“Glowed Up” by LeeAnne Chappell is featured in the annual PBS KVIE Art Auction. Chappell captured the intensity of twilight colors reflected on Sacramento’s waterfront, allowing bright undertones of pink and orange to pop through.
“Fly Fishing” by Judy Knott is featured in the annual PBS KVIE Art Auction. Inspired by her artistic shift from capturing the familiar to the more abstract, Knott’s work playfully embraces the in-between with its vibrant collage of paint and fabric.
“Secret Shore” by Susan Ballenger is featured in the annual PBS KVIE Art Auction. Inspired by her plein air painting around Folsom Lake and along the American River, Ballenger experimented with acrylic methods to capture the lush shoreline as an expressive collection of shapes, colors and textures.
“Glowed Up” by LeeAnne Chappell is featured in the annual PBS KVIE Art Auction. Chappell captured the intensity of twilight colors reflected on Sacramento’s waterfront, allowing bright undertones of pink and orange to pop through.
Kim Brownell got hooked on quilts and fiber the first time she picked up a piece of fabric.
Her first piece was a quilted coat called Penguins Paradise, made in 1993. Even now, three decades later, she isn’t sure where her creative side comes from. Her mother and grandmother didn’t sew or quilt.
This much Brownell knows: she’s the Wacky Doodle Quilter, a self-given name that describes the artist and her work in various mediums.
“I just decided to start sewing,” Brownell says. “I did not come from a family of sewists or quilters. My mom is an outdoors woman. I picked up a used machine and started taking classes and learned basic sewing and then started quilting.”
At age 80, Sacramento artist Suzanne Adan still delights in unsettling people gently, mischievously, and with wit and humor. Her retrospective exhibition, “I’m No Spring Chicken,” through Oct. 11 at the Crocker Art Museum, celebrates a career that spans five decades and establishes Adan as one of the region’s most important artists.
