Apricity Gallery is honored to host Human Shaped Animal on April 5th as the featured artist for First Friday!

HSA: Sprawling out from geometric roots and deliberate angles, shocks of color and swaths of rich grain find their own path, transforming a once barren desert of expression into an abstractly organic landscape reaching out with living fingers. Expanding in multiple directions from her experience as a painter and muralist, Human Shaped Animal creates a striking bouquet of multimedium pieces. By cross-pollinating her original designs with digital fabrication and live plants she has reaped a mind-bending garden of complex form and moving stillness.

Paintings & Prints by: Sarah Bianco

Live Music Trio: “Hair & Makeup”

6:00-9:00

Join us at Apricity Gallery for another First Friday at the Tannery Arts Center! Sarah Bianco will be showing original paintings and prints, alongside many other artists opening their spaces. Live Music by Wireless!

Join us for February First Friday at Apricity Gallery! Sarah Bianco will be featuring her original paintings & prints and having the first ever FLASH SALE in celebration of Valentine’s Day. Buy 4 cards, get 1 FREE for all the ones you love.

“Cards” are actually 6x6” & 5x7” archival giclee prints on watercolor paper, packaged with an envelope to keep or give away. Other size prints available as well, and most likely there will also be chocolate to enjoy!

Apricity Gallery is presents an encore showing of handcrafted leatherwork by Crystal Maro Leather alongside paintings and prints by Sarah Bianco.

Sarah will be featuring her illustrations of the book, “Sunday With Dad”, which is part of a collection of children's books produced by NY based publishing company, Emmemm Publishing, LLC. All of their books reflect true collaborations between parents and children and incorporate innovative multidimensional art. Five of their books will be available for purchase including: “Sunday With Dad”, “Left and Right”, “The Redwood Tree and it’s Friends”, “A Squirrel Thrives”, & “Toddler of Arts: Year 2”.

Currently the original works from these books are on display at Carter Burden Gallery, in New York and runs through Jan. 31, 2024

Join us in a world of creative enchantment at our Winter Art Market at the Tannery Arts Center! Apricity Gallery will be showcasing the works of artists - Sarah Bianco and Crystal Maro Leather. Sarah & Crystal, the original owners and visionaries of Apricity, come together again for this festive event!

Immerse yourself in the mesmerizing world of Sarah’s paintings, that evoke a sense of wonder and awe. Browse through her new collection of prints with holiday card sizes available. Discover the fusion of traditional techniques and contemporary design as Crystal creates exceptional leather pieces that exude elegance and sophistication. From handcrafted bags and accessories to intricate leather jewelry, every piece tells a unique story and blends seamlessly with any winter wardrobe.

Whether you are an art enthusiast, a collector, or someone seeking that perfect holiday gift, this event promises to offer something extraordinary for everyone. Discover local artistry, engage with our vibrant community, and support the creative entrepreneurs who make our town flourish.

11th year of this free and family-friendly event! 20+ Open Art Studios & Guest Artists!

LIVE MUSIC: Curated by Everyone’s Music School

FOOD & DRINKS: Kintsugi & Sprohaus in Studio 112

ACTIVITIES: Josefina Rocha, an Arts Council teaching artist with youth students will lead an all-ages free craft activity.

Public Art Bingo

Printmaking with PATT

Join us at the Tannery Arts Center for the October First Friday festivities! Apricity Gallery will be featuring paintings and prints by Sarah Bianco, as a preview for her Open Studios show, which opens the following weekend. For more info on other participating artists, visit First Friday Santa Cruz.

Apricity Gallery welcomes Natalie Jenkins as a new resident artist to the Tannery Arts Center. She will be sharing space with Sarah Bianco at Apricity to create and display. Samples of both their work will be up for First Friday, January 6th from 5:00-9:00

Natalie Jenkins: Working primarily in sculpture, Natalie Jenkins explores the mediation of ‘seeing’ through physical obstruction and perceptual confusion. She draws inspiration from a broad palette of architecture, myth, allegory, and domestic custom to explore the abstractions underpinning cultural tradition with the acknowledgment that these structures are the bases of subjective vantage points. Surrealist in their representations, the objects are darkly goofy and prop-like as they are constructed from simple materials such as papier-mâché. Visually uniting the work is a thematic grid and/or pattern to suggest a system of order and undefinable space. There is an inside/outside quality to each sculpture; one must view the work through external punctures into its interior in order to piece together the entirety of the composition. Each work plays with how vision, memory, and imagination are conflated into an intelligible unified form.

Apricity Gallery is excited to have mixed media artist, and Tannery resident, Johanna Atkinson as the featured artist in December. Johanna majored in Printmaking at the San Francisco Art Institute, and is an original member of the Printmakers at the Tannery. Her work shows the various skills she has learned over the years, combined with up-cycled windows and wood to represent her life and what she saw out her window.

