Robert Ogata, Pauletta Chanco, Tomas Nakada
October 15 - November 20, 2009
Main Gallery
Opening reception:
Thursday, October 15, 2009
5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Three California painters explore the spectrum of visual possibilities using pure pigments, oil, wax, precious metal leaf, and ink. Some works in this beautiful and resonant show are purposefully restrained while others are dynamic and expressive.
New World Order: Habitation
Robert Larson, Nadim Sabella, Patricia Neal, Seza Bali
October 15 - November 20, 2009
Loft gallery
Opening reception:
Thursday, October 15, 2009
5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
New World Order is a series of five exhibitions held in the Loft Gallery. In each presentation, the artists explore the rapidly changing world through artworks with social, political, and ecological contexts.
In this segment, four artists envision the places we inhabit. Patricia Neal's paintings depict familiar places and the natural environment while Seza Bali's photos reveal interior spaces with surprise and humor. Robert Larson ventures on foot off the beaten path in search of traces and clues left behind by society, communities and the individual. What he finds in the detritus left behind by temporary habitation is revealing and reflective of current and past methods of living. Nadim Sabella's work imagines a future world transformed by climate change, where boats are run aground in waterless basins and the famous Bay Area fog is perpetual.
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Robert Ogata, Hana 2, 2008; oil and polymer on canvas; 72 x 66 in.; photo: courtesy the artist
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Robert Ogata, Hana 4, 2008; oil and gold leaf on canvas; 56 x 132 in.; photo: courtesy the artist
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Pauletta Chanco, Paramita Development on the Wheel, 2008; oil on linen; 46 ½ x 42 in.; photo: courtesy the artist
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Pauletta Chanco, Clearing the Forest Path for Practice, 2008; oil on linen; 72 x 64 in.; photo: courtesy the artist
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Tomas Nakada, Arrangement 11, 2008; sumi ink on paper; 11 x 7 in.; photo: courtesy the artist
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Tomas Nakada, Arrangement 13, 2008; sumi ink on paper; 11 x 7 in.; photo: courtesy the artist
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Robert Larson, Bronze Chief, 1995–2002; found object used as part of the artist's process (wheat flour bag); 28 x 16 x 10 in.; photo: Ron Jones
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Nadim Sabella, In a Fog III, 2009; chromogenic print; 6 ½ x 6 ½ in.; photo: courtesy the artist
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Patricia Neal, Gold Hills, 2007; oil on linen; 46 x 34 in.; photo: courtesy the artist
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Seza Bali, Conny, Ashley and Gwen's Knives, 2008; ink-jet print; 20 x 24 in.; photo: courtesy the artist
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