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Anastasia Alexandrin’s Powerful Female Forms

Marc Londo — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 04:39:30 +0000

Anastasia Alexandrin’s style is unmistakable. Interlacing lines of charcoal and gritty overlays infuse her female subjects with an ethereal quality. Her masterful integration of line and tone within the framework of her narratives evokes nostalgia and introspection. But though her work reflects another time and place, nonconformist message speaks to a uniquely modern view of [&hellip

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Saudade

Mallory Nezam — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 05:53:33 +0000

I stand at the edge where the water meets the shore, toes curled as the misty cold rolls in. My reflection in the water, your reflection in the water, a reflection bobbed back and forth. The sea has a way of coming and going and coming back again, leaving us with nothing. “Don’t ask me [&hellip

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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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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 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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Feature: Ellen Forney’s Creativity and Crisis in Marbles

Julie Davis — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 01:00:35 +0000

At a book signing event held at the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco, cartoonist Ellen Forney began with a reading from her book, Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me, describing her experience with bipolar disorder. In the first chapter, Forney talks about getting a tattoo on her back, using vivid, sensory language. “I was [&hellip

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When We Were Born Again

Mallory Nezam — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 14:09:25 +0000

For a while there was nothing, and then there was everything. Quick as lightning the wheat had come up, the soy and the corn stalks broke through the soil, and the chickens had begun to make noise. The days in February had run together, but today the grass thawed and there were sounds, there were [&hellip

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Project Photo shoot with Patricia Izzo

Angela Son — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 19:25:05 +0000

“I’m not interested in matching the colors of your couch with my fine art photography,” said Patricia Izzo, a black-and-white film photographer. Truthful and blunt in her artistic style, Izzo is a firm believer of connecting with people (not people’s couches) through her art. Izzo wants people to have an emotional response when they look [&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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Gender Benders with Comic Artist Chloe Dalquist

Julie Davis — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 04:07:31 +0000

“The concept of Jamie’s character came from my own mental state in my late teens/early twenties,” explained cartoonist Chloe Dalquist, describing the inspiration for her comic Jamie the Trickster. “I was going through a phase where I wanted to be male, but didn’t identify as trans because I knew that if I actually did go [&hellip

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