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Michael Obermeyer Featured in The California Club Quarterly Magazine, Spring 2023
The California Club’s painting, Opening Day 1958: Dodger Baseball Comes to LA by Obermeyer, was a 2018 Art Patrons’ Fund purchase and winner of the Irvine Museum Award at the …
Continue Reading »Chuck Kovacic and Michael Obermeyer featured in Plein Air Magazine, December 2021
This fall, Ellen Howard, Paul Kratter, James McGrew, Michael Obermeyer, and Chuck Kovacic took a group of artists to paint one of the most beautiful and pristine wildernesses in California. …
Continue Reading »Michael Obermeyer in Southwest Art Magazine March/April 2019
“YOU CAN’T HELP but get excited if you want to know what’s going on today in traditional fine-art painting and sculpture,” says Elaine Adams, the California Art Club’s executive director, …
Continue Reading »Michael Obermeyer Featured in Southwest Art Magazine April 2018
EARLY IN THE 20th century, distinguished landscape painters began pouring into Laguna Beach, CA, to capture its seven-mile coastline, turquoise-blue water, and pounding surf.
Continue Reading »Michael Obermeyer in Southwest Art Magazine October 2017 Issue
A LITTLE OVER a century ago, a burgeoning colony of plein-air painters began populating Laguna Beach, so enraptured were they by its unparalleled beauty and light.
Continue Reading »Michael Obermeyer in Coast Magazine, August 2016
THE ARTIST: As far back as he can remember, Michael Obermeyer wanted to draw and paint: dinosaurs, planes, people – it didn’t matter. He worked as an illustrator in the …
Continue Reading »Michael Obermeyer Featured in Plein Air Magazine, Fall 2015 Issue
Few plein air painters are as perceptive as Michael Obermeyer when it comes to understanding and recording the most captivating moments in a day.
Continue Reading »Fine Art Connoisseur Award Winner Michael Obermeyer in Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine October 2014
A star-studded, heavily attended painting competition in Laguna Beach represented landscape art at its finest. The Laguna Plein Air Painters Association hosted an exhibition of stellar new paintings last weekend, following its …
Continue Reading »Michael Obermeyer in Southwest Art Magazine October 2014 Issue
SINCE THE EARLY 20th century, artist have flocked to Laguna Beach for the chance to paint in the open air. Some observers like to say that with its lush flora …
Continue Reading »Michael Obermeyer in Pasadena Star News July 2013
Nothing says summer better than an image capturing a moment along the California coast. And the exhibit, “On The Water,” shows more than 50 surfside paintings by California Art Club …
Continue Reading »Michael Obermeyer Interviewed by Southwest Art Magazine May 2012 Issue
Describe your studio: My studio is in a complex of art studios about a mile and a half from the beach in Laguna Canyon. There’s a trailhead for the Laguna …
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