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Art of the Cotton Mill Studios
Paintings, sculpture, photography and mixed media by:
Keiko Nelson, Bill Stoneham, Susan Tuttle and Elizabeth Tennant
Closing party 7/12
6-9pm


On display at the artist owned and operated FLOAT Gallery will be hand-picked, select group of Cotton Mill artists who live and work in the building: Keiko Nelson, internationally accomplished sculptor. Bill Stoneham, painter, sculptor and animator, Elizabeth Tennant, painter and Susan Tuttle photographer and mixed media artist.

Dreams and Distortions…… 

The series of visions currently showing at the Float Gallery at the Cotton Mill Studios is a swim through a dreamy underworld. Bill Stoneham’s tortured figures are emotions flayed raw upon the canvas, their crisp outlines and sharp textures inviting a meticulous examination. Elizabeth Tennant’s gentle monsters glow with the fever of a child’s imagination. Rising for breath, the viewer finds the gentle humor of Susan Tuttle’s photography, which captures daily life in striking clarity. The majestic and fluid forms of Keiko Nelson’s stone, bronze and water sculptures provide an anchor, giving a still point where the real meets the unreal. After an hour in the gallery, the viewer will feel as if she has been gone for days, moving in a sea of dreams.


About the Artists:

Keiko Nelson

Keiko NelsonKeiko Nelson is an international artist, who has exhibited her works and lectured about her art in the United States, Japan, Germany, Ecuador, Hong Kong, Egypt, Thai, China and Mexico. She was an artist in residence at the University of Chiapas in Mexico for the International Sculpture Symposium, and given a grant for a one –person exhibition by the Ministry of Culture in Egypt. She was given in the Artistic Achievement Award by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation in New York in 2002, among her interests range from sculpture through fine art, design and textiles. Her works feature the subtle flow of natural force. Her work has been described by the Curator Emeritus of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco as “a unique fusion of the East and West, the retrospective and the progressive and delicate and the dynamic.” www.keikonelson.com


Bill Stoneham   

Bill Stoneham Bill Stoneham's professional art career began in 1972 at Feingarten Galleries in Beverly Hills, CA. Feingarten bought Stoneham's paintings for two years and hosted a one-man show that was reviewed with statements like "...at their best when at their weirdest" and "The best works here deserve the attention of collectors".  In 1992 Stoneham started working at ILM, sculpting in the creature shop, building feature film sets. When art went digital, Stoneham followed, mastering digital 3D modeling and cinematic production. During his career, Stoneham created inspiring digital and fine art for many entertainment companies including Lucas Arts Entertainment, Cyan Worlds, and Crystal Dynamics. Today Stoneham is painting and creating digital art and animations - all in surrealist style - exploring figurative and textural concepts influenced by the urban environment and the social/political forces at work in our world. www.stonehamstudios.com



Susan Tuttle


Susan Tuttle
Susan Tuttle moved from the East Coast to San Francisco in 1978. She is the Director of Montclair Gallery in Oakland, which she founded in 2003 with East Bay glass artist Janet Thompson. Susan is a photographer and jewelry designer, and her jewelry designs are on permanent display at Montclair Gallery. She graduated from Ithaca College in 1976 with a B.A. in Liberal Arts and a minor degree in Art History. She studied graphic design at the Academy of Art College beginning in 1982 and was involved in the profession for 20 years. She participates in the annual East Bay Open Studios, San Francisco Open Studios, well as other juried and non-juried exhibits in the San Francisco/Bay Area. From 1999 until 2004, she was involved with San Francisco’s ArtSpan, proofreading the annual San Francisco Open Studios Guide. In addition, she is an associate director at San Francisco SOMA’s new GarageGallery, where she has also exhibited her photography and jewelry designs.


Elizabeth Tennant

Elizabeth Tennant


Elizabeth Tennant is a native California artist with a BA in studio art. Working in oils exclusively, she is committed to magical realism and the craft of painting. Her lifelong interests in psychology and mythology give her a perverse, fantastical visual language that conveys deep emotion. Her works can be found in collections throughout California and on the East Coast. www.ElizabethTennant.com

Opening party music:

Daniel Berkman is a San Francisco-based multi-instrumentalist who has played with artists ranging from Essence to the San Francisco Ballet. Well known for his inspired West African kora playing, he will be flexing his electronic muscle as Colfax, releasing his debut electronic album later this year.


















