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Cypress Gallery 119 East Cypress Avenue Lompoc, Ca 93436 (805)737-1129 OPEN Tuesday thru Sunday 12-4p.m. & 12-5p.m. during daylight savings Located in the beautiful Lompoc Valley "City of Murals & Flowers" |
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Founded in 1994 by the Lompoc Valley Art Association, the Cypress Gallery showcases the art of over 60 well known local artists. Art lovers will find a variety of fine art in the Gallery: watercolors, oils, acrylics, pastels, mixed media, photography, ceramics, jewelry, souvenirs, and great gift ideas. Prices are very reasonable and one of the artists is always available to assist you. Each month brings a new exhibit to the Cypress Gallery, often with a new "Featured Artist" show in the South room. Preview this month's gallery show below or browse a directory of some of our Cypress Gallery artists on our Artist Directory page. Our artists also have rotating shows at the Lompoc Hospital and in several locations around town. To visit these locations, please check out the Traveling Art Show schedule.
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2010 Spring Art Show March 30 - April 25
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March Featured Show Robert Hamilton presents February 23 - March 28, 2010 Reception: Sunday, March 7, 2010, 1-3 PM
“PEOPLE, PLACES & PLEASURES” is composed of two dozen framed photos of subjects reflecting the title. The photographs were taken in Europe and North America over the last several decades with one going back to 1959. All are in color and matted and framed. The collection is a loose tapestry of diverse scenes and subjects of natural beauty, interesting people and food and wine. There is a series of photographs that were taken at the same time at Peggy’s Cove in Nova Scotia, a very small fishing village in eastern Canada. The majority of the photos are of France taken over several previous vacations and there are six pieces from a recent trip to Spain. Two of Hamilton’s favorite pieces are “FUTURE FLORENTINE BISTECCA”, a photo taken in Chianti, Tuscany, Italy. It captures two Chianina cattle at a remote monastery in the Tuscan hills. The other is a group of men playing boules in a park on a Sunday afternoon in Barcelona, Spain. The boules players in the Barcelona park entitled “POINT OR NO POINT” will be sold as a silent auction item at the Sunday, March 7th reception to raise money for the Cypress Gallery. Some of the pictures in the exhibition will be For Sale. Hamilton is a member of the Lompoc Valley Art Association which is hosting this show and also a member of the Lompoc Photographers Guild. The Guild recently had an exhibition 2009 Retrospective at the Grossman Library Gallery in which Hamilton was a participant. He will be the featured artist at the Grossman Gallery this June. |
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The Public is invited to Lompoc Valley Art Association monthly programs, normally held on the first Tuesday of each month at 7:30 pm at the Alpha Club, 704 East Ocean in Lompoc. The progrom follows the membership meeting that starts at 7PM. There is also a half-hour of socializing starting at 6:30. No programs in January, July or December. The next program on March 2, 2010 will feature Collette Christel speaking on Collette has been trained as a historian and it shows in the subjects that she choses to photograph and in the methods that she uses to create her images. The method of printing that she will be discussing will be "Iron Prints." This is a method that has it's beginnings at the very start of photography during the early 19th century. These prints are achieved by hand-coating light sensitive solutions on to water-colour paper. She will discuss the methods she uses and will demonstrate them by creating a print during the discussion.
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Traveling Art Show In cooperation with several businesses around town, LVAA artists show their work in what is known as the Traveling Art Show. Traveling Art is changed out bi-monthly with artists rotating locations. Download current schedule below:
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The Lompoc Valley Art Association Lompoc Valley Flower Festival June 25, 26 & 27 at Ryon Park (O St. & Ocean Ave.) For a 2010 artist application see the Festival Page . For more information about the festival see
Get acquainted with about 50 of our local artists and see a sample of their work by scrolling through our |
