Art Exhibition Opening

3/3/2005

Exhibition Dates: March 6 - April 9, 2005

Reception: Sunday, March 6, 4-6pm

Friends and family are invited to meet the artist and enjoy refreshments at this free art reception!

Roger Armstrong

The Irvine Fine Arts Center is proud to feature works by well-known cartoonist, painter, and educator Roger Armstrong. With an art span of over 60 years, 1940 to present, this exhibition includes works from his early days as a cartoonist and former Disney artist, as well as more recent works in oil and watercolor.

Come see the overflow of creative energy from this award-winning artist whose influence has had a significant impact on the Southern California art scene through his many life-long accomplishments, including: working, as a high-caliber artist of the California Regionalism School, as a nationally-syndicated cartoonist, director of the Laguna Beach Art Museum, founder of the now-named Laguna College of Art and Design, and a beloved art instructor at the Fine Arts Center. In 2003 Roger received the prestigious "Cultural Legacy Award" from Arts Orange County.

Natasha Shoro

The Irvine Fine Arts Center is pleased to feature abstract canvas paintings by Orange County artist Natasha Shoro.

Natasha has a BFA in Graphic Design and is currently completing her MFA in Drawing and Painting. She has participated in several solo and group shows in the U.S. and abroad, achieving many awards and grants. Her work is represented by Marlon Meyer Contemporary Art Gallery in Laguna Beach.

Artist Statement: Inner spaces represent my feeling: mental images of music, color, and patterns, symbols that are almost within my subconscious state. It is an overlapping, almost dream-like, random spatial imagery and emotions. My outer space comes forth in architectural elements, 3-dimensional space, layers, screens, sometimes allowing light and other times just sound and vibration through texture or fine lines.