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Review: Samira Yamin’s “We Will Not Fail”

Taylor Majewski — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 05:18:31 +0000

For almost a century, the cover of TIME magazine has featured iconic images of presidents, Wall Street moguls and modern day heroes. In her We Will Not Fail exhibit, artist Samira Yamin tackles one of TIME‘s most infamous cover page icons: Osama Bin Laden. Yamin’s exhibit is tucked into the main gallery of the Santa [&hellip

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Review: Dottie Attie at the Cantor Arts Center

Elizabeth Coleman — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 07:13:42 +0000

Dottie Attie is a postmodern appropriation artist, borrowing from iconic figure paintings from Old Masters such as Caravaggio, Eakins and Ingres. Suggestive or ironic text is incorporated into the compositions, which now seem provocative and sexually charged, forcing the viewer to think critically about gender politics in the art. The ambiguous juxtapositions critique class, privilege, [&hellip

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Interview with Shiloh Sophia McCloud, founder of Cosmic Cowgirls

Alicia Coombes — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 23:24:00 +0000

Shiloh Sophia McCloud has dedicated nearly two decades of her life to practicing and sharing the creative arts. Six years ago, she founded Cosmic Cowgirls, INK – a multi-faceted woman-owned company consisting of a magazine, university and publishing house. McCloud has worked with tens of thousands of women online and in person through interactive journals, [&hellip

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Review of Ursula Brookbank’s SHE WORLD

Alison Kjeldgaard — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 06:05:06 +0000

On the 40th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade and the dawn of the 1970s feminist art movement, photographer Ursula Brookbank’s new exhibit, SHE WORLD, opens at an interesting moment in history. On display at the Krowswork Gallery in Oakland, California, SHE WORLD investigates the private histories of real women through objects that Brookbank has collected [&hellip

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Interview with Sculptural Artist Sayaka Ganz

Elizabeth Coleman — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 05:19:50 +0000

To most people, a spatula is just a spatula. But to sculptural artist Sayaka Ganz, kitchen utensils are discarded orphans who deserve a second life. Drawing upon the Shinto belief that all objects have spirits, Ganz creates impressive animal sculptures using salvaged plastic housewares, breathing life into the objects by discovering how they all fit [&hellip

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Review of “Immaterial” at Chandra Cerrito Contemporary

Elizabeth Coleman — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 01:56:30 +0000

Artists often try to capture a moment, feeling or sensation in their work. Two notable installation artists, Amy Ho and Cathy Cunningham-Little, capture all of these in their exhibit, Immaterial, at Chandra Cerrito Contemporary in Oakland, California. Both artists use light as a medium to challenge the viewer’s sense of spacial and physical reality. The [&hellip

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Review of Ranu Mukherjee’s “Telling Fortunes”

Elizabeth Coleman — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 04:11:23 +0000

In her work, artist Ranu Mukherjee explores the idea of the contemporary nomad and how repeated relocation has shaped Silicon Valley through its immigrant population, migrant workers and dot-com booms and busts. Focusing particularly on South Asian, Chinese and Latino culture, she uses images that she “crowd sourced,” collecting images from the public to make [&hellip

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Interview with Mixed Media Artist Veronica Schaible

Julie Davis — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 06:36:01 +0000

A skull-headed woman in a high-necked gown cries through the cracked eye socket where she just shot herself. A bright pink bunny slumps like a despondent teenager, surrounded by depressing swirls of gray. Winged hearts crack open, spilling objects like blood: timepieces, coins, cakes, architecture and sculpture — images that suggest both pleasure and pain. [&hellip

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Mothership Hackermoms Create Art, Not Just Babies

Alicia Coombes — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 05:12:23 +0000

The Mothership Hackermoms have created a child-friendly artist’s dream on Adeline Street in Oakland: the room is furnished with a long table covered with various projects, a squishy leather couch and subversive art on the walls. A dresser’s dummy sporting a vintage lacy bra greets you at the door with a sign that asks guests [&hellip

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A Look into Jen Lewin’s Interactive Arc Harps

Elizabeth Coleman — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 06:13:03 +0000

With so much art being a purely visual experience, artist Jen Lewin wanted to find a way to mix together light, sound, anddance to create a more unique type of art. And she did just that with her Arc Harps, one of her sets of large, interactive instruments played by movement through laser-light beams. They are designed [&hellip

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