After the Oceanside Pier fire in April, artist Marisa DeLuca gathered fistfuls of charred wood from the beach — charcoal she could mix with oil paint. With the resultant pigment, her city is now both inspiration and material in her art.
Artist Marisa DeLuca is shown at The Hill Street Country Club on Dec. 14, 2024. Photo by Julia Dixon Evans
"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.
Now on view at The Hill Street Country Club is DeLuca's solo show "What Goes Up Must Come Down." Featured is "She's Not There (After Andrés Ximenez)," a striking black-and-white painting of the pier on fire, created with paint born from the fire itself.