ArtWalk on the Bay, San Diego

Dates: September 12th and 13th, 2009
Hours: 10AM-5PM Saturday and Sunday
Location: Embarcadero Marina Park North (Behind Seaport Village)
ADMISSION IS FREE!

In 2006, the same team that produces Mission Federal ArtWalk in Little Italy began hosting a fall event, ArtWalk on the Bay, at the request of both artists and art lovers.

Held right on the water at Embarcadero Marina Park North, this open-air gallery offers a more intimate experience for attendees, with breathtaking views of San Diego's waterfront. Showcasing the best of San Diego's original works of art for exhibition and sale, ArtWalk on the Bay gathers the finest artists, performers and entertainers in the region to create an event loved by visitors and locals alike.

This year's event will be held September 12 and 13 from 10AM-5PM Saturday and Sunday at the Embarcadero Marina Park North (behind Seaport Village). With over 100 artists and performers, ArtWalk on the Bay will host more than 30,000 visitors throughout the weekend.

The festival will feature the new "Bayside Lounge" which will be serving Bloody Marys, cold beer and wine.

And of course, KidsWalk will provide hands-on activities to keep the whole family entertained!

Followup: July 11 BFSA: Beach, Marquez, Odgers, Weiner

Lee Joseph sent some additional information about the artists exhibiting in the Lou Beach, Hudson Marquez, Jayme Odgers and Mel Weiner show at Billy Shire Fine Arts on the 11th.

Lou Beach
Beach is a prolific graphic artist who was an album cover designer in the 70s, creating LP jackets for David Sanborn, Weather Report, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Eddie Hazel, The Carpenters, Weird Al Yankovic, Neville Bros., Flying Burrito Brothers, Blink 182, currently illustrates for publications such as Wired Magazine, Rolling Stone, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Random House, McGraw-Hill, and Houghton-Mifflin. Both Matt Groning and Terry Gilliam are fans of Beach's work.

Hudson Marquez

Marquez was the driving force behind the iconic Cadillac Ranch sculpture in Amarillo, Texas. He was also instrumental in Ant Farm's public performances, museum exhibitions, inflatable structures, architectural commissions, illustration work, and videos. Mr. Marquez left Ant Farm in 1973 to co-found TVTV, the seminal "guerilla television" group that is considered to be the ground breaking pioneer of non-fiction television.

Jayme Odgers
Odgers was selected along with fourteen world class artists, including David Hockney, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein and John Baldasari, among others, to do an official poster for the 1984 Olympic Games. His work has been exhibited in the Brooklyn Museum, The San Francisco Museum of Art, Arco Center for the Visual Arts, the Albright-Knox Museum, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and the Museo Fortuny in Venice, Italy and is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian s Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York City and The White House in Washington, D.C.

Mel Weiner
Weiner is a life-long fan of old-school boxing and creates portraits of his heroes using mosaic glass. Weiner feels that both boxing and mosaic are ancient crafts and the mosaic portrait has timeless iconic relevance.

You can see some of the pieces here: http://leejosephpublicity.com/show/bsfajuly09

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Lee Joseph Publicity for the Visual Arts
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