At Santa Ysabel Art Gallery, June 17 through July 23, 2017, will be Sites/Insights, a one person show featuring the work of San Diego County artist Will Gullette. The emphasis of the exhibit will be Gullette’s plein air and studio landscape paintings. Reception for the Artist will be Saturday, June 17, 4-7 PM. The public is invited. Admission is free.
Will Gullette has been an artist since he could hold a drawing implement in hand. He received a Master of Arts Degree with an emphasis in painting, drawing and printmaking in 1969 from San Diego State University. After military service he subsequently received an Associate Arts Degree in Photography from San Diego City College. He has been an award winning professional photographer since 1978 and is a Professor Emeritus at Palomar Community College where he taught photography and art for 24 years. His work has appeared in several national and regional publications including–San Diego Magazine and San Diego Home/Garden Lifestyles Magazine, where he has been a contributing photographer since the 1980’s.
On a sabbatical from Palomar College a dozen years ago, Will Gullette found himself wishing to once again follow his true passion, painting. His sabbatical project was to research the relationship between painting and photography from an historical to contemporary viewpoint. One aspect of this was to create paintings from photographs he made as reference material