Newbry Studios has generously donated an encaustic painting to the fundraiser’s live auction.

Carlsbad – The Cannon Art Gallery, art jewel of North San Diego, will be hosting the 2011 Juried Biennial Exposition from January 30 to March 18, 2011. We recommend you visit for two reasons… For one, the exhibit is an important showcase of amazing works by emerging and mid-career artists in San Diego and is [...]

To nurture and inspire the imagination of its staff, Studio 2055 regularly schedules field trips to Southern California museums and galleries. The group’s exposure to a wide-ranging variety of art, design and architecture affords an opportunity to move out of the studio environment to recharge their creative desires. Trips to Los Angeles’s Getty Museum, Culver City’s Museum of Jurassic Technology, Pasadena’s Norton Simon Museum and San Diego’s Museum of Photographic Arts have helped to inspire the Studio’s own design work.

Most recently, the staff visited the William D. Cannon Gallery at the Dove Library in Carlsbad to view a show by Adonna Khare, a gifted illustrator who works with pencil and watercolors to create fanciful animal scenes.

New Mexico’s Encaustic Art Institute (EAI) has begun construction on a new workshop for artists working in encaustic (pigmented wax) art medium. Douglas Mehrens, founder of EAI, is leading the construction crew to create a workshop for all artists interested in encaustic art.

By Richard Dowdy On January 28th, encaustic artist Nanette Newbry debuted a new collection of paintings and sculpture, primarily encaustic paintings, along with a large oil painting and two mixed media works at the Ivanffy/Uhler Gallery, 565 Grand Avenue in Carlsbad. The opening of Ms. Newbry’s exhibition coincides with the monthly art walk in Carlsbad. [...]

In keeping with Studio 2055′s commitment to the environment and sustainability, I donated a new artwork to the San Diego Coastkeeper Ocean Gala 2009. It was sold in a silent auction helping the organization to reach it’s $100,000 fund raising goal. “Thank you again! Your donation helps support Coastkeeper’s ongoing work to protect and restore [...]

By Richard Dowdy The Encaustic Art Institute was formed to promote awareness, understanding and appreciation of encaustic art, a form of painting that has endured for centuries, with examples found in ancient Roman and Egyptian artifacts. Encaustic painting utilizes melted beeswax, color agents and other elements at the discretion of the creator in the making [...]

By Richard Dowdy Greg MacGillivray makes movies. “BIG” movies. A Southern California native, Greg began his career by making 16mm surf movies. His first, “Cool Wave of Color,” chronicled the beaches and surfers along California‘s coast, from Santa Cruz south to San Diego. The movie eschewed the usual narrative (big waves in Hawaii) by focusing [...]

The second monthly Thursdays on the Coast art walk is receiving rave reviews. Community attendance has grown, more venues are participating and the visual artists are getting more recognition each month. Due to this success, the Carlsbad Village Association decided to make it a year round event, adding two more dates to finish out 2009. [...]

My first encounter with John O’Hara’s writing began in my senior year in high school, when I bought a paperback edition of Sermons and Soda Water at the Rexall drugstore in Encinitas. The three short novellas in the book gave me a view of an unknown world, a world that exposed relationships between men and [...]