Auburn
Old Town Gallery in Auburn, California is an artists' cooperative established
in 1995.
The Gallery features the works of 60 local artists who explore a wide range
of media.
Visitors
to the Gallery can buy original artwork directly from the artists.
The Gallery is located
at 218 Washington Street in the heart of Old Town Auburn.
Each artist is required
to work at the gallery 8 hours a month so when you shop at the
Gallery you'll have the opportunity to talk to one of the artists and learn
of their techniques.
The Gallery artists are
accomplished in their own field; some are nationally and
internationally known and many have won awards for their works. Many of the
artists also
teach classes - find out more on our class
listing page.
Are you an artist interested in becoming a member?
to contact
us.
Download a membership application
as a Word document as
a PDF document
Screenings for new members are held as needed in order to balance and maintain our inventory. We are interested in art in all mediums and screenings are held at our bi-monthly membership meetings on the 3rd Wednesday of the month (in January, March, May, July, September and November). Please download the application from either of the above links and submit it for consideration.
If
your application is approved, you
will be contacted to bring your work in, or called if we have
further questions about your work. We do not make individual
appointments - you will
be asked to
bring your
artwork in on a specific date. Please do
not call the Gallery regarding screening dates and do
not bring in any of your artwork until you have been asked to
do so.
| The Artists |
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Terry Accomando creates functional and decorative ceramic pieces with interesting details, structure and textures. Her beautiful glazes highlight the form of her works |
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| Jaime
Baxter grew up in Edmonton Alberta, Canada, where she attended
a visual and performing arts school. Over the years she has studied
various mediums, but has always come back to her love of Ukrainian
Easter Eggs (pysanky). Jaime loves the fact that she can take a chicken egg and turn it into an intricate piece of art using a method that involves wax resist (similar to batik) and egg dye. Her designs vary from very traditional Ukrainian pysanky, modern designs inspired by tattoo art and Christmas tree ornaments. Jaime now lives with her family on the historic Baxter ranch in Auburn, California. See Jaime's interview on Fox 40 News Read the Auburn Journal article about Jaime |
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| Jewelry artist Darlene Becker creates contemporary jewelry in silver and gold using unusual gemstones and minerals. | |
| Carol
Bellamy uses one line of wire to translate her initial sketch
into its wire counterpart. The finished work takes
on a unique interpretation of the drawing, plus a little whimsy. Nature
inspires her and she has a fondness for animals, so a lot of her work
features them. But
she also likes the feeling of
motion wire gives to a piece, so she has been known to replicate inorganic
images as well, such as bicycles and cars. The length
of wire for one piece can range from 3 to more than 350 feet.
She welcomes commissioned work. Visit Carol's web site |
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Meg
Black-Smith,
a native of California, has been creating jewelry since 1975. Her flowing
forms and lines achieve well thought out sculptural designs. Employing
both direct-metal and lost-wax techniques, Meg designs and handcrafts
silver and gold jewelry that is both elegant and fun to wear. Incorporated
into these settings are gemstones from all over the world that reflect
her love for their color and light and enhance each of her one of a
kind designs.
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| Photographer
Larry Brenden has always been drawn to the beauty, mystery and
ever evolving face of nature as a source of strength and renewal. A walk
in the woods or a canyon, whether with or without a camera, gives him
a renewed source of purpose and peace. Because he is drawn to light and
color his photographs often have an abstract quality. His
experiences in nature have led him to explore multiple avenues to capture
that magical moment in time where light and spirit combine to produce
a memorable photographic image. His latest journeys through nature seek
to capture images of strength and simplicity. He searches for the moment
that captures the mystical, physical and emotional manifestations of
nature's glory. |
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| The main focus of Victoria Brooks' paintings is people, mainly women and children in a natural setting, using photography as well as live models for reference. She strives to capture simple, emotional moments of human interaction within a natural environment in order to evoke a warm and pleasant memory for the viewer. Victoria loves the outdoors and the beauty and charm of small children, so combining the two brings her great joy along with the challenge of trying to capture those wonderful childhood expressions. In addition to her figurative work, Victoria is an avid plein air painter. Visit Victoria's web site | |
Self taught artist Ty Conners enjoys the charcoal medium and strives for a realistic look to his drawings. He works mainly from photographs of a variety of subjects. Even though he's a full-time Deputy Sheriff, he finds time to complete commissioned and new art pieces and murals for various businesses. The commissioned work is his greatest joy and he likes working with his clients to preserve a memory in time or create a new one by combining pictures to come up with a new idea. Listen