Beneath The Surface

Visionary Paintings & Works on Paper by Liz Mamorsky
Interactive Assemblage Sculpture by Paul Baker

Closing art party will celebrate the FLOAT Galleries 2nd year anniversary

DJ BONSCOTT of WaxONWaxOff productions will be spinning funk, hip hop, and jungle during the event. 

Saturday 5/17, from 6-9pm

Beneath the Surface

The capabilities of the human mind like the creative process, is nothing short of astonishing. Beneath the Surface gives us a taste of that brilliance, telling stories from deep within. During this two month show we challenge the audience to experience their own path through paintings, works on paper and assemblage sculpture that utilizes found objects to stir memories.

Our closing party will mark Float’s 2nd year anniversary in business and participants will have the ability to win a free floatation session every ½ hour during the event.


Liz Mamorsky

Liz Mamorsky

An artist all her life Liz Mamorsky was a child star back in New York and currently does voice work for radio, television and games, including Sims 2, Sam & Max, and AVampyre Story. She is also the narrator for the recent PBS documentary, The Remarkable Red Hat Society. Since graduating from Bennington College, Mamorsky has exhibited her unique recycled-materials sculpture, studio furniture, and visionary paintings and drawings nationally and internationally. Her work resides in numerous public and private collections including: The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco; The Spertus Museum, Chicago; The Oakland Museum of California, Sony Corporation, Nektar Therapeutics, First National Bank of Arizona, Santa Clara Medical Center and Paramount Pictures for the set of Star Trek:Voyager. You can find her hard at work in her amazing LizLand Studio in San Francisco
 

Paul Baker

Beneath the surface

Beneath the surface

Paul Baker is an assemblage artist who creates interactive sculptures. His ongoing series: Machines for Living are built intentionally to help us examine our lives and evoke memories, though insight and humor.

A native of Boston, Baker moved to San Francisco ten years ago. He has been producing art in different mediums for the past 15 years; in 1991 he settled on assemblage sculpture, perhaps latently influenced by a boyhood passion for collecting shelf after shelf of what his mother called "junk".

His background includes exhibit design at the Cleveland Museum of Art; art instructor; bird house entrepreneur; and a stint as a sales clerk in a large department store. His education includes extensive travel abroad and a Masters degree in Medieval Art History from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, England. Baker works as an advertising copywriter by day.  www.Paulbakersculpture.com




“Material Evidence”

Mixed media work of Peter Boyer, and Master Plasma sculptor Ed Kirshner

Closing Party March 15th 2008, 6-9pm

Closing night will showcase a live performance by Oakland reed renegade Cornelius Boots

Material Evidnce Plasma JellyfishJellyfish plasma

Enter a world were materials come alive in an inspiring array of elements, both elegant and serene these masters of design transform materials designed for constructing buildings, into creations that seem to take on a life of their own.

Included in the display are the compellation plasma jellyfish sculptures by Ed Kirshner
and Bernd Weinmayer, a master flame worker from Austria www.weinmayer.at

peter BoyerPeter Boyer


Boyer's art deals with physical and material elements. He builds paintings by successive applications and deletions of various materials: canvas, muslin, linen, paint, gesso, charcoal and graphite. His is a process of working and reworking the surface by tearing off and reapplying his materials until the work attains what he has described as "presence".

Peter Boyer was born in New York in 1948, moving to the West Coast with his family in 1960. He studied art in California and Oregon, receiving his BA from San Francisco State University in 1977. He also studied architecture at The Southern California Institute of Architecture. Boyer operated a small design/build business in the 1970's, which acquainted him with the materials and techniques of building construction. Much of this knowledge has been applied to the process he follows in creating his mixed media works. www.peterboyer.com

Ed Kirshner

Artist statement:

Ed KirshnerLike Dr. Frankenstein in his lab, I hover over my glass and gas plasma work, spending many hours mixing, balancing and fine-tuning. Still, the plasma light behaves in a way that I can never completely control. I can change or direct its behavior by varying the pressure and mix of gases, or the frequency and the voltage of the power, but I can never fully predict the detailed effects any of my actions will have. Though frustrating at times, this unpredictability is at the very heart of my work. This is the personality, the mystery, the life that I try to create in my sculpture.

