Happy New Year 2017!
May it flowers with poetry and joy!
Village Poets wish all poets
a wonderful, creative, and enjoyable New Year 2017!
Joe DeCenzo, Elsa Frausto,
Marlene Hitt, Dorothy Skiles, and Maja Trochimczyk
Let's start the year in style, with a great poet, Lisa Cheby and a fantastic artist, Susan Dobay, as co-features on Sunday, January 22, 2017 at 4:30 p.m. at Bolton Hall Museum, 10110 Commerce Avenue, Tujunga, CA 91042. The reading will include two open mike segments. Refreshments will be served and $3 donations collected for the cost of the venue, the second historical landmark in the City of Los Angeles, that celebrated its centennial in 2013. The Museum is managed by the Little Landers Historical Society.
And, if you qualify as a stakeholder of the poetic community in the Foothills, do not forget to apply to serve as Sunland Tujunga Poet Laureate. Applications close on January 15, 2017 and the service starts in April 2017. Here are the links to more information:
LISA CHEBY - POET
Lisa Cheby’s poems and reviews have appeared in various journals including The Rumpus, The Citron Review, Tidal Basin Review, A cappella Zoo, and TAB: Journal of Poetry and Poetics, which nominated her poem for a 2015 Pushcart Prize. Lisa's poems are also found in the anthologies Drawn to Marvel, The Burden of Light, Coiled Serpent, and Hysteria. Her first book, Love Lessons from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, is available from Dancing Girl Press and was featured in The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed Series. Lisa holds an MFA from Antioch and an MLIS from SJSU. http://lisacheby.wordpress.com
Interviews, Reviews, etcetera:
Dis/Possession
by Lisa Cheby
Everyone one has at least one vice.
If I wear a bonnet when I go alone
to Easter service, am I dating myself?
My mother said she was ready
to die when my sister found
someone to take care of her –
though Mom did not mean
the way you come
into my bed on the night
she died
over and over, alone
I take this vow to live
my life of little deaths.
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SUSAN DOBAY - ARTIST
Why did I become an artist?
An artist is an instrument of unknown energy?
Are we given free will or is there a destiny?
In her book An Incessant Search for the Essence of All Art, Susan Dobay hopes to reach more artists, inspiring them to develop conscious artistry, and their own philosophy of art. She delves into the major questions of creative energy and creativity as a force and a significant element of our society, making this essential reading for both artists and those interested in contemporary art.
SUSAN DOBAY - RESUMÉ
Hungarian by birth, Susan Dobay resides in California. After studying graphic arts both in Hungary and the U.S, she served as an illustrator for advertising agencies, magazines, and newspapers.
Wanting to explore more creative options, Susan Dobay moved from commercial to fine art, and in 1968 she was invited to join and exhibit with the Alliance of Hungarian Artists both in the United States and abroad.
In Los Angeles Dobay helped found the Arany Janos Hungarian Literary and Cultural Circle. Dobay’s art is represented in collections in London, Switzerland, Hungary, Transylvania, Canada, New York and Los Angeles.
New Book: An Incessant Search for the Essence of All Art
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
“Although I derive inspiration from various sources –e.g., music, nature, the human condition -I try to find the balance between mind and spirit. My goal is to involve viewers in a creative game where both the mind and the heart are stimulated.”
Listings
Hungarian Painters and Graphic Artists 1988
California Art Review 1989
Contemporary Hungarian Lexicon 1999
International Women Artists 1997
Who's Who in America
Who’s Who in the World
Documentation
Deri Museum, Debrecen, Hungary
San Diego Museum, California
Hungarian National Museum, Budapest
Szepmuveszeti Museum, Budapest
Vasarely Museum, Budapest
M.H. de Young Memorial Museum. San Francisco, CA
The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.
Long Beach Museum of Art, CA
Solo exhibitions
2015 Museum Gallery Science Center, Debrecen, Hungary
2014 DVD presentation Hungarian House Los Angeles
2014 DVD presentation Bolton Hall Museum CA
2014 DVD presentation Altadena Public Library
2014 Shumei Hall Art Gallery, Pasadena, CA
2013 Interview of Susan Dobay Krickorian Movie Theatre
2011 Shumei Hall Art Gallery, Pasadena, CA
2010 Art Center of Ferencvaros , Budapest, Hungary
2010 Scenic Drive Gallery, Monrovia, California
2009 Scenic Drive Gallery, Monrovia, California
2007 Tibor Erno Galeria, Nagyvarad, Transylvania
2006 Szatmarnemet Museum, Transylvania
2006 Museum of Mateszalka, Hungary
2006 2B Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2006 Wall Art Gallery Fermandia Beach, Florida
2005 2B Gallery Budapest, Hungary
2004 Zemplen Galeria, Satoraljaujhely, Hungary
2003 Gateway Plaza, Pasadena, CA
2002 Sumitomo Building, Los Angeles
2002 Glendale City Center, Glendale, CA
2001 Lurdy House Gallery, Budapest
2001 Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
2001 Pincetarlat Gallery Budapest
1999 Deri Museum, Debrecen Hungary
1996 Invitational guest artist at the Millecentenarium of
Hungary. The exhibit travels to: Budapest, Belgium,
Germany, Austria, Israel, Japan and the USA.
