Artist Co-op 7 preserves legacy

JOYCE RUDOLPH

Members of the Artist Co-op 7 are celebrating 10 years of keeping

alive the teachings of their mentor Alex Vilumsons, who founded the

group in 1989.

Following Vilumsons’ death, the group created the Teaching Team

program, said Jeanne Hahn, team supervisor and coordinator of the Art

Panel, a body of 14 members. The panel curates the group exhibitions,

gives advice to members on layout and aesthetics and teaches the

students the artistic methods.

“It takes all of us to do what he did to keep this going,” Hahn

said. “We are proud to be able to sustain it.”

In honor of reaching its first decade, the group has installed its

“Colorforms” exhibit at the Creative Arts Center in Burbank.

The title is a pun in reference to the Colorforms game from the

1950s that had colorful shapes, Hahn said. Paintings are colors and

forms on a two-dimensional surface, and you are not able to put a

three-dimensional world onto a painting.

In its Teaching Team process, she added, the group uses a variety

of media and subject matter to explore a diversity of ideas

distinguished by an integration of color and form.

“We hope viewers take their time seeing the exhibit and let the

energies of artists speak to them and their inner selves and be moved

by it,” she said.

Joining Hahn in the exhibit are Adria Becker, Gwen Gainsford

Farmer, Susan Gesundheit, Dafna Gilboa, Helen Kim and Ulla Britt

Taranto.

An artists reception for the Burbank show will be from 7 to 9

p.m. Friday at the arts center, 1100 W. Clark Ave., Burbank. The

show continues through Sept. 23. Gallery Hours are 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Monday through Thursday and from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday. For more

information, call 238-5397.

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Downtown Burbank District organizers are seeking entries for the

Fine Arts Festival, scheduled from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 16 and 17.

Participating in the event will be 90 active West Coast artists,

and high-quality craftsmen, including commercial artists, designers,

photographers, sculptors, ceramicists and jewelers selected from

workshops across California, Arizona and Nevada. Approximately 75% of

exhibitors are based in Southern California. All work is original,

one-of-kind and executed by the artists themselves, with nothing

manufactured, imported or purchased for resale.

The festival will be on San Fernando Boulevard between Magnolia

Boulevard and Orange Grove Avenue. San Fernando Boulevard will be

closed to traffic during the shows. The event is produced in

cooperation with West Coast Artists.

To participate in the show, call Ronda Mills at 709-2907 or apply

by Internet at www.westcoastartists.com.

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