Conversing Between the Analogous

September 9 - October 7, 2023

Artist's Talk: Saturday, September 23 @ 4 p.m.

Don Soker Contemporary Art

2180 Bryant St. #205 San Francisco, CA

415.291.0966

Fridays and Saturdays  12-6 p.m. or by appointment

 

 Current Exhibition

December 1, 2022

Thrilled to be included in  SFMOMA's 

small press Book Bazaar @ Kala Art Institute's table

THE ONE/Variations on a Theme

Handmade Portfolio 

10” x 8.25” x o.75”

containing 8 letterpress and 8 monotype pages on handmade paper

8.5” x 7.5” ea.

This is a small handmade portfolio containing 8 letterpress and 8 monotype pages on handmade paper. The theme reflects  my interest in multiple approaches to any one  visualization.

 

 https://www.gottliebfoundation.org/2022-grant-recipients-1

I'm thonored to be chosen for the award by the panel of five advisors, each of who is either a working artist or a professional curator or critic.

From Moment to Moment

PASTINE PROJECTS

5.13-6.11. 2022

Civil twilight is the time of day before sunrise or after sunset when the sun is six degrees below the horizon. It is a time when light is increasing or fading and images and objects are not completely discernible. Similar to the shifting visibility at civil twilight, the artists in From Moment to Moment embrace ambiguity, disappearance, and reemergence in their work. Valuing the notion of continuity in favor of completeness, they explore the ephemeral quality of material, the nature of time, and the relationships between material and image.  The open-ended nature of these works invites us to meditate on the play of presence and absence and the potential of our own imagination.  Acknowledging that there is no one truth, their work remains open to interpretation over time.

Marta Sanchez-Vasquez focuses on the metaphysical potential of time. Using translucent vellum to create a sense of uncertainty, she asks, “how do we construct memories?” Her drawings fuse the paradox of layered memories and time into one realization. She states that “memory may fade but nothing ever vanishes.”

Theodora Varnay Jones employs an open-ended range of concepts from perception to relativity, transparency, and time. Interested in both process and material, she incorporates various disciplines, media, and techniques that touch on alchemy and a passage from one thing to another.

Robin Richardson is interested in the underlying structure of matter and where the natural world breaks down into intrinsic geometry. Using both organic and digital processes, her works explore the unfolding space between order and chaos.

 

Ghost

2009

plexiglass, acrylic, mirrored plexiglass

12.5" x 12.5" x 48"

presented in

 ABSTRACTION IN ACTION

Alfa Gallery is pleased to present: “Abstraction in Action”, a group show, exhibiting new artworks by internationally known artists, from Europe, the US, and South America. The specific dynamic approach to art developed by these artists, that use geometric shapes and a renewed inspiration from the “abstract geometry” movement to create advanced and up to date creative compositions that will throw the visitor in a timeless universe of organized vibrancy, thanks to balanced, pattern-like figures, enhanced by a strong dose of refreshing energy. All the artists, even if with different visual accomplishments, share a similar theoretical approach and background that strongly influence their artistic procedure.

VIEW WORKS:

https://www.artsy.net/show/alfa-gallery-abstraction-in-action?sort=partner_show_position

BT21_2021

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Exhibition: Thursday, March 3, to Saturday, April 30

Opening Reception: Saturday, March 5, 5–7 pm

This exhibition presents a visual association offering cognitive experiences for the singular viewer revealing the works of 14 artists under the precept above . 

If O is the last letter of the Greek alphabet, it is also the first letter of Origin [en]. 

Here, in the beginning was the Olive Tree. 

Some linguists believe we created language inspired by birds’ songs and other sounds around us. Others hold that Onomatopoeia may have been the first form of human language. 

And there is an acceptance that consciousness predated language. Still, if language is associated with consciousness, our understanding between language and consciousness is not “straight forward”, because consciousness appears to be present among many species. 

Interestingly enough, the Greeks kept two “o”, the “little” and the “great.” Lately, we have all been subjected to the demise of that “little o” as in “omicron.” Though hopefully we can soon switch our attention to the “great” one, the larger Wheel of Time, that allows us to shift our gaze to brighter horizons.