Ed Kirshner of Oakland, California was born in New York City in 1940.  He studied architecture and sculpture at Cornell University, the University of California at Berkeley and the Oskar Kokoschka School of Vision in Austria.  After thirty years of developing and financing affordable housing, he returned to study art at the California College of the Arts in Oakland as well as at Pilchuck and Corning glass schools and Northlands Creative Glass in Scotland.  His glass and gas plasma sculptures have been exhibited throughout the U.S. as well as in Taiwan, Japan, Australia, Austria, France and Turkey. His work, “Cone of Chaos”, was a Corning Glass selection in 2000 and is included in Corning's recent book "25 Years of New Glass Review."  His piece, "Java High," was a recent acquisition of the di Rosa Fine Arts Preserve in Napa, California.  Ed has taught glass and gas plasma workshops in the U.S. as well as in Asia and Europe and is on the faculty of The Crucible Fire Arts School in Oakland and the Glass Furnace in Turkey.  He is also a Trustee and the Treasurer of the Museum of Neon Art (MONA) in Los Angeleswww.aurorasculpture.com

Cornelius Boots

Closing night will showcase a live performance by Oakland reed renegade Cornelius Boots. A progressive rock composer, bass clarinet performance specialist, wu wei woodwind instructor and Zen flutist. Founder of Edmund Welles. Boots is currently undertaking more large-scale, primordial, avant-orchestral compositions. Recent pieces include a commission by Chamber Music America and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. 

The live performance for Material Evidence will reflect the elements of earthiness, experimentalism, and unpredictability found in the artwork.  A primarily improvised ambient set which will combine the usage of the robot bass clarinet—an amplified, effected, mutated bass clarinet—and the sounds of the mendicant bamboo flute-playingcharacter "Shunyata Wu-xi" (wizard of the void), utilizing shakuhachi and staff flutes in addition to tape loops, and voice to create minimalist industrial-new age and existential blues. www.corneliusboots.com, www.edmundwelles.com

Jelly


ROBOTS ARE ART 

DIY Show & Contest  

Show runs through Jan 17th, 08

Build a robot

The robotic art was judged by Monty, from ANYBOTS the first humanoid robot of it's kind.

Let Monty be the judge

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Opening partyRobots are artRobots in the Gallery

12/15/07 Robots Are Art opening party showcased, Monty the first humanoid robot of its kind, who judged the robotic art in this DIY Art show and contest. It was his first open to the public appearance. A few Pleo’s (baby Camarasaurus) wandered through the crowd as critics. Pleoworld.com

Robots served beer, painted paintings and even a disgruntled beggar robot will is on display, so expect robotic diversity to be a cornerstone of this art show. 

A presentation on the history of robotics by Frank Garvey was shown at 6pm, along with spin the robot raffle prizes and free robotic magazines. ( The premier raffle prize will be a cool robot toy from Boss Robots & a visit to ANYBOTS to spend time with Dexter & Monty in thier own natural setting)  

This event will encompass a diverse group of robotic artists including mixed media, painters and kinetic artists. The contest will be 100% violence free, and will focus on form, function, and fun. Prizes will be given for categories such as overall artistic esthetics, unusual functionality, robots as a reflection of society, and incorporation of unusual objects to name a few.  

Judging the robotic art will be, Monty the first humanoid robot of its kind along with Trevor Blackwell, Ph.D. Founder and CEO of ANYBOTS and David Calkins, President of the Robotics Society of America, and founder of the international RoboGames www.Anybots.com, http://robogames.net/index.php

Robotic Artists:

Cheryl Finfrock - Painter
Camp Peavy - Robotic artist
Mike Wilder - Robotic Artist
Willy Matsuno - Mixed Media (Prize Winner)
Max Chandler - Robotic Artist
Paul Gibson - Painter (Prize Winner)
Christoper Palmer ( CTP) - Robotic Artist (Prize Winner)
Mark Murry - Mixed Media (Prize Winner)
Scott Wiley - Painter
Liz Mamorskey - Mixed Media
James Lovekin - Mixed Media
Paul Baker -  Kinetic Artist
Nemo Gould - Robotic Artist (Prize Winner)
Al Honig & Dr. Johnathan Foote - Robotic Artists
Mark Galt - Robotic Artist
Frank Garvey - Robotic Artist (Prize Winner)


This is a not to be missed show!

