Prelude to Light

                 

                                                                           7/28/2025

                 https://www.miamilivingmagazine.com/post/interstice-an-aesthetic-meditation-on-light-and-shadow

                                                               

  

          To Exalt the Ephemeral: The (Im)permanent Collection  

                                        On view @ BAMPFA until July 6, 2025

Curated by Margot Norton, Chief Curator, and BAMPFA's art and film curatorial teams. To Exalt the Ephemeral: The (Im)permanent Collection draws from BMPFA's art and film collection to explore how museums collect, care for, and amplify the work of artists who celebrate ideas of impermanence and cycles of decay and regeneration. The exhibition is inspired by the rich history of experimentation, performance, and non-object based artistic practices in BAMPFA's exhibition program and the many conceptual projects, scores, ephemera, and works with alternative art making materials and techniques in the museum's collections. The exhibition explores how institutions can embrace the work of artists who not only acknowledge but also exalt the inevitability of impermanence, creating artworks with organic and non-archival materials and without the intention for them to last forever. To Exalt the Ephemeral provides an opportunity to showcase key histories and works in the collection by artists across generations and disciplines.

                                It is an incredible honor to be among the artists in this exhibition.

 

On the Surface (Triptych)1991

cold wax, dry pigments, smoke, and graphite on handmade paper

              

At the diRosa Center for Contemporary Art

M is for Water is the latest in a series of exhibitions curated by artist Isabelle Sorrell exploring the origins of language and its relation to human consciousness. Featuring work by Shiva Ahmadi, Mari Andrews, Mildred Howard, Paul Kos, Hung Liu, Cheryl Meeker, Susan Middleton, Gay Outlaw, J. John Priola, Isabelle Sorrell, Theodora Varnay Jones, and Wanxin Zhang, the exhibition probes questions of elemental materiality and perception, examining the roots of language where our differentiation between “water” and “mother” begin to diverge. 

Sorrell writes: "'M is for Water' finds its source in water’s gift of vitality, akin to a mother giving life. We observe a reflection of this in language, in its early pictograms and alphabets.

"'M,' believed to be one of the first letters of the Phoenician alphabet, had an antecedent in the Egyptian hieroglyph describing 'water,' and its history is intertwined with its mirror: 'W'. Words with a common etymology convey meanings that reveal the source of life in Nature and Humans alike... There is no Life without Water, there is no Child without Mother."

 View of two of my drawings Alignment and Maelstrom-3 in the exhibition 

(the small sculpture in the middle is by Gay Outlaw)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Place of Creation by Fariba Bogzaran features artists and scholars who participated in the Lucid Art Foundation's Residency Program to create, research, and explore while residing next to a nature preserve on the coast of Northern California. Since 2005, the Artist Residency has been a retreat into the solace of nature, allowing connection with deeper aspects of the self to invoke inspiration. Though diverse in their practices, the artists-in-residence share a similar intention of focusing on the integration of the inner and outer worlds. The Lucid Art Foundation was established in 1998 to support artists who explore the concepts of art and consciousness.

 

 

 

 

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.

 

UNTITLED MIAMI

Alfa Gallery is pleased to present the group survey exhibition Untitled Miami, which highlights one work each by 97 international artists, all stemming from our deep inventory.

For further information and available artworks, please contact the gallery.

ARTSY PREVIEW:

https://www.artsy.net/show/alfa-gallery-untitled-miami?sort=partner_show_position

Remanence, 2003

 

ART BASEL GROUP SHOW

This show brings together works by contemporary artists from Alfa program.

To celebrate Miami Art Week 2021 Alfa Gallery is pleased to present our next online exhibition: Art Basel Group Show 2021. 

On behalf of all of us at Alfa Gallery, it is a great honor to present 115 artworks. 

The works can be viewed and purchased online on ARTSY.

WORKS ON VIEW:

https://www.artsy.net/show/alfa-gallery-art-basel-group-exhibition?sort=partner_show_position

Interview

 

Organized and installed 

Don Soker Gallery's 50th Anniversary Exhibition

 in collaboration with Kristie Hansen and Christel Dillbohner

Participated in the exhibition with 

 Novartis-4

  2014

discarded objects from the laboratories of Novartis

plexiglass with graphite drawing, and plastic screws

34" x 3.5" x 3"

Prose, Poetry, and Art

westmarinreview.org

 

 

 

Art in the Time of Corona

Dec 11, 2020 – Mar 6, 2021

This exhibition is a fundraiser and an exhibition of artworks, in various mediums, that were created during and/or were inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic and massive social and political upheaval the world over. This special exhibition will provide a rare opportunity to experience an eclectic range of art from NUMU’s network of creatives including previously exhibited artists, teaching artists, and our many artist friends and supporters.

 

My works in the exhibition:

 

 

 

 

Burn-II
2020
Collage (black paper, burned paper)
21” x 17”

Wedge
2020
Ready-made sculpture
Painted steel and wood
3.5” x 6” x10.5“

Echoes of Bauhaus Photography Cast Long Shadows

Exhibition Dates: February 6 - April 24, 2020

Opening: February 6 | 6-8pm 
Curator: Hanna Regev

Paying homage to Bauhaus at 100, Echoes of Bauhaus Photography Cast Long Shadows exhibition explores the far-reaching impact of Bauhaus ideas in recent photography and photo-based art. 

By bringing together all of its forms - prints, projections, and installations - this exhibition explores how Bay Area artists draw on the school’s aesthetic and spirit of unlimited experimentation and continue to push the limits of the medium through the innovative use of technology, novel photographic techniques and interdisciplinary strategies.

My piece in the exhibition: Sight, 2020, photomontage

and the Panel Discussion I participated in:

In July 2018 and in February 2019 I received  support grants from the Artists' Fellowship. Inc

"The Artists' Fellowship has been proud to be able to support our fellow artists since its founding in 1859"