Properties of Water

Exhibition Dates: Saturday, November 18 – Sunday, December 17, 2023

1 Commandant’s Lane, Benicia

Katrina Bello, Juror (Bio)

Opening Reception: Saturday, November 18, 4 – 6 pm
Family Art Day: Sunday, December 3, 1 – 3 pm

Water, our most essential natural resource, provides endless inspiration to artists for its natural beauty and spiritual qualities. Water also raises a range of historic and contemporary issues regarding the environment and conservation, climate change, equity and access, economics, politics, and origins.

To purchase a work, please email info@artsbenicia.org and an Arts Benicia staff member will contact you.
Arts Benicia members receive a 10% discount on purchase of artworks.

Sign up to be a gallery greeter

Participating Artists:

Laura Abrams (Oakland)
These Jeweled Waters
Mixed papers, foil, found images, mirror shards
12 x 12
$650

Jenny Helbraun Abramson (Sebastopol)
Sanford Road
Archival pigment print
14 x 10
$400

Elizabeth Addison (Berkeley)
Release: From the Smith River Series
Original digital imagery, gold leaf
13 x 13
$750

Kaeti Bailie (Sonoma)
Under The Gate
Photography
28 x 21
$400

Steve Barbaria (Davis)
The Crossing
Oil and Acrylic
30 x 30
$2,000

Steve Barbaria (Davis)
Strength from Memory
Oil, Acrylic and Pencil
40 x 30
$2,000

Nancy Bardach (Berkeley)
Still Pond – Frog Jumps in
Cotton batiks, African raimie, shibbori dyed, hand painted; machine-pieced, textured with various colored quilting threads
23 x 34
$1,800

Exhibition Dates: Saturday, November 18 – Sunday, December 17, 2023

1 Commandant’s Lane, Benicia

Katrina Bello, Juror (Bio)

Sponsored in part by High End Uniforms and the Benicia Cat Clinic

Opening Reception: Saturday, November 18, 4 – 6 pm Family Art Day: Sunday, December 3, 1 – 3 pm

To purchase a work, please email info@artsbenicia.org and an Arts Benicia staff member will contact you. Arts Benicia members receive a 10% discount on purchase of artworks.

Sign up to be a gallery greeter

Participating Artists:

Laura Abrams (Oakland) These Jeweled Waters Mixed papers, foil, found images, mirror shards 12 x 12 $650

Jenny Helbraun Abramson (Sebastopol) Sanford Road Archival pigment print 14 x 10 $400

Elizabeth Addison (Berkeley) Release: From the Smith River Series Original digital imagery, gold leaf 13 x 13 $750

Kaeti Bailie (Sonoma) Under The Gate Photography 28 x 21 $400

Steve Barbaria (Davis) The Crossing Oil and Acrylic 30 x 30 $2,000

Steve Barbaria (Davis) Strength from Memory Oil, Acrylic and Pencil 40 x 30 $2,000

Nancy Bardach (Berkeley) Still Pond – Frog Jumps in Cotton batiks, African raimie, shibbori dyed, hand painted; machine-pieced, textured with various colored quilting threads 23 x 34 $1,800

Marilyn Bardet (Benicia) King Tide, Pacifica oil painting on linen 32 x 36 $3,800

Roger Bass (Walnut Creek) Crescent Lake Acrylic on Canvas 6 x 12 $199

Debra Bibel (Oakland) Rain Ripples Acrylic on canvas 30 x 30 $5,000

Francesca Borgatta (Berkeley) Water Tablet Sculpture – paper mache assemblage 32 x 24 x 6 $2,500

Mark Bremer (Benicia) Spring Runoff Pencil on paper 21 x 18 $850

Megan Broughton (San Francisco) Recherchebreen Glacial Lagoon, small VE 2/15 Etching (hardground, aquatint, flatbite, spitbite, ice) 22 x 30 $1,700

Mary Burger (Oakland) Riparian Diluvian 10 Oil and alkyd on paper 21 x 27 $400

Kelly Ciurej (Honolulu, HI) Untitled (Froth) Photography 16 x 20 $1,250

William Cleveland (Sacramento) May You Walk Gently Through the World and Know Its Beauty (Apache Blessing) Acrylic on Canvas 30 x 40 $1,200

