Essay for COM’ A TERRA QUIETE IN FOCO VIVO, a solo exhibition by Gioj de Marco
It’s Oh So Quiet by Erin Gordon an essay for COM’ A TERRA QUIETE IN FOCO VIVO a solo exhibition by Gioj de Marco I remember the faint smell of a campfire. Oddly comforting, yet visually ominous and threatening. The sky, still that familiar California blue, was hazy with tinges of orange and red. … Continue reading
Seeing Eye to Eye: Notes on Curating Room for One
Seeing Eye to Eye: Notes on Curating Room for One By Daniel Oliva Why am I so excited about this exhibition? I wanted to make a show with miniatures and small works because they invite close looking. When artists produce works this small and with an abundance of precise detail, viewers can often feel the … Continue reading
SO YEA: A Poem by Heather Raquel Phillips for GAG: Peggy and Emily Blei Hracho
GAG verb gagged; gagging 1. a: to restrict use of the mouth of by inserting something into it to prevent speech or outcry b: to prevent from exercising freedom of speech or expression c: to pry or hold open with a gag 2) to provide or write quips or pranks 3) to choke or cause … Continue reading
Conscious Objects: An Essay by Frances Beaver for Rebecca Tennenbaum’s Exhibition Every Thing Has a Function
Conscious Objects By Frances Beaver If you don’t own a Fitbit, would you consider buying one if instead of tattling to your health insurance company how many sit ups you don’t do, you could program it to play back an 8-bit version of any song when it sensed through your vitals that … Continue reading
THE COMPLETE SUBJECT She loved most of all the paintings of the Dutch still life masters and specifically the ways they depicted lemons. Lemons alone could move her to tears, joy and emotional depth. Anywhere she could go and observe any painting of a lemon, no matter how small, she went. Standing for hours … Continue reading
Supermarket Self-Care in the Age of Anxiety, By Bridget A. Purcell
Supermarket Self-Care in the Age of Anxiety, By Bridget A. Purcell An Essay on New Works by Chelsea Tinklenberg Cabbages on wheels and suspended from cables, vegetables unearthed from a white pedestal, or dripping from a faucet, frozen in time and space in all manner of impossible relationships. These are just a few of the … Continue reading
Chelsea Tinklenberg: CULTIVATION
Chelsea Tinklenberg CULTIVATION April 5th-27th 2019 NAPOLEON is pleased to present CULTIVATION, a solo exhibition of new sculptural works by artist Chelsea Tinklenberg. Tinklenberg’s kinetic and sculptural works explore imaginative relationships between objects and their functions, playing on the precarious relationship between utility and futility. http://www.chelseatinklenberg.com Opening Reception: First Friday, April 5th, 6-10pm Exhibition Dates: April … Continue reading
Christina Kerns: but like forever
Christina Kerns but like forever March 1 – 24, 2019 EXHIBITION ESSAY BY KATE ABERCROMBIE Recently a friend asked if I collected rocks. My answer was no, but immediately I wished I had, thinking of a lost rock I had picked up years ago in Maine that was exactly palm size. Their question was generous, … Continue reading
SOFT SYNTH + BIGHT BOUND
The works of Angela Lopez, Emma Oslé and José Santiago Pérez come together toward an equation called SOFT SYNTH + BIGHT BOUND. This is a room of seemingly surface contradictions- knotty lines that are meant to dance, a rough hand across a plush material, smooth continuity of natural fibers that move in order to contain. … Continue reading
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