Stokes opens abstract expressionism show at Café des Artistes

It's been quite a few years since Fallbrook artist Brett Stokes has opened a show in town.

"I can't even tell you, it's been years," he said during the opening on Saturday, July 20 at Café des Artistes in Fallbrook. "I was in galleries when I was younger, in Colorado, New Mexico, Sedona, Palm Desert, Ventura, San Juan Capistrano and a lot of those were native work. But this is more like the essence of the natural world rather than the predetermined idea of a stoic native or something like that or a retrospect."

The brightly colored pieces included in the show are true to Stokes' style and he d...