Grace Colletta

The song you heard singing in the leaf

Andre Woodward

installations

Oolong Gallery

June 28 – Auf 2 2025

Tuesday – Saturday‎‎‎ ‎ 11 am – 5 pm

6030 La Flecha Rancho Santa Fe CA 92067

Images by Philipp Scholz Rittermann

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Midsummer Event Series with Oolong Gallery

July 17 Thu 6–7:30pm Sound bath in the gallery by Amelia Laver rsvp required

July 18 Fri 6–midnight After Pony Party at Rancho Valencia Resort tickets required

July 19 Sat 10–4pm Summer Fest at the gallery & adjacent park: music, pong, performers

July 26 Sat 6–9pm Art Party III at the Brown Studio with dj team Doodem & Peter Stearns

I paint from observation, working outside in the landscape and refining in the studio. Through a combination of painting on the spot and referencing drawings, I translate what I see to evoke the feeling of being in a particular place. As I look and revise over time, memory of a place also informs the work.

Grace Colletta

Andre Woodward casts Southern California tree forms in concrete, forging sculptural hybrids that fuse organic silhouettes with industrial materials. These works speak to the paradox of cityscapes—environments molded by nature yet dominated by human construction—echoing how urban memory holds, distorts, or represses traces of the natural world. These mesmerizing, impossible-seeming objects crystallize the uneasy truce between the organic and the manufactured, performing the fragile persistence of nature as it asserts itself against the pressures of urban encroachment. This work embodies the paradox at the root of contemporary life—the desire to contain and control the natural world even as we cheer on its stubborn seepage back in through the cracks.

Shana Nys Dambrot

This redwood slab sound sculpture is an amalgam of nature’s analog recordings represented in the grains of the redwood, the growth of salt crystals and digital recordings playing through the work. This sculpture is part of a body of work that talks about the tree as a record while using repurposed old growth ancient redwood burl slabs. These ancient trees are an analog record of their world. Combining the sound recordings of their native forests merges our contemporary moment with histories up to 100 years in the past. Simultaneously these recordings are imprinting salt crystals forming in speakers while they play the audio recordings. So ultimately this work is a confluence of time.

Andre Woodward

When I go outside to paint, I revisit familiar places in my surroundings such as a pathway to a side yard or a tree outside my door. These everyday views become a starting point for studies of shape, light, and color. In observing how the light intensifies during different times of the day and shifts with the seasons, I am drawn in by the way a closed gate becomes a screen for unexpected, momentary shadow forms. The glimmer of light radiating through boards of a fence creates an abstract pattern that divides up the space and invites me to look closer. Among the fleeting and dynamic organic forms, I also find geometry, structure, and stillness. I am intrigued by the visual rhythms found in nature and the compositional curiosities they create within the rectangle of a canvas or panel.

Grace Colletta

Grace Colletta

was born and raised in Encinitas, CA, where she currently lives. She studied art practice at UC Berkeley and earned an MFA in painting from Boston University in 2015. She has been an artist in residence at Mount Gretna School of Art, Vermont Studio Center, Cuttyhunk Island, and Inside-Out Art Museum. Her work is held in public collections at Inside-Out Art Museum in Beijing and Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University.

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Andre Woodward

is a Southern California artist. His work focuses on the intersection between nature, technology, and humanity, using a mixture of manmade and natural materials, inspired by the unique dynamics of the Southern California landscape. Woodward received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Studio Art from University of California, Irvine and a Master of Fine Art degree in Sculpture from California State University, Long Beach. He was presented with the Vision from the New California Award in 2011. His art has been featured in “The Language of Mixed Media Sculpture”, “My Green City” and on the covers of Sculpture Magazine and the most recent Visions from the New California catalog. His projects have been exhibited with Studio La Citta in Verona Italy, at the 18th Street Art Center, the Laguna Art Museum, Orange County Museum of Art, with solo exhibitions at the Huntington Beach Art Center, Whittier College, and Villa Montalvo. Andre Woodward is a Southern California artist whose work examines the very complicated relationship we have with nature. His work has been exhibited internationally.

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Aug 23 

Sergio Suarez and Ivan David NG

Oolong Gallery

6030 La Flecha, Rancho Santa Fe, CA 92067

Telephone +1 858 229 2788  Mobile +1 917 340 0877

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