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Copyright © 2008 Jordan Quintero
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Breaking Spaces/Creating Spaces
Oil Paintings
by Jordan Quintero
music by DJ Danny Style
Reception: Friday, October 3, 2008, 5 to 8 pm
Exhibition: October 3 to November 5, 2008
website
In Jordan's work surrealist spaces emerge from the physicality of material processes infiltrating and interrogating traditional representations of both physical and pictorial reality.
Marks come from the subconscious in an intuitive flow; a rhythmic call and response between looking and making culminates in the physical object, the Picture. The Picture is about the negotiation that takes place between its intractable object-hood and its inexorable identity as image. His pictures are searching, longing pictures. Misplaced pictures. Object-less pictures. Yearning pictures.
Spaces break apart and fall together; struggle and dance. The figural form, amorphous and primitive, searches for a way towards being. Here, the archetoon, the holy autogram, exists between dream and reality—searching, becoming, and being.
Navigating its strange surroundings, migrating towards some pure abstraction along paths written by hand, the picture objects, asserts, digresses, revolves. A line, a brush, a move: it searches, finds itself, becomes a form. Adjusts, revises itself, becomes a vision. Crosses itself, re-evaluates, becomes a statement.
With these pictures, dividing spaces create new spaces. New spaces enable new forms. New forms speak to our intrinsic need to find new possibilities for the real.
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Copyright © 2008 Jorin Bukosky
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Concrete & Steel
Photography and Acrylic Transfers
by Jorin Bukosky
Reception: Friday, September 5, 2008, 5 to 8 pm
with special guest Balkan brass band Brass Menazeri!
Exhibition: September 4 to October 1 , 2008
website
Oakland based photographer Jorin Bukosky’s work presents geometric pattern and symmetry of encountered objects. With a proclivity for seeing pieces of an urban landscape in unexpected ways, Jorin creates an eye into the art that surrounds us. By capturing anything from modern geometric ceilings to scrap metal and manhole covers, from extreme angles and close distances, the subjects become something new, futuristic, and powerful. His photos can suggest a space age already arrived in, the patterns vividly preserved, or bring to attention the simple elegance of design embedded in public space. Through creating a dramatic pause in time, Jorin's camera allows us to see what our own eyes often miss.
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Copyright © 2008 DJ Whelan
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Home Bound
mixed media paintings
by DJ Whelan
Reception: Friday, August 1, 2008, 5 to 8 pm
Exhibition: July 31 to September 3 , 2008
DJ's photostream on flickr
DJ's paintings are a form of story-telling, a fabrication of fictitious limbs and faces and gestures in vague and unsettled surroundings. Pieces of human architecture emerge, get covered over and emerge again as someone different, until they somehow find themselves living and breathing in the space that has been constructed in and around them. The result materializes as ghostly collages, seemingly pieced together from the remnants of other, more layered lives. The architecture here takes form in the bones of composition, scrawled lines, painted color and found text, and recedes a bit as the homebound figures step awkwardly forward into plain view. It’s almost as if the memories of the inhabitants have been reconstructed and they stand before her now begging for their stories to be told.
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Copyright © 2008 Gary Comoglio
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Day & Night.
paintings and block prints
by Gary Comoglio
Reception: Friday, July 11, 2008, 5 to 8 pm
Exhibition: July 3 to July 30 , 2008
www.garycomoglio.com
Alameda printmaker and painter, Gary Comoglio presents Night & Day. These paintings and hand-painted block prints focus primarily on composition, light, and abstraction of details.
Gary's block printing technique and aesthetic favors the tradition of the Japanese woodblock artists such as Ando Hiroshige and brings much of the same simple beauty, emphasis on strong composition, and flatness in to his woodblock prints. Some of the smaller blocks took 2 hours to print by hand; the larger blocks took up to 3 hours. Each was meticulously hand-printed and hand-signed by the artist.
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Copyright © 2008 Julie Oppermann
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Superimpositions.
paintings by Julie Oppermann
Reception: Friday, June 6, 2008, 5 to 8 pm
Exhibition: June 6 to July 2, 2008
www.julieoppermann.com
Marking her first Bay-Area solo gallery show, Julie Oppermann’s Superimpositions centers around the idea of layering, collaging, and juxtaposing patterns, shapes, lines and colors.
Julie presents two groups of paintings – in the smaller watercolors, she borrows imagery from textile patterns, wallpaper designs, and other decorative arts, creating intimate dreamscapes. In her larger works on canvas, she moves away from pattern and ornament, focusing instead on interweaving lines and overlapping spirals. In all her works, colors, lines and forms come together in unexpected ways, creating an illusion of depth and space.
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Copyright © 2008 Mia Nakano
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Passing By & Life in Limbo.
photography by Mia Nakano
Reception: Friday, May 2, 2008, 5 to 8 pm
Exhibition: May 2 to June 15, 2008
www.mianakano.com
Life in Limbo captures the ethereal beauty and peace people all look for in the Tibetan Buddhist communities abroad. As tourists travel and see peaceful aspects of Buddhism, there is a pervasive unawareness of the immense oppression these devoutly spiritual people face. Though the geographic location Tibetan Buddhists extend far outside of China's borders, the power of China's government has a global reach. 20% of sales will go to the International Campaign for Tibet, a US based media non-profit, and one of the strongest supporters of Tibetan rights in the world.
Passing By is a photographic commentary of how on a daily basis people walk by delicate and fragile, yet crucial parts of nature. These images pull viewers close into small bits of texture and light, whether it's on urban city streets, or on California coastlines. The saturated and intricate images are the result of an intense focus on everyday objects that signify the balance or imbalance of the earth's environment. The photographs encompass everything that is visually appealing, and captures scenes that are constantly present and consistently missed.
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