Photos, Films & Paintings
Chris Felver’s “Whole Shebang”
Douglas Sandberg’s “Between Fire & Ice“
March 20 - April 14
The Sausalito Center for the Arts is delighted to present an exhibition by two Sausalito luminaries, Chris Felver’s “Whole Shebang” and Douglas Sandberg’s “Between Fire and Ice.”
American photographer and filmmaker Christopher Felver has photographed celebrated writers, artists, musicians & influencers forever. His distinctive visual signature is a lasting contribution to the legacy of our national cultural community. Felver’s films & photographs & books read like a roster of American avant-garde and his work has been exhibited nationally and internationally.
Douglas Sandberg’s work is inventive and shows little preconception. He exhibits the essence of raw emotion and feeling with every brush stroke.
The exhibition features selections from Felver’s award winning photography, books & films, with Sandberg’s paintings and film.
Curator: M. Ruecker
Photos, Films & Paintings
Chris Felver’s “Whole Shebang”
Douglas Sandberg’s “Between Fire & Ice“
March 20 - April 14
Wednesday - Sunday
11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Artist Reception
Saturday, March 23
Join us as we welcome Chris Felver and Douglas Sandberg to the Sausalito Center For The Arts. Meet the artists and learn about the inspiration behind their creative works of art while enjoying live Jazz music and our no-host bar.
Saturday, March 23
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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IN THE NEWS: Read more about the exhibit here.
POETS, REFLECTIONS & FILMS: A BEAT GENERATION HAPPENING
Sunday, March 31
Chris Felver, Joyce Jenkins, Tate Swindell, & Matthias Ruecker provide insight and discussion of this literary subculture movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-World War II era.
Joyce Jenkins is Editor and Director of Poetry Flash, Literary Review & Calendar (Poetryflash.org). Poetry Flash presents a regular reading series, and the annual Northern California Book Awards and Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival. She is the author of Joy Road, a chapbook, and Portal, with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Carolyn Kizer. Her poems have appeared in ZYZZYVA, Addison Street Anthology: Berkeley’s Poetry Walk, The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems of the San Francisco Watershed, elsewhere. Her honors include an American Book Award, PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award, and National Poetry Association's Distinguished Service to Poets & Poetry Award. A City of Berkeley Day was proclaimed in honor of her Berkeley Poetry Festival Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009. Poetry Flash received the 2012 Barbary Coast Award from Litquake.
Tate Swindell is an archivist, editor, poet and photographer, Tate Swindell is the founder of Unrequited Records, which specializes in poetry records released on the vinyl format focusing on the Beat Generation. In addition to an album of rare Bob Kaufman recordings released in 2020, he co-edited the Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman for City Lights Books (2019) with Neeli Cherkovski and Raymond Foye.
Tate, and his brother Todd, worked extensively on the Harold Norse archives, which were donated to the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley. His new book of poems, Ghost Eclipse, will be published by Lithic Press in 2024. He is also writing a memoir about his experiences in the Bay Area medical cannabis movement as a dispensary co-owner and farmworker.
Sunday, March 31
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
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POETIC RAZZMATAZZ
Saturday, April 6
Join Chris Felver, Poet Laureate Kim Shuck, Linda Noel, Lourdes Figueroa, Kitty Costello and friends, for an afternoon of photography, film & poetry as they weaves their stories with vivid imagery and verse.
Kim Shuck is a Cherokee Nation poet, author, weaver, and bead work artist who draws from Southeastern Native American culture and tradition as well as contemporary urban Indian life. On June 21, 2017, Mayor Ed Lee named Shuck as the 7th poet laureate of San Francisco.
Saturday, April 6
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
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AN ART HAPPENING
Saturday, April 13
Chris Felver, Robert Green, John Held, Michael Garlington & Douglas Sandberg & friends share an evening of artistic insights.
Robert Green Fine Arts, established in 1969, exhibits primarily painterly, abstract expressive work by painters that thoroughly take advantage of the sensually evocative nature of color and form. The artists we represent (Sam Francis, John Grillo, Paul Jenkins, Jim Bird, Ed Moses, among others), are part of the rich history of the first truly "home grown" American art style - Abstract Expressionism.
Douglas Sandberg has been contributing photography and video to design firms, start-ups, galleries, museums and auction houses since 1979. During that time he has been a champion of unique and innovative art, such as the work of Christo and Jeanne-Claude.
Event includes a screening of Christopher Felver's newest film Inside/Outside: Anthony Cragg, celebrating one of the world's most distinguished contemporary sculptors, Anthony Cragg, illuminating his development and thought-processes over the arc of his career.
Saturday, April 13
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
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Christopher Felver
Christopher Felver is a cultural documentarian. His distinctive visual signature is a lasting contribution to the legacy of our national cultural community. Felver’s films & photographs reads like a roster of American mid-century avant-garde.
An American photographer and filmmaker Felver has published several books of photos of public figures, especially those in the arts, most notably those associated with beat literature. He has made numerous films (as director, cinematographer or producer), including a documentary on Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder, released in 2013.
His photography has been exhibited internationally, with solo photographic exhibitions at the Arco d'Alibert, Rome (1987); the Art Institute for the Permian Basin, Odessa, Texas (1987); Torino Fotografia Biennale Internazionale, Turin, Italy (1989); Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (1994); Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg, Netherlands (1998); Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles (2002); the Maine Photographic Workshop (2002); Robert Berman Gallery, Los Angeles (2007); the San Francisco Public Library (2018) and other galleries and museums.
His works have also appeared in major group exhibitions, including The Beats: Legacy & Celebration, New York University (1994) and Beatific Soul: Jack Kerouac On The Road, New York Public Library (2007).
Douglas Sandberg
Douglas Sandberg has been contributing photography and video to design firms, start-ups, galleries, museums and auction houses since 1979. During that time he has been a champion of unique and innovative art, such as the work of Christo and Jeanne-Claude.
Enamored of such art, since the mid-1970s, when the Running Fence Project by Christo was installed in Marin and Sonoma, Sandberg has continued to push himself artistically and creatively.
An alum of the California College of Arts and Crafts, Sandberg enjoys putting together “big art” books, among his various endeavors.
From his very first jobs directing the photography output for the catalogs of Butterfield & Butterfield, Sandberg understands the power photography has as not only in documenting but in photography’s ability to evoke memories and deep emotions. This understanding and skill he brings to every aspect of his work in a career that spans over 40 years.
Painting By Douglas Sandberg