Cheryl Coon (Emeryville) Cyclotellas Steel, nylon zip ties 24 x 40 x 24 $3,000

Robin Cooper (Richmond) Spa Day, Hungary Oil 11 x 14 $600

Jane Yuen Corich (Walnut Creek) The Shallows Acrylic 12 x 12 $350

Suellen Cox (Orinda) The Waves: Rhoda’s Book Artist’s Book 8.5 x 18 x 8 $100

Al Crane (Grants Pass, OR) Double Exposure: Clouds / Rushing Water Archival Inkjet 10 x 15 $250

Carol Dalton (Benicia) Breakwater mixed media 46 x 40 $3,800

Suzanne deVeuve (Cazadero) Salmon Enchanted Evening Oil on Canvas 24 x 30 $2,500

Susan Doyle (Geronimo) Rio Grande, More Precious Than Gold Rust, gold leaf, stitching, acrylic paint, cut paper 28 x 35 $950

Corinne Duchesne (Burlington, ON) in collaboration with Garrett Hope & Jill McCabe-Johnson Water Video Duration 3:08 NFS

Elaine Dunham (Coos Bay, OR) Teeming with Life Acrylic 32 x 32 $1,350

Patricia Espinosa (Brooklyn, NY) Iceberg Hourglass Hand-tinted resin 3 x 7 x 3 $750

Catherine Fasciato (Concord) Ocean’s Dance Oil on Linen Panel 18 x 24 $3,000 (Sold)

Jonathan Gaber (Lafayette) Shimmering Lake Metallic acrylic paint on canvas 36 x 36 $2,500

Josie Grant (San Francisco) Reflections of Girlhood Oil on Canvas 37 x 26 x 3 $4,500

Rocco Grassano (Pleasant Hill) Blue ice flow Acrylic and oil stick on paper 28 x 22 $1,300

Diana Greenleaf (Oakland) Surfing in the Tube Ceramic 5.5 x 12.5 x 6 $1,000

Tali Grinshpan (Walnut Creek) Crossings Glass, Silver leaf 5 x 15 x 3 $1,600

Vicki Gunter (Oakland) Source …In Everything Series Clay, underglaze/stains/glaze, driftwood, sand, water, salt 26 x 24 x 4.5 $3,950

Bro Halff (Koloa, HI) Sailboats on Sunday, San Francisco Watercolor 12 x 16 $900

Margot Hartford (Sausalito) Blue Beachball Photography 36 x 24 $950

Reineke Hollander (Brooklyn, NY) Crossing the Mediterranean Sea (2) Vintage French Linen, textiles, sewing, crayon 31 x 27.5 $2,400

Darrell Hunger (Berkeley) Still Waters Acrylic on Canvas 24 x 36 $3,200

Becky Jaffe (Oakland) The Rules Digital photography 24 x 18 $325

Christopher Keating (Benicia) Iron Tide Cast iron 9 x 6.5 x 5.5 $1,700

Holly King (Vallejo) Diatomaceous Glass 15 x 4 x 6 $2,000

Jonathan Knight (Westminster, CO) Waterfall VI Photography 24 x 16 $1,395

Heather Kostrna (Hollywood, FL) Spiraling Wave Cone 6 Ceramic 11 x 10 x 10 $1,200

Sandra Kozak (Benicia) The Water Blessing Acrylic 24 x 36 $280 (Sold)

Alice Krasinski (Penn Valley) Swimming Hole Acrylic on canvas 30 x 40 $3,500

Jan Lainoff (Walnut Creek) Sediment Watercolor 16 x 20 $500

Lori Larks (Clayton) Matthew Turner Shipyard views Acrylic 9 x 12 $300 (Sold)

Seola Lee (Baltimore) We Rush White stoneware, oxide, glaze 6.5 x 8.5 x 12 $380

Karen Leoni (Walnut Creek) Waves and Wind Oil 12 x 16 x 0.25 $1,200 (Sold)

