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Val Britton’s Language of Maps

Elizabeth Coleman — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 05:39:11 +0000

Since the beginning, humankind has had an unquenchable thirst for exploring the unknown, orienting their discoveries by drawing maps. One Bay Area artist, Val Britton, uses both tangible and imaginary landscapes to explore our desire for imposing order in the chaos of space. Now showing at the San Jose Institue of Contemporary Art, Britton’s Intimate [&hellip

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Interview with Amy Casey

Elizabeth Coleman — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 03:43:21 +0000

Amy Casey paints complex cities on the verge of collapse or destruction. Little box houses on stilts are stacked precariously up on top of each other, or hang by nets and rope above an empty void. Thin roads wind around the unstable worlds like ribbon. The paintings are devoid of inhabitants, as if some apocalyptic [&hellip

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Review: Dorothea Tanning: Unknown but Knowable States

Julie Davis — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 23:58:58 +0000

The Gallery Wendi Norris exhibit, Dorothea Tanning: Unknown but Knowable States, focuses on paintings, drawings and sculptures created between 1960 and 1979 by celebrated artist Dorothea Tanning. This is barely a glimpse of the full output of an amazingly prolific creator, whose career began with commercial illustration in the 1930s and eventually encompassed Surrealist paintings, [&hellip

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Review: “Interlace” at Traywick Contemporary

Elizabeth Coleman — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:57:01 +0000

When was the last time you meditated? The last time you took a moment for yourself to clear your mind of all the idle chatter and useless dialogue? The last time you focused on something other than your job, your to-do list or the current drama in your life? Dharma Strasser MacColl’s latest exhibit, Interlace, [&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: The Tirage Art Gallery’s “Holiday Salon”

Taylor Majewski — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 01:00:15 +0000

The Tirage Art Gallery, tucked into the historic art and antique district of Pasadena, California, is exhibiting their annual “Holiday Salon.” The exhibition features a variety of eclectic artwork, including four female artists whose works particularly illustrate the flavor of the holiday season. Paulette Lee’s Snow Scene perfectly depicts the natural peace that often accompanies the [&hellip

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Review: Laura Cunningham’s “Before California”

Alicia Coombes — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 06:10:28 +0000

Laura Cunningham’s Before California exhibit at the Hazel Wolf Gallery in Berkeley is small but information-packed. A few walls showcase less than a dozen oil paintings and photographs side-by-side, opening up into a larger room dominated by sketches of native flora and a mural of a grizzly bear, two condors and an elk. Condors, elk and [&hellip

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Interview with Della Heywood of the Emerald Tablet

Setsu Uzume — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 20:26:54 +0000

Della Heywood would have become a field zoologist had her inner artist not stood up and thrown off the lab coat. Originally from Vancouver, BC, she has studied painting, drawing, etching, printmaking, sculpture and photography. She has lived in Northern California since the 1980s, and once the kids were old enough she moved to the [&hellip

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Interview with Beverly Buchanan

Angela Son — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 07:43:04 +0000

Throughout her three-decade long artistic career, Beverly Buchanan has painted and sculpted wooden shacks of the American South. Her latest exhibition, All in the Family, celebrated its opening last Friday at GalleryDAAS at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, featuring a series of Buchanan’s structures and paintings. Buchanan was born in North Carolina but grew up in [&hellip

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From Manga to Metal: The Fantasy Art of Helcanen

Setsu Uzume — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 03:04:56 +0000

Every kid dreams of being part of the rock star world, but not many are able to actually make their dream into a reality. As the promotional designer for the Metal Female Voices Festival, Belgian artist Helcanen is one of the lucky few. Since childhood, Helcanen has loved to draw. Combining her personal and professional [&hellip

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