CLAY VORHES:
150 Paintings, $150 Each

ON VIEW FROM DECEMBER 4
THROUGH DECEMBER 30, 2025

Skidmore Contemporary Art is pleased to present a whimsical selection of studies in oil on panel featuring delightful cakes, colorful pies, quirky confections, and other holiday treats by California-based figurative painter Clay Vorhes, who began painting in his mid-30s when he became a protégé of Wayne Thiebaud, whose influence was so significant it changed the course of Vorhes's life and work.

Why Studies?

Like many artists, Vorhes often creates studies to explore ideas for subject matter or as exercises in color, composition, and texture. Studies offer a freedom of expression without creative constraints, consequences or judgements, yet frequently yield complete and beautiful paintings on their own surprising terms.

“Vorhes translates his subjects into sumptuous oil paintings where texture and form are heightened to near-sculptural intensity.”

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TR COLLETTA:
As Time Goes By

OPENING RECEPTION
6PM THURSDAY NOVEMBER 6TH
EXHIBITION CONTINUES
THROUGH DECEMBER 30, 2025

TR Colletta is a San Francisco‑based painter revered for his transfixing images of iconic 20th-century American design, magnified to a monumental scale, and commandingly realized in oil on linen.

Colletta bypasses sentimental reflection, delivering a collectively appreciated poetic punch of cultural deja vu: his canvases are time machines. They strike nostalgic chords that resonate on multiple octaves of meaning.

Colletta is drawn to stillness like his forbears Morandi and Hopper.
He doesn’t scream to connect with us. Instead, the artist waits, knowing “when recognition occurs, the result is mutual gratitude.”

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IN LAGUNA BEACH

Skidmore Contemporary Art is delighted to announce the opening of our Laguna Beach location.

326 NORTH COAST HIGHWAY, LAGUNA BEACH, CA 92651
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Skidmore Contemporary Art is known as a destination for California Realism and Photorealism since 1998.

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