On View in the Lobby Gallery, January 13 – April 20, 2024

For the visual artist, light can be an inspiration, a visual element, a mood, and a medium — and it is never unimportant! This juried exhibition explores the many facets of light as interpreted and represented in a wide variety of media by artists from throughout Northern California.

Jurors for the exhibition are two esteemed artists whose expertise in the use of light is well known. Carolyn Lord is a Bay Area painter and a Signature Member of the California Art Club, the National Watercolor Society, and the California Watercolor Association.  G. Dan Mitchell is a photographer based in San Jose; he was the 2018 Yosemite Renaissance Artist in Residence at Yosemite National Park and is the author of California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierras.

Award Winning Works

William Harris, Market Street Color, photograph

BEST OF SHOW: William Harris, Market Street Color, photograph

AWARDS OF MERIT:

Monica Ocegueda, Light at The End of the Tunnel, photograph

Sally Ruddy, The Pink House, oil on canvas

HONORABLE MENTIONS:
Isaac Calvo, Rose Glow, acrylic paint & oil pastel

Kelly Lemons, Dream Shadows, Pan pastels

Jeanne Moje MacDonald, Turning a Corner, mixed media

Darrell O’Sullivan, City Night Reflections, photograph

Artists in the Exhibition

Brooke Adams, Turlock

Sally Ruddy, The Pink House, oil on canvas

Nancy Bardach, Berkeley

Isaac Calvo, Ripon

Susan Conner, Altaville

Bill Conrad, Turlock

Sherry Eidhammer, Rancho Cordova

Jennifer Fosgate, Merced

Chella Gonsalves, Modesto

Don Hall, Turlock

William Harris, Modesto

Greg Hubbard, Sacramento

Carolyn Huff, Modesto

Linda Knoll, Modesto

Monica Ocegueda, Light at the End of the Tunnel, photograph

Kelly Lemons, Oakdale

Larry Lew, Modesto

Dorothy LoBue, Turlock

Loren Lukens, Merced

Catherine McLean, Modesto

Geneva Mello, Lodi

Cathy Miranker, San Francisco

Jeanne Moje MacDonald, Mariposa

Monica Ocegueda, Turlock

Darrell O’Sullivan, Galt

Rhett Regina Owings, Turlock

Michelle Park, Turlock

Liza Pham, Modesto

Sally Ruddy, Waterford

Dixie Salazar, Fresno

Lynn Sarraille, Turlock

Deanna Lynn Schmitz, Merced

Steven Showers, Oakdale

Katherine Thomas, Turlock

Christopher Viney, Atwater

Lorraine Wilcox, Turlock

Roger Wyan, Merced

Marilyn Zinner, Oakdale