Along The Way West – Paintings by Michael Drury
Art Gallery/Art Exhibit/Art Talk
**Events may have been canceled or postponed. Please contact the venue to confirm the event.
Date & Time
Thu, Apr 02 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Address (map)
1321 State Street Santa Barbara CA 93101
Santa Barbara Fine Art is excited to announce an exhibition of recent paintings by Michael Drury. This will be Michael’s first one-person exhibition in Santa Barbara in more than three
years.
The paintings were made on autumn trips to the western Great Basin, the Gaviota Coast and Point Reyes in Northern California. Some reflect a growing interest in volcanic formations, and a search for the arrhythmic poetry of lava flows in particular. The painter finds a correlation between the exposed ocean terraces and uplifts of Point Conception and the equally abrupt and expansive sagebrush sea of the Great Basin. He sees the occasional
man-made forms such as barns as reminders of how small our human endeavors really are.
There is comfort in that somehow, Michael Drury is a native Santa Barbarian.
He received his education in the local school system, a B.A. in Art Studio at the College of Creative Studies, UCSB, and an M.F.A. in Art Studio, UCSB.
His commitment to plein-air painting began when he met Ray Strong in 1970, and virtually all of his work is generated out-of-doors. He has painted extensively in the high deserts of the Great Basin, the wild coast of California, his home grounds of western Santa Barbara County, and the west coast of Ireland. He is a life-long surfer and a founding member of the OAK GROUP, an association of environmentally active landscape painters in Santa Barbara
Michael will be giving an artist talk at Santa Barbara Fine Art on Sunday April 26th 11 am – 1 pm