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Museum’s ArtWalk Artist Dianne Bennett
Honors Nature Using Recycled Metal and Paint
Ojai artist Dianne Bennett reuses found metal to create the small
painted retablos and assemblages on exhibit and for purchase at the
Museum of Ventura County during Ventura’s Harvest 08 ArtWalk
weekend. Meet the museum’s ArtWalk artist on Saturday, October 18,
from 1:00 - 7:00 pm, and on Sunday, October 19, from 12 to 4 p.m.,
at the Museum of Ventura County, 89 South California Street, near
the corner of California and Santa Clara Streets in downtown
Ventura.
Bennett often creates her pieces by reusing discarded materials. She
describes her works as devotional objects that venerate the natural
world, inspired by painted láminas and devotional art of Mexico,
India and Asia, as well as by popular art of other cultures.
Bennett is also one of the artists featured in the museum’s
invitational exhibition Between Heaven and Earth: Entre Cielo y
Tierra, running through November 30. Linocuts and woodblock prints
by the internationally known Artemio Rodriguez are also on museum
exhibition during that same time.
Contact Museum of Ventura County: (805) 653-0323. venturamuseum.org.
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