March 2016: Spring Forward

cover art by The Center for the Arts at TERI, Inc Curated by Cynthia Melfi

[slideshow_deploy id='2528'] photos by Brigid Parsons

Click here to see profiles of many of the artists.

Below are the venues that participated in First Friday: Oceanside Art Walk for March 2016 - Spring Forward in Oceanside!

#	Venue	Artists and Events
1	OCEANSIDE MUSEUM OF ART 704 Pier View Way (760) 435-3720	Celebrate Dr Seuss! Join OMA as we celebrate Dr. Seuss's March 2 birthday with official activities from seussville.com! Scott Paulson will be there to help out. Artist Alliance : Jeannie Marshall Ortiz (sculpture), Sequoia Redbird (painting) FoodiesBySonia - empanadas $4 - chicken, beef or veggie free exhibitions: Marjorie Nodelman: San Diego Artist ; Bill Rastetter: Street Art Reinterpreted ; Deanne Sabeck: Luminous ; Laddie John Dill: Light Sentences And Light Traps ; Robin Bright/Tom Driscoll: A Dual Retrospective
2	OCEANSIDE PUBLIC LIBRARY 330 N Coast Hwy (760) 435-5600	Tom Wade - Life on a Surfboard (photography)
3	THE GALLERY AT THE BROOKS 217 N Coast Hwy (760) 433-8900	Jesse Kerr (graphic works)
4	COAST JEWELRY AND MORE 205 N Coast Hwy (760) 439-2274	Neil Brooks
5	SEASIDE FLOWERS 212-C Artist Alley (760) 722-5602	inside: Jennifer Magallon (photography) outside: Kelly Halloran (live music)
6	STEPHEN M JACKSON STUDIO 212-D Artist Alley	Stephen M Jackson (paintings) *Now Open*
7	9M PHOTO 212-E Artist Alley	Myles McGuinness (photography)
8	MURAMID MURAL MUSEUM 212-F Artist Alley	"Bad AS* Women":  preview of March 8 International Women's Day Expo, including Murals from the Art Miles Mural Project PCH Jazz (live music) projections of thousands of murals!
9	GALLERY 206 206-A Artist Alley	SAG (Sargent Art Group)
10	CENTURY 21 MISSION 501 Mission Ave (760) 966-7436	Center for the Arts at TERI, Inc (paintings, sculpture) Pete Harwood (photography)
11	WHITLOCK SURF EXPERIENCE 605 Mission Ave (858) 994-0506	surfboard art
12	WHITLOCK INK 605 Mission Ave (858) 994-0506	Joe Vickers (graphic works)
13	MAINSTREET OCEANSIDE 701 Mission Ave (760) 754-451	inside: Todd Hummel (photography) outside: Steelin' Tin (live music)
14	MISSION AVE BAR & GRILL 711 Mission Ave (760) 637-2222	BB Bastidas (paintings) Cory Patterson (photography)

PCH Jazz

Check out more on the artist website PCHJazz.com and Facebook PCH Jazz.

Tom Wade

Photography is about documenting the world around you. We make pictures to help others see things differently. People tend to naturally overlook the obvious. But there are real stories in those moments. Surf photography brings people closer to the ocean. It helps others pay more attention. Seeing things with their heart. Focusing on detail. Drawing us closer into the now. 

 
Photographs must connect us emotionally. They need to generate ideas about beauty. I photograph the surf because it is healing and continuous. The ebb and flow of life. Draining us away, rising above the challenge, I am inspired by ocean moments because being near it is the greatest thing. My goal is to make surf photographs with intention. And hopefully inspire others to do the same.

Joe Vickers

My name is Joe, and I am a surfer and artist here in Southern California.

I was born and raised in Florida, where my love for the ocean first began. As a kid, I spent my free time surfing, fishing, diving… anything that brought me near the water. I also loved drawing, and was constantly experimenting with different styles. When I later moved to California, the Pacific Coast inspired me to join my passions of ocean and art. I have since developed my own surf art style, using mixed media to create unique combinations of lines and color.

Currently, I live in Orange County with my wife, daughters and puppy. I feel incredibly lucky to be sharing my art with you.