1995 Three Palms Gallery at Sterling Vineyards, CA
1995 Featured Artist Allied Arts Association, Richland, Washington
1994 Featured Artist, Joslyn Arts Center, Torance, CA
1993 Vasarely Museum, Budapest
1993 Vroman’s Gallery, Pasadena
1992 Jozsef Varos Gallery, Budapest
1990 Fine Art Publisher’s Building, Budapest
1989 Style Connection Gallery, Encino, CA
1983 Teeblat Gallery, Freiberg, Germany
1983 Arcadia Public Library, Arcadia, CA
1981 Collector Showcase Gallery, Los Angeles,
1980 Pocket Stage Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1979 Ma Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1978 Dorog Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1977 Open Studio, Monrovia, CA
1974 Qraz Gallery , Seattle, Washington
1973 KFAC Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1972 Au Petit Jean, Beverly Hills, CA
1968 Bognar Gallery, Los Angeles
Group exhibitions
2010 The Pico House Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Art Center of Thousand Oaks, CA
2006 Museum of the American Hungarian Foundation, New Brunswick, NJ
2004 2B Galeria, Budapest
2001 Sushi Performance and Visual Art, San Diego
2000 Galleria Adonis Woodridge, Ontario, Canada
1999 Priory Gallery Swiss Cottage, London, England
1998 Museum of Arts Downtown Los Angeles, CA
1996 Art Exhibition Galleries Marin County Civic Center, San Rafael, CA
1996 Galerie 101 Corte Madre, CA
1996 Zantman Galleries, Palm Desert, CA
1993 Luthar Gallery, Budapest
1994 Invitational guest artist at the Milicentenarium of Hungary.
Exhibit travels to :Belgium, Germany, Austria, Israel, Japan and USA.
1995 Kortars Gallery, Budapest and Debrecen, Hungary
1991 Orlando Gallery, Shermen Oaks, CA
1991 Var Gallery, Budapest
1984 U.N. Woman Conference, Nairobi, Kenya
1985 Mc Houston Gallery, Pasadena CA
1982 Mucsarnok Museum, Budapest
1979 LA Artists Equity, Los Angeles CA
1979 New York Artists Equity, NY
1975 California Museum of Science and Industry, Los Angeles
1972 Olympic Art’s Festival, Munich, Germany
1967 California Museum of Science and Industry, Los Angeles
CRITIC’S STATEMENTS
“ Her work offers a rich cross section of our century’s spiritual and stylistic movement. Her work is part of that artistic movement which express in a contemporary manner the sensitivity, the mentality, and cultural needs of modern man facing the turn of the millennium.”
“ She has the courage to use the visual tools and forms to say many things in many different ways.”
Gabor O. Pogany, Art Historian, Director of the Hungarian National Gallery
"She is primarily interested in clashing emotions, in opposites. While living in and surrounded by a society of material worship, her studio in Southern
California stands as a shelter for an idealistic revolution where Dobay ventures into exploring the duality of existence: matter and soul."
Anna J. Winslow, Author
“The monumental yet sensitively refined forms give a unique floating sensation to the work, which reflects simultaneously the link between artistic tradition and individual trademark of the artist.”
Andras Bohar, Art Critic, Art Today Magazine
"A Cervantes with a brush”
Bernardo Blanco Gonzales, Ph. D., Author
“Dobay’s love, emotion, and philosophy have exploded on canvas: Dobay’s creation had to be born.”
Akos Thiery, Ph. D. ,Art Historian
“Dobay’s creations have impact not only on the mind, but their unusual concepts and color compositions shake up the emotions too.”
L. Babonici, Ph.D., Art Historian
"Dobay projects her thoughts with a newly modern, assuredly contemporary flair"
Lilla Szabo, Ph.D. Art historian, Hungarian National Gallery
“ Your work is consistent, vibrant and strong”
George Rivera, Art Historian
“I found your work to be quite intriguing and very nice.”
Preston Metcalf, Art Historian