Paintings and Prints by Sarah Bianco also available

Sarah Bianco will be a participating artist in the annual Santa Cruz County Open Studios Art Tour, and is excited to have the gallery open for multiple days in October. This is a great opportunity to check out her collection of new and older paintings, discuss the process, and wander into many other artists’ studios at the Tannery. Originals and prints will be available for purchase.

October 1, 2 10 AM - 5 PM (Open Studios)

October 7 5 PM - 9 PM (First Friday)

October 15,16 10 AM - 5 PM (Open Studios)

For more information about the complete art tour visit https://santacruzopenstudios.com

Sarah Bianco will be showing a collection of frames abstract prints for First Friday. All prints in stock will be 25% off July 1st only!

Live music by Andy Pankakes!

Blind the sun or Allison Marie Garcia (she/her) is a multi media artist with an emphasis on watercolor and ink. The unruly nature of watercolor paired with the bold presence of ink lends itself to the psychedelic and sometimes satiric exploration of our individual perceptions of a moral experience and our idea of “the devil”. 

Sarah Bianco will also be showing painting and prints, along with live music!

The Spring Art Market is a free family-friendly event at the Tannery Arts Center, featuring

more than 40 booths with local artisans and makers, live music, food trucks, coffee, wine

and beer, activities for children, and open studios on the Tannery campus.

This year’s lineup includes local flower farms, music from SambaDá and Yaya’s Kitchen and

more than 40 participating artisans from around the county.

This event is produced by Arts Council Santa Cruz County.

Apricity Gallery will be showcasing paintings by guest artist, Andrew Purchin as well was paintings and prints by Sarah Bianco.

How can the canvas be the loving awareness that holds struggle and joy and everything in between?

“This selection of recent listening drawings and paintings are sourced from dancing with the ocean, supporting people on zoom and seeing the inherent good in me, you and all people while conversing and painting at the Benchlands encampment for the unhoused. Vulnerable lines, washes and splats track that which is tender and softens that which over protects. The paint, pen, pencil and crayon lets something in me relax as I attend and befriend what may be difficult to face.”

Andrew Purchin is an interdisciplinary artist who practices painting, interactive art interventions and psychotherapy. He connects to his body as he creates at sites of devastation and celebration.

His new project: What’s Home? Creative Listening Across Differences will result in ten documentaries telling unique stories of how ten Santa Cruz-based artists collaborate with the housed and unhoused to make new art, music, dance and theater. See Whatshome.org

Dana Peters & Leigh Erickson, founders of the the former Art Cave gallery, are getting back in the game! They will be taking over Apricity Gallery for First Friday in April and showing a collection of their newest artwork after entering the role of Motherhood. Their multimedia paintings and sculpture explore themes of fertility, the feminine, rebirth, and welcoming in the Spring Season! Join us for a beautiful evening of art and live music!

DaniellePeters.com

LeighErickson.com

Chelsea began collaging in her current style around 2003, and has found it to be a mystical and therapeutic process. She grew up in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and took residence in the mountains there for a few years later in life. She spent 5 years in Mal Pais, Costa Rica, and many years, in different eras, in California. Her artwork reflects her love for nature, healing arts, the cosmos, transformation, cool creatures, and all things beautiful...light, dark and everything in between. She currently resides in Bonny Doon, and feels blessed to live so close to the sea, while being cradled in the majestic redwoods, with the soothing sounds of owls at night, and many lovely humans dwelling amongst the landscape.

Apricity Gallery is pleased to feature paintings by Mark Yanowsky and Sarah Bianco. These two artists have had a mutual admiration for eachother’s work over the years, and influences can be seen between them within their palettes and use of space.

“In some of these paintings I’m going for a bit of experimentation with subject and have gotten into some dinosaur drawing. I don’t know why exactly…not questioning it. (Maybe I’m the dinosaur? Maybe it’s just whimsy?) Times keep changing, our world makes us fully aware of our mortality and impermanence. My art has always been a contemplation of these themes. I hope this art offers a moment of meditation on these thoughts. For those not so into dinosaurs, I’ve included some of my other seascapes and wood assemblages. Again, thanks for taking the time to come see some art.”

www.markyanowsky.com

Apricity Gallery is honored to host Rare Faction, a collaboration between guitarist and live-looper extraordinaire Shane Dooley and off-the-cuff songstress Courtney Wachtel. Layers of lush sonic soil are laid by Shane's guitar being created and layered live while Courtney's formidable vocals deftly plant seeds of sound growing into towering things of beauty. Improvisation and long-form songs are common for Rare Faction, be prepared to be taken on a journey.

https://www.rarefactionmusic.com/

Apricity Gallery introduces Julian Kucera, featured artist and newest resident painter. We will be presenting Julian’s timeless oil paintings, depicting familiar neighborhood scenes, as well as other commissioned work. Julian Kucera(they/them) is also bay area based musician. They received their BA in Music from Berkeley’s CJC. While pursuing their degree, they taught themselves painting. When the music industry came to a sudden halt in 2020, they saw it as an opportunity to pursue visual art full time.

