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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“Focus On Birds” Group Photography Show, January 2025

Featured Lower Gallery
7:52 am
by Gallery at Marina Square

ART LISTINGS:  JANUARY 2025 FEATURED ARTISTS: “FOCUS ON BIRDS” Group Photography Show with Alice Cahill, Cathy Russ, Dominic Hartman, Grant Kreinberg, Gregory Siragusa and Karen Peterson Exhibits 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 Lower Gallery Featured Artists: “FOCUS ON BIRDS” Group Photography Show with artists Alice Cahill, Cathy Russ, Dominic Hartman, Grant Kreinberg, Gregory Siragusa and Karen Peterson.Statement:  “FOCUS ON BIRDS” showcases Morro Bay Bird Festival month with Photographs of birds and bird-habitats in countrysides and oceansides—all the places where our wildlife friends live and thrive, hunt and sing.  

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Virginia Mack, Featured Artist, August 2024

Featured Lower Gallery
2:32 pm
by Gallery at Marina Square

ART LISTINGS: AUGUST 2024 3 FEATURED ARTISTS: Gay McNeal, Textiles; Virginia Mack, Watercolor; Ardella Swanberg, Small Works and books 3 Exhibits Beginning: AUGUST 1, 2024 Exhibits Ending: AUGUST 29, 2024 2nd Saturday RECEPTION ATRIUM PARTY Saturday, AUGUST 10th, 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 Virginia is a native Californian. She grew up in the SF Bay Area. Virginia taught for many years in the Bay Area before moving to the Central Coast. She has been exploring and savoring the natural areas of the state throughout her life.Virginia has been living on the Central Coast for over 20 years. She was a part-time instructor at Cuesta College and Allan Hancock College in the Fine Arts departments: she taught studio arts, Art History and Art Appreciation. Virginia’s inspiration comes from nature. Her passion is enjoying natural areas wherever she is and responding to each area through her paintings and drawings. She has made hundreds of journeys on the bay in her kayak and developed many pieces inspired by those journeys. Virginia works primarily in watercolors and is a colorist at heart.  Virginia received […]

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FEATHERS IN FLIGHT, group photography show, January 2024

Featured Lower Gallery
9:00 am
by Gallery at Marina Square

FEATURED ARTISTS: “FEATHERS IN FLIGHT” Group Photography Show; Exhibits Beginning: JANUARY 1, 2024 3 Exhibits Ending: JANUARY 30, 2024 2nd Saturday RECEPTION ATRIUM PARTY: Saturday, JANUARY 13th, 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 closed TuesdaysFrontJanuary04-copy.jpg Lower Gallery Featured Artists: “FEATHERS IN FLIGHT” Group Photography Show with artists: Alice Cahill, Gregory Siragusa, Jessica Weiss, Cathy Russ, Grant Kreinberg, Karen Peterson, Dominic Hartman Statement:“Feathers in Flight” showcases Morro Bay Bird Festival month with Photographs of birds, and bird habitats in countrysides and oceansides—all the places where our wildlife friends live and thrive, hunt and sing.

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Virginia Mack, Featured Artist, August 2023

Featured Lower Gallery
12:00 am
by Gallery at Marina Square

ART LISTINGS: AUGUST 2023 FEATURED SHOWS: Virginia Mack, Watercolors Exhibits Beginning: AUGUST 1, 2023 Exhibits Ending: AUGUST 29, 2023 2nd Saturday OPENING RECEPTION: SATURDAY, AUGUST 12TH, 3-5 PM** Location: GALLERY AT MARINA SQUARE, 601 EMBARCADERO, SUITE 10, MORRO BAY, CA 93442 Event Contact: 805-772-1068 Gallery Hours: 11am to 5pm daily I am a colorist. I love exploring the beguiling interplay between color and light.The way we see color is always affected by the lighting in which we find ourselves.Moonlight, summer light, winter light, shadows, deep shade. Each has its own way of revealing to us what is before us.My pursuit in painting is to capture the subtleties of color, as a means of savoring the experience I am immersed in.Each subject in each setting captures my senses, endlessly fascinates me, and hopefully guides me to a way of revealing the richness of each moment.

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