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Fallbrook artists featured at Z Café

BONSALL – The works of Fallbrook artists Brian Bateman, Neill Ketchum and Mark Witkower will be featured in a fine art exhibition at Z Café in Bonsall's River Village now through May 2.

Witkower specializes in creating geometric artwork in three different media, experimenting with 3D perspectives, pushing boundaries to create unique non-traditional artwork that are conversation pieces. He specializes in 3D 'polymorphic' artwork done using wood pieces cut at 45-degree angles that provide two different perspectives when viewed from either the left or right of the artwork, and the emergence of third design when viewed from the front.

He also creates 3D metal artwork uses unexpected industrial materials such as screws, nuts, and bolts. For his original digital art, he creates unique geometric designs and then digitally enhances them to create extraordinary new shapes and forms. Over 25 pieces of his artwork will be included in this exhibition.

Bateman, an historical artist, is showing his charcoal portraits at the Z. He has been interested in history since he was a child in Dayton, Ohio. He particularly loves aviation and the men, women, and machines that have become famous from WWI through WWII and Vietnam. The Civil War and Wild West are other areas of interest.

Historical accuracy is important, but mood and emotion help pull the viewer into the work of art. Keeping the past in the present is how he thinks about what he does, ensuring that not only his generation remembers, but also "the young and upcoming generations should know where we came from and where we may go as a nation."

Ketchum, artist and coordinator at the café, is showing her birds' nest series which are monoprints with drawing and painting.

Z Café is located at 5256 S Mission Road in Bonsall and is open seven days a week.

 

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