Tibby Lerner (Benicia) Worn by the Tide Photography 16 x 20 $200

Tibby Lerner (Benicia) A Story in Mud Photography 20 x 16 $200

Ashley Lohr (Petersburg, AK) Fish Ladder Digital Painting 18 x 18 $500

Jeanne Lorenz (Canyon) Donahue Pass from the series Notes from the Lyell Glacier Acrylic on fabric mounted to birch 8 x 8 x 2 $300 (Sold)

Amy Lund (Dartmouth, MA) Ocean Waves Fiber Art Mixed Media Assemblage 10.65 x 20.75 x 2.5 $3,550

Susan Marcus Sachs (Benicia) Deep Dive Mixed media- Acrylic, crayon, oil stick, crayon, graphite 17.25 x 17.25 $425

Dan McGarrah (Martinez) Rocks Under Water’s Surface, Maui Paper Photographic Print, Black Frame 22 x 28 $300

John Mills (Hercules) Morning Catch Digital Image 16 x 20 $150

Timna Naim (Sunnyvale) Water Vessel Ceramic 24 x 16 x 16 $350 (Sold)

Ebba Navas (Benicia) Life in a Harbor Town Acrylic 20 x 20 $800

Patrice Newell (Vallejo) Water Lilies Pastel 4 x 5.5 $400

Vida Pavesich (Oakland) We Are All Rowers During A Storm digital collage, inkjet print 8 x 12 $175

Denia Phipps (Benicia) Neptune Beach 1925 Acrylic on wood panel 29 x 36 $1,000

Bruce Pope (Benicia) Wholly in Water Photography 18.5 x 18 $150

James Read (Salt Lake City, UT) Suspended Metal Print 24 x 30 $850

Jill Landau Reich (Walnut Creek) Fog Came in Oil on Board 11 x 14 $800

Nancy Roberts (Oakley) Cranes Acrylic on Canvas 16 x 12 $650 (Sold)

Dusty Rose (Los Angeles) Plato’s Rave Ink, graphite, watercolor 19 x 25 $2,000

Xioneida Ruiz (American Canyon) Water Baptism Acrylic 30 x 24 $1,500

Veronica Shimanovskaya (Manhattan, NY) Dreaming of Andy and the Times Changed Video Duration: 9:34 $5,000

Joan Siem (Houston, TX) “Mayday Dance At The Natural History Museum” acrylic on canvas 40 x 30 $3,500

David Smith (Seattle, WA) Waves and Lava at Milolii Beach Park Ink and colored pencil 12 x 8.5 $1,500

Opening Reception: Saturday, November 18, 4 – 6 pm
Family Art Day: Sunday, December 3, 1 – 3 pm

To purchase a work, please email info@artsbenicia.org and an Arts Benicia staff member will contact you.
Arts Benicia members receive a 10% discount on purchase of artworks.

Laura Abrams (Oakland)
These Jeweled Waters
Mixed papers, foil, found images, mirror shards
12 x 12
$650

Jenny Helbraun Abramson (Sebastopol)
Sanford Road
Archival pigment print
14 x 10
$400

Elizabeth Addison (Berkeley)
Release: From the Smith River Series
Original digital imagery, gold leaf
13 x 13
$750

Kaeti Bailie (Sonoma)
Under The Gate
Photography
28 x 21
$400

Steve Barbaria (Davis)
The Crossing
Oil and Acrylic
30 x 30
$2,000

Steve Barbaria (Davis)
Strength from Memory
Oil, Acrylic and Pencil
40 x 30
$2,000

Nancy Bardach (Berkeley)
Still Pond – Frog Jumps in
Cotton batiks, African raimie, shibbori dyed, hand painted; machine-pieced, textured with various colored quilting threads
23 x 34
$1,800

Marilyn Bardet (Benicia)
King Tide, Pacifica
oil painting on linen
32 x 36
$3,800

Roger Bass (Walnut Creek)
Crescent Lake
Acrylic on Canvas
6 x 12
$199

Debra Bibel (Oakland)
Rain Ripples
Acrylic on canvas
30 x 30
$5,000

Francesca Borgatta (Berkeley)
Water Tablet
Sculpture – paper mache assemblage
32 x 24 x 6
$2,500

