
		Segil Fine Art Gallery: 110 West Lime Ave Old Town Monrovia CA 91016 Phone: 626-358-5563 Hours: Tu-Th 11am-6 pm Fri & Sat 1-9pm Sun 12-5pm Online: SegilFineArt.com
	*Save The Date!* We’re getting excited for our upcoming show, exploring the wonderful combination of Oil and Water with paintings by Keewon Hong, Brenda Swenson and Laura Wynne. Many of you joined us last spring when we featured Brenda Swenson in a solo exhibit. We're thrilled to have Brenda back and exhibiting with her, and for the first time with Segil Fine Art, Keewon Hong and Laura Wynne. Please join us for a reception for the artists Sunday, July 16th, 3-6 pm and visit these artists online at www.segilfineart.com.
	Laura Segil Segil Fine Art Gallery



In this Issue This Month’s Featured Exhibiting Artist Collector's Corner This Month’s Gallery Feature News

This Month's Featured Exhibiting Artist This month I would like to introduce you to the work of Brenda Swenson. BRENDA SWENSON California artist Brenda Swenson finds inspiration traveling the back roads, byways and the quiet dirt lanes that crisscross the American West. In these out-of-the-way places, she is likely to find the promising subjects of her paintings - the old trucks, historical buildings and the weathered colorful places that testify to the region's vigorous past. Beneath the layers of paint, rust, and neglect, Brenda discovers stories just waiting to be told. An active participant in the arts community, Brenda has served on the board of directors for the National Watercolor Society and Watercolor West. Her paintings have been featured in Watercolor and Classic Truck Magazines. She has also received numerous awards and is in demand to demonstrate her watercolor techniques to groups and to teach watercolor workshops. I have often had people say, "it must be nice to be so gifted". And to this, I always have a little laugh. Yes, talent is nice, but it won't get you very far unless you develop your skills. I discovered early on in life, that I didn't really see something, until I drew it. The more I sketched and painted, the stronger my awareness became of the world around me. I found simple things in life; take on a new importance and beauty. So what is the gift? It is the ability to see and appreciate the beauty that exists. Brenda's book "Keeping a Watercolor Sketchbook" by Walter Foster Publications is available at the gallery. If you would like to view more of her work visit www.swensonsart.net. Next month we’ll be featuring the work and biography of Laura Wynne.


Collector's Corner This month we are going to deviate from our scheduled: Four Part Series; Art in L.A., a Cultural Expedition into Our Own Back Yard Part Four: Exploring LA’s Art Through the Eyes of a Foreigner A Review of Paris’ Pompidou Center Exhibit Los Angeles 1955-1985, The Birth of an Art Capital We’ll return to this topic in next month’s newsletter. Look Again, Think Again; Challenging the Way You Look at Art I’ve had the wonderful opportunity to spend a month in London taking an art-marketing course with Sotheby’s. The best part about taking an art marketing course in London, is well, London! I could fill at least a year’s worth of newsletters with the fabulous galleries, museums, auctions, lectures and collections that I’ve seen in only two weeks, with two still to go. In this newsletter, I’d like to share an amazing lecture given to us by the Marketing Director of the Tate Galleries, of which there are four; Tate Britian, Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool and Tate St. Ives. In 2000, with the opening of the Tate Modern, the gallery launched a huge re-branding campaign. Their aim was to raise the public’s awareness of the entire Tate collection in all four galleries. The ‘tagline’ developed by the gallery to follow in designing this campaign was “Look Again, Think Again.” The objective was not only for the marketers to rethink the way they portrayed the gallery, but also to get the public to rethink how they looked at art. It occurred to me that this concept should also apply to the collector. We tend to get a little “staid” in our ways when it comes to collecting art. We are also somewhat programmed to focus on what’s “in” at the moment on the market. I’d like us, the gallery and collector, to expand our views in how we look at art and what we consider to be worth collecting. Look Again, Think Again Subject Matter: If you love landscapes, why not start looking at still life, figurative paintings and abstracts. Style: Are you at traditionalist? Look at the modern. Medium: If you love oil paintings, start looking at watercolors, acrylics, and photography and expand your search to ceramics, sculpture and glass. Artists: We all have our favorite artists and most are established and well known. Start looking at emerging artists, what they are producing and what they have to say. Emerging artists are the voice of the new art generation. The point is, as collectors and appreciators of art, it’s not only in our best interest but also our responsibility to expand our collecting comfort zone, to look again and think again.


This Month's Gallery Feature DAVID YISUN WEI has loved painting since early childhood, and graduated from the Art Department of Fujian Teachers' University in China in 1966. With his works being deeply influenced by Russian artists, Wei then did postgraduate studies in the Art Department of Amoy University, China, graduating in 1990. Wei was member of China Artist Association, in the Fujian Branch and has shown his paintings in numerous national and provincial exhibitions in China. He has also been accepted into and published in famous painters and calligraphers series and is also seen on a prominent CD listing of "Current Chinese Artist". Wei immigrated to California from Fuzhou City, China in January 1998 as a permanent resident and traveling painter. In 2001 he won the best of Show and Spectrum Club as well as the Master's Circle Award in the San Gabriel Fine Art Association. His painting, Arroyo Evening, was selected for the 2002 National Show of Oil Painters of America in Chicago. His painting, Looking Back, was selected for 93rd Annual Gold Medal Juried Exhibition of CAC. The Salon International 2002, 2004 and 2005 Juried Exhibition in the Greenhouse Gallery of Fine Art in San Antonio, Texas accepted four of his paintings. His paintings have been collected by the Los Angeles Fund Bank, Los Angeles County Arboretum and by many private collectors. David YiSun Wei is an Artist Member of OPA and CAC. Please visit his new pages on our website!


NEWS Segil Fine Art July-August Exhibit Oil and Water The New Collections by Keewon Hong, Brenda Swenson and Laura Wynne July 16-August 26, 2006, with a reception for the artists Sunday, July 16th, 3-6pm Please note this is a new reception day and time and day from the last show! July Auction* Segil Fine Art has taken another step towards making art more accessible and affordable. We will offer a different painting by a different artist every month. Our current auction is Jay Ewing's "Olympic Surf and Sand." Bidding opens at only $400. BID NOW> *Attention Gallery Artists! If you have news to share or upcoming events, please email Laura at the gallery. We'll be glad to get it in the newsletter!