In April Partners Gallery is presenting an invitational show featuring four Mendocino Coast artists and teachers.

Solange Roberdeau expresses her love of materials including the beauty of raw ink, handmade papers and metal in her spare abstract drawings. Exploring the content of a drop of coastal water, Sarah Logan creates hand-formed ceramic sculptures that resonate with her appreciation of the unseen aspects of our natural world. Working with painted images of ocean waves and silver and gold pen drawing, Rebecca Wallace creates paintings that suggest glimpses into invisible realms, metaphysical realities and internal landscapes. Collyn Ahrens uses stoneware and porcelain to create bust sculptures and other ceramic forms to investigate animacy and the desire to see oneself in material.

Ahrens and Logan were both artists-in-residence at the Mendocino Art Center and both teach ceramics at the Coast Center of Mendocino College, where Wallace teaches as well. Roberdeau teaches at Art Explorers and the Ukiah campus of Mendocino College.

Meet the artists at our Second Saturday opening, April 13, 5-7pm.

The images below are a selection of many items in the exhibit. Click to view larger versions in a slide show. Be sure and see our From the Studio page for more about the artists. Gallery is open Thursdays-Mondays, 11am-5:00pm.