YoloArts Art Farm Events

Image | August 25, 2021August 25, 2021 | Marlene Lee

I submitted these two paintings, The Tree and Red Shed for the Art Farm Events that happens every year. It’s an exhibition inspired by the farmlands of Yolo County. YoloArts had scheduled a monthly visit to the farms for artists to captured the California landscape in their medium.

There are two Art Farm Events. I had entered the Red Shed into the Art Harvest. This is a non-juried exhibit and viewers who had purchased a “shovel” gets to dig up the “art” that matches their number. The Art Harvest is also a preview for the juried exhibit, Art Farm Gala. This year will be jurored by Natalie Nelson of the Pence Gallery. There are awards totaling $1,000. Art that has been jurored in will be in a silent auction. This year I had chosen The Tree to be juried. I think it’s a winner. 🙂

The Tree on Clos Cavanis, oils by Marlene Lee

Kennedy Twenty/20 Exhibit Awards

Image | June 7, 2021 | Marlene Lee

I proud to announce that I was awarded Honorable Mention in the Kennedy Twenty/20 Juried Show. The juror was non other than Rob Stewart of PBS KVIE’s “Rob on the Road”.

Logos Book Exhibit

Image | March 31, 2021March 31, 2021 | Marlene Lee

My still life paintings will be on exhibit at Logos Book from April 3rd to April 30th. It is composed mainly of fruits and some vegetables, a china rice bowl, a bright orange vase with a purple flower and even a copy of a Matisse that served as a background. Most are painted purely in oils with brushes but there is one in cold wax and oils and one palette knife. Prices ranged from $95 up to $180.

International Festival 2019

Image | October 9, 2019October 9, 2019 | Marlene Lee

This year as in the past years I have set up a booth at the International Festival to sketch portraits for free. The festival is organized by the International House and features performances, cultural booths and vendors on the first Sunday of the October.

In the past I had only one or two artists. This year there were six artists. Thank you to Scott Shepherd, Tom Corbett, Lynn at Lynn_CoMo, Duke at Dukekm, and Dawn at PaintedbyDawn . And myself at MarleneLeeArt

Check out these artists on their Instagram.

Parade of the Flags

Artists at Work

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My portraits

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Crocker BNSA Auction

Image | May 24, 2019May 24, 2019 | Marlene Lee

Last night was the Crocker Museum Auction of Big Names Small Art (BNSA). Primarily of small arts to be auctioned off. 100% goes to the Crocker for art education and exhibits. I donated one of my favorite paintings of four years ago. After being exhibited in various places, it finally found a home at this auction. Thanks to another artist, Dawn Pederson who kept tabs on my painting, the last bid known was at $325.

This painting was painted four years ago. I painted this after taking a workshop with David Shelvino. Here’s blog post that explains how I painted this.

Pence Gallery Garden Tour

Image | May 18, 2018 | Marlene Lee

The annual Pence Gallery Garden Tour happened on a beautiful Sunday afternoon. This year private residential gardens were opened up throughout Davis. I was assigned to a small backyard garden but it was packed with native Californian plants and hidden spaces and planters with vegetables.

One of these pieces or maybe both will appear in the Garden Tour Exhibit at the Pence Gallery during June. The opening reception will be June 8th.

050618_Fountain Garden 2 — Garden Fountain, pen and watercolor, 9 x 12 inches, 6 May 2018

050618_Gail's Garden Collage 2 — A Collage of Gail’s Garden, pen and watercolor, 9 x 6 inches, 6 May 2018

Exhibit B Gallery Dog Show

Image | December 1, 2017December 1, 2017 | Marlene Lee

This little painting of a chihuahua mix was sold at The Dogs Exhibit held at Exhibit B Gallery in Souderton, PA in October, 2017. The exhibit benefited the Dog Town Rescue and was part of The National Dog Show. I know that this little painting is in the hands of a loving dog owner. 🙂

Brown n White Chihuahua 6x6 032017 — On the Alert, 6 x 6 oil on canvas panel

Capay Valley Vineyards Trees

Image | October 20, 2016 | Marlene Lee

During the preview for the Yolo Arts and Ag Gala, I discovered that this painting was selected for the Juried Exhibit of the Yolo Arts Farm Exhibit. In fact, it’s one of the top ten! The juror for this year gala is Emma Acker, Assistant Curator of American Art, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

Capay Valley Vineyards Trees.jpg

Pence Gallery Garden Tour

Image | May 16, 2016 | Marlene Lee

I had a fun time yesterday at the annual Pence Gallery Garden Tour. Lovely weather and a convenient home gardens to walk to made this a very successful garden tour.

This was my first to paint on site. I was a bit nervous as to “what am I going to paint” anxiety all week because where I was painting was at the gallery itself. But as it turns out it wasn’t as bad as I thought.