Coldsprings Fine Art

Current Exhibitions:
As of February 5, 2009, Coldsprings Fine Art is closed.
Please feel free to contact Mary Sanburn at coldspringsfineart@yahoo.com
or (661) 210-9292 if you are interested in any of the artwork from our recent cxhibitions:

1000 Teddies - an installation by Philipp Jordan
and

Yosemite Winter - photography of Ben Dewell

November 28 - February 4, 2009

Coldsprings Fine Art’s current exhibition is “Yosemite Winter" by Southern California’s own Ben Dewell. The show treats the viewer to spectacular view of Yosemite in the winter. Dewell’s black and white photographs are classic, traditionally produced gelatin silver prints. Ben Dewell is an artist/actor presently residing in Southern California. As a native Californian, whose formative years were spent within mere miles of the Sierra Nevada – exploring by boot, rope, ski and kayak the farthest reaches of this incomparable mountain range – he has attained an appreciation and intimate knowledge of its secrets matched by few others. Self-taught as a classical landscape photographer and supported by academic degrees in Biology from California State University and Meteorology from the University of California, Ben brings the wildest places of the Sierra and the most transcendent moments to these uniquely personal, yet universal, images.

Coldsprings Fine Art is the first stop on the US tour of "1000 Teddies", an installation by Philipp Jordan, featuring 1000 brightly colored, painted teddy bears. This traveling exhibition just completed a 7 city tour of Europe. Until now, one could only image what it would feel like to have 2000 eyes staring at you. Jordan’s bears, with their stunned expressions reflect a childlike state of amazement, extreme curiosity and at times annoyance. Boldly colored, all of Jordan’s 1000 bears have shiny black noses and large white eyes. Color symbolizes the wonderment of childhood, and for Jordan, adulthood means the loss of color. Jordan explains “I don’t paint my paintings for children, but for the child in each of us.” The teddy bear is a magical symbol of childhood. Philipp Jordan was born in Germany and he currently resided in The Netherlands. Jordan started expressing his art by drawing comicstrips and with graffiti. Philipp now works with spray paint and oil bar on canvas. His work is all about emotions and how to arouse these in the spectator. Many of his motives, like the Teddies - his trademark, relate to his main theme "the childhood".