ON THE SURFACE (TRIPTYCH) 1991

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

    
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, as well as 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.

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.