Icons of Preservation: Oak Group exhibit

Gallery artists and Oak group members Marcia Burtt and Bill Dewey will be an exhibition benefiting The Land Trust of Santa Barbara County, earmarked for the Gaviota Creek Restoration Project.

June 29th - Aug. 27th

June 29 4p - Opening Reception.

Sullivan Goss - An American Gallery
11 E. Anapamu St.
Santa Barbara, CA  93101

OPENING RECEPTION: SATURDAY, JUNE 29 FROM 4-6pm

Sullivan Goss is pleased to present its second exhibition of Santa Barbara’s storied OAK GROUP. Gallery owner Nathan Vonk is curating the exhibition.

The OAK GROUP was conceived in 1986 by local icon Ray Strong, as well as founding members Michael Drury and Arturo Tello. The OAK GROUP is respected as one of the country’s first groups to use landscape painting as a means to promote conservationist causes. For over thirty years, this dedicated group of artists has been committed to preserving local lands for wildlife, recreation, ranching, and/or farming. They record the beauty of these endangered landscapes to educate the public about their beauty and fragility and then donate a substantial portion of the proceeds from sales to groups that buy the land to keep it from being built up.  A portion of the proceeds of sales from this exhibition will go to The Land Trust of Santa Barbara County’s Gaviota Creek Restoration Project.

ARTISTS INCLUDED: Meredith Brooks Abbott, Whitney Brooks Abbott, Donald Archer, Marcia Burtt, Chris Chapman, William B. Dewey, Michael Drury, Rick Garcia, Carrie Givens, Kevin Gleason, Whitney Brooks Hansen, Jeremy Harper, Ray Hunter, John Iwerks, Manny Lopez, William Mitchell, Linda Mutti, Rob Robinson, Ann Sanders, Richard Schloss, Skip Smith, Arturo Tello, Thomas Van Stein, Sarah Vedder, John Wullbrandt