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California. As an award-win- ning artist Yandi’s work are bold abstracts created in mixed me- dia. Contact Elena or Yandi for more information or to sign up. After about an eight-year hiatus, Ron Sanford of Amber Gallery fame, otherwise known as Ronsai, has begun, once again to create works in the art of Gyotaku or the ancient Japa- nese tradition of fish printing. He takes a fresh fish, paints it, lays a cloth on it, rubs it, and trans- poses the exact image of the fish onto the cloth with no detail missing. He specializes in coral reef scenes, using real coral, shells, starfish along with reef fish. A sample of his fish prints can now be viewed along with his abstract paintings, in the Fine Art Annex off of his Amber
Gallery.
A great idea for holiday gifts would be the beautiful and func- tional ceramic work of artesan, Javier Servin found exclusively at El Armario. These ceramic vessels and dish sets are hand- made without the use of molds and decorated in enamel with exquisite detailed patterns and designs, each being unique- cre- ated in Javier’s studio by him- self or a family member All of their ceramics are lead free and dishwasher and microwave safe.. Their work has achieved national fame, with 16 first place wins in various competitions and two presidential awards. The Servin Studio has become well known as one of Mexico’s leading ceramic studios for their design and detailed decoration. On December 15th, Casa Dahlia hosted an event for the local charity Red Autismo, fea- turing a body of photographic
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work by local photographer Karen O’Shaunessy, entitled “A Night in Spain.” All proceeds from the sales go to benefit the local Autism Foundation,
redautismo.org. Though the show is no longer hanging the works can be viewed and pur- chased online on the gallery website,
www.casadahlia.com through the month of Decem- ber.
After graduating from Parsons School of Design, with a BFA in Illustration, Ida worked as a freelance illus- trator and independent art- ist in New York City. During this period she had a wide variety of her work pub- lished, i.e. magazine covers, book illustrations, children’s books, local and regional newspapers as well as doing some corporate identity work. However, never stray- ing far from the fine arts, she also found time to participate in group and solo shows in the North East. Ida loves Mexico and especially Los Cabos. She moved here permanently in late 2003 and began the plan- ning and construction of Galeria de Ida Victoria, which has been described in the local press “as the finest gallery south of Los Ange- les.” Galeria de Ida Victoria is in San José in the heart of the Art District. Ph. 011.52.624.142.5772
www.idavictoriaarts.com.
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available, capable of killing all kinds of pathogenic bacteria, viruses and fungal infections.
Pendura states they have to date shipped off thousands of bottles. Revenue from this miracle cure and from Muvezi gallery al- low Muvezi Inc. to make sub- stantial donations to Muvezi Health Projects Society. The commer- cial activity provides the majority of the means to distribute it, with
15 employees and countless number of volunteers. Says Pendura proudly.
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Shona art is carved from dif- ferent types of rock and one of the most popular is serpentine. Its colors vary from black to brown to green, orange and varied. And it varies from very soft to vary hard. Measured on a MOH’s scale of mineral hardness, where a diamond is ten, serpentine goes from 1.2 up to 6.54.
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