ART SHOW TO FEATURE ALL MEDIA JUDGE SELECTS 150 WORKS FOR EXHIBIT IN LANCASTER.Byline: Daily News LANCASTER - Ranging from watercolors to steel sculptures, 150 pieces by 100 artists will go on display Saturday in the 17th annual juried all-media art exhibition at the Lancaster Museum and Art Gallery. The show, co-sponsored by the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Allied Arts Association and the museum, will open with a free reception from 5 p.m. to 7 on Saturday. Visitors will be able to see watercolor, acrylic and oil paintings, pastel pastel (păstĕl`), artists' medium of chalk and pigment, tempered with weak gum water and usually molded in the form of sticks; also a work done in this medium. Pastel was in use in Italy in the 15th cent. and is doubtless much older. pieces, steel sculptures, wood vases, painted china, computer-generated images, photographs, color-pencil and graphite graphite (grăf`īt), an allotropic form of carbon, known also as plumbago and black lead. It is dark gray or black, crystalline (often in the form of slippery scales), greasy, and soft, with a metallic luster. pictures, lighted artwork and clear acrylic pieces. Showcased will be plein-air paintings by arts association member Mikail Abolfathi, who was born in Russia and studied at Teheran University before moving to the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. in 1983. Nearly 280 pieces were submitted by 131 artists for the show. Judge Kristina Newhouse, curator of the Joslyn Fine Arts Museum in Torrance, selected the show's 150 pieces by 100 artists, both amateurs and professionals. She also determined the winners of $850 in cash awards that will be announced during Saturday's reception. THE FACTS The museum and gallery is at 44801 Sierra Highway Sierra Highway is a road in Southern California, United States. It runs from Tunnel Station near the north limit of the City of Los Angeles, where it intersects with San Fernando Road and Foothill Boulevard, as well as Interstate 5, and continues north to Mojave, mostly paralleling . Admission is free. The gallery is open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays and from 1 p.m. to 4 on Sundays. CAPTION(S): 3 photos, box Photo: (1 -- color) ``Polar Bear polar bear, large white bear, Ursus maritimus, formerly Thalarctos maritimus, of the coasts of arctic North America. Polar bears usually live on drifting pack ice, but sometimes wander long distances inland. Cub,'' a carving from oak by Charley Williams, is one of 150 pieces that will be exhibited in the annual juried art show to open Saturday at the Lancaster Museum and Art Gallery. (2 -- color) Curator Norma Gurba holds a mixed-media picture by Kanchan Hundal-Phelps that will be exhibited in the museum-gallery at 44801 Sierra Highway in Lancaster. (3 -- color) Stanley Secretan's ``Poppy poppy, common name for some members of the Papaveraceae, a family composed chiefly of herbs of the Northern Hemisphere having a characteristic milky or colored sap. View,'' a photo, is among works chosen for a juried art show in Lancaster. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer Box: THE FACTS (see text) |
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