The Depot by Judy Gittelsohn
Studio Judy G, Watsonville’s newest art gallery, is pleased to announce its first group exhibition. Entitled Welcome Aboard, it features the work of five artists and organizations, all showcasing the rich history and beautiful landscape of the Pajaro Valley. Spanning 100 years of local history, the exhibit will introduce viewers to both old and new ways of looking at Watsonville and the Pajaro Valley – as well as introducing Main Street to its newest business.
ART
Christopher Arnold – Pajaro Valley Watercolors
Tarmo Hannula – Recent Photographs of Watsonville
Pajaro Valley Historical Association – historic photos of Watsonville train depots
Granite Rock – Historic photos of the Pajaro Valley
Judy Gittelsohn – Why Watsonville Paintings
La Selva Beach by Christopher Arnold
Christopher Arnold – A long-time resident of La Selva Beach who was trained in London as both a painter and architect, Arnold’s delicate yet precise watercolors of the Watsonville area instill these familiar landscapes with surprising new beauty and nuance.
Tarmo Hannula - photographs – writer and photographer for Register-Pajaronian, San Jose Inside, Gilroy Dispatch, Good Times SC, Morgan Hill Times, Press-Banner, Hollister Free Lance, King City Rustler, Salinas Valley Tribune – Tarmo’s images capture current life in Watsonville, close up and in action. Aesthetically pleasing and intelligently focused, Tarmo covers our town with an intimate eye.
Pajaro Valley Historical Association – Historical photos, arguably one of Watsonville’s greatest assets, a vault of over 1000 dresses from the turn of the century and a window into the archives of our past, Studio Judy G has selected photos from the PV Historical Association’s treasury that exhibit that highlights and starting points of the railroad here.
Granite Rock – Historical photos, Granite Rock employing thousands for over one hundred years, this family business built the foundation and infrastructure of the Pajaro Valley. Selected photos from their archives tell this story.
More information:
Judy Gittelsohn - Why Watsonville.
Local artist and entrepreneur with roots in the San Francisco punk rock scene and beyond, Gittelsohn is the owner and operator of Studio G. Her paintings here will include a new work intended as a pictorial description of the poem Why Watsonville - a love letter to the town of Watsonville.
https://www.judyg.com/bio
Granite Rock: Historical photos of the Pajaro Valley.
In 1871, while plotting the coastal Southern Pacific Railroad near Chittenden Pass, nine miles east of the town of Watsonville, engineers found granite in their path, the perfect material for ballast to form railroad beds as track was laid throughout the state. With a flagship quarry in Aromas, California, the family-owned company Granite Rock has been in operation since 1900, supplying Monterey and San Francisco Bay Area with high-quality aggregate, sand, concrete, recycled aggregate, hot mix asphalt and other building materials. This selection of photos from their archives documents one of the many thriving businesses in this area that helped build and shape the Central Valley.
https://www.graniterock.com/about-us/about
Christopher Arnold, R.I.B.A. (Oct. 12, 1925 – Jan. 18, 2021)
British-born architect Christopher Arnold was renowned in the field of earthquake engineering but was also an accomplished painter and watercolorist, having studied with the renowned English painter David Bomberg in London the 1940s. Arnold spent most of his working life in the San Francisco Bay Area, but later, as a part-time resident of La Selva Beach, he spent his weekends recording the changing colors of the nearby landscapes in watercolor, depicting the world of Watsonville in a series of notebook-sized sketches. This exhibit is the first public exhibit of his work.
Photo credit: Pajaro Valley Historical Association
Pajaro Valley Historical Association