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Merry wishes for the holiday!

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Sulllivan Goss has done it again, another spectacular display from local artists in their annual 100 GRAND exhibition. Even though sales have been brisk there are still plenty of worthy entries waiting to be collected this holiday season.

Flight Song 1 10x10” oil on panel (FYI there is a Flight Song 2 that didn’t make the wall. You can ask to see it!)

After visiting the artpalooza in the front gallery, be sure not to miss the WINTER SALON in the back gallery. It is another space filled with myriad styles, sizes and colors for the collecting. Four of my paintings are on the wall accompanying other beauties by Nathan Huff, Phoebe Brunner, Hank Pitcher and Julika Lackner, to name a few.

When you weary of wandering the streets and stores in search of that perfect gift, stop in at the gallery to recharge your holiday spirit. Happy merry holiday!

Fall happenings & beyond .....

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It's October, the start to the last quarter of the year, the beginning of the end of 2022. It's a month that heralds the start of holiday fever and a ramping up to the new year looming. New work is emerging from the studio and finding new homes as well as annual exhibits. Here are just a few to check in with this coming season.

CREATIVE WOMEN III - GALLERY MAR CARMEL
OCT 21 through NOV 11, 2022

New Work by Twelve Regional Female Artists
Opening Reception Friday, October 21st, from 5 to 8pm.

Four new paintings will be showing alongside the works of 11 other artists in
this juried group exhibition celebrating women of the central coast.

More information can be found on their WEBSITE

VALLEY GOLD , 36x60” Oil on birch panel

SUNDANCE Home Catalog and SUNDANCE online have a new collection of paintings on offer. Thank you Sundance for the amazing environments that showcase my work.
See the collection HERE

LA PALOMA Restaurant in Santa Barbara has been open now for a couple years, making it through the toughest stretch of Covid quarrantine. This beautiful space has showcased seven of my paintings from the day it opened. I am honored to part of the gorgeous surroundings. Go have a drink, share a meal and visit the now permanent collection of work in this one of kind Santa Barbara establishment. Check out the MENU and make a plan to stop in.

Fall Happenings

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SEA CHANGE  I  SUNDANCE   I   PAPER TRAIL

NEWS FROM THE STUDIO OF NICOLE STRASBURG

May the change of the seasons find you well and thriving. There are just 5 days left to experience SEA CHANGE at Sullivan Goss in downtown Santa Barbara. The show will close on Monday, September 27th. Thank you to all the visitors who have reached out, letting me know you enjoyed the show. HUGE gratitude to clients taking work home, both to add to their collections and start new ones.

I want to thank Marilyn McMahon at the Santa Barbara Newspress for the spectacular spread in the Life section on Saturday, September 18th. Thanks also, to Kit Boise-Cossart for the wonderful studio interview in LUM Magazine. There is a catalog that accompanies the exhibit which is available both at the gallery and online HERE.

Fall means cooler weather, shorter days and often times, color! Leaves changing, clear crisp days and (fingers crossed) rain in the forecast. Honoring the change of season SUNDANCE has twelve new paintings celebrating the fall, plus a few others to choose from.

Fall Willow Tunnel, 10x30”, oil on birch

Fall Willow Tunnel, 10x30”, oil on birch

Recently opened in the main gallery at Sullivan Goss is PAPER TRAIL: The Life Story of Great Works of Art. This is an exhibition focusing on the significance of how art moves through the world and across time. My Overpass Series No. 5, a reductive wood block print created at the Atelier of Richard Tullis, can be found in this exhibit. It is a large print inspired by the San Francisco freeway system. This print traveled in 2015 with the exhibit titled California Dreaming through the Oceanside Museum of Art, Riverside Museum of Art and the Palazzo della Provincia di Frozinone before landing on the walls at Sullivan Goss. Exhibition runs through October 27, 2021.

Overpass Series No. 5, 30x30.5”, reductive woodblock monoprint

Overpass Series No. 5, 30x30.5”, reductive woodblock monoprint

Summer Salon at Sullivan Goss

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I love to be hanging with friends and beloved colleagues.

Coastal Fog can be viewed now at Sullivan Goss through July 26, 2021 beside the works of John Nava, Nathan Huff, Patricia Chidlaw, Phoebe Brunner, Angela Perko, Colin Campbell Cooper, Lockwood DeForest and many more.

Left to right, Nathan Huff “A Sudden Lurch to Help”, Angela Perko “Refugio Beach, West End #2”, Nicole Strasburg “Coastal Fog” and John Nava “Summerland 4-2”.

Left to right, Nathan Huff “A Sudden Lurch to Help”, Angela Perko “Refugio Beach, West End #2”, Nicole Strasburg “Coastal Fog” and John Nava “Summerland 4-2”.

Bio/MASS: Contemporary Meditations on Nature at the Wildling Museum

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Thank you to Caleb Wiseblood for the wonderful article in the Santa Maria Sun this morning.

READ all about the new exhibition at the Wildling Museum of Art & Nature. Exhibition includes artists Scott Chatenever, Dorothy Churchill-Johnson, Catherine Eaton-Skinner, Lynn Hanson, Karen Kitchel, Maria Rendon, John Robertson, Sommer Roman, Carol Saidon, and Nicole Strasburg.

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Opening at the Wildling Museum this April!

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Weather Patterns project. 24 included in the Bio/Mass exhibit at the Wildling

Weather Patterns project. 24 included in the Bio/Mass exhibit at the Wildling

Bio: Relating to life and living beings

Mass: A large body of matter crowded together

Artists are observers and interpreters of what they see around them, whether it is a social concern, the natural world, the built environment or their own unique vision. Often artists work in series, exploring a particular topic as they deeply observe their subject over time. For artists, this repetition can serve both as a meditative practice and a means of learning and understanding.

In this exhibition, artists were chosen who create work in series, examining some aspect of nature. They may be examining patterns in nature or the same location over a long period of time. Some combine and recombine singular elements that accumulate into a fascinating and revealing artwork or body of work.

These artists have transformed their fascination with deep observations of their individual environments into works that help us to see the beauty in the details of our world, celebrating both quiet and dramatic moments in nature.

Featured Artists

Scott Chatenever, Lynn Hanson, Dorothy Churchill-Johnson, Karen Kitchel, Maria Rendón, John Robertson, Sommer Roman, Carol Saindon, Catherine Eaton Skinner, Libby Smith, and Nicole Strasburg.