ARTIST STUDIOS OPEN FOR ALL THIS SUNDAY.Byline: EUGENE TONG tong 1 tr.v. tonged, tong·ing, tongs To seize, hold, or manipulate with tongs. [Back-formation from tongs. Staff Writer GLENDALE -- Art lovers will crisscross the city Sunday in pursuit of splashes of color not of the white race; - commonly meaning, esp. in the United States, of negro blood, pure or mixed. See also: Color and mind-searing images in the third annual Open Studio Tour. More than 75 local artists will open the doors to their work spaces or showcase paintings, sculptures, mixed-media assemblies and digital art at area cafes and galleries, in an event intended to reveal living art hidden amid suburban homes, gray warehouses and shining skyscrapers. Eve Rappoport, the city's community services supervisor, said the idea for a tour struck more than three years ago when she visited an unlikely site for an art studio. ``It was like a suite in an office building -- like a little strip mall strip mall n. A shopping complex containing a row of various stores, businesses, and restaurants that usually open onto a common parking lot. Noun 1. with a little dentist's office,'' she said. ``It made me wonder, he can't be the only one.'' Painter Linda Ternoir's home studio is among the tour's 32 venues. She described her work as pieces of imagination intended to ``move, touch or inspire in a positive way.'' ``My main thrust is not so much to copy nature and copy our world,'' said Ternoir, 61, who has painted for five years. ``I like to create certain feelings and creating impressions and responses.'' Others aim to interpret the environment around us. ``My work is about color -- color explosions,'' said Rodolfo Samonte, 65, who creates abstract digital prints. ``It's the climate here. It's hot here and we're in a beautiful city.'' Rappoport believes a thriving thrive intr.v. thrived or throve , thrived or thriv·en , thriv·ing, thrives 1. To make steady progress; prosper. 2. city needs art and artists to spur creativity and commerce. ``It's not art for art's sake "Art for art's sake" is the usual English rendition of a French slogan, l'art pour l'art, which is credited to Théophile Gautier (1811–1872). Some argue Gautier was not the first to write those words. and people sitting in the studios making things,'' she said. ``There is interaction with the city. Individual artists tend to run their art studios like small businesses. They buy things, they pay taxes, they sometimes hire people. ``A lot of the time, people think ... artists are there to take, take, take -- and that's not true.'' Photographer Gary Freeman Gary Freeman is the name of:
``We know there are artists living in Glendale,'' said Freeman Freeman can mean:
fer·ment n. 1. more showings in Glendale itself.'' Freeman said he began shooting six years ago with a class at Glendale Community College Glendale Community College can refer to one of two colleges in the United States.
``It was just to find a creative voice -- something that had laid somewhat dormant Latent; inactive; silent. That which is dormant is not used, asserted, or enforced. A dormant partner is a member of a partnership who has a financial interest yet is silent, in that he or she takes no control over the business. and really wanted to come back,'' he said. The class tried to organize a show, but ended up showing at a gallery in Pasadena, Freeman said. They formed Tropico -- named for the community that straddled the Glendale-Los Angeles border before it was annexed by the city in 1918 -- to build a local art scene. ``(The tour) is quite exciting for us. It's communication,'' he said. ``You get lots of response back from people about how they feel about your art.'' eugene.tong(at)dailynews.com (818) 546-3304 OPEN STUDIO TOUR The free event runs from 4 to 7 p.m. A map is available online at www.parks.ci.glendale.ca.us/arts_culture.asp CAPTION(S): box Box: OPEN STUDIO TOUR (see text) |
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