Exhibition

New Visions: Introductions 04

A Juried Exhibition of California Artists

July 21 - August 29, 2004

Juried by Rene di Rosa and Jack Rasmussen

Reception for the Artists: Thursday, July 22, 6 - 8 p.m.

Join us! Meet the artists whose work was selected for exhibition, enjoy music and light fare. The celebration will include a traditional Chinese lion dance, beginning at 6:30 p.m.

Artist Talks: Saturday, August 14, 1 p.m.

New Visions: Introductions is an annual competition produced by Pro Arts. Each year, we invite prestigious members of the arts community to jury the works of our talented pool of member artists living in California. A record number of artists submitted nearly 1,000 works for this year's competition. Of the total, 68 pieces created by 61 artists were selected.

Artists:

Peter Andrea, Jenny Balisle, Sydney Bell, Priscilla Birge, Sandra Bradman, Lawrie Brown, Lesley Cantor-Fallihee, Susan Casentini, Carrie Cheshire, Michael Conrad, Eliot Daughtry, Jamie Erfurdt, Miriam Fagan, Raleigh Freeman, P.K. Frizzell, Terry Furry, Suzie Geluz, Lisa Glicksman, Tmothy Robert Gratkowski, Lori Hanson and Lawrence Lincoln, Catherine Hart, Sue Heinemann, Jessica Henricks, David Herbold, Anthony Holdsworth, Robert Horning, Kris Iwasaki, Dorian Katz, Joanna Katz, Jon Kerpel, Barbara Kossy, Jeffrey Kramm, Elana Kundell, Gaelyn Lakin, Nancy Legge, Karin Lusnak, Mari Marks, Liz Maxwell, Sandra McHenry, Scott Melcher, Eileen Moderbacher, Airiel Mulvaney, Daisuke Nakabayashi, Michelle Nye, Jon Orvik, Carol Paquet, Christine Petty, Matthew Purdon, Jim Rosenau, Susan Shaddick, Danielle Shelley, Joyce Shon, Eric Smith, Rebecca Szatkowski, Heidi Tarver, Ama Torrance, Merav Tzur, Sean Darius Vickery, Robert Volbrechtz, Mary Helene Wagner, Audrey Wallace-Taylor

JURORS:

"My greatest pleasure is looking for art and finding it. Whatever sanity I've maintained is by being able to ... find the unfound artist."

-- Rene di Rosa

Rene di Rosa, founder and Chairman of the Board of the di Rosa Preserve began to collect the works of emerging Bay Area artists in the 1950s. In 1960 he purchased land in the Carneros region of Napa where he successfully planted vineyards. He became an avid collector and arts activist, serving on the Board of Trustees of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The San Francisco Art Institute and the New York's Whitney Museum National Committee. In 1982, Rene established the Rene and Veronica di Rosa Foundation with the vision to build an environmental "art park" for the greater public.

Jack Rasmussen, Executive Director of the di Rosa Preserve since 2002, 30 years professional experience in providing administrative and curatorial leadership for arts organizations, including the National Gallery of Art, Washington Project for the Arts, and the Jack Rasmussen Gallery, Washington, DC, and Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, Maryland. Most recently, Jack curated "The True Artist Is An Amazing Luminous Fountain," a traveling show of selected works from the di Rosa Preserve collection that will be on the road through 2006.