Amador County Artists Association's Fall "Art in Amador" Exhibition - October 15 & 16

For fourteen years, the Amador County Artists association (ACAA) has hosted a fall exhibition featuring local artists displaying, demonstrating, and selling their work.  There is no cost to attend the show.  This event is titled “Art in Amador” and the two-day event will be on October 15 and 16, 2022, at the Sutter Creek Auditorium.

There will be approximately twenty artists displaying a variety of works including paintings, photographs, ceramics, gourds, mosaics, stained glass, and jewelry.  Visitors can view or purchase paintings created with oils, watercolors, acrylics, alcohol ink, and pastels.  Visitors can also discuss with the artists their processes, medium, and works of art.  Hours on Saturday are from 9 AM to 5PM.  Sunday hours are from 10 AM to 4PM.

There is no cost to attend Art in Amador exhibition at the Sutter Creek Auditorium as showcasing local artists and their creations are the objective of the show.  There will be a raffle of artwork donated by the participating artists and others.  Tickets for the raffle are $1 each and all the proceeds fund art scholarships and support an art show for high school students.

Sponsors for the exhibition include the Jackson Rancheria, the Amador County Arts Council, and others.  Addition information regarding this event and its participants is available on our website, amadorartists.org.

"Tahoe" by John Peck

"Mosaic" by Anje Olmstead

"Birds and Bamboo" by Sandra Campbell

"Embracing the Unknown" by Ree McLaughlan Brown

September at Gallery 10: Julie Trail “Wandering the Sierra”

Sutter Creek Artist, Julie Trail, is the Featured Artist at Gallery 10 for September.  Julie has been painting the landscape since, in her youth, she began to pay attention to the beauty found in the smallest slices of nature.  She is always exploring ways to capture that moment when you slow down and really notice the elegance, the complexity of the spaces and shapes surrounding you.  

The Sierra is featured in this new show of watercolors, painted after returning from plein air excursions to the mountains Julie thinks of as her backyard.  Julie has booklets full of studies done on location. When painting outdoors, she finds a shady spot and works to capture the rich color in shadows, the shapes that describe the variety of trees, the fleeting, changing colors of reflection on a lake.  Once home in the studio, Julie uses her studies and photos to express her excitement on larger sheets of paper.

“Wandering in the Sierra” expresses Julie’s fascination with the mountain landscapes that surround Amador County.  A triptych, three single glances of a panorama Julie found on the granite above Caples Lake, where boulders are strewn like popcorn across the cliff top, is the centerpiece of this new show.  The three paintings, hung together, bring you into a world atop the mountains where you see a gorgeous, inspiring view everywhere you look.  Julie brings that sense of awe into her everyday life, reminding her at each glance of the paintings that the mountains await, always there, with all the silence, the peace, the solidity they impart.

A reception will be held in Julie’s honor at Gallery 10, 15 Eureka St., Sutter Creek, on Saturday, September 3, 2-5 P.M.  Stop by, see this new collection of watercolors, visit with Julie, have a snack and a sip of your favorite beverage.  Everyone is welcome.  The show will hang all of September.

"Boulder Field Silver Lake"

"Boulder Field Triptych"

"Boulder Field Winnemucca"