2023 Exhibitions
Arts Benicia, California
Properties of Water
November 18-December 17, 2023
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.
Properties of Water
November 18-December 17, 2023
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.
Sausalito Center for the Arts, California
Finding the Form
September 15 - October 8
Reception: Saturday, September 16, 5-8
https://www.sausalitocenterforthearts.org/
“Celebrating artists who dare to challenge conventions, blur boundaries, and find beauty in unexpected places.”
Finding the Form
September 15 - October 8
Reception: Saturday, September 16, 5-8
https://www.sausalitocenterforthearts.org/
“Celebrating artists who dare to challenge conventions, blur boundaries, and find beauty in unexpected places.”
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Pacifica Center for the Arts, California
50 50 September 8 - October 1 Reception: Sunday, September 10, 1-5 http://www.sanchezartcenter.org/ |
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Studio Gallery, San Francisco
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November 3 - December 23, 2023
Receptions: Sunday, November 5, 12-6
20th Anniversary: Sunday, December 3, 12-6
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November 3 - December 23, 2023
Receptions: Sunday, November 5, 12-6
20th Anniversary: Sunday, December 3, 12-6
Emeryville Artist Coop
Open Studios
October 14 & 15
Open Studios
October 14 & 15
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Mission College Gallery, Santa Clara
September 13-26
Wednesday September 13, 2:3:30
September 13-26
Wednesday September 13, 2:3:30
Petaluma Art Center
Laws of Nature
curated by Vicky Kumpfer
July 20-September 9
Artist talk with Steve Oliver, Thursday, August 24, 7-9
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.”
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.”
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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/exhibitions/upcoming-exhibitions/
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/exhibitions/upcoming-exhibitions/