Moraga Art Gallery opens new show: "Capturing Light: Lens & Glass"

MORAGA:  The Moraga Art Gallery
announces a new show entitled “Capturing Light: Lens and Glass” highlighting photography
by resident artist Wenda Pyman, and cast sand glasswork and flamework by guest

artist Janice Peacock. The show opens October 30 and will run through January
4, 2014. There will be an opening reception to see the exhibit and meet the
gallery’s artists on Saturday, November 2 from 5:00 to 7:00 pm. The reception
is free and the public is invited to attend.

Wenda Pyman is a landscape, nature
and travel photographer.  She is
basically self taught but honed her skills by taking workshops from some of the
greats, starting with Ansel Adams in 1978. 
Over the years, she has taken courses to refine her techniques and her
“art of seeing” at University of California Berkeley Extension courses, ASUC
Studios and Future Light Workshops. She entered the digital world in 2007 and
has found that it enables her to go beyond the limitations of film. She tends
to use these tools to leverage her creative vision while still embracing
realism.



Wenda’s body of work
reflects her all-consuming passion to capture diverse patterns and imagery,
both locally and worldwide.  Her style
reveals a unique perception of her surroundings. For her, it is not just about
finding a perfect location or composition, but finding harmony and balance
between elements of color, lines, texture and shapes that are both pleasing to
her and the viewer.  Photography for her
is a means of self-expression as well as an outlet from the stresses of
everyday life. 



Wenda has been
a Moraga Art Gallery member since 2003. 
She was instrumental in relocating the gallery to its current location.
Her exhibit venues cover Danville, Lamorinda, Oakland and San Francisco. Her photography has graced CD album
covers, calendars and the walls of collectors, both locally and
internationally. Her portfolio includes images from India, Europe, Indonesia,
Sri Lanka and, more recently, Myanmar (Burma), Laos, and Vietnam. When she is
not globetrotting, she wanders the hills of the East Bay, Lamorinda and Mount
Diablo.



Janice
Peacock started working with hot glass in 1992. Much of her recent work is focused on the creation of items that look ancient - masks used in traditional ceremonies, tiny vessels unearthed from the
sea, and treasures gathered by explorers from centuries ago.



Janice uses a torch to melt glass, a process called
flameworking, to create beads and small sculptures. Her glass beads and jewelry have been displayed in numerous
group exhibitions internationally, and she
been featured in many books on glass beadmaking. Janice was recently named one
of the top 40 beadmakers in the world by Glass Line magazine.  One of her beads was recently added to the
permanent collection at Corning Museum of Glass
as part of the International Society of Glass Beadmakers President’s
Collection.



She
creates sculptural pieces by ladling hot glass from a furnace into sand
molds. This is a new direction for Janice’s work, and it has led to many new
discoveries and designs, such as the “Nautilus” sculpture.  “I think of it as a shell, but other people
have said it looks like a shooting star, or an angel’s wing. It is wonderful
that a piece of glowing glass can elicit so many interpretations.”



The show also includes
works by the gallery’s 14 resident artists and several guest artists. The
gallery is located in the Rheem Shopping Center, at 522 Center Street, Moraga.



For more
information, visit www.moragaartgallery.com or call 925-376-5407.