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the ARTISTS
EXHIBIT TOURS and WINE TASTING at
KELLER ESTATE WINERY
ART + ARCHITECTURE
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Chester
Arnold
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Born in Santa Monica, California
in 1952, raised in Munich, Germany, Chester Arnold and his paintings
have always reflected a deep affection for European history and
culture. He began painting in earnest at age 16 and has for almost
forty years followed directions that have led to a reputation as
a painter of the philosophical and political, the Classical and
Romantic as his images have encompassed the traditions of narrative
painting and the specific, impetuous challenges of the Post-Modern
world. His work may be seen in public collections at the San Jose
Museum of Art, the Pasadena Museum, and the Nevada Museum of Art,
among others, and in private collections around the world.
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Todd
Barricklow
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Todd
Barricklow was born in the San Fernando Valley of southern California
in June of 1969. Encouraged in the arts from an early age, he
attended a humanities magnet high school where he started working
in ceramics and drawing. He continued his education at Sonoma State
University where he graduated with distinction in 1992. He was an
Artist in Residence in the Arts/Industry Program at the Kohler Company
in Wisconsin in 1999. He shows regularly and works from his studio
and home in Santa Rosa, where he works in Ceramics, Printmaking and
Metal. Todd is the recipient of the 2006 SonomaArts Emerging Artist
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Michael
Cooper
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Michael
Jean Cooper was born in Richmond, California in 1943 and grew up in
Lodi, California. Mike completed his B.A. in Commercial Art and
his M.A. in Sculpture at San Jose State College. He then attended
U.C. Berkeley where he completed his M.F.A. in Sculpture in 1969.
Michael retired from Foothill-DeAnza College, Cupertino, California
in 2004 after teaching as an Instructor of Art for 34 years. During
his professional career, Michael has been honored with numerous awards
and fellowships including the Crafts Council of Australia Fellowship
Grant (a year working in industry in Australia), the Rome Prize in
Sculpture (a year at the American Academy in Rome) and a National
Endowment for the Arts award. |
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Gilham
Erickson
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Gilham
Erickson encountered some of the world’s great works of Art and
Architecture while growing up in Thailand and Italy. At the age
of fourteen he began carving stone sculpture in the studio of Peter
Rockwell in Rome and followed with apprenticeships in many artist’s
studios and carving workshops. In 1988, after working with the Cathedral
Stone Company in Washington D.C., he moved to the Sonoma Valley and
opened his own studio. Gilham has a deep love for architecture and
the ancient traditions of stone work. In his studio he concentrates
on the design and carving of architectural elements and abstract sculpture
in both stone and wood. |
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Edwin
Hamilton
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Edwin
Hamilton began his career as a stonemason in 1984. His pursuit
of an apprenticeship in this craft led him to Europe where he deepened
his knowledge of the art of traditional stonemasonry. His masonry
company, Edwin Hamilton Stoneworks, has completed numerous residential
and public projects for noted architects, including Thierry Despont,
Mickey Muennig, and Walker/Warner. Public art projects include the
Library Terrace Garden at Strybing Arboretum in San Francisco and
a work in the Huntington Botanical Gardens in Pasadena, CA. His sculpture
exhibits include the Sonoma Museum of Visual Arts (2002), Ochi Gallery
in Sun Valley, Idaho (2005-present), and a solo exhibit of sculpture
at the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art (2005-06). |
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Gordon
Huether
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Gordon
Huether was born in Rochester, NY in 1959 to German immigrant parents.
He moved to the San Francisco bay area in 1963 where he has remained.
After apprenticing at several glass studios in California and Germany,
Huether founded his studio in Napa, California in 1987 with a mission
to create site-specific art installations. Huether was awarded his
first public art project in 1989 for the University of Alaska’s
Geophysical Institute. Since then, he has completed public and private
projects in the U.S., Mexico, Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, Philippines,
Fiji, and Korea. |
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Bruce
Johnson
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Bruce
Johnson was born in Oregon, grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area
and received a BA in sculpture and a teaching credential from the
University of California at Davis. Johnson is a well known Bay Area
sculptor with a studio in Sonoma County since 1974. Beyond the Bay
Area, Johnson has also exhibited in New York and Chicago and has placed
his large scale work as far away as Spain, Italy and Taiwan. Johnson
has been closely associated with the sculpture program at Paradise
Ridge Winery in Santa Rosa and is a charter member and first chairperson
for the Pacific Rim sculptor’s group. |
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Ned
Khan
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Ned Kahn,
an artist who has a background in environmental science, explores
natural phenomena through his art. His works typically incorporate
fluid dynamics, optics, acoustics, and other features of physics.
During the 1980s, he was an apprentice to physicist Frank Oppenheimer
at San Francisco's Exploratorium, which Oppenheimer founded. Working
out of Ned Kahn Studios in Sebastopol, California, he has designed
exhibits for museums in the US, Canada, and Japan and has completed
numerous public art commissions. Kahn's exhibits strike an emotional
chord, reminding the viewer of nature's capacity to inspire apprehension,
serenity, wonder, and awe. |
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Bryan
Tedrick
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Bryan
Tedrick graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1985,
receiving the school’s top award in Sculpture. Custom entryways
soon became his primary endeavor, working with clients such as Wolfgang
Puck and Barbara Lazaroff, Greg and Laura Perloff (Bill Graham Presents),
the McConnell Foundation in Redding and the Sacramento Public Art
Commission, building the Sacramento Convention Center Gates (1995).
Any spare time was, and is, spent creating sculpture which continues
to receive numerous awards. An eleven-foot tall, found object representation
of the Hindu deity Shiva was placed in front of Old City Hall in Redding
(2000). The City of Stockton commissioned eight kinetic skateboarding
figures for Anderson Skate Park in 2002. In 2004 he completed a seventeen-foot
kinetic wind-driven sculpture for The City of Dublin. In 2005 Rene
di Rosa purchased Dragon, a 3000-pound kinetic steel work now presented
in the meadow at his art preserve in Napa. In 2006 the City of Santa
Rosa purchased an equine sculpture to be placed near City Hall. |
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