Life is A Good Gig – Artists and Musicians 9/22/12

Chula Vista Community Arts Group presents:

Life is A Good Gig – Artists and Musicians

FREE SHOW

9/22/12 from 1-4p.m.

Chula Vista Public Library

Civic Center Branch Auditorium
365 F Street
Chula Vista CA 91910

Civic Auditorium

Musicians:

Katie Cat with John Cain Jazz Trio, Grant Clarkson on bass and Marly Waak on drums. Dina Garcia De La Cadena will sing traditional Mexican songs.

Exhibiting Artists: Grant Clarkson, Joe Cruz, Marnie Cruz, Alison Cain.

JOHN CAIN is a musician, composer, author, teacher, singer, entertainer and arranger/orchestrator. Cain plays several instruments such as the piano, guitar, bass, harmonica, and accordion.  In addition to live performances he gives educational seminars on the history of jazz, Latin music, and classical music. He is the author of the book "Life's A Good Gig," nominated for best non-fiction book in the 2008 San Diego Book & Writers Awards. Cain has watched the world go by from sitting behind a piano on the bandstand. He safely guides the audience from American music-(jazz, blues, country, standards from the "great American song book") into the world of Latin music, with lots of laughs and surprises along the way. Cain plays several musical instruments including the piano, guitar, bass fiddle, accordion, harmonica and Latin percussion. He is also an orchestrator, arranger and produces recordings for many other artists and musicians. For years Cain has been delighting audiences with his unique and versatile talent, singing in five languages and performing a vast, international repertoire. He performs songs in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and French with a repertoire of Jazz, Blues, Latin, American Standards as well as his original compositions. He appears regularly at top San Diego venues like the world renown Hotel Del Coronado, Humphrey’s, The Bahia Resort Hotel and Elario’s at the beautiful Hotel La Jolla.

When KatieCat & Cain teamed up in 2007, the chemistry was immediately evident with the melding of 2 rich and diverse musical backgrounds.  KatieCat studied classical voice as an undergraduate at San Francisco State University and honed her vocal skills in a variety of Bay Area ensembles, including the Oakland Symphony Chorus.  A chance invitation to join a jazz ensemble introduced her to the Great American Songbook and ignited her passion for jazz singing.  She furthered her knowledge by attending The Jazz School in Berkeley, Ca.  In 2005, she debuted as a jazz singer at the Purple Onion in San Francisco and has performed up and down the west coast since.

Contact:

• Toll free: 1 877 652-8523
• Direct: 619 944-6810
• P.O. Box 83696 San Diego, Ca. 92138
• EMail: jcain@johncain.info

http://www.johncain.info/

2012 -2013 UPCOMING FREE EVENTS

Life is a Good Gig Artists and Musicians
Music and Art Show featuring John Cain and Friends.

9/22/12 from 1-4p.m.

Chula Vista Public Library

Civic Center Branch Auditorium
365 F Street
Chula Vista CA 91910

Civic Auditorium

10/31/12 to 11/2/12  Day of the Dead Event
Chula Vista Public Library
South Branch and Civic Locations

Day of the Dead Altar

Chula Vista Centennial Exhibit Katarzyna Lappin South Bay Superior Court

Exhibit: Chula Vista Centennial
Exhibit Dates: June 12, 2012 to September 15, 2012.
Location: South Bay Superior Court -500 Third Avenue Chula Vista, CA 91910
Hours: Mondays through Fridays    7:30 am - 4:30pm.

 Exhibit  Wall Chula Vista Centennial 

                                                                    

Artist: Katarzyna Lappin
Contact Information:
finearts@katarzynalappin.com
www.katarzynalappin.com

     Katarzyna Lappin is originally from Warsaw, Poland and currently resides in Chula Vista, CA with her husband and two children. Primarily a self-taught artist, Lappin started painting when she was 23 years old. She received basic instruction from a professional artist friend in the late 1980's who introduced her to the old techniques and color mixing procedures. Under his guidance she painted her first two paintings and then continued intermittently to develop her skills on her own. Since 2010, Lappin has been working as a professional painter and has received many awards and recognitions. She won second place at the Chula Vista 2010 Harbor Days Festival. This award inspired Lappin to paint a series of twenty works representing landmarks and landscapes in Chula Vista titled Chula Vista Centennial. The first set of paintings titled “Otay Lakes Dam"and the "Wolves" were painted in 2010 and eighteen more followed in 2011. All the paintings were created in Chula Vista and each painting has a story behind it that reflects the community. Lappin’s work celebrates Chula Vista and provides a record for future residents. It is especially valuable because it is uncommon to find artists in Chula Vista who focus on their community and chose to incorporate their daily environment into their art. Lappin is about to release a new book and a documentary video titled "Katarzyna Lappin Paintings of Chula Vista". In the book she discusses her work and sources of inspiration. The book should be available in the fall of 2012.

                         
Artist K. Lappin

 Otay Lakes Dam

                  Third Avenue





















Katarzyna is very involved in the arts community in Chula Vista and is a member of South Bayfront Artists, Chula Vista Art Guild and she is part of the City of Chula Vista Cultural Arts Commission. Her current exhibit at the court house titled Chula Vista Centennial developed from a collaboration between the South Bay Superior Court and the Chula Vista Cultural Arts Commission. The courthouse reached out to commissioner Gore to develop a rotation of exhibits. The courthouse is planning to have a new exhibit every three months. The goal is to have more art come to Chula Vista and provide local artists with a space to hang their work. Chula Vista has a need for exhibit space and nontraditional venues have been essential in fulfilling that need. Lappin is the first artist for this project to exhibit at the court house and her work has been pleasantly received.

Details of exhibit wall

      
















 Katarzyna Lappin works in oil paints following the tradition of the XVII century Dutch masters who are her primary source of inspiration.What she admires about the Dutch Masters is their devotion to detail and the self-discipline they acquired in order to execute the work on the finest level. Lappin cites the work of Jacob van Hulsdonck, Jan Davidsz de Heem, Ambrosias Bosschaert or Baltazar van der Ast and Louise Moillon (French) as having influenced her style and her technique. She states that she developed an individual expression using a much different color palette than the dark tones common in Flemish painters. Lappin chooses to express life and its vibrant colors and to vitalize every object she paints in order to evoke positive feelings within the viewer. The "Dutch" influence can be detected in her work in paintings such as: "Still Life with Grapes” and “A Bowl of Cherries,"Dutch Flowers", "Night Sail", "Afternoon at the Riverbank". None of these works are inspired by a specific Dutch master but they draw upon a general XVII century Dutch trend.

Lemon City, Chula Vista

In this image we can see the Flemish influence in Lappins work

Lappin describes her style as realistic but subjective, it reflects her imaginative interpretation of the surrounding world. She states “every painting is like a still shot from a dream...”

Below are images of the paintings included in Chula Vista Centennial

Rowing Practice

Fenton Pond

Evening Lights

Eastlake Shores

 Third and F St.

Byron Bronson House

Reading Time

Author: Anitza Rodriguez

Chula Vista Community Arts Group

Director