SpoAnyBotsnsors: 

 

  

  Anything, Anytime, Anywhere

Robots are art    Boss Robots, Berkeley

Robotic art sponsor The East Bay's independent weekly

Robots love to serve beer Served by a Robot 

Mel Knox Barrel Broker    Mel Knox Barrel Broker

   Pandora.com
Pandora.com

HITEC ROBOTS  Robonova1  New Era for Edutainment Robot

SERVO Magazine

 

   Covering the world of personal robots


Vision Hispania East Bay Hispanic Newspaper

Robot  
The Latest in Hobby, Science and Consumer Robotics

Robots are art Inside bay Area.com

Ugobe  Pleo is now Live! Robots are art
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Judges:

Monty the first humanoid robot of it’s kind will be judging the robotic art along with the amazing Trevor Blackwell, Ph.D. Founder and CEO of ANYBOTS

David Calkins, President of the Robotics Society of America, and founder of the international RoboGames.

David Calkins

About FLOAT :

FLOAT is an urban art spa committed to providing an ever changing space that showcases local artists, and provides an opportunity to unwind, float and open-up the creative channels in all of us. Taking a different view of what a spa should be, we are dedicated to the simple fact that every float should be as unique and extraordinary, as the art.

Frank Garvey

Scott Wiley

Robots are art

Mark Murray Art

DIY Robots

Max Chandler Robot Art

Scott Wiley







“Exhibit 17: Attention to Detail”
Photographic Images by Jill Thomas and Lori Nunokawa

Opening Reception November 17, 6-9pm
Show runs through December 13th, 2007
Music by DJ Cue

    Jill Thomas  Lori Nuokawa

“Attention to Detail” is a collection of work by two artists documenting the ever changing urban terrain.
Take a journey with photographers Jill Thomas and Lori Nunokawa into a virtual reality of fictional communities. Enter solitary scenes of metro spaces and larger than life color and texture. 

About the artists:
Thomas is a collector in pursuit of the ordinary. She’s always on the look out for discarded, abandoned or forgotten things.  Attracted by the color and repetitiveness of things on the street, in the woods, on the beach or in her backyard Thomas gets down low to make the miniature monumental.  Her images combine with her background in drawing and painting to create an abstract landscape of contrasting colors, simple shapes and rich textures. www.gigglingirl/Jill.com

Nunokawa cruises through life with a camera stuck to her eye, capturing photographic images of her life in San Francisco. When she leaves the city, she takes her camera along and photographs things of interest to her in other surroundings.  Other times she combines images and makes special photos of places only she can imagine where the inhabitants might just be tiny plastic facsimiles of human life.  The images of reality and fantasy are often blurred. www.gigglingirl/Lori.com

About the music:
DJ Cue hails from Daly City and has been DJ’ing since 1986 and Producing since 1991. His formats include Hip-Hop, Electro, Breakbeats, and Experimental. He has released albums with many different labels and on his own with more that 30 different releases to his credit.  More information on DJ Cue can be found at his website www.djcue.com




Masks of Africa

 An exhibit of African masks and sculpture from the private collection of Horgan Edet, and Judah Dwyer.
With the photography by Craig Riedel.

Exhibit runs through November 15th, 2007

Fertility
 

Collectors and entrepreneurs Horgan Edet and Judah Dwyer have been collecting and showcasing African art and artifacts for over 20 years. Nigerian born Edet has an eye for quality as he hand selects, and negotiates the purchase of African art, both locally and abroad.  On display will be a diverse selection of masks and sculptures representing many regions of Africa.

Fertility

 

Dryer is the educational powerhouse of the team, by bringing awareness of African traditions to the local San Francisco community. Since 1997 Dryer has directed and trained the dancers for the African Outlets award winning San Francisco Carnival contingent, for the annual festival and celebration each May.

 

PhotographyCapturing the spirit of the Carnival contingent will be the hand processed black and white photography of Craig Riedel, a San Francisco based professional photographer.


Passing along more then just tradition, Edet and Dwyer, are the founding members of Paths of Native Africa, a not-for-profit (501c3) that undertakes self-sustaining projects, education and cultural exchange to help overcome hardships and improve the quality of life for the African people. www.pathsofnativeafrica.net

In 1989 Edet and Dwyer opened the African Outlet, an eclectic African store located in the Hayes Valley district of San Francisco. The African Outlet is considered to have the finest selection of authentic African goods in the San Francisco Bay Area, by the FLOAT curators. Stop by one of their neighborhood BBQ’s for a one of a kind San Francisco experience.  www.theafricanoutlet.net


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EXPLORING THE UNDERGROUND

Appreciating African Spirituality

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6TH, 2007 – 6:30 TO 8:00 PM

Please join the journey by attending this free educational event:

RSVP to: 510.535.1702 info@TheFloatCenter.com







Inside Out
New works by painter Cheryl Finfrock, and plasma sculptor Michael Pargett

Opening Artist Reception, Sept 15th 6-9pm
Show runs through October 16th, 2007

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"Inside Out" is the expression of dreams illuminated by an explosion of color. Painter Cheryl Finfrock explores archetypes and dream mythology through psychedelic animal imagery. Her work is a tantalizing escape into the depths of dreams, populated by a highly entertaining and sometimes disturbing array of bizarre creatures. Her powerful use of color makes these images unforgettable.
 
