Exhibit highlights architecture
Julian DeMark’s “ATown and Back Down” art show opens at The Epitome Gallery — 420 Second St. in Eureka — for Arts Alive! April 1 from 6 to 9 p.m.
The show will contain perspective-driven architecture from four West Coast cities and iconographic, texture-heavy, figure drawings.
“Looking back and telescoping through time to the four places that have meant the most to me are Arcata, Eureka, Oakland and San Francisco,” DeMark said. “Their buildings and street scenes are the formal focus of the show. The spirit is the people, classic cars and emergent forces animating them.
“Much of my adult life has been in the Bay Area, which is not always dear to me because people come and go, but the environment is almost a friend to me now,” he said. “I see buildings in visual art like the music in a movie. Their scale and scope creates space that leads into human dramas. Grandeur and stone are of special interest as in churches and governmental buildings; their stone columns and pillars say this place matters and you matter. What you do here is significant.”
DeMark was born and raised in Arcata. He received a degree in fine art
from Humboldt State University (now Cal Poly Humboldt) and worked in manufacturing as a screen printer, graphic designer and engraver at the U.S. Mint in San Francisco. He is currently earning his Master of Fine Arts degree in comic books from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco and teaches art at the University of California, Berkeley. His works often focuses on animation concepts, dynamic perspectival, cooked compositions and human anatomy.
DeMark and the Humboldt Makers will hold a workshop on traditional printmaking and live 3-D printing at the Epitome Gallery on April 29 from 6 to 9 p.m. To reserve a spot, contact DeMark at juliandemark@gmail.com.