EXHIBIT INFORMATION
CURRENT EXHIBIT
"Harmonic Visions"
Michael Van Auken and Peg Jackson's artwork will be featured the Library's Marilyn Citron O'Rourke Art Gallery from 7/9/25 to 8/14/25. Their artwork features photographic art and digital collage.
Michael and Peg are both artists and photographers. Together they created Harmonic Visions, a fusion of photography
and digital collage inspired by their travels in Switzerland and Italy last year.
The impetus for their journey was a performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony/Ode to Joy with the Golden Gate Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. Peg is a member of the chorus, and Michael went along in his official capacity as photographer to document the weeks of rehearsing and performing in Scuol, an enchanting village in the Swiss Alps.
After saying their goodbyes in Switzerland, Michael and Peg continued their travels to Italy, where they visited Lake Como, Venice, and Florence.
Their experience was total immersion in stunning landscapes, historical sites and artistic masterpieces. Every location provided ample opportunity to capture amazing photographic images. But as artists, Peg and Michael sought to capture a sense of the blending of time and place. Each artwork includes elements of the past, the present, and a possible future.
Opening Reception, Sunday, July 13, 3 to 5 pm
Marilyn Citron O’Rourke Art Gallery at the Benicia Public Library
Live music, slideshow presentation, snacks and beverages.





UPCOMING EXHIBIT

Leah Tumerman's artwork will be featured the Library's Marilyn Citron O'Rourke Art Gallery from 8/19/25 to 9/25/25. Her artwork features abstract figurative paintings and poetry. Her reception will be on August 24, from 3-5PM.
Leah Tumerman constructs narrative scenes taking cues from intuitively applied under-paintings. She watches for the emergence of figurative subject matter and then edits towards an oblique finish.
Often it is unclear where one form starts and others begin and this is belonging.
A body composed of color material is the artist's pursuit of new flesh unburdened by misappropriation and definition. Isolated yet connected figures explore inner vs. outer worlds and the impossibility of singularity; these forms create anti-linear structures and speak to one another in secret languages.



Periscope
is the artist’s effort to see around, above and through obstructions and into the matters of pleasure and refuge.

EXHIBIT DETAILS
Every fall the Art Gallery Committee meets to decide what projects will be displayed during the year. Exhibits appear for a period of four to six weeks.


Exhibitors are responsible for transportation, installation and removal of exhibits.
MORE INFORMATION
Apply to exhibit here. (Only when submissions are being accepted.)