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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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Environmental Art at Outdoor Gallery, Roadside Attraction

Taylor Majewski — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 03:42:01 +0000

Creating environmentally conscious artwork is fast becoming a movement among twenty first century artists. Environmental art has the power to change the way in which we view our world; the associative power between art and nature lies in the hands of environmental artists, who constantly create new ways to redefine our relationship with nature. Environmental [&hellip

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Artists Explore the Beauty of Water in SF’s Presidio

Julie Davis — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 06:50:36 +0000

A rainy day in the Presidio is usually something of a disappointment, but it’s an atmosphere that only adds to the experience of viewing the new exhibit at the China Brotsky Gallery, Ways of Water. Hosted by the Thoreau Center for Sustainability, a green-centric nonprofit named after Henry David Thoreau (the 19th century American writer [&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 Sculptural Artist Stacy Levy

Taylor Majewski — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 00:15:58 +0000

In the initiative to increase access to sustainable energy, artists, like Stacy Levy, have joined the revolution. Though Levy works in many different mediums, she primarily considers herself a sculptor, interested in the relationship between both art and science. Levy works in sculptural media that portrays ecological patterns and processes. Her outdoor installations have been [&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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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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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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Interview with “The Barbs” Artist Deborah Colotti

Elizabeth Coleman — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 04:57:35 +0000

Seeing a wall of 200 naked, altered Barbies might be a little off-putting for some. But not for assemblage artist Deborah Colotti, creator of the series “The Barbs,” which features assembled Barbie parts with a twist on social commentary. Her work is often humorous, attempting to highlight and dismantle what Colotti calls “the pervasive, yet strangely [&hellip

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Interview with Artist Françoise Pétrovitch

Alison Kjeldgaard — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 11:50:16 +0000

French artist Françoise Pétrovitch’s work is something of a balancing act. At first glance, viewers may be inclined to smile (one of my favorites being a wall drawing of a girl curtsying with rabbit ears on her head); however, upon closer inspection, her work invariably contains an unsettling duality that lingers just beneath the surface [&hellip

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