Rattlesnake and Turkey Vulture are exhibiting as part of Animalia at the Healdsburg Center for the Arts. Join me at the opening reception Saturday, March 2, 5:00-7:00pm. The exhibition continue through April 14.
A portion of the proceeds from all of the art sales in Animalia will be donated to a local nonprofit animal care/preservation entity, including the Humane Society of Sonoma County and/or Safari West Foundation. Healdsburg Center for the Arts 130 Plaza St., Healdsburg, CA 95448 Open | Sun, Mon, & Thur 11am-5pm Fri & Sat 11am-6pm | Closed Tue, Wed
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 (c) Jamie L. Luoto, "Birthday Self Portrait 2019" oil on gessobord, 12 x 9 inches, 2019 Each January I paint a self portrait for my birthday. Meet your 2019 mer-goat.
Friend and fellow artist, Michelle Hoting and I kicked off the holiday season with a festive holiday celebration and art show at my studio in Dry Creek Valley, Healdsburg, California. Join me for the next one by signing up for my monthly newsletter which features new art, good news, and public and private events.  Jamie L. Luoto & Michelle Hoting  Holiday spread beneath ©Jamie L. Luoto, "Reduction (Self Portrait)," oil on canvas, 48x36 inches, 2017  Michelle Hoting's gorgeous jewelry-scape.  Festive sips surrounded by painted works by Jamie L. Luoto  Jamie L. Luoto in front of her anthropomorphic portraits, spreading holiday cheer!  Sonoma County Art Trails open studio tour continues this weekend, October 20-21 2018 from 10am to 5pm. For those who came last weekend, thank you for a wonderful time -- it looks like this weekend will be just as fun! We're looking at gorgeous weather, stimulating art, and scintillating conversation. Here's what else you can expect:
Learn about my creative process while meeting my 40 animal portraits. Enjoy pleasant refreshments while perusing my growing collection of thought-provoking portraits of self and society. If you feel inspired, create your own animal portrait at my coloring station, and definitely sign up for a chance to win one of my giclee prints in a drawing. As a reminder, after this weekend I will return to hosting studio visits year-round by appointment. I hope you'll come by and enjoy!  "Freddie" as part of Art Elevated in New York City. Photo Credit: Alexander Ayer Freddie is part of a high altitude gallery composed of 90 artist's works from around the globe that have been replicated on seven foot banners and hung on lampposts throughout the world-famous Garment District in the heart of Midtown Manhattan, creating a fantastic aerial art gallery that will remain on view from September 12 to October 30, 2018.
*Freddie is located on West 39th Street between 5th and 6th Avenue.
 ©Jamie L. Luoto, "America: She Was Asking For It," gouache on paper, 15x19 inches, 2016 Artist's StatementCreated in response to the 2016 presidential election, America: She Was Asking For It, was born from a nightmare and depicts a revealing portrait of not only America’s elected Head of State but also his wife and Vice President and Mrs. Pence.
A variety of symbols evoke both an immediate visceral reaction, such as the confederate flag, as well as an ongoing discovery of depravity represented as small painted details, such as the pins, that reveal contractions and hypocrisy. I utilized the bright coloring effects of gouache to capture the flashy tone of media imagery and intentionally made the work small to emphasize the insufficient attention and transitory coverage given to these issues by the media. The piece is floated atop an abyss-like, black velvet, to create an effect like that of a digital screen, and finally encased in a tarnished frame, as if it is a dangerous artifact, warning of possible future outcomes.  ©Jamie L. Luoto, "Sober Jockey," oil on canvas, 20x20 inches, September 2016 Male dominance in western art, and in particular portraiture, has been a critical element in denying women ownership over our own identity. It also has caused some of the most significant crimes and injustices against women to be ignored, dismissed, or worse glossed over as something entirely different. Sober Jockey confronts this head-on by singling out and reinterpreting Henri Fuseli's, The Nightmare from a female perspective. In doing so it directly confronts issues of violence towards women and the shock, trauma, stress, depression and haunting that so often comes with it. A scene which for so long has been presented and interpreted as a “Nightmare” is now shown to be a reality for the protagonist, as it is of course for so many millions of women.
Sober Jockey will be exhibiting, as part of Art in an Age of Anxiety, at the Arts Guild of Sonoma in Sonoma, California between August 30th through October 1st, 2018. Opening reception Saturday, September 1st, 2018. See Details Here. Art in an Age of Anxiety August 30 - October 1, 2018 *Opening reception Saturday, September 1st 5:00pm-7:30pm Arts Guild of Sonoma 40 E Napa Street Sonoma, CA 95476 707-996-3115 Open Sun, Mon, Wed, Thurs 11am-5pm Open Fri & Sat 10am-6pm Closed Tuesdays  (c) Jamie L. Luoto, "Title TBD," gouache on paper, 14x11 inches, July 2018 I'm honored to be included in Persistence, an exhibition at the Museum of Northern California Art celebrating and recognizing women artists. "Persistence" has become a byword for women standing up and I'm passionate about promoting the work of female artists past, present, and future. This was my kind of exhibition.  Jamie L. Luoto with her works "Sami Reindeer" and "Sami American"
 Opening Reception for "Persistence" at the Museum of Northern California Art  ©Jamie L. Luoto, "Orangutan," gouache on watercolor paper, 24x20 inches, May 2018 |
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