Marisa DeLuca at The Hill Street Country Club
Don't miss the final exhibit in this Oceanside art space before it closes its doors for good in the current location. DeLuca's paintings are powerful representations of buildings and spaces on their way out — abandoned, run-down or otherwise overlooked. One work, "She's Not There," is a painting of the Oceanside Pier on fire, using charcoal and remnants of the pier collected from the beach the day after the blaze.
"My work has always been kind of a love letter to Oceanside and to the ancestors of Oceanside. And when that fire happened, it really put an exclamation point on the rapid change in the region," DeLuca said. "The remains that I picked up were, I kind of felt, you know, the remains of a loved one. So, it becomes like a reliquary painting — in the same way the relics of saints hold divine energy. I feel like the paintings that I've made here in the gallery hold that same memory."
