Galleries

January 10, 2017 through May 10, 2017

Town Center Art Space
Westfield Valencia Town Center
24201 Valencia Blvd.
Santa Clarita, CA 91355

Kazuki Takizawa is a Japanese glass artist working in Los Angeles, California. The exhibition will consist of a large-scale metal and glass tree sculpture and a series of pedestal size blown glass sculptures.  Takizawa has been making work in glass that is related to issues of mental health and therapy. “Through my work, I express about these imperceptible disorders of the brain in a way that people can better visualize and understand. As an artist who was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder, I feel the need to speak about my condition in hopes to alleviate some of the stigma associated with mental disorder.”

Kazuki has created a seven foot tall glass and metal tree sculpture that he hopes will increase awareness about suicide. In addition to the tree sculpture, the artist will exhibit a series of blown glass sculptures, which come from his “Minimalist Series.”

“Through this exhibition, I hope to bring awareness and shed light on these topics that are still considered taboo in many cultures today. Mental health affects everyone, and I am confident that this exhibition will be relatable to a variety of audiences.”

– Kazuki Takizawa

December 12, 2016 through April 12, 2017

Old Town Newhall Library
24500 Main St
Santa Clarita, CA 91321

The multi-media art show focusing on the Angeles National Forest and Angeles Crest Highway will be featured at the Old Town Newhall Library. Roads have inspired art for as long as both have existed. In music and every physical medium from cave paintings to modern art, they represent many things – voyages, soul searching, pleasure, pain, journeys, destinations, endings, beginnings, never-ending travel, the nomad, the weary traveler going home, the chase, the capture, and the end of the trail.

Highway 2 in California begins in the city, but where it becomes the Angeles Crest Highway, its character changes. It transforms. It takes on an air majestic; it sweeps us across the rugged San Gabriel’s, a land of sometimes harsh extremes, all the way to San Bernardino County, through the charming community of Wrightwood, and out into the desert beyond. The exhibit will feature photography, oil, acrylic and watercolor, sculpture, hand-crafted prints, and paper art.

October 25, 2016 through December 8, 2016

College of the Canyons Art Gallery
26455 Rockwell Canyon Road
Santa Clarita, CA 91355

John Eden enlisted in the Air Force out of high school and was assigned the lonely duty of guarding B-52 bombers loaded with atomic bombs. This experience left a life-long imprint that is reflected in his “Roundel Series,” wall relief paintings of twenty and twenty-first century military aircraft insignias. As John says, “As I walked the line around those planes, I was struck by the dichotomy of their stealthy beauty. How they could be seen as instruments of great good and have the potential of great evil at the same time.

“John Eden is an accomplished artist that has exhibited extensively in California, New York & Europe. In addition John spent his childhood in the Santa Clarita Valley and attended Hart High School. His childhood experiences and later military service have been formative influences for his work. The series “Roundels” resonate with these influences as well as the historic use of strong graphic symbols in warfare. These images can be viewed for their great craftsmanship, color and beauty and at the same time the symbolic attachment to war is chilling.

September 20, 2016 through January 16, 2017

Canyon Country Library
18601 Soledad Canyon Rd.
Santa Clarita, CA 91351

“The California Surf Series is a depiction of many famous surf spots along the California Coastline.  I have always been drawn to the power and beauty of the ocean and have been surfing many of these spots since I was a young boy. There is a serenity, reflection and excitement associated with many of these locations where the day’s stress and concerns disappear into paradise of finding the perfect wave at the perfect spot.  Every once in a while I was fortunate enough to surf these locations at the ideal time of day just as the sky bursts into a magical moment that seems to stop time.  The goal in each one of these paintings is to take the observer to that place of being in the ideal moment of tranquility, while feeling the majestic power of the waves.”

 – Marc Kolodziejczyk (artist)

September 16, 2016 through November 21, 2016

Westfield Valencia Town Center (first floor by Sisley Italian Kitchen)
24201 Valencia Blvd
Santa Clarita, CA 91355

“Elements is my version of the classical western four basic elements: earth, water, fire , and air. Three of the shapes are steel and the fourth is a boulder representing earth. The metal shapes are tessellations, (interlocking and repeating shapes), that have been separated and are free standing for this work. Each piece fits together like a puzzle. These shapes show movement, reminiscent of the movement of wind, fire, and water.

My concept expresses the inter-relatedness of the elements by using tessellations forms. Our community’s proximity to the windlands makes The Elements come to life. With the scorched earth, El Nino and the drought, firestorms and the Santa Ana winds, we are all affected by the elements”

– Idelle Okman Tyzbir (artist)