New Art Gallery Grand Opening (events » arts) Saturday, July 12, 2008 - 6:00 PM Welcome to Sacramento's newest fine art gallery, Gallery 14 in friendly, slow-paced Tahoe Park. Gallery 14 is neither sedate nor sleepy. It will feature art that is big, bold and expressive, by artists who go their own way.

Gallery 14 will introduce itself to Sacramento's art community on Second Saturday, July 12, 2008 with an opening show by Walter Rhoads: “The Secret Language: Glyphs, Signs and Portents” The reception runs from 6-10 pm on July 12, at 3960 60th Street in Tallac Village.

Our premiere show:

The Secret Language: Glyphs, Signs and Portents

Paintings by Walter Rhoads

"The Secret Language" explores the beauty and aura of significance of The Sign—the archetypal mark, conceived by the mind, written or drawn by the hand, and naming a chunk of reality as a discrete Thing—that is an essential part of the human ability to think abstractly.

"We think it means something." That is what fictitious UFO researcher Lacombe said in the movie "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." Indeed It does mean Something. It always does, but what?

That question, gallery-goer, must be answered by you.

Reception July 12, 2008, 6-10 pm
Show will be on display until August 7

Gallery 14
3960 60th Street, Sacramento 95820
In the Tallac Village Shopping Center at 14th Avenue and 60th Street

For more information go to:
www.gallery14.net
Or call 456-1058

Gallery 14 presents paintings by Janet Bothne (events » arts) Saturday, June 13, 2009 - 6:00 PM Janet Bothne is obviously having a love affair with paint. And with light, and with color. She likens her work to visual music. One is reminded of Monet, in the way she caresses the canvas with deft touches of scumbled paint. But in Janet’s work, the sky, water and landscape have dissolved into dancing atoms, and only color is left.

In her series “Long Division,” paintings conceived as separate but related units are cut off from each other by the hard edge of the space between them, the gallery wall functioning as part of the composition. Each unit is a world apart, but each displays a kinship with the other, and, conveyed in the universal language of color, is the hope for connection that is descriptive of the human condition

Narratives, by Nicole Vismara (events » arts) Saturday, July 11, 2009 - 6:00 PM Nicole Vismara paints scenes from her own life and from the lives of strangers. Most are based on photographs. Often closeups, these paintings are excerpts from the work in progress that is life.

Every picture tells a story (don't it? as the song says) but the beginnings and endings are not disclosed. What we are given are middles; tableaux which are single frames from a film which continues to unspool from the reality projector.
“Close”


Color is important to Nicole, as is composition. She draws inspiration from masters past and present.

A graduate of the Art Institute of Chicago, she is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Art History at the University of Lyon, France.

Join Nicole as she shares with us the fragmented autobiography that is “Narratives.”