Mark Bremer (Benicia)
Spring Runoff
Pencil on paper
21 x 18
$850

Megan Broughton (San Francisco)
Recherchebreen Glacial Lagoon, small VE 2/15
Etching (hardground, aquatint, flatbite, spitbite, ice)
22 x 30
$1,700

Mary Burger (Oakland)
Riparian Diluvian 10
Oil and alkyd on paper
21 x 27
$400

Kelly Ciurej (Honolulu, HI)
Untitled (Froth)
Photography
16 x 20
$1,250

William Cleveland (Sacramento)
May You Walk Gently Through the World and Know Its Beauty (Apache Blessing)
Acrylic on Canvas
30 x 40
$1,200

Cheryl Coon (Emeryville)
Cyclotellas
Steel, nylon zip ties
24 x 40 x 24
$3,000

Robin Cooper (Richmond)
Spa Day, Hungary
Oil
11 x 14
$600

Jane Yuen Corich (Walnut Creek)
The Shallows
Acrylic
12 x 12
$350

Suellen Cox (Orinda)
The Waves: Rhoda’s Book
Artist’s Book
8.5 x 18 x 8
$100

Al Crane (Grants Pass, OR)
Double Exposure: Clouds / Rushing Water
Archival Inkjet
10 x 15
$250

Carol Dalton (Benicia)
Breakwater
mixed media
46 x 40
$3,800

Suzanne deVeuve (Cazadero)
Salmon Enchanted Evening
Oil on Canvas
24 x 30
$2,500

Susan Doyle (Geronimo)
Rio Grande, More Precious Than Gold
Rust, gold leaf, stitching, acrylic paint, cut paper
28 x 35
$950

Corinne Duchesne (Burlington, ON)
in collaboration with Garrett Hope & Jill McCabe-Johnson
Water
Video
Duration 3:08
NFS

Elaine Dunham (Coos Bay, OR)
Teeming with Life
Acrylic
32 x 32
$1,350

Patricia Espinosa (Brooklyn, NY)
Iceberg Hourglass
Hand-tinted resin
3 x 7 x 3
$750

Catherine Fasciato (Concord)
Ocean’s Dance
Oil on Linen Panel
18 x 24
$3,000 (Sold)

Jonathan Gaber (Lafayette)
Shimmering Lake
Metallic acrylic paint on canvas
36 x 36
$2,500

Josie Grant (San Francisco)
Reflections of Girlhood
Oil on Canvas
37 x 26 x 3
$4,500

Rocco Grassano (Pleasant Hill)
Blue ice flow
Acrylic and oil stick on paper
28 x 22
$1,300

Diana Greenleaf (Oakland)
Surfing in the Tube
Ceramic
5.5 x 12.5 x 6
$1,000

Tali Grinshpan (Walnut Creek)
Crossings
Glass, Silver leaf
5 x 15 x 3
$1,600

Vicki Gunter (Oakland)
Source …In Everything Series
Clay, underglaze/stains/glaze, driftwood, sand, water, salt
26 x 24 x 4.5
$3,950

Bro Halff (Koloa, HI)
Sailboats on Sunday, San Francisco
Watercolor
12 x 16
$900

Margot Hartford (Sausalito)
Blue Beachball
Photography
36 x 24
$950

Reineke Hollander (Brooklyn, NY)
Crossing the Mediterranean Sea (2)
Vintage French Linen, textiles, sewing, crayon
31 x 27.5
$2,400

Darrell Hunger (Berkeley)
Still Waters
Acrylic on Canvas
24 x 36
$3,200

Becky Jaffe (Oakland)
The Rules
Digital photography
24 x 18
$325

Christopher Keating (Benicia)
Iron Tide
Cast iron
9 x 6.5 x 5.5
$1,700

Holly King (Vallejo)
Diatomaceous
Glass
15 x 4 x 6
$2,000

Jonathan Knight (Westminster, CO)
Waterfall VI
Photography
24 x 16
$1,395

Heather Kostrna (Hollywood, FL)
Spiraling Wave
Cone 6 Ceramic
11 x 10 x 10
$1,200

