Thursday, December 26, 2019

Solano Collects at Vacaville Museum

I found a recent article referencing Ruth Dicker paintings appearing at the Vacaville Museum for a show titled Solano Collects.  I couldn't seem to find any pictures on the museum website.  Then, I found another article that does show six paintings together on a wall together.  I might need to pay a visit.  Article excerpt below:
Since October 5, the Vacaville Museum at 213 Buck Avenue has been featuring an amazing exhibit of 30 collections belonging to Solano County residents.

A jury panel of three judges — a gallery owner, a museum exhibitor and an artist — selected the 30 from 45 submissions to comprise the Solano Collects exhibit. Each collection is a treat.
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Dicker is known for her California landscapes in her hallmark style of intentional paint splatters, vibrant acrylic colors as well as strips of wood covered in rice-paper to give dimensionality and texture. Her large paintings depicting the four seasons were in the dining room of The Nut Tree in Vacaville before it closed in 1996.


Update: According to the museum, the paintings are titled "Summer Plains", "Shadows", "Pine Forest", "Spring Oak with Lupine", "Annadel", and "Moon with Fog."   Some of the smaller paintings look like they are prints of other paintings, which means the artist did something like a block print of one painting and then filled in the rest with different color paints.