Mike Borja Unfolding Eye Mixed media painting with wooden frame, 30″ x 44″, 2012 $850. from the feature exhibit: Space To Grow, October 2012…
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Let’s Fight Till Six and Then Have Dinner by Michele Guieu, November 2012 Feature Exhibition
Let’s Fight Till Six and Then Have Dinner by Michele Guieu VIEW AVAILABLE ART WORK This installation of drawings and videos is about childhood and its fleeting moments. Everything passes, hence the title, which also refers to the fact that the show opens just a few days before presidential election day. It puts the urge to argue and the hunger for peace in (a childish) perspective. The drawings hung on the backdrop of the giant leaf are made from pages of ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’. I see the world Alice visits – and creates at the same time – as a response to the complicated world we live in. In the series of short videos, I watch my two boys as they grow: the way they see the world, the creatures and the monsters they imagine. Michele Guieu is a graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de…
Creature Comforts by Karen Carlo Salinger, November 2012 Feature Exhibit
Creature Comforts by Karen Carlo Salinger VIEW AVAILABLE ART WORK Suspended animation, medical curiosities, scientific illustrations and biological specimens. Improbable creatures in impossible situations. These are some of the ideas that I incorporate into my drawings, sculpture, and other artwork. I call them my creatures, because that is what they are – unknown organisms that take shape in my mind, the roots of which come from a lifelong interest in strange biology, microscopic life, the human body, and basically anything else ooey, gooey, creepy, strange or unusual. Karen Carlo Salinger lives and works in the Santa Cruz Mountains above Silicon Valley. She earned her BFA in 1997 from the California College of the Arts in Oakland, California. Since graduation her art has been focused on painting, intricate pen and ink drawings, and sculpture with unusual materials, such as urethane, plastics, and mixed-media. Her artwork is a blending of strange biology…