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Kerry Drager, Jack McNeal, Featured Artists, May 2025

Featured Upper Gallery
1:03 pm
by Gallery at Marina Square

Upper Gallery Exhibition: Kerry Drager & Jack McNeal – Photography Exhibition Dates: May 1 – May 30, 2025Opening Reception: Saturday, May 10, 3-5 PMLocation: Gallery at Marina Square, 601 Embarcadero, Suite 10, Morro Bay, CA 93442Gallery Hours: 11 AM to 5 PM dailyContact: 805-772-1068 Kerry Drager Kerry Drager is a fine-arts photographer based in Morro Bay. He shares his enthusiasm for photography and the outdoors through teaching, writing, and exhibiting. Kerry is the author of three instructional photography books and co-author of three photo-essay books, all nationally published. He teaches online at the Bryan Peterson School of Photography (BPSOP.com) and regularly posts pictures, tips, and insights on his Facebook and Instagram pages. “My work evolved out of a desire to express my vision,” says Kerry. “To capture scenes as I see them, I use in-camera techniques — so no AI or Photoshop creations. The pursuit of inspiring light, subject, and color is always a satisfying goal!” Jack McNeal Jack McNeal has always been a wanderer. As a child, he explored the hills around his home in Highland Park, CA. After moving to Long Beach, he would explore the salt flats and dunes of dredging spoil near the San Gabriel River […]

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Nancy Jensen, Featured Artist, April 2025

Featured Upper Gallery
6:27 am
by Gallery at Marina Square

Exhibit Dates: April 1 – April 30, 2025Opening Reception: Saturday, April 12th, 3-5 PMLocation: Gallery at Marina Square, 601 Embarcadero, Suite 10, Morro Bay, CA 93442Gallery Hours: 11 AM – 5 PM daily Artist Statement:Nancy Jensen celebrates the simple joys of living on the central coast of California. Her watercolor paintings honor the fruits of the harvest in local vineyards, the springtime surprises of bright wildflowers and blooming gardens, the fresh produce of local farms, and the gifts of the sea scattered on local sandy beaches. She captures the rich architectural beauty of historic missions, the patchwork tapestry of rolling hills, and the quiet pleasures of relaxing at home with a good book and a cup of tea. Grateful to be part of such a stunning natural setting, Nancy strives to preserve the joy in her watercolors.

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Dual Exhibitions: Teresa Ferguson & Grant Kreinberg / Lora Salvador – Featured Artists, March 2025

Featured Upper Gallery
8:39 am
by Gallery at Marina Square

Art Listings: March 2025 Featured Artists: Exhibits: 2nd Saturday Opening Reception: Location: Contact: Upper Gallery I Featured Artist: Grant Kreinberg, Photography Artist Statement: I didn’t start out to be an artist. Engineering has been my career. Photography has been my passion. I got my first camera when I was about 12 and never really stopped taking photographs. My education and experience have been as a civil engineer. I’ve gotten into the habit of carrying a camera with me, wherever I go. When something catches my eye, I photograph it. I’ve discovered that I have a good eye, and a great imagination. My goal is to take photos that folks look at and say, “That’s a cool shot.” I photograph what I see, and it took me years to realize that most folks didn’t see what I saw. My photos are representative of my different photographic interests. I favor nature and the outdoors of Northern California. I live in Northern California, and I’m always looking for a new road or a new area to explore. The abstracts are the product of my mind modifying what my eye sees. I’m a member of the BlackHawk Gallery in Danville, the Gallery at Marina […]

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Laura Murphy, Featured Artist, February 2025

