Community Calendar

In July Partners is showing new mixed media artwork of Karen Fenley. She describes her work as "an exploration of the fertile ground that keeps me connected to the earth beneath my feet. This ground can be any substance or idea that lights the spark that becomes the vision that gets a new work going." Materials collected over time, such as pressed plants from years of constant gardening, now obsolete papers and pigments, wood grain in panels along with the influence of the still life works of early modernists painters are some of the ingredients that make up her recent work. As in seventeenth century vanitas, she sees this work as a celebration of temporality and the limited time before all living things transition to become fertile ground.

The show opens July 10 and continues through August 4.
There is a Second Saturday Meet the Artists July 12, 5-7pm.

Gallery hours are Thursday through Monday 11-5pm.

We will create marks and shadow puppets using supplied and found materials for the HAPPENING performance on Aug 9 and for inclusion on the community-made fabric redwood round. ALSO, check out the results of our SOIL CHROMATOGRAPHY experiments

The Lot on Main is a community powered space where artists, makers, musicians, and creatives come together to showcase, sell, and share their work.

First Friday's at The Lot showcases over 20 different artisans, live music, and local food trucks.

'Playing With Perception' is an exhibition of mind-bending optical illusion paintings by local artist Richard Weiss here at Highlight Gallery in Mendocino. Henry Matisse has said: “We should always see life as we did in childhood.” Adhering plainly to this statement, Richard says, "I enjoy creating interactive mind bending optical illusion paintings. The work is in relief but is painted to appear like a conventional flat picture. Movements of the observer result in fluid distortions of the pictorial image, engaging viewers into a playful participation. The goal of my work is to infuse whimsical happiness to viewers by surprising and engaging them into a playful participation, allowing them to create their own unique experience of the optical illusion."

We are pleased to host an exhibition of beautiful, colorful paintings by Ellen Heise! She paints tranquil landscapes and is known for her 'paintings inside paintings'. Since she was a child, she had already made up her mind to become an artist who would travel and capture the beauty of nature by pen, brush and colors. She feels lucky to do what she really likes to do. She loves it when her audience tells her that they want to live inside her paintings where it is peaceful, quiet and relaxing...a moment to escape from daily life. Her show will run from August 1st through September 1st, 2025. We are located at 10480 Kasten Street in Mendocino and are open daily from 11am to 4pm. On August 9th, from 4pm to 7pm during Mendocino's Second Saturday event, Ellen will be in the gallery for a meet and greet so please come by and see her wonderful art and say hello!

Featured Artist Shanti Benoit has painted sites and scenes dear to her heart as she reviewed her travels and ventures past and present. She shares her bright paintings during the month of July. Meet the artist and hear her enthused talk at 5:30 on Second Saturday, July 12, at Kasten & Albion Sts Mendocino.

In July Partners is showing new mixed media artwork of Karen Fenley. She describes her work as "an exploration of the fertile ground that keeps me connected to the earth beneath my feet. This ground can be any substance or idea that lights the spark that becomes the vision that gets a new work going." Materials collected over time, such as pressed plants from years of constant gardening, now obsolete papers and pigments, wood grain in panels along with the influence of the still life works of early modernists painters are some of the ingredients that make up her recent work. As in seventeenth century vanitas, she sees this work as a celebration of temporality and the limited time before all living things transition to become fertile ground.

The show opens July 10 and continues through August 4.
There is a Second Saturday Meet the Artists July 12, 5-7pm.

Gallery hours are Thursday through Monday 11-5pm.

The Lot on Main is a community powered space where artists, makers, musicians, and creatives come together to showcase, sell, and share their work.

First Friday's at The Lot showcases over 20 different artisans, live music, and local food trucks.

'Playing With Perception' is an exhibition of mind-bending optical illusion paintings by local artist Richard Weiss here at Highlight Gallery in Mendocino. Henry Matisse has said: “We should always see life as we did in childhood.” Adhering plainly to this statement, Richard says, "I enjoy creating interactive mind bending optical illusion paintings. The work is in relief but is painted to appear like a conventional flat picture. Movements of the observer result in fluid distortions of the pictorial image, engaging viewers into a playful participation. The goal of my work is to infuse whimsical happiness to viewers by surprising and engaging them into a playful participation, allowing them to create their own unique experience of the optical illusion."

We are pleased to host an exhibition of beautiful, colorful paintings by Ellen Heise! She paints tranquil landscapes and is known for her 'paintings inside paintings'. Since she was a child, she had already made up her mind to become an artist who would travel and capture the beauty of nature by pen, brush and colors. She feels lucky to do what she really likes to do. She loves it when her audience tells her that they want to live inside her paintings where it is peaceful, quiet and relaxing...a moment to escape from daily life. Her show will run from August 1st through September 1st, 2025. We are located at 10480 Kasten Street in Mendocino and are open daily from 11am to 4pm. On August 9th, from 4pm to 7pm during Mendocino's Second Saturday event, Ellen will be in the gallery for a meet and greet so please come by and see her wonderful art and say hello!