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DESCRIPTION:STRUCTURE & LIGHT\nPhotographs by Hedi B. Desuyo\nMonotypes by Linda 
 Grebmeier\nMay 15- July 17, 2010\n\nOpening Reception, May 23 3:00-6:00 
 PM\n\nGallery Family Day, hands-on art activities: Saturday, May 22, 2 - 4 
 pm\n\nArtists' Talk and Tour of Yuba Artifacts, Saturday June 12, 3 pm \n   
                             \nArts Benicia is proud to present Structure 
 and Light, an exhibit of artwork created as a response to the passing of a 
 piece of local history, the Yuba Manufacturing Complex in the lower Benicia 
 Arsenal. In the final weeks before being torn down in 2006, artists Hedi B. 
 Desuyo and Linda Grebmeier were provided a rare opportunity to capture 
 images of these classic industrial buildings. Through photographs and 
 monotype prints, the exhibit provides an eloquent visual testimony for a 
 place that could not be preserved, and articulates the important role that 
 visual memory plays in history, in our community, and in our personal 
 lives. \n\nSince moving to the Benicia Arsenal 16 years ago, Linda 
 Grebmeier has interpreted the industrial buildings and cargo ships 
 surrounding her studio in striking paintings and prints suffused with 
 golden light and deep shadows, profoundly expressive of her connection with 
 the area. Her use of unexpected vantage points results in atmospheric, 
 light-filled images bordering on abstraction, particularly in her 
 multiple-drop monotypes, the technique she has used in this project. Hedi 
 B. Desuyo is an artist interested in places layered with the effects of 
 time: she is uniquely suited to capture the forsaken beauty at the 
 abandoned old factory. A native of Germany who immigrated to the United 
 States in 1962 and moved to Benicia in 1980, she travels extensively and 
 observes her daily surroundings acutely: her photographs present the viewer 
 with a rich emotive experience, lending mystery and significance to humble 
 workaday objects and places. \n\nIn conjunction with Structure and Light, 
 exhibition curator Kathryn Weller Renfrow has worked with the Benicia 
 Historical Museum to create collaborative programming at the Museum, which 
 is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. The Museum is home to many 
 industrial artifacts from the Yuba Factory site, and these as well as 
 historical photographs of the area will be the gathered and installed in a 
 special exhibit at the Museum from June 12 until August 8, 2010. On June 12 
 at 3 pm, the Artists' Talk, featuring Desuyo and Grebmeier at Arts Benicia, 
 will be followed at 4:30 by a talk at the Benicia Historical Museum about 
 the Yuba Factory's history by BHM Curator Beverly Phelan, and will include 
 a free tour of the museum's industrial artifacts, documents, and 
 photographs.\nOn June 22nd from 2 to 4 pm, Arts Benicia will host Family 
 Art Day, featuring hands-on art activities inspired by Structure and Light. 
 The activities, suitable for parents and children alike, are designed and 
 organized by Elisabeth Gulick, long-time children's art coordinator, 
 teacher, and docent for the organization.\n\nThe exhibit Structure and 
 Light is supported in part by a Fleishhacker Foundation grant awarded in 
 2008 to commission the artwork. As well as generous donations from Olson 
 Realty, Inc. \n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/05/13/18647835.php
SUMMARY:Structure and Light Opening Reception
LOCATION:Arts Benicia Gallery\n991 Tyler St #114\nBenicia, CA\n94510
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/05/13/18647835.php
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