Featured Upper Gallery
2:38 pm
by Gallery at Marina Square

ART LISTINGS:  FEBRUARY 2025 3 FEATURED ARTISTS:   📍Upper Gallery:  LAURA MURPHY, Mixed Media  📍Lower Gallery:   “THE COLOR OF LIGHT” Group Painting Show with artists Spanky Anderson, Joan Brown, Ron Dieb, Virginia Mack, Pat Newton, Atul Pande, Sandra Sanders, Jose Silva, and Hema Sukumar 📍Craft Atelier Space:  GEORGE ASDEL, Small Works and Poetry 3 Exhibits Beginning:  FEBRUARY 1, 2025 Exhibits Ending: FEBRUARY 27, 2025 2nd Saturday OPENING RECEPTION:  SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8th, 3-5 PM Location:  GALLERY AT MARINA SQUARE, 601 EMBARCADERO, SUITE 10, MORRO BAY, CA 93442 Event Contact Number:  805-772-1068 Gallery Hours:  11am to 5pm daily Upper Gallery Featured Artist:  LAURA MURPHY, Acrylic Painting Artist Statement: Laura Murphy’s art gives color and shape formed only by imagination. In her San Luis Obispo studio, she coaxes acrylics onto canvases where the dance between light and form seems to breathe and move. Each painting is to be observed slowly, like memory emerging from a fog. When you look at her work, you don’t see a scene; you’re stepping into another world. Her paintings invite you to look closer, to wander through each brushstroke or wave of pigment, discovering hitherto unknown shapes. Laura’s artistic endeavors seek to create a more vivid, personal language that feels like someone speaking naturally about art […]

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Brian Johnson, Featured Artist, January 2025

Featured Upper Gallery
7:48 am
by Gallery at Marina Square

ART LISTINGS:  JANUARY 2025 BRIAN JOHNSON, Mixed Media; Exhibit Beginning:  JANUARY 1, 2025 Exhibits Ending: JANUARY 30, 2025 2nd Saturday OPENING RECEPTION:  SATURDAY, JANUARY 11h, 3-5 PM Location:  GALLERY AT MARINA SQUARE, 601 EMBARCADERO, SUITE 10, MORRO BAY, CA 93442 Event Contact Number:  805-772-1068 Gallery Hours:  11am to 5pm daily Upper Gallery Featured Artist:  BRIAN JOHNSON, Mixed Media Artist Statement: Brian Johnson is a passionate artist, known for abstracting reality.  His work all originated from snapping photos of  reality.  Unlike most abstract artists, he doesn’t start from a blank slate.  Brian’s work has a distinct and unusual process, but he does not intend for the process of his work to be its narrative.  Instead, Brian is goal oriented while working on art, which is unusual given that he is more often a process-first-centered-thinker.  Brian is open to experimenting in order to reach surprising and interesting enigmatic artistic ends.  Brian’s abstract work pursues the 400+ year old philosophical art term: the sublime. What is the Sublime? The sublime was a prominent art term and visual pursuit, particularly in the 18th and 19th centuries.  However in it’s heyday, the sublime was pictorially sought through naturalistic landscape paintings. Products which are very different from Brian’s abstract work.In aesthetics, the sublime (from the Latin sublīmis) is the quality of greatness, whether physical, moral, intellectual, metaphysical, aesthetic, spiritual, or artistic. The term especially […]

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Linda Bench and Don Doubledee

Featured Upper Gallery
2:17 pm
by Gallery at Marina Square

ART LISTINGS:  DECEMBER 2024 4 FEATURED ARTISTS:  LINDA BENCH, Drawing; DON DOUBLEDEE, Pen & Inks;  “LIGHT & SHADOWS” Group Painting Show with Jose Silva, Virginia Mack, Jamie Tobey, Atul Pande, Sandra Sanders, Patricia Newton, Joan Brown; HOLIDAY CRAFT SHOW, Small Works 3 Exhibits Beginning:  DECEMBER 1, 2024 Exhibits Ending: DECEMBER 30, 2024 2nd Saturday OPENING RECEPTION:  SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14th, 3-5 PM Location:  GALLERY AT MARINA SQUARE, 601 EMBARCADERO, SUITE 10, MORRO BAY, CA 93442 Event Contact Number:  805-772-1068 Gallery Hours:  11am to 5pm daily Upper Gallery Featured Artist: LINDA BENCH, Colored Pencil Drawing | DON DOUBLEDEE, Pen & Inks Drawing Artist Statement, Linda Bench: Linda likes to draw inspiring natural scenes—coastal panoramas, oak covered hillsides, flowers and wildlife. While she’s always enjoyed drawing and art, she learned to draw well while studying landscape architecture in college. In 1998, she began focusing her artistic efforts on colored pencil drawing, and has slowly built up her portfolio. Each picture takes about 20 to 25 hours to complete, depending on the complexity of the background. She starts with a line drawing, slowly building up multiple layers of color to achieve the depth and intensity she’s looking for. Linda lives with her family in the mountains between Morro Bay and Atascadero.\ Colored Pencil Drawing by Linda Bench Artist Statement, Don Doubledee:   Don […]

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