START YOUR HOLIDAY SHOPPING AT THE TANNERY ARTS CENTER!

Apricity Gallery will be hosting artists Dana Peters, Human Shaped Animal , and Sarah Bianco for the Winter Art Market at the Tannery Arts Center returning the first weekend of December! Find the perfect holiday gift as you peruse one-of-a-kind creations by local artists.

Enjoy live music and on-site food truck as you explore the Small Works show at Radius Gallery, art demonstrations, and over 15 open artist studios. Find everything from ceramics, jewelry, and sculpture to painting, prints, and apparel.

The Market is on, rain or shine, with plenty of available parking and a family-friendly atmosphere.

Featured Artist, designer and micro business owner, Amanda Prairiewind Hess, works in multiple mediums. She takes great pride in bringing a fresh, futuristic, art-centric edge to her wearable art pieces.

After earning her degree in Studio Arts in 2002, she focused on creating and selling her large-scale paintings. She spent years upon years daydreaming of an art business that integrated the other mediums she had great passion for ::: clothing+fabric design and metal smithing. At just the right time, in the spring of 2017, her dreams came to fruition in the form of EVerything & NOthing. The name came to her around 2AM and represents duality on many levels, something very familiar to her as a double Gemini w/ Capricorn rising.

The creative process for all three mediums is very much an intuitive one, full of twists and turns and open to shifts. No detail is overlooked when it comes to quality and responsible sourcing. She is passionate about purchasing materials from reputable, sustainable, responsible and, when possible, American companies with similar values. She strives to create straight forward, clean designs, without sacrificing interest and uniqueness.

Amanda thrives on creating and sharing her interpretation of beauty with a community who values and appreciates it.

*Bonus Artists this month include:

Dana Peters, cut paper lanterns; Human Shaped Animal (Rachel Barnes), paintings/planters ; & Sarah Bianco, paintings

Gazelle Walker’s artwork addresses the relationships between self and environment; nature and technology. She creates toy-like cardboard sculptures and acrylic gouache paintings in a style that melds folk, pop and psychedelic art. Sustainability is a core theme of her practice as she explores less wasteful ways to create art through use of recycled art materials. “Make it interesting, make it funny, make it weird” is the motto sung throughout her works.

WWW.GAZELLEWALKER.COM

Live Jazz music by: Julian Kucera Duo

Sarah Bianco will be showing a collection of paintings for the annual Open Studios Art Tour at her studio, Apricity Gallery.

October 9th-10th 11:00am-5:00pm

October 16th-17th 11:00am-5:00pm

First Friday Night Markets are back!

Join us for the second installment of First Friday Night Markets presented by First Friday Santa Cruz in collaboration with The Tannery Arts Center and Apricity Gallery. This series will run every First Friday through December with changing artists each month.

The October 1 Night Market features 6 guest artists with Live Music by Wireless.
Artists will be selling their original and printed works. Some of the featured artists are brand new to First Friday so don't miss it! Stop in for this special event plus over 12 open studios and galleries at the Tannery!

Participating Night Market Artists:
Asha Tobing - Lil Jax Up-Cycled Clothing
Karuna Gutowski - 2D Painting & Mixed Media
Milo Halperin - Digital/Mixed Media
Beth Truso - Fine Jewelry
Bree Karpavage - Collage
Marissa Walker - Sterling Silver Jewelry

Tannery Arts Center
1060 River Street
Santa Cruz, Ca 95060
Hours: 4-8pm

Ready...ENGAGE!
firstfridaysantacruz.com

Apricity Gallery will be featuring the work of guest artist and Tannery resident, Scott Rasmann.

Driven by symbols and often culled from dreams, the landscapes that one sees in his textured paintings come from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and the deserts of Arizona. Recently Scott has been inspired by stone figures found in cemeteries: angels, mourners, and ghosts. These emotional narratives now haunt the canvases.

"Creating these paintings helps me keep them out of the shadows of my mind and exposed to the daylight where they can hint at their stories." ~Scott Rasmann

Sarah Bianco, Apricity Gallery's in-house artist, will also be showing recent paintings.

This exhibit will be showing for one night only so hope to you can join us!

~Live Music by Wireless~