Andy Vogel - Chasing the light

May 23 - 31

Opening Reception May 23, 5-8pm

Keystone Gallery is pleased to present new works by Santa Barbara landscape painter Andy Vogel.  Chasing the Light opens to the public May 23rd and can be viewed through May 31st. 

Andy Vogel searches his local area for atmospheric transformations, tidal ebbs and flows, changing temperatures and the motion of shadows.  Embracing these building blocks and following his paths to magnetic locations the light is observed and catalogued by work such as  East Ridge of El Capitan Canyon - perched high above the sea watching ocean and sun transform with time. Feeling the morning warm as light softens line in Hills of Happy Canyon. Exploding afternoon sunlight and swirling breezes captured in Peaks to Points. Vogel’s work shares these moments permanently in Chasing the Light. 

Vogel’s pursuit for natural light brings him to significant places. Some are known beauties. Places that magnetically draw people in on a regular basis. Others are rarer and valued by him personally. They all have meaning and importance and he feels that by painting them he is protecting them. They are listed and documented visually as delicate and threatened places to be preserved and appreciated. 

Chasing the Light is deeply influenced and connected to the California landscape movement and the tradition of California Impressionists. Painters such as Michael Drury, John Comer, Larry and John Iwerks, Rick Schloss and Ray Strong have helped inspire his paintings both philosophically and physically. Their love of the environment and its elements are the roots of Andy Vogel’s work. Atmosphere, Form, Mood, Temperature, Space and Light, Pigment, Oil, Water. 

As a collection Chasing the Light gathers together all those moments of natural beauty that coalesce when the elements are working together. Fog dissolves into sunlight which is then filled with sea spray. Green turns to olive then to sunburnt yellow. Vague California seasons blend and shift. Andy’s work explores and catalogues but mostly pauses, appreciates and enjoys. 

Andy Vogel has a Bachelors degree in Fine Arts from UCSB and has taught art/sculpture at San Marcos High School for the last 13 years. He is a member of Southern California Artists Painting for the Environment (SCAPE) and the Santa Barbara Art Association (SBAA).

Julie Green | A Solo Exhibition

Where the Field Begins to Sing

Exhibition Dates – June 17 to June 29, 2026

Opening Reception Saturday, June 20 5-9pm

Closing Reception, Sunday, June 28 3-5pm

There is music in the spacing of the spheres - Pythagoras

(Los Angeles, CA April 29th, 2026) Featuring all new works (2025-2026) by artist Julie Green, her solo exhibition Where the Field Begins to Sing proposes that the imaginative landscape is not silent. It vibrates beneath structure. It hums within color. It waits in tension across string and surface. And in the moment of encounter — between artwork and viewer — the field begins to sing.

Green’s practice is situated within a lineage of abstraction that treats color not as description, but as event. Her work extends conversations initiated by early modernist painters who understood chromatic relationships as spiritual or musical phenomena, yet it moves decisively into a contemporary register — one grounded in embodied perception, neural multiplicity, and participatory experience.

Central to this exhibition is the phenomenon of chromesthesia, in which sound is experienced as color. Rather than illustrating this condition, Green builds its spatial equivalent. Her compositions imagine a cognitive field in which neural connections remain abundant and unpruned — where associations proliferate and perception branches outward. The resulting visual language explores Green’s personal experience with this cross sensorial perception.

The introduction of playable musical strings across select works shifts the exhibition from metaphor to activation. Tensioned across constructed surfaces, these strings transform line into literal vibration. When touched, the work responds. The viewer’s gesture produces sound, collapsing the boundary between observer and participant. The field is no longer a visual suggestion of resonance; it becomes a resonant body.

This participatory dimension situates Green’s work within a contemporary discourse that values sensory hybridity and cross-modal experience. In an era increasingly mediated by screens and flattened images, her relief forms insist on tactility, depth, and physical engagement. The exhibition invites viewers not merely to look, but to listen — and, in some cases, to play.

The repetition of line and form throughout various works evokes musical notation without becoming illustrative. Color functions structurally, like harmony. The works unfold temporally, asking the eye to move across them as one might follow a melody.

Abstraction here is not detached or austere. It is sensorial, immersive, and relational. The “field” of the title refers simultaneously to landscape, perceptual space, and electromagnetic resonance — an expanded zone where vision and audition converge. In Green’s hands, the geometric plane becomes a site of listening.

About the Artist

Born in Oakland, CA in 1969, Julie Green was surrounded in her youth by contemporary Bay Area artists Ruth Asawa, who she is related to through family, and David Ireland who she assisted at his Capp Street Studio in the early 90’s. Studying for several years under Steve Harper at The San Francisco Art Academy, Green earned her BFA in Fine Art Photography under Jack Welpott, Robin Lasser and Don Worth at San Francisco State University in 1991.

Throughout the 90’s, Green worked as a rock and roll photographer while also being the lead singer in the all-girl band Cameltoe. Her fine art photographic and painted portraits of her fellow musicians continued to be exhibited throughout the Bay Area.

In 1999, Green moved to Los Angeles where she worked as a portrait photographer in the music and entertainment industry. The stage became part of her fine art photographic. Work and art collided when Green once again sang as a front woman for a band in Los Angeles called The Checkers, producing several albums and national tours from 2002 – 2007.

From 2005 -2025, Julie Green worked for the artist David Hockney as Head of Reproductions, where her keen eye for color was utilized. Her current art practice at her studio in Lincoln Heights, allows her to channel her life experiences into visual form.

Media Contact Keystone Director Melanie Mandl, keystoneartspace@gmail.com

Gallery Hours Tuesday-Saturday 12-5pm or by appointment.

Artist Julie Green, julievox@sbcglobal.net, (213) 422-8390, Website: www.juliegreen.net Instagram @juliegreenfineart                             ###