent opportunity for us. Rosemary Bandes is showing two pieces, We are going to have the whole lobby this time. The exhibit starts one of which won the Ruth Eyrich Award, in February and will end in May. In the past, members have sold at the juried Palos Verdes Art Center work while exhibiting in this venue. You have the opportunity to Holiday Show through February 5. enter up to 5 pieces for the building personnel to select from, and this time we need to have at least 60 pieces selected. Please note: Teri Dryden was juried into the Mazin no nudes or religious entries will be accepted. Annual Art Exhibition at the Patio Gallery in Louisville, KY. The exhibition runs through So, get your entries ready and send them in to me. The prospectus Jan.10. for this exhibit is included in this newsletter. If you have any questions, please contact me at: (818) 703-6388 or [email protected] Andrea Raft is pleased to announce her new association with the CODA Gallery, Letʼs make this a great show for WPW. 73-151 El Paseo, Palm Desert. When in Marge Rheuban the desert, please stop by to see her mixed media pieces on display. She has also been elected to the board of the Palm Springs Art Museum Artists Council.

The Winter 2012 issue of Watercolor WPW Directory Updates magazine has published an article about Grace Swansonʼs creative process. Please make the following changes in your 2012 WPW Directory: Phyllis Doyonʼs phone number: (805) 987-0291 Barbara Frankel is an Active/Complimentary Life member. Beverly Grossmanʼs zip code: 91316 Jo Ann Koch is an Active member. Community Art News

Ellen Priceʼs phone number and address: (818) 290-3881 The Thousand Oaks Art Association is having a 14524 Benefit St., Apt. #200, Sherman Oaks 91403 “2012 Open Juried Art Show.” To receive a prospectus, e-mail or call Phyllis Doyon at Melanie Roschkoʼs cell phone: (818) 378-3830 [email protected] or (805) 987-0291.

Brigitte Perreault, Founder & Owner of ʻHumanitarian Art Project,ʼ announced the official launching and opening of the online Art Gallery: www.HumanitarianArtProject.com. Humanitarian Art Projectʼs website is a Great Thanks to all the Newsletter Staff convergence of Artists, Art Collectors and Non- Contributors profit organizations. It is a unique platform for artists to showcase and sell their artworks, for Managing and layout editor: Nancy Lawrence; art collectors to discover artists and acquire art, Proofreader: Judi Birnberg; Feature articles: Lynn while benefiting important causes. Each online Gadal, Marge Rheuban, Betzi Stein, Kathy transaction generates a donation. Artists Sandel; Photos: Susanne Belcher, Betzi Stein; may submit their artwork and bio via email by Mailing: Mathilde & Dan Lombard following the instructions on the website. An Interview with Loraine Veeck A Proust-inspired Inquiry into A Member’s Reflections on Her Personal and Art-related Life by Kathy Sandel

What is your most marked characteristic? I am wishy-washy. Why is that? I mean in my personal life. I equivocate until circumstances make the decisions for me.

If you could say one thing to yourself in your twenties, what would it be? I would have advised myself to finish my education

What is your current state of mind? I am feeling rather mellow right now. It is nice, because I often swing between depression and anxiety. Loraine Veeck What about yourself are you most proud? I am proud that I was able to hold a marriage together and bring up a child and still persevere in my career.

What is your greatest regret? That I didnʼt do more of all of the above

When and where were you happiest? I donʼt think I have ever been satisfied. There is no utopia.

What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? My lack of confidence

What is the quality you most like in a woman? Honesty, confidence in being herself and the effort to make a life for herself. I admire feminists.

In a man? The same things. If I were out looking for a man, I would also look for a sense of humor. Merced through the Valley

What medium do you use in expressing your art? Pastel, acrylic and oil – even some mixed media occasionally.

Why? I didnʼt want to be tied to one medium. Pastel attracts me, because I can scribble and work in layers and build. The colors are also pure, because there is very little binder, mostly pigment. My choice of using muted colors is helped by the fresh pigment. I like the paper to show through and participate in the end result. With acrylic, I like the simplicity of dealing with it. No turpentine, quick drying. And with oil, it is the nature of the pigment. It is more pure than acrylic.

What artist(s), living or deceased has/have most influenced your own path? Diebenkorn – when I started learning about composition and content in abstract work. I want my landscapes to have structure in the manner of Hans Hoffman and Diebenkorn. I also admire Wolf Kahn, even though his palette is much different than mine, I admire his understanding of the elements of art – his ability to minimize to only what is necessary to the composition.

Describe what your art is about in one extended sentence. Time and space. And what is that? I donʼt know!

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Are you satisfied with your creative efforts so far? Yes. But, that doesnʼt mean I donʼt want to grow.

Where do you feel you want to improve with your art? Sometimes I feel a little weak in compositional structured. I let other things take precedence. With acrylic, I struggle not to lose my personal uniqueness. I donʼt feel I have that problem with pastel.

What aspect of your art process do you feel holds you back? I try not to make a painting to sell, but sometimes that interferes. And as I say, with acrylic, I often feel they just look like another landscape. I keep trying to find a way to express my personal approach on the canvas.

What about your art are you most proud? My career. That I havenʼt let rejection stand in my way. I feel good when a painting expresses what I wanted to say and when someone is touched by what I have said.

What is your greatest extravagance in your art? That I put the amount of time into it that I do

How much of your week is devoted to art time? About a half day, five days a week

What are your current goals with regard to your art? I want to have enough galleries that I could paint and then fairly rapidly get my work into a gallery, so I wouldnʼt have to look at them in my house all of the time!

