Art Majerus’ images, wooden turning at Redlands gallery

This yr’s featured artist exhibits at Redlands Art Association begins with artist Art Majerus’ lengthy artist profession in woodwork and images.  

After a 27-year profession within the navy, Majerus spent the subsequent 27 years making superb handmade presents in wooden. It started in 1995, six months earlier than he retired, when his spouse bought him wooden turning instruments. “The first year, I think I did 15 shows and then it got out of hand,” Majerus stated.

“I was making 4,000 items a year and traveled to 30 to 40 cities doing art shows,” he stated of what adopted in 1996. For 27 years, he traveled round California, Washington and Nevada within the fall at conference heart craft exhibits, then within the spring it was Nebraska, Illinois, Minnesota, Texas and Arizona with a mixture of indoor and out of doors artwork exhibits. Later, his photographic artwork could be added to the exhibits the place he developed, scanned, printed, matted and framed all of his personal art work.

“I traveled in a 40-foot motorhome, pulled a three-quarter ton cargo van behind me,” he stated. “I would come home from a show Tuesday midday. I would turn until 10 at night, all day Wednesday and then leave again Thursday morning for the next show, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.”

Majerus’ art work each for woodwork and images has received a number of awards, for instance The Best in Show at Tempe, Az. “I was invited as a guest demonstrator at the largest wood turning symposium in the US in Provo [Utah] for several years,” he stated.

“In the last ten years I probably sold 1,000 ice cream scoops,” he stated, mentioning that they’re product of high-quality solid stainless-steel. Fellow wooden artists have instructed Majerus, he’s the final of a dying breed of fellows who would create huge volumes of useful artwork in wooden.

Now, the final units of bowls and platters, kitchen instruments with wooden turning handles and distinctive pens will probably be on show and out there to buy on the Redlands Gallery. Moving ahead his focus is on images.

Photography has been a steady interest in his life since he bought an expert 35 mm digicam in 1968. “In the Navy, they called me Mr. Fuji because I always had a camera in my hand,” he stated. He constructed a darkish room which he nonetheless makes use of at his present dwelling.

“The only good thing about Vietnam was it got me out of Minnesota and I forgot to go back,” he stated with a chuckle. He grew up in Minnesota, the oldest of 9 youngsters.

Four years in the past, when Majerus stopped the full-time artwork present gig, he bought concerned with the Hemet Valley Art Association the place he at the moment is the director and images teacher. Staying in a single spot, has additionally meant that Majerus and his spouse spend extra time in National Parks. During the Christmas weekend they went to Sagauro National Park.

“I’ll be out there taking photos of swallows,” he stated. He has been to the Bosque del Apache National monument in Montana to {photograph} the Sandhill Cranes’ migration.

“Birds and flight is what really got me serious about photography,” he stated. “I’m not a birder,” he added, “I find the movement and everything [about birds] really great.” In landscapes he likes to seek out pure frames.

“I’m a realist. It’s a dead medium,” he stated of images as an artform. “Everybody got a camera on their phone and everybody thinks they are a photographer and I understand that.”

That is why he chooses to work in previous cameras with rolls of movie, each in shade and black and white.

“I’ve got an RB 67 with four by five, that’s one sheet of film at a time,” he stated. “It takes 20 minutes to take one picture.”

Going into classic images, “It makes me think a little bit,” he stated. “To do that, you look through and everything is upside down and backwards.” The sluggish course of, “Makes you more aware of what you’re wasting film on.”

Majerus’ various art work will probably be on show on the Redlands Gallery from Jan. 3 – 23. There is an open home occasion scheduled Jan. 10 from 1 – 4pm.

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About Art Majerus

Take a take a look at the Majerus’ woodwork right here: www.sawdustman.com
Photo portfolio right here: artee8c.myportfolio.com
Email contact: artsphotography@icloud.com

About the Redlands Art Association

Address: 215 E State St, Redlands CA 92373.
RAA web site: redlands-art.org
RAA social media:  fb.com/RedlandsArtAssociation and @redlandsartassociation on Instagram.

Opening hours: 11 a.m. to five p.m., Sundays closed.

Featured artist present by artist Art Majerus runs from January 3 – 23, 2026. An open home occasion is deliberate for Saturday, January 10 from 1 to 4 p.m.