Live Music, Refreshments and Good Company
Reception | Off Center
April 19 / 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Come to Blue Line Arts and enjoy live music, refreshments and meet the artists! Join us Saturday, April 19th from 5pm – 7pm for a 3rd Saturday Reception for our current exhibitions!
Off Center – An International Ceramics Competition | March 22 – May 3
Annual Ceramics Competition featuring regional, national and international artists working in clay.
Ray Gonzales – SCG Local Artist in Residence | April 11 – May 2
Ray Gonzales was born in Auburn, California and grew up in nearby Lincoln. He earned his B.A. in Ceramic Sculpture from C.S.U.Sacramento. Additional graduate work and a teaching credential was also earned at C.S.U.S. Continuing study has also included workshops in Florida, Alaska, Nevada and in California. Mr. Gonzales has been included in many gallery exhibits, primarily in the Sacramento region, including; The Art Foundry, Solomon-Dubnick, Galeria Posada, The Artery, Axis Gallery, The Blue Line Gallery and at fort Mason in San Francisco. He has completed many Art-In-Public Places commissions- including 4 for the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission as well as several in Placer County.
Jennifer Lugris: The Search for Meaning | March 22 – May 3
Jennifer Lugris paints vibrant scenes of everyday life as an expression of gratitude to her ancestors, refugees who risked everything to build a better future for the next generations. She has been honored with numerous awards and solo exhibitions. Lugris’s art isn’t just about painting—it’s about storytelling, healing, and community. In 2022, she received a National Endowment for the Arts grant to bring immigrant success stories to life through a colorful series of paintings. By 2024, she was funded by the California Arts Council to pair up with a survivor of sexual assault and craft a stunning 5 by 4 foot painting that visually narrated their journey toward healing. Her paintings have found permanent collections in the State of Hawaii, Meta, and UC Davis Health. She earned her MFA from UC Santa Barbara and lives in Sacramento, CA, where she enjoys life as an artist, wife, and mother to three young children.
Candace Garlock – Solo Show Award Winner | March 22 – May 3
As an artist, Candace Nicol Garlock uses an array of mediums in her work. The coalescence of printmaking techniques, painting, photography (and sculpture, too!) overlap and converge with color, texture, and line in a collaboration of mixed, experimental beauty. With her appreciation of the interconnectedness of everything, she elevates relationships: human and environment, human and animal, human and human. She writes, “My multilayered compositions posit engaging questions to viewers regarding relationships, social identities, and societal issues surrounding the female gaze.”
Date & Time
April 19 / 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm