Whew! Lotsa Art
It has been a busy art related 3 days...
Thursday night - To SculptureCourt in Oakland (1111 Broadway - 12 St BART Station)to see the work of Elaine Wander. The largest work took up the entire wall (maybe 20 feet high?) with her "envelope" pieces. She took envelopes with those plastic windows, cut them in half and did playful drawings on them, reminiscent of Joan Miro. Many looked like aliens with large heads and small bodies. She used some colored gels so i imagined that the piece would look like stained glass in the daytime. Open Monday - Friday, 7 am to 7 pm, third Thursday until 8 pm. This was organized by the Professional Services Division of the Oakland Museum. Till May 1, 2009.
Afterwards, i headed to the Asian Art Museum to see a Butoh performance called "The Trace of Purple Sadness". I was captivated by the power of movement but it really is a different style of dance...not what most would consider dance i would imagine. Still, i loved the performance by Ximena Garnica and it was amazing to see her strength and beauty.
On Friday, it was to Palo Alto to the Cantor Art Center to see "Durer to Picasso" Passion for Collecting.
It was a great show - and what a great collection. Just to namedrop a little but there were pieces from Rembrandt, Toulouse-Latrec, Edvard Munch, Eakins, Miro, Durer, Breughel, Picasso (a wonderful early painting, 1901) and so much more. And the Cantor Art Center is always FREE. Wednesday - sunday 11 am - 5 pm, Thursday 11 am - 8 pm. Show ends February 15, 2009.
And while i was at Stanford, i went to see "A Soldier's Story" by Rebeca Stanton, a friend from the San Francisco Art Institute days. Her work is being shown at Stanford Art Spaces at the Paul Allen Center for Integrated Systems on the Stanford campus.
She did this series of paintings while her son was serving in Afghanistan. She is showing 17 oil paintings and i thought it was interesting that for someone who loves to use colors, she did many faces and figures in black and white. I definitely sensed that it was a difficult time for her but i guess that goes without saying. Her son attended the reception and was definitely the star of the evening. It was a well attended show. Our painting professor, Bruce McGaw attended the reception much to my delight. It's been a long time since i've spoken to him and it was nice to do a little catch up. Through March 12, 2009.
Then, I delivered my commission "Twelve Trees Posing 2".
On Saturday night - I went to Sculpturesite Gallery to see the work of ceramicist John Toki.
He is the president and owner of Leslie Ceramic Supply Company in Berkeley, a venerated institution, at least that was my impression when my sculpture professor, John DeFazio spoke about the place.
If i had to choose a favorite piece, it would be this one.
Or maybe this one....
Or this one?...
Thursday night - To SculptureCourt in Oakland (1111 Broadway - 12 St BART Station)to see the work of Elaine Wander. The largest work took up the entire wall (maybe 20 feet high?) with her "envelope" pieces. She took envelopes with those plastic windows, cut them in half and did playful drawings on them, reminiscent of Joan Miro. Many looked like aliens with large heads and small bodies. She used some colored gels so i imagined that the piece would look like stained glass in the daytime. Open Monday - Friday, 7 am to 7 pm, third Thursday until 8 pm. This was organized by the Professional Services Division of the Oakland Museum. Till May 1, 2009.
Afterwards, i headed to the Asian Art Museum to see a Butoh performance called "The Trace of Purple Sadness". I was captivated by the power of movement but it really is a different style of dance...not what most would consider dance i would imagine. Still, i loved the performance by Ximena Garnica and it was amazing to see her strength and beauty.
On Friday, it was to Palo Alto to the Cantor Art Center to see "Durer to Picasso" Passion for Collecting.
It was a great show - and what a great collection. Just to namedrop a little but there were pieces from Rembrandt, Toulouse-Latrec, Edvard Munch, Eakins, Miro, Durer, Breughel, Picasso (a wonderful early painting, 1901) and so much more. And the Cantor Art Center is always FREE. Wednesday - sunday 11 am - 5 pm, Thursday 11 am - 8 pm. Show ends February 15, 2009.
And while i was at Stanford, i went to see "A Soldier's Story" by Rebeca Stanton, a friend from the San Francisco Art Institute days. Her work is being shown at Stanford Art Spaces at the Paul Allen Center for Integrated Systems on the Stanford campus.
She did this series of paintings while her son was serving in Afghanistan. She is showing 17 oil paintings and i thought it was interesting that for someone who loves to use colors, she did many faces and figures in black and white. I definitely sensed that it was a difficult time for her but i guess that goes without saying. Her son attended the reception and was definitely the star of the evening. It was a well attended show. Our painting professor, Bruce McGaw attended the reception much to my delight. It's been a long time since i've spoken to him and it was nice to do a little catch up. Through March 12, 2009.
Then, I delivered my commission "Twelve Trees Posing 2".
On Saturday night - I went to Sculpturesite Gallery to see the work of ceramicist John Toki.
He is the president and owner of Leslie Ceramic Supply Company in Berkeley, a venerated institution, at least that was my impression when my sculpture professor, John DeFazio spoke about the place.
If i had to choose a favorite piece, it would be this one.
Or maybe this one....
Or this one?...
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