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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: Women of the Underground: Art by Zora von Burden

Julie Davis — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 07:41:34 +0000

A collection of in-depth interviews, Women of the Underground: Art takes an inside look at the work of 24 female artists who are “cultural architects, influencing generations with art that is innovative, pushes boundaries, and dares to question, investigate and redefine society in the spirit of the underground.” Perhaps because of these general parameters, Women [&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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