IT’S ALL ABOUT TIME

IT’S ALL ABOUT TIME

Vernon Peasenell’s Large Sculpture and Paintings 
Fill the Blue Line Gallery

ROSEVILLE, Calif., July 26, 2010—Sixty current works by Roseville artist Vernon Peasenell will be featured in the exhibit, “Midflight,” opening August 21, 2010, at the Blue Line Gallery.

“It’s all about time,” said Peasenell. “The effects of time, the wasting of time, the shortness of a lifetime.” The “Midflight” exhibit features large-scale sculpture, paintings and prints in the artist’s “Mortality Series,” all reflecting Peasenell’s impressions of time, the common thread that runs through all the series produced in the artist’s 40 years as a professional artist.

“Midflight” opens to the public at a reception on August 21, 6:30-9pm and continues in the gallery through September 18. Artwork is for sale, with a portion of the proceeds benefiting the non-profit gallery.

WHO: Roseville Arts Blue Line Gallery
WHAT: Midflight: Current Work by Vernon Peasenell
WHEN: August 21 - September 18, 2010; Opening Reception, August 21, 6:30-9:00 p.m.
WHERE: Blue Line Gallery, 405 Vernon Street, Suite 100, Roseville
WHY: To introduce the community to Vernon Peasenell’s current work
COST: FREE admission; donations welcome; artwork for sale

ABOUT VERNON PEASENELL
Vernon Peasenell has worked as a professional artist for more than forty years, mastering a full range of painting, sculpture and printmaking mediums. The story behind the work in his first California exhibit at Roseville Arts’ Tower Lobby Gallery captivated visitors and garnered local press in 1999. Powerful images of angels and souls passing to another dimension told about Peasenell’s intense personal journey caring for his dying parents, who had both suffered from Alzheimers. That year the artist established a studio/gallery in Roseville, now The Flat Line Gallery, and has since actively exhibited in other area galleries, including the Pamela Skinner Gallery in Sacramento and the Sacramento Fine Arts Center. In 2001, the artist received the City of Roseville’s Artist of the Year Award for creating Roseville’s first public art sculpture and serving as lead artist in “The Kids” Gallery tile wall at the Westfield Galleria Mall at Roseville. The 2,300 ceramic tile mural installed at the Galleria raised over $100,000 to benefit abused children and kick-start Roseville Arts’ first children’s gallery. Thirty monumental sculptures by the artist were commissioned and installed by Safeco Insurance Company in the Belharbor Convention Center in Seattle, Washington. Peasenell holds a Master of Fine Arts from Whichita State University and a Bachelors of Fine Arts from Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania. He is a certified welder and has more than 30 years experience in bronze foundary work. He has taught art at Sierra College and Sacramento City College and manages his own gallery and teaching studio.

ABOUT ROSEVILLE ARTS BLUE LINE GALLERY
Roseville Arts’ Blue Line Gallery is a non-profit community center for the arts. Further information may be obtained on the website: www.rosevillearts.org or by calling (916) 783-4117. To set up an interview or to request high resolution photography, please contact Veronika Nagy at roseart@surewest.net