Two local artists featured at AmadorArts Gallery in July

The art of Marleen Olive just keeps getting better and more interesting.  With a career made through teaching art, she certainly has had intensive experience creating art, almost on a daily basis for 30 years. The July AmadorArts Gallery show will feature Marleen Olive and her recent watercolor and mixed media artworks. Sharing the exhibit will be Michele Fisher and her powerful and stunning ceramic sculptures.

The show opens during the 1st Saturday Art Trek on July 1. A reception that day will honor the artists from 2:00 to 5:00 pm at the gallery located in Sutter Creek at 11-A Randolph St. Hours on weekends are 11:00 am to 4:00 pm. The gallery is open during the week, Tuesday through Friday, but it’s best to call ahead, 209-267-9038, because the staff might be out for meetings.

Marleen Olive took a multitude of art workshops in northern California and southern Oregon, and then she became a teacher herself. For 13 years she taught art through the Southwestern Oregon Community College, and since moving to Pine Grove, she has been perfecting her technique in watercolor, inks, acrylics and mixed media.

Michele Fisher was born in Luxembourg and spent many formative years outside of Paris and traveling to the Middle East. She says, “Exposure both to the rich art of European Catholicism and the art of the Middle East would be strong influences in the development of my art later on.”  For this show, Fisher has combined her ceramic sculptures with different elements of re-purposed furniture and wood elements. Iconography, mythology, symbolism are all represented.