GALLERY 621 of Benicia California, presents "INSIDE-OUT", a solo exhibition of Plein Air and Studio Work by Nikki Basch-Davis. Nikki has been painting since the early 70's. Originally embodying the California Landscape Style, she later joined with Jerrold Turner, Pam Glover and William Rushton forming the "Outsiders", which has been showing as a group for thirteen years, exhibiting in Galleries and Museums of the Greater San Francisco Bay Area.
Bruce Gennaro wrote that Nikki Basch-Davis "… doesn't merely capture a scene or a moment in time; she captures the feeling of it". Hell, Nikki reaches out and rips off what she sees, slams it down on her board and with an amazing strength of will physically dominates the work at hand by scratching and scrabbling around in layers and layers of viscous oil paint, bursting and oozing into a wonderfully original vision! And if you look where Nikki was looking, it seems there is gone missing another brick in the wall. Nikki is the eternal optimist.
For Nikki Basch-Davis, the Left Bank/Right Bank is not about Paris. Nikki, Latvian born, raised on a Kibbutz, a sargent of the Israeli Army and educated in Europe, somehow found her way to this tiny coastal town of Benicia where she has lived since early 2000. As a painter, Nikki is tough but in her own inimical way she will open the door to let you in, and welcome you knowing that she will knock your socks off!
Show Dates: February 4, 2012 – February 29, 2012
OPENING RECEPTION
Saturday, February 4, 5-8pm
Gallery Hours:
Thursday through Sunday, 11am to 5pm
Art writers: showings by appointment
Gallery 621
621 1st Street, Benicia, CA
(www.Gallery621.com for directions and further information)
Gallery 621 hosts artists who have gained a level of recognition of excellence within their fields in the Greater Bay Area. Gallery 621 is proud to present a few works by Robert Hudson (courtesy SF Sweetow Gallery) and guest artist Dennis Hare. Hare "…has created a style of figurative abstracts with an unusual assemblage process …", art writer, Erin Clark (Art Works Magazine).
Gallery Members:
Nikki Basch Davis – Carol Dalton – Pam Dixon – Jerrold Turner – Lisa Reinertson
Jack Ruszel – Catherine Erickson – Mike Kendall – Hedi Desuyo – Lee Wilder Snider
Linda Stevenson Dunlop – Sharon Payne Bolton – Stan Dann
