join us at 4:30pm tonight at Eureka Art and Frame

I am celebrating this new work at 4:30pm with a glass of champagne and a few friends. If you are about please drop in...

Holiday Hello from Jennifer and Patty

We are going to miss having an Open Studio this year but Patty and I can be reached via our email addresses for personal direct purchases.
info.chiajen@gmail.com for Jennifer
demantus@gmail.com for Patty
If you should desire finding our things without meeting with us they are within reach.
For Patty's work check Etsy   www.demantdesigns.etsy.com
or swing by the Northcoast Knittery on 2nd Street of Old Town Eureka, California
She is making some beautiful felt cases for iPads and laptops....

As for Jennifer She still has work at Bank of America in Arcata, California and at Mazotti's on the Arcata Plaza. But the newer pieces are beautiful watercolors executed during her month in Germany this last October at Eureka Art and Frame and also 5 new lovely 36" x 48" floor canvases at Sewell Gallery  423 F Street, Eureka, California.

I will post my floor canvases up on this blog as soon as I resize them. Better you just go on by...

Feel free to call for any studio visits as Jennifer has a lot of work that would love a home.

Happy Holidays
from Jennifer and Patty

reinhausen paintings continued

I spent the month of October in the German countryside and produced almost 70 small watercolors. These paintings will be represented by Eureka Art and Frame in Eureka, California for the next few months. 10 of them are being framed pronto and another 20 will be matted. Larger pieces will be exhibited over the following months. I have yet to decide on an opening reception but am thinking of having just a small private party either in December or early March. Regardless, you can visit the gallery space within this lovely frame shop and see some other textiles pieces of mine that have been there for a couple of months now.

I can also be reached for a private visit in my studio outside of town. Please email me @ info.chiajen@gmail.com

reinhausen paintings

What September brings to shows...

During the next few months I will be showing some work in 3 various locations in Arcata and Eureka.
The first installation was at Bank of America on the Plaza in Arcata. Large walls and lovely northern light allow for the best viewing of these bold acrylics that I did over the last few years. There are a couple of framed oils and the collection of my mono prints from the ongoing silk textile series. The B of A will be open tonight during Arcata's Arts Alive and also during weekday office hours. All pieces are for sale and there is a price list on site.

The second installation in Arcata is for Joe Mazzotti at Mazzotti's on the Plaza and it is a diverse showing of mono prints, acrylics, shibori, contemporary oils, and silk mono prints. Mazzotti's will also be open tonight, September 9th,  for the Arts Alive evening. I will be there to talk about my work should you be able to step in and join me at the bar.
Contact: Joe @ Mazzotti's 707-822-1900

The Eureka location for the new few months is the petite but lovely space in Eureka Art and Frame at 1636 F Street. Gabe has been doing ongoing framing for my silk prints and his soft lighting allows for the viewer to appreciate the textile design work that make my fabrics truly unique. This show is contemporary, abstract, and has a strong eastern influence. The prices for this work are available by calling me, Jennifer, at 707-764-3877. You can also call the gallery at 707-444-2888.

I would be pleased to meet anyone at any of these locations for conversation and sales information. I look forward to hearing from you.

As a side note I will be working in Germany for the month of October on a new poetry and images book and will not be receiving emails due to the dire need of quiet to get this project up and running.

Textiles and unique prints by Jennifer Mackey and Patty Demant

Open Studio Starts Saturday the 4th of June and continues through Sunday the 5th. Join us for light refreshments, fine art and fiber works.

Visiting Artist from Paris

JF Méchain is a 63 year old french artist. He is a partner in one of the top 10 urban architectural firms in Paris and teaches in the “Paris La Seine” school of architecture.

In 1978, while Argentina was ruled by a military dictator, he spent a year in Buenos Aires and published several comics in a well known satirical magazine known as “Humor Registrado”.

In 2004 during a one year medical leave he created a prolific series of pastels. The majority of them sold in his first exhibition at “La Loge” gallery in Paris. Since 2004 he has continued painting and sketching alongside his architecture practice.

His work has ben presented in several bistros in Paris and also in the well known architectural firm, HOK, in San Francisco. 

The sketches presented this weekend are representations of his latest style dedicated to the human figure and female nudes.

He  can be reached at jf.mechain@gmail.com