A-Town & Backdown
Julian DeMark's "A-Town and Back Down" art show opens at The Epitome Galley in Eureka for April Arts Alive on Saturday, April 1.
The show will contain perspective-driven architecture from four West Coast cities and iconographic, texture-heavy, figure drawings.
The opening begins at 6 p.m. at The Epitome Galley, 420 2nd St., Eureka. The show will be up for the month of April.
"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. 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, Calif. He comes from a family of musicians, artisans and educators and factory workers. He received his degree in Fine Art from Humboldt State 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 UC 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 3D printing at The Epitome Gallery Saturday, April 29 from 6 to 9 p.m. To reserve a spot contact DeMark at juliandemark@gmail.com
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