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2024 Exhibitions
Euphrat Museum of Art Glimmers curated by Diana Argabrite October 22 - December 12 Reception: Saturday November 2, 1:00 - 3:00 Artists: Marie Cameron, Edwin Carungay, Luisa Fernanda Esparza, Bushra Gill, Kristin Lindseth, Carlos Rodriguez Museum of Sonoma Santa Rosa, California A Question of Balance PacRim Sculptors January 27 - May 26 Reception: Saturday, January 27, 5-7 Read about the show: 
Cabrillo College Art Gallery Aptos, California Materiality: Cheryl Coon, Ben Hunt, Robert Ortbal Curated by Beverly Rayner March 11 - April 12 Reception & Art Talks: Saturday, April 13, 2-5pm |
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Horton Gallery
Delta College, Stockton, California Singing to the Difference: An Examination of Surface Strategies Curators: Ruth Santee and TaVee Lee March 7 – April 5, 2024 Reception: March 7, 5-7 p.m. |
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2023 Exhibitions
Sausalito Center for the Arts Finding the Form September 15 - October 8 https://www.sausalitocenterforthearts.org/ “Celebrating artists who dare to challenge conventions, blur boundaries, and find beauty in unexpected places.” Arts Benicia, California Properties of Water November 18-December 17 Katrino Bello, Juror Water, our most essential natural resource, provides endless inspiration to artists for its natural beauty and spiritual qualities. Water also raises a range of historic and contemporary issues regarding the environment and conservation, climate change, equity and access, economics, politics, and origins. Studio Gallery, San Francisco tiny November 3 - December 23, 2023 Pacifica Center for the Arts, Pacifica 50 50 September 8 - October 1 http://www.sanchezartcenter.org/ EmeryArts 37th Annual Exhibition, Emeryville October 7-29 https://www.emeryarts.org/ Mission College Gallery, Santa Clara September 13-26 Wednesday September 13, 2:3:30 |
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Petaluma Art Center
Laws of Nature curated by Vicky Kumpfer July 20-September 9 Artist talk with Steve Oliver, Thursday, August 24, 7-9 Petaluma Argus-Courier article:
https://www.petaluma360.com/ “There are fundamental truths called natural laws through which everyone and everything is governed,” declares a (Vicky Kumpfer) curatorial statement describing the show. “They are the laws of attraction, polarity, rhythm, relativity and cause and effect. With these truths, our world seeks perfect harmony for which all organisms adapt and find balance. This exhibition aligns with these concepts not only because sculpture abides by these laws but can conceptually express these natural phenomena.” Read about the show: |
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Firehouse Art Center, Longmont, Colorado
April 14 - June 3 “Augmented Organics” features the work of three artists exploring humanity’s extraordinary power to shape our environments – controlling nature, but never quite completely. Cheryl Coon, Eleanor Sabin and Alexandra Christen-Muñoz respond to the resilience and vigor of nature using a variety of mediums, from sculpture to sound. To augment is defined as making something greater by adding to it, referring to man’s desire to improve nature through technology. Augmented reality is an enhanced version of reality created by the use of technology to overlay digital information on an image of something being viewed through a device. Using their various mediums, Coon, Sabin and Christen-Muñoz present the question that while the connection between mankind as a whole and nature is inalienable and important, do we as humans, improve nature? Can nature be tamed? Will humanity be able to coexist with the endlessness of the natural world around us? |
Cheryl Coon’s organic sculptures are inspired by organisms captured by an electron microscope. Using all man made materials, such as plastic zip ties, she represents the spikes, shells, thorns, quills and spines, the tools used by these orgaanisms to survive. Expanded in size, these usually tiny armored organisms invade our space.
Eleanor Sabin’s work is based on the ways in which our society defines and utilizes the natural world in an increasingly digital and industrial environment. Her practice is an exploration of things, beings, and systems that present as natural, but are intrinsically more industrial than they first appear….
Sabin superimposes these forms on organic scenes, much like augmented reality technology, as a way to show how humans disrupt the organic systems in nature. The manipulation, while beautiful, is intrusive and unnatural. “The effect is a feeling of reverberation, an echo of the discord between the unfolding organic setting and the interfering synthetic elements” Sabin states.
Alexandra Christen-Muñoz uses bio-based generative sound, where the music is written by electrical impulses emitted by biological organisms. These impulses are later tailored with instruments and sounds for the construction of each of Christen-Munoz’s dreamscape garden narratives.
Using these recordings, Christen-Muñoz creates two soundscapes, one of rest and permanence, the other, lively and shifting. For the creation of each track there were no alterations made to the structure of the raw composition written by the organism.
https://firehouseart.org/portfolio/main-gallery-augmented-organics-sabin-coon-munoz-april-may-2023/
Eleanor Sabin’s work is based on the ways in which our society defines and utilizes the natural world in an increasingly digital and industrial environment. Her practice is an exploration of things, beings, and systems that present as natural, but are intrinsically more industrial than they first appear….
Sabin superimposes these forms on organic scenes, much like augmented reality technology, as a way to show how humans disrupt the organic systems in nature. The manipulation, while beautiful, is intrusive and unnatural. “The effect is a feeling of reverberation, an echo of the discord between the unfolding organic setting and the interfering synthetic elements” Sabin states.
Alexandra Christen-Muñoz uses bio-based generative sound, where the music is written by electrical impulses emitted by biological organisms. These impulses are later tailored with instruments and sounds for the construction of each of Christen-Munoz’s dreamscape garden narratives.
Using these recordings, Christen-Muñoz creates two soundscapes, one of rest and permanence, the other, lively and shifting. For the creation of each track there were no alterations made to the structure of the raw composition written by the organism.
https://firehouseart.org/portfolio/main-gallery-augmented-organics-sabin-coon-munoz-april-may-2023/