to a KFBK radio interview of Ty. |
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| Cherie Danzer, a founder of the Auburn Old Town Gallery, is a multiple discipline artist that included painting, fine metal jewelry, Raku clay sculptures and pottery. Capturing the spirit of objects around her and interpreting this spirit, in painting and clay media and now in stones and silver, is the essence of her work. Cheri experiences a great joy when she can establish a connection to the people through her craft. As a self-taught artist, Cherie has won several awards for her pottery and watercolor art. | |
| Patty
Pieropan Dong lives in rural Auburn
and enjoys working in a variety of media: oils, pastels, watercolors
and woodblock printing. Her subjects include California landscapes,
still life and portraits. Disappearing relics are a recurring theme
throughout much of her work, capturing abandoned buildings and
cars as nature takes them over. "I like the theme of something
that was once a part of our lives and is now forgotten," she
says. Visit Patty's web site |
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Award-winning pastellist Reif Erickson has been pursuing his art career for the last 29 years and contributes much of his success to his continuing practice of painting with pastels “on location” in what he calls FRESH AIR® painting. Through careful observation and technical expertise, Reif achieves masterful landscapes of his travels in California, Hawaii, the Southwest, China and France. Reif's works appear in public, corporate, and private collections throughout the Pacific Coast. Visit Reif's web site |
Lana Federico has
been involved in the arts most all of her life and has been sculpting
for the past fifteen years. She is a prominent San Francisco artist who
recently moved to the Folsom area. Her work has been shown extensively
in the San Francisco Bay Area and is in private collections world-wide. |
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Perfect
lettering is not calligrapher Chris Foster's goal.
She uses calligraphy in her art in the hope of evoking a response in
the viewer that hits home about who they are and what they wish to accomplish
in their lives. |
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| Nancy
E. Foster has been a professional self-employed jeweler focused
in the jewelry arts since 1970. Her past jewelry business included
the restoration
of antique jewelry, designing and executing precious metal custom jewelry,
and jewelry technique instruction at Sierra college in Rocklin, Mendocino
Art Center, the Learning Exchange in Sacramento and in her Auburn,
California studio. Nancy employs many different styles and techniques in the designing of custom pieces for her clientele, resulting in unique jewelry creations, reflecting her ability to work in diverse non-ferrous metals and precious stones as well as pottery shards. Aside from the aspect of being a self-supporting jewelry artist, Nancy is especially interested in creating one-of-a-kind pieces of jewelry that are catalysts for communication between individuals! |
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| Starting as a hobby in his garage and becoming a full-time business, Gary Freeman has always found wood working to be exciting and fulfilling. Born and raised in the East Bay Area, his first learned to work with wood in a high school Wood Shop class. He bought his first table saw right out of the Navy in 1972 and has been collecting wood working tools and perfecting his wood working skills ever since. He is constantly working on new furniture designs using exotic hardwoods from all over the world. The results are beautiful one-of-a-kind accent pieces; no two will ever be exactly alike. | |
| Sonja
Hamilton is a veteran watercolor
teacher of 30 years doing workshops and classes in Europe, Canada
and several
western states. Her love of nature comes through in her landscapes and
floral paints. She also has exhibited widely, won awards and
has had more
than 100 solo exhibits. Sonja currently teaches for Placer School for
Adults. Visit Sonja's web site |
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| KC
Hannah creates colorful jewelry from her handcrafted lampwork
beads. Lampworked beads are created by melting glass rods about the size
of a pencil in a 2000+ degree flame. KC creates colors on the beads by
using 3 to 10 different colored glass rods on each piece. She also creates glass heart pendants - each one is unique and special and comes with a message from KC to the person who will wear it. Visit KC's web site |
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| Barbara Hoffman finds watercolors to be the most expressive magical way to explore her ideas as she paints detailed still lifes, expressive landscapes, figurative works and abstracts. Arts education is a way of life for Barbara, having taught art at all age levels, directed a state program for professional development for teachers and worked as the education consultant for PlacerArts. She has also conducted many workshops at her retreat center and continues to explore new techniques by attending workshops presented by other artists. | |
| Virginia
Holt's
watercolors reflect her love of the high country and the beauty of
nature. Her subjects range from open rolling foothill landscapes
or a stand of vibrantly colored aspens in the fall; to clusters of
wildflowers growing in a mountain meadow or the spring runoff in
a mountain stream. The outdoors is her inspiration and workshop. Virginia's background includes study at Sierra College and workshops with nationally known artists. Her watercolors fresh style have been recognized in Art Shows where she has received many awards. |
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