Age Against the Machine: new local art exhibit at the Community Theatre

Submitted by event organizers.

Bryn Barnard, Paul Chadwick, Elizabeth Moon Chadwick and Daniel Finn announce the opening of their group exhibition, “Age against the Machine,” Saturday, Nov. 2, at the San Juan Community Theatre from 3-5 p.m. Refreshments will be served. The exhibit runs from Nov. 1 through Nov. 30.

The artists are all long-time residents of the islands. Finn, Chadwick and Moon Chadwick live on San Juan Island; Barnard lives on Lopez. Their work – drawings, paintings and prints – reflect their accumulated experience here: the habitat, the flora and fauna, the seasons, the climate, the ferries.

Please join us for this rare opportunity to see these artists, together for the first time in one location, for this multifaceted meditation on our lives in the Salish Sea.

About the artists:

The author and illustrator of five books of science-history for kids, Barnard has lived in the San Juans, on and off, since 1995.

Comics artist/writer (Concrete and others) and former movie storyboard artist, Chadwick has lived on San Juan since 1994. His pieces in this show are mostly recognizable island scenes.

“I’ve been doing art in one way or another for as long as I can remember,” Moon Chadwick says. “At the age of 23, when traveling alone in Scotland, I vowed, ‘I’m going to be an artist if it takes me until I’m 90.’ I’m officially a senior citizen now, and still plugging away at it.”

Finn is a professional house painter who has painted 321 houses on San Juan Island. He has also been a chef, a gardener, a teacher and a performing monk … er … musician. He began studying the art of picture painting in college and never got over it.