Reception to be held July 12
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SANTA BARBARA — Santa Barbara artist Marianna Victoria Mashek will bring her emotion-filled drawings and watercolor paintings to the Santa Barbara Tennis Club this summer, beginning with a July 12 reception to her solo exhibition.
Part of the 2nd Friday Art series, Mashek’s exhibition is titled Grace Ease and Joy and runs July 8 to Sept. 6, with daily gallery hours 10 a.m.-9p.m. The community is invited to a special reception 5:30-7:30 p.m. Wednesday July 12 at the Tennis Club, 2375 Foothill Rd, Santa Barbara, to meet the artist.
“My vision is to have my artwork inspire others to delight in beauty, romance, freedom and the fulfillment of their own dreams,” said Mashek. “I draw and paint from a deep and sacred, luminous place of my expression and my psyche.”
Travels to Paris this spring and singing in churches with the Santa Barbara City College Concert Choir last year in Bavaria, Austria and Prague have inspired Mashek’s summer exhibit. Her artwork is a personal journey of both the inner world and outward expressions and nuances of love, romance and culture.
She uses watercolor to allow for “auspicious accidents” and is intrigued by “magic realism,” a literary and artistic genre in which realistic narrative and naturalistic technique are combined with surreal elements of dream or fantasy.
Mashek is a Santa Barbara native and attended Santa Barbara High School and UCSB. Galina Sakharoff Mashek, her mother, an artist and teacher, taught Mashek perspective, proportion, composition, drawing and watercolor as a child. Mashek returned to school in the ‘80s to study Arts Administration at Antioch University. Her work is on display continuously at the Ridley-Tree Cancer Center.
For more information visit www.2ndFridaysArt.com or call 805-862-4722.
Grace Ease and Joy Reception 5:30-7:30 p.m. Wednesday July 12, Santa Barbara Tennis Club, 2375 Foothill Rd, Santa Barbara, CA 93105
Grace Ease and Joy Exhibition 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Daily, July 8-Sept. 6, Santa Barbara Tennis Club, 2375 Foothill Rd, Santa Barbara, CA 93105