Check out more on the artist website JoeVickersArt.com, Instagram @joevickersart.

Jesse Kerr

Rooted in San Diego, California. Currently living and working in Encinitas, Ca. Also lived and worked in Los Angeles and Berlin, Germany.

Drawing is my foundation. I love to draw, always have, always will. Through drawing and painting, my artwork often explores relationships and tension points I see in our modern environment; such as my own connection and simultaneous disconnection to nature, humans & nature, money vs. nature, as well as observations of man-made environments, technology, and culture, in relation to the natural world.

Art Center College of Design Pasadena, California; B.F.A. Illustration 2006

Check out more on the artist website.

Todd C Hummel

The beauty of the ocean is unsurpassed. Majestic colors, mesmerizing movement, and captivating sights all thrive below the surface and create a sense of peace and intrigue. It is an honor to be able to capture this dreamlike world and share it with others.

Todd Hummel is an advanced certified diver who has visited some of the world's top dive destinations, including Indonesia, the Great Barrier Reef, Cozumel, Cayman Islands, Hawaiian Islands, Aruba and many other treasured locations throughout the Caribbean.

Jennifer Magallon

I’ve made it my life’s mission to photograph the beauty of the natural world using photography as my medium. I’ve always had an adventurous spirit, and as a young child in Germany, I vividly remember wandering through the grassy fields that surrounded my village, traversing winding streams, climbing through tress, and just being completely enthralled by the outdoors. As I grew older and began to travel more, I developed a deeper appreciation for the many wonders this planet has to offer.

I have to admit, though, that no place has piqued my fascination more than the deserts of the Southwestern United States. As I trekked across the shifting sands of the Algodones Dunes, bouldered the many bizarre rock formations of the Alabama Hills, and walked among the beautiful Joshua Trees, I became enamored with the unique geography of this region. It was such a completely foreign environment to what I had ever experienced in Germany, that I felt an immediate and overwhelming desire to explore it. As an extension of this desire, I also felt a need to share what I saw . . . to convey to others what I encountered at that moment in time. I feel if people can connect in this way, if they become completely drawn into the image, then maybe they’ll experience the same sense of allure that I did. Maybe, they’ll also be inspired to help us preserve this amazing planet.

Check out more at the artist website, Facebook JMagPhotography, Instagram @jmagfoto and Twitter @JMagPhotography

Pete Harwood

My passion is capturing and sharing local natural beauty with my camera.

I've lived in North San Diego County side 1987. Raised a family and spent many happy hours on Oceanside beaches. The kids are grown and pretty much gone (there's one 23 year old on his way out) and my wife and I are Oceanside residents just a quick walk from the harbor and pier.

Check out more on the artist website.

Neil Brooks

My Art : Drawn on site with color studies to guide me in the studio garage where I then “arrange” my paintings thru trial and error relying on intuitive studies rather than photographs.

Work tends to be large - even when I start small tend to take work off stretcher bars and start to do collage. So my process kind of goes in and out of trying to stay in a frame and finding a way out of the frame to get away from a "traditional" motif.

Check out more on the artist website.

Steelin' Tin

We are a San Diego based Irish/American band, together since 1999. We play a mix of pub Irish, rock, country and original music.

Check out more on the artist website steelintin.com.

Sequoia Redbird

My name is Sequoia Redbird and I am a native American artist. I paint with the purpose of becoming better every time I paint. My medium is acrylic which I use to create portraits, landscapes and abstract art.

Kelly Halloran

Kelly Halloran is a singer-songwriter, who started writing songs in 2006.

She believes in the power of music as a universal language. Her style is countryesque and can have a kick of jazz, sass, pop, rock, whatever is needed to serve the song.

She has performed as a solo artist and with her band Sequin in the Sky. She has performed at Carlsbad Flower Fields, in Oceanside at Crossroads Stagehouse, Sunshine Brooks Theatre, Star Theatre, and sang at the Oceanside Days of Art and in “That’s Amore” at the Oceanside Cultural Arts Center Valentine Fundraiser Show.

Several of her original songs have been recognized by the Song of the Year contest online. Her song, Lonely Night in Paris was a part of a compilation cd.

