John Natsoulas Gallery

Exhibition Dates: December 1, 2007
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 17, 7-9pm

Lisa Clague

The distinctive figurative sculpture by Lisa Clague hovers between fantasy and reality-playful, mysterious, and contemplative. "My work evokes a place between the subconscious and the intangible," Clague notes. "My masked figures are hybrid creatures, mistresses of ambiguity and disguise, of seduction and deception. These images, like dreams, are familiar but illusive."

Clague's figures are rendered in whiteware and then treated with stains, oxides and wax. Metal, glass and/or wood components are added to complete the sculpture.

Clague received her BFA degree from Cleveland Institute of Art and her MFA degree from California College of Arts and Crafts. She received an Agnes Gund Traveling Scholarship. Her work has been exhibited at Macon Museum of Art, Georgia, and DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Massachusetts.

Patrick Dullanty

Born in 1927 in Hayward, California, Patrick Dullanty moved to Sacramento with his parents when he was two years old. Interested in art since his teens, he did drawings of aircraft during his service in the United States Navy in 1945-46.

Dullanty graduated from Sacramento City College, where he studied with Harold Ward, John Matthews and Amalia Fischbacher. Dullanty formed enduring friendships with artists Wayne Thiebaud and Gregory Kondos. The three often worked side by side, going outdoors to paint the landscape around Sacramento.

Dullanty taught part time at Sacramento City College in the 1950s before going to work as a technical artist at Aerojet in Sacramento from 1956 to 1966 and later at Ampex Corporation in Redwood City from 1967 to 1969. In 1970, he began teaching full time at Cosumnes River College, where he was the head of the art department for many years. He retired from teaching in 1993.

Dullanty's distinctive landscape paintings often focused on factories, shipyards and lumber mills along Northern California's waterways. He also painted memorable images of Yosemite Valley and the High Sierras. His brand of painterly realism was rooted in the plein air tradition of the 19th century French Barbizon School, the color and light exploration of the Impressionists, and the structural analysis of Cezanne. Dullanty brought an individual touch to his subject matter through his direct yet sensitive approach to color and composition. Underpinned by his strong skills as a draftsman, these paintings caught both the gesture and geometry of what he saw.

Over his 50-year career, Dullanty exhibited widely in the Sacramento area and beyond. He was an early member of the Artists Cooperative Gallery (later the Artists Contemporary Gallery), one of the first galleries of contemporary art in the city.

Arthur González

Three distinct phases have influenced the direction of González's artistic career and expression. First, as a graduate student at the University of California, Davis under Robert Arneson, he entered the MFA program as a figurative sculptor during the late 1970's after completing an MA in painting at the California State University, Sacramento. His second phase was as Artist-in-Residence at the University of Georgia, Athens, from 1981-82. González's attitudes towards art changed through his exposure to a creative life-style that blended music and visual art. The third phase of González's career came through his involvement in the early 1980's East Village Art Scene, which accelerated public recognition of his work.

Arthur González is an internationally exhibited artist with over thirty-five one-person shows in the last twenty-five years, including seven in New York City. He has received many awards including the Virginia Groot Foundation twice and is an unprecedented four-time recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts grant within a ten-year period. He is a Professor of Art at the California College of the Arts where he has been Chair of Ceramics since 1995. González recently completed a five-week residency at the Tainan National University of the Arts in Taiwan, and an exhibition of that work in Taichung.