After the Oceanside Pier fire in April, artist Marisa DeLuca used charred wood from the beach as pigment for her art. Her solo show 'What Goes Up Must Come Down' at The Hill Street Country Club features a striking black-and-white painting of the pier on fire, created with paint made from the fire itself. DeLuca sees the remains as relics of a loved one, imbuing her paintings with the memory of the event.
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."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.
"Some of us are creative people, and we like to be in creative spaces that feed our intellect and our souls. So I think it's very important to have these gathering spaces. This is where you meet your best friend. This is where you listen to a poet that influenced your work. This is maybe where you meet your spouse, over some music or dance or looking at art," Poellnitz said.
"Community arts spaces and nonprofit arts organizations like this, they fill the gap where public schools can't. It's just not in the budget to bring art to children and to the public anymore," DeLuca said."It's heartbreaking."John Arroyo, professor of urban studies and planning and Chicanx and Latinx Studies at UC San Diego, said cultural bearers like Hill Street make neighborhoods better.
Hill Street Country Club plans to continue its work and hopes to secure affordable space elsewhere. Poellnitz wants to stay in Oceanside to continue serving the local community, but would consider other parts of the county. "It's disappointing to me to see that, while the arts in cities can be like a huge economic boon, city governments aren't willing to step up and help these spaces out," DeLuca said.
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