Always reliable for solid San Diego art exhibition info & opinion, San Diego Fine Arts Examiner Max Donner lists some of the dynamic sounding art events around the county this weekend.

This Saturday, November 7, the California Art Club will premiere “Julian and the San Diego Back Country.” This unique exhibition pays tribute to the natural beauty of the Julian area in the autumn and harvest seasons. Many of the featured artists are from the San Diego and Orange County Chapters of the California Art Club. “We are thrilled to have the opportunity to capture on canvas images of life in Julian and surrounding countryside, continuing the Club’s tradition of memorializing California’s rich history in works of art that will be viewed by generations to come,” said artist Peter Adams, President of CAC. The program remains open until November 29 at The Julian Art Gallery, located at 2229 Main St in Julian….

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Steven Churchill’s annual The Art of Photography show opens tonight in downtown San Diego’s historic Lyceum Theatre. The Opening Reception Gala starts at 6pm!

From the Art of Photography Opening Gala webpage:

The Art of Photography Show is an international exhibition of photographic art taking place August 29 – November 1, 2009. This presentation of world class photography is truly exquisite. A total of 16,000 photographic entries were submitted by artists from 57 countries around the world for this juried competition. The judge for this exhibit is Charlotte Cotton, who is the Curator and Head of the Photography Department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Ms. Cotton selected 111 images — the best of the best!

If you’re unfamiliar with this annual international San Diego art event, here is a great short description from the Art of Photography Facebook page:

This world-class photography exhibit will run August 29 to November 1, 2009 and is expected to be viewed by over 25,000 people. An elegant 80-page show catalog will be given away to everyone at the Opening Reception Gala on August 29th. An estimated 1,500 people from all over the world will be in attendance, including most of the exhibiting artists.

The Art of Photography mission is to provide a truly “artist oriented” show and to create a world-class presentation of photographic art in San Diego. This is the fifth year of this annual photographic exhibition. The Lyceum Theatre Gallery is open and free to the public seven days a week. Gallery hours are 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday, and noon to 5:00 p.m. on the weekends.

For even more information about this terrific San Diego art exhibition, please visit artofphotographyshow.com.

BALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art presents the first comprehensive exhibition on the printmaking of the great French artist Henri Matisse. On view October 25, 2009 – January 3, 2010, Matisse as Printmaker unites the BMA’s extraordinary collection of Matisse prints with a traveling exhibition organized by the American Federation of Arts, a non-profit arts organization, and the Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation. The BMA’s exhibition features approximately 170 works of art spanning 50 years

Matisse at the Baltimore Museum of Art

LONDON. The Directors of Marlborough Fine Art announced the first London exhibition in over 40 years by the Spanish artist Juan Genovés of 15 new paintings that will open at Marlborough Fine Art, London on October 29. Born in Valencia in 1930, Genovés has been exhibiting with Marlborough worldwide since 1964. This exhibition continues Genovés’ exploration of people in groups, depicted through bird’s-eye views of crowds where the absence of buildings, roads, trees or clues to a common landscape creates a dynamic of intensity and dislocation. The motivations for the groups’ activities are never clear, as Genovés allows the viewer to draw his own conclusions.

Juan Genovés Opens at Marlborough

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First London Exhibition in Over 40 Years by Juan Genovés Opens at Marlborough in October

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