The Yorba Gallery
Yorba Wines began its gallery program in 2022 as a way to utilize open space in a positive manner, cultivating appreciation of wine, food, art, and good company. The gallery provides opportunities to local and regional artists as a way for them to be discovered by avid arts enthusiasts and wine country visitors.
The program has shown work with no bias toward specific ideas or media - representing painting, collage, sculpture, and ceramics among others. The Yorba Gallery continues to expand its reach, pairing artists with collectors and encourages thoughtful acquisitions for private and corporate collections.
Rock Paper Scissors
Yorba Tasting Room & Gallery presents Rock Paper Scissors
At first glance, the two artists featured in rock paper scissors might seem disconnected (one works in paper, the other ceramic), but closer scrutiny finds both artists balancing deep thought with wry humor, deftly employing razor cuts and scoring raw materials into tight, crisp forms. The resulting constructions reveal rapid fire decision making alongside deep consideration of patterns that emerge and transmute. Flexibility is key throughout their creative processes until each artwork arrives at its permanent form, cementing the creative journey and demanding acceptance.
Berkeley based potter Don Santos meticulously constructs one-off ceramic shards in various shapes, textures, and colors, providing an array of miniature forms that he gradually nudges into play, juxtaposing obvious choices with surprising serendipities. Industrial patterns, iconic house-like motifs, and geologic formations wend through his assemblages, reminding the viewer that our vast world holds no isolated thoughts, rather each pinpointed idea is surrounded by and living within a vibrant and vibrating macrocosm.
Katherine Venturelli has spent decades observing and collecting paper cut-offs from her print practice, reworking, re-marking, and refreshing them with architecturally rhythmic fractures. Her process balances decomposition with rebirth, artfully scraping together scraps of disparate visual ideas. She dances unconstrained with these materials in her studio, walks away, tosses, trashes, and returns until a fresh resonance emerges. By weaving together found materials with studio prints, Venturelli suggests a message might be present when, in fact, she remains open to the translations composed by her viewers.