Sandra Kozak (Benicia)
The Water Blessing
Acrylic
24 x 36
$280 (Sold)

Alice Krasinski (Penn Valley)
Swimming Hole
Acrylic on canvas
30 x 40
$3,500

Jan Lainoff (Walnut Creek)
Sediment
Watercolor
16 x 20
$500

Lori Larks (Clayton)
Matthew Turner Shipyard views
Acrylic
9 x 12
$300 (Sold)

Seola Lee (Baltimore)
We Rush
White stoneware, oxide, glaze
6.5 x 8.5 x 12
$380

Karen Leoni (Walnut Creek)
Waves and Wind
Oil
12 x 16 x 0.25
$1,200 (Sold)

Tibby Lerner (Benicia)
Worn by the Tide
Photography
16 x 20
$200

Tibby Lerner (Benicia)
A Story in Mud
Photography
20 x 16
$200

Ashley Lohr (Petersburg, AK)
Fish Ladder
Digital Painting
18 x 18
$500

Jeanne Lorenz (Canyon)
Donahue Pass from the series Notes from the Lyell Glacier
Acrylic on fabric mounted to birch
8 x 8 x 2
$300 (Sold)

Amy Lund (Dartmouth, MA)
Ocean Waves
Fiber Art Mixed Media Assemblage
10.65 x 20.75 x 2.5
$3,550

Susan Marcus Sachs (Benicia)
Deep Dive
Mixed media- Acrylic, crayon, oil stick, crayon, graphite
17.25 x 17.25
$425

Dan McGarrah (Martinez)
Rocks Under Water’s Surface, Maui
Paper Photographic Print, Black Frame
22 x 28
$300

John Mills (Hercules)
Morning Catch
Digital Image
16 x 20
$150

Timna Naim (Sunnyvale)
Water Vessel
Ceramic
24 x 16 x 16
$350 (Sold)

Ebba Navas (Benicia)
Life in a Harbor Town
Acrylic
20 x 20
$800

Patrice Newell (Vallejo)
Water Lilies
Pastel
4 x 5.5
$400

Vida Pavesich (Oakland)
We Are All Rowers During A Storm
digital collage, inkjet print
8 x 12
$175

Denia Phipps (Benicia)
Neptune Beach 1925
Acrylic on wood panel
29 x 36
$1,000

Bruce Pope (Benicia)
Wholly in Water
Photography
18.5 x 18
$150

James Read (Salt Lake City, UT)
Suspended
Metal Print
24 x 30
$850

Jill Landau Reich (Walnut Creek)
Fog Came in
Oil on Board
11 x 14
$800

Nancy Roberts (Oakley)
Cranes
Acrylic on Canvas
16 x 12
$650 (Sold)

Dusty Rose (Los Angeles)
Plato’s Rave
Ink, graphite, watercolor
19 x 25
$2,000

Xioneida Ruiz (American Canyon)
Water Baptism
Acrylic
30 x 24
$1,500

Veronica Shimanovskaya (Manhattan, NY)
Dreaming of Andy and the Times Changed
Video
Duration: 9:34
$5,000

Joan Siem (Houston, TX)
“Mayday Dance At The Natural History Museum”
acrylic on canvas
40 x 30
$3,500

David Smith (Seattle, WA)
Waves and Lava at Milolii Beach Park
Ink and colored pencil
12 x 8.5
$1,500

Charlene Steen (Napa)
Under Ocean Scene
Acrylic with textural materials
24 x 30
$200

Melissa Stephens (Walnut Creek)
Sea Foam
Encaustic on Board
6 x 8
$125

Brecken Stockmar (Bellingham, WA)
Orca
Clay
5 x 4.25 x 10
$600

Claudia Tennyson (Emeryville)
Groundwater
Ink on paper
20 x 16
$1,200

Mary Kate Terwedow (Benicia)
Glass Beach
Photography
29 x 22
$1,700

John Tronsor (Pittsburgh, PA)
Glassilaun Bay (2773)
Archival inkjet print
24 x 36
$850

Nancy Vachani (Orinda)
A Covenant With Water
Oil on canvas
18 x 14
$525 (Sold)