Printmaker Angelina LaPointe aims to illustrate the state’s animal life against the backdrop of its distinctive landscapes
The Lompoc Valley Art Association’s Cypress Gallery will be featuring “California Wilds”, an art show by Angelina LaPointe, from Jan. 2-26, 2025.
LaPointe is a printmaker living and working in Lompoc California. She studied printmaking and book arts at UC Santa Barbara’s College of Creative Studies. In 2014, she founded Sidecar Press, a letterpress studio where she creates block prints ranging from invitations to installations on a 129-year-old Chandler and Price letterpress.
LaPointe’s work draws on influences from print traditions, pop culture images, and art historical references. Her block print technique is based on the century’s old Japanese key block method, also looking to early 20th-century Art Nouveau design and the groundbreaking prints of the Russian Avant-Garde movement. She combines influences ranging from“full-color old-school” tattooing to xeroxed punk posters, to the 1970s science books that inspired and informed her childhood. Combining these varied visual languages builds a sense of familiarity and nostalgia in her work that appeals to a broad audience. She seeks to make work that is beyond its time and finds a place in the hearts and homes of her collectors.
“California Wilds” is a collection of prints that illustrate the states diverse and beautiful animal life displayed against the backdrop of its distinctive landscapes.
“Our state contains so many iconic plants and creatures forming diverse and fascinating ecosystems,” LaPointe said.”Whether I’m printing a kelp forest or a rural road I strive to transport the essence of these spaces into viewers homes and lives.”
You can meet the artist, enjoy light refreshments, and visit the coloring table at a closing reception that is open to the public on Saturday, Jan. 25, from 1 to 3 p.m.
The Cypress Gallery is at 119 East Cypress Ave. in Lompoc, across from the Lompoc Museum. The Lompoc Valley Arts Association is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, committed to expanding and supporting access and exposure to the arts in the Lompoc and Santa Ynez Valley. LVAA sponsors arts programs, events, communications, and other efforts that mutually benefit artists, businesses, residents, and visitors to the valley. To learn more about the arts in the valley, visit our website lompocart.org, and like our Facebook page “Cypress Gallery.”