Kelly has 5 music videos available on YouTube, two of them were in the Oceanside International Film Festival (Boo!Koo! in 2013 and Eye of the Storm in 2014). Her music is available on iTunes (Kelly Halloran and Sequin in the Sky). Kelly has 4 music videos in progress and is currently writing her first musical, Angel Girl. Kelly has grown to love all aspects of filmmaking and stage production.

Kelly is also a Dermatology Nurse Practitioner at Oceana Dermatology in Carlsbad.

Check out more at Facebook SequinInTheSky and YouTube SequinInTheSky

Oceanside Museum of Art Artist Alliance

The Artist Alliance is a membership affiliate group dedicated to the support of the Oceanside Museum of Art. It provides opportunities for interaction, visibility and growth for artists in the region.

For more info, check out the website.

The Artist Alliance appears monthly on the patio of the Oceanside Museum of Art

Jeannie Marshall Ortiz

Jeannie Marshall Ortiz was born in San Diego, California, and grew up near the beach in south Ocean Beach. The ocean, the sun, and a good breeze have always been her comfort and inspiration. She gradually got into making art, starting with drawing, beading, sewing, and spinning and dying wool. She also played the flute, enjoyed jamming, and was part of a modern dance group called Vanguard. The rhythm and flow of all these elements is seen in her artwork.

She made her first linoleum block print when she was 21, living in what she called her ‘birdhouse’ in Golden Hills, while going to Mesa College. She majored in Art and Spanish, and took her first sculpting class there, which felt like coming home. Continuing her studies at San Francisco State University she enjoyed lithography, and, of course, sculpting. Finishing up her B.A. in Art with an emphasis in Sculpture, she made her first figurative sculpture in marble.

During her time in ‘The City’, she started traveling in Mexico and Guatemala, with just a backpack, and stayed in ‘pensiones’. Jeannie visited many museums and galleries, small towns, lots of water falls, made many friends, and drew in pencil and ink wherever she went. While living in Coatepec and Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico, she worked on a sizable sculpture in marble, made a variety of prints, a couple of smaller sculptures in wood, and lots of drawings. She also taught art and sculpting to various individuals, and ceramics to a sizable group at the University Extension.

Returning to San Diego, Jeannie raised three sons, earned teaching credentials, and taught bilingual elementary school children for nearly two decades, mostly in Vista. She used her Spanish a whole lot more than her art during that time.

Since retiring, she’s gotten back to sculpting, and even made a couple of prints.
She teaches sculpting to kids of all ages, and now has a single subject credential to teach art. In 2010, Jeannie participated in the Oceanside Sculpture Competition. She taught sculpting at Reach, an after school program run by the Vista Community Clinic, with a grant from the Kenneth A. Picerne Foundation in 2011. She was the featured artist of November 2011 at Vista Art Foundation’s Gallery 204. She teaches sculpting and mask making to elementary school students through ‘Kid’s College’, an after school enrichment program. She just learned to work in stained glass this winter, and loves the color and light. She also started making her first sculpture in olive wood recently. Jeannie shows her work at Artbeat on Main Street in Vista, and in the Artist Alliance shows around town.

Myles McGuinness

He’s a waterman and cameraman, can communicate verbally and visually, and manages brand strategy as well as he does typography. He is a Creative Director whose intuition and experience allow him to break from the script but stay exactly on-strategy. A fine artist backed with facts. And a shooter whose precision focus coexists with a broad depth of field. Instead of dictating, he integrates, shifting roles to fit the project, crew, client and shot at hand. Everything else just gets in the way of the idea.

He follows a basic principle: always go the extra mile.

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These images have been exhibited & published internationally in U.K., Brazil, France, Italy, Japan, Germany, Australia, U.S. and recognized by: American Advertising Federation (AAF), National Geographic, The Smithsonian,  Oceanside Museum of Art, Surfer, The California Surf Museum, Communication Arts Photo Annuals, PDN Photo Annual and a Follow the Light Finalist.

Images Represented by : Aurora Photos (US), The California Surf Museum (CA), and 6Feet and Perfect (France).

Check out more on the artist website 9mphoto.com, Facebook 9mphoto, Instagram @9mphoto, Tumblr 9mphoto.