What art-related ability do you wish you had? More patience Tujunga

What do you most fear? In life? in art? To become disabled in life and unable to do my art

What current artist’s work just knocks you out? Wayne Thiebaudʼs work PROSPECTUS

Multi-Media Exhibition February 2012 – March 2012 Encino Terrace Center 15821 Ventura Blvd., Encino, CA 91436

EXHIBITION DETAILS CALENDAR Encino Terrace Center, located at 15821 Ventura Blvd., January 11 Postmark Deadline for Entries is a 420,000 sq. ft. office building in Encino’s Ventura Blvd. business district. Selected artwork will be February 1 Selection Results Emailed exhibited in secure, enclosed glass showcases on the February 11 Hand Delivery of Work ground floor of the building. 10 am to 11:00 am

JUROR OF SELECTION February 15 Opening of Show Maria Kaltner, Encino Terrace Center Property Manager May 12 Pick Up Artwork WHAT TO ENTER 11 am to 12:00 pm Encino Terrace Center seeks to create a show that unifies the lobby space and generates an interesting and This is a non-qualifying WPW exhibition and there will handsome atmosphere for their tenants and customers. not be any awards presented. Accepted media: assemblage, collage, computer- generated art, drawings, mixed media, oil, original Artists accepted in this exhibit may be asked to assist prints, photography, sculpture and watercolor. the WPW exhibition committee.

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ENTRY FORM – WPW Encino Terrace Center February 15, 2012 – May 11, 2012 Exhibition (Please print clearly & fill out both sections) Agreement: Submission of these artworks, if accepted by the Juror, shall constitute an agreement on the part of the artist to comply with the conditions in this prospectus.

Artist ______Artist’s Signature ______Address______City ______State______Zip______

Phone ______E-mail Address ______

Title of Artwork Medium Image Size Price HxW (xD) A B C D E

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NOTIFICATION CARD - Women Painters West Encino Terrace February 15, 2012 – May 11, 2012 Exhibition Artist ______

Title of Artwork Medium Price Selected Not Selected A B C D E

RULES OF ENTRY Please read carefully

ELIGIBLE ARTWORK: All work must be original and created without the supervision of an instructor. There is ENTRY PROCEDURE: no limit on the age of the artwork, but nude figures are not allowed. Accepted media: oil, collage, • Submit up to five (5) artworks. watercolor, acrylic, mixed media, drawings, original prints, assemblage, sculpture, photography, and • Enclose a color photo of each entry on an 8!” X 11” computer generated art (no reprints unless reworked letter size paper. One entry per page. by hand). • !" #$% &'CK OF THE PHOTO include the entry Artwork must be presented in a professional letter (A, B, C, D, E), your name, title, medium, size manner, ready to hang with screw eyes and wire and price. No information on the photo side. attached securely for hanging. No Saw tooth hangers. • 2 photos for each three (3) dimensional work.

• All work must be framed with the exception of • Photos will not be returned to you. canvases. Unframed canvases must have finished Entries must be received on or before January 11 sides with no exposed staples.

• All framed work must be under Plexiglas only. Frames and mats (white or neutral color only) must FEES: be museum quality and in good condition. $25 for one to five entries. Make check payable to Women Painters West. All fees are non-refundable. • Wiring must be in good condition and substantial

enough for the weight of the artwork. Artwork may not exceed 30 lbs. and is limited to minimum image DELIVERY: size of 12˝ x 12˝ and maximum frame size of 72! in either direction. Accepted artwork must be delivered on Saturday, February 11, 10 am to 11:00 to: • Three-Dimensional works that are fragile or require special installation must be cleared with the Encino Encino Terrace Center 15821 Ventura Blvd. Terrace Center Exhibition Committee. Maximum size Encino, CA 91436 4 ft. height, 24” wide, 24” deep, including pedestal; maximum weight 30 lbs. Glass must be safety. All sculptures shall be accompanied by their own self- ENTRY CHECK LIST: supporting pedestal, if applicable. " $25 Check payable to WPW " Photos with entry information on back LIABILITY: CDs and artworks will be handled with " Completed entry and notification form care. Neither Women Painters West, Douglas Emmett Property Management, Encino Terrace Center, nor its officers, directors, employees, agents or volunteers are SEND ENTRIES TO: responsible for loss, theft, breakage or damage to any artwork, and the above reserve the right to reproduce Marge Rheuban accepted artwork for publicity and documentary purposes. 5942 Vista De La Luz Woodland Hills, CA 91367

SALES: All works must be offered for sale. WPW requests a 20% donation from all sales. QUESTIONS:

Contact Marge Rheuban, NOTIFICATION: Selection results will be emailed February 1st. Prices quoted on the entry form may at (818) 703-6388 or cell (818) 383-9209 not be changed. Work may not be removed until the e-mail: [email protected] close of the show.

Please keep a copy of the Rules of Entry (this page) for your reference.

Nancy Goodman Lawrence 3642 Coolidge Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90066

Luncheon Meeting January 12, 2012 at 11:30 a.m. At: Monterey at Encino Glen 16821 Burbank Blvd. Encino, CA 91436

Program: Guest speaker: Don Bachardy Menu: Chicken tostada Steamed veggies and baked potato

Cost: $24 (to be paid when you check-in at the door) Board Meeting:10:00 a.m.

Reservations must be received by 12 NOON on Friday, January 6, 2012

Please e-mail or call for reservations: Telephone: Mara Thompson (310) 399-7519 Please speak clearly E-mail to: [email protected]

Please leave your name if you are bringing a guest(s) and please spell the name. ______

Guest(s) Name(s)

Memberʼs Name

If you are unable to attend after making a reservation, please call Mara before the deadline, or you will be held financially responsible for the cost of the luncheon.