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WaterLife artists:

Michael Acker

is an artist in many media. He has created large scale fountains in cast concrete, photo-collage paintings of Sonoma Valley, and sets for TV and movies. HIs work generaly deals with his immediate environment, especially the built environment. He holds an MFA from San Francisco State and is a Pollock-Krasner grantee. To see recent work, please go to mca-studios.com

Stephen Fairfield

is a public art sculptor whose passion is creating monumental impressionistic sculptures. His goal is to create sculptures that generate dynamic tension and motion while encouraging the observer to participate in some way functionally, cognitively, and/or emotionally as they recognize and appreciate the subject matter of the sculpture. His sculptures are organic in form while durable and robust.  In addition to impressionistic heroic creatures he also creates standing or suspended abstract forms of highly polished aluminum cylinders, stainless steel spheres and planes that incorporate light, color, motion & reflectivity.

Marsha Klein

is a working artist and a teacher who has created ceramics and paintings in her Sonoma studio for 35 years. She received a B.A. in Art and Art history from UC Berkeley where she studied ceramics with Peter Voulkous and Ron Nagel and painting and drawing with RB Kitaj. Her work has been exhibited nationally in many venues in the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles including the Oakland Museum, the Exploratorium, LA Craft & Folk Art Museum, the American Craft Museum Shows, Sunset Magazine Idea House and Copia.

Sonoma Community Center presents:

WaterLife

To commemorate the Maloney WaterWise Garden, SCC will exhibit three site-specific installations that evoke beauty, scarcity, and necessity of water. Works by Michael Acker, Stephen Fairfield, and Marsha Klein were selected through a juried competition and will be on view in the garden from June through October 2010.

Stephen Fairfield