Illuminating the show is the work of plasma sculptor Michael Pargett, who is fascinated by the interactions between high voltage electricity and noble gas mixtures. His glass and plasma sculptures are but one reflection of that fascination. His work "Art Electrique" is a playful combination of geometrically beautiful pieces with a pinch of Meet the Jetsons.
 
Cheryl Finfrock
 
"Dreams inspire my work. Images ranging from public domain icons to archaic glyphs fascinate me.

With high voltage colors I search for a visual language of universal archetypes. The creation and deconstruction of this language occurs through the physical act of painting. In my recent work, color, texture, and layering become the psychology of expression. Fauvism, Expressionism, Abstract Expressionism, and Carl Jung influence me. Specific influences are Edvard Munch, James Ensor, Georges Rouault, Rainer Fetting, the COBRA painters and Jean-Michel Basquiat."

 - Cheryl Finfrock
 
Cheryl Finfrock's paintings are highly recognized in national and international collections and have been featured in several publications and television programs, including CURVE magazine. Recent exhibits include New York City, San Francisco, Berlin, Paris, Copenhagen, Olmouc, and Sophia.
 
Finfrock a trained welder and sculptor, has found her forte in painting. She is a favorite in the collection of the FLOAT owners, and recently left the bay area to live in Austin Texas. Please join us for her return in this, not to be missed event.
www.Cheryl Finfrock.com


Michael Pargett

Michael PargettPlasma art Pargett enjoys the paradox between the high energy that creates the illumination, and the slow, sensual movement of the gas mixtures that can be achieved to present a visual experience that is as compelling as it is hard to describe.  His expressions are at times humorous and at others inspired by a desire to honor the basic elements of the gasses themselves. During the filling portion of the creative process, he attempts to allow the gases themselves to express how they would like to manifest within the glass. “They feel as though they have something to say, if I only knew how to listen consistently” - Michael Pargett

Pargett’s background is in Electrical Engineering, Construction, and Electronics. He has worked in the Film Industry, in Commercial Lighting Design, and in Medical Imaging Equipment Installations. He also creates illuminated sculptures using standard neon tubing. Starting in 1996, he learned neon tube bending from Ron Carlson, at the University of California San Diego Crafts Center. He has also volunteers at The Crucible in Oakland, using his electrical experience to assist in the continuing installation of equipment.














Homeland Obscurity


Group Show of Paintings & Sculpture by Catherine Richardson & Will Tait

Show runs through September 13, 2007

 
Utilizing different media, Catherine Richardson, painter, and Will Tait, sculptor investigate the notion of sense of place and connection to home. Resonances both artists share include a search for the deep seated meaning of “home” and “land” which they share with us through their process and their work. Nature and tangible space plays an important role in both artists’ work as well.  

Catherine Richardson
Catherine Richardson:


Catherine Richardson was born in, and grew up in, Yorkshire, North England, and later, London. She made deep connections to the natural world at an early age, as her play areas were the Dales and Moors. Walking is a major pastime in the UK due to public access to land. She moved all over the UK and in order to understand each place and Catherine would walk everywhere, often getting lost, only to discover... new home.

Catherine has a BFA in Metal sculpture and silversmithing from West Surrey College of Art & Design (UK) and an MFA from JFKU (Berkeley) and currently lives in Petaluma CA. While studying for her MFA at JFKU in Berkeley, she allowed the connection to the natural world of her childhood to become what her artwork was really about.
http://cjrich.com/

Catherine Richardson~In Her Own Words:
The artwork in this show is my investigation into location and its connections to
"home" when the home of origin is in another country. I wonder what makes my current place a home. The idea of home becomes obscure; dimmed by relocation, commuting and
overly busy lives. What experiences and perceptions, of a locale, can be created to help
evolve a sense of belonging when one is missing? In our ever-changing environments, the natural world is a constant and provides a reference of the real. Pieces in this show illustrate my walking the locale while I deepen my levels of perception and awareness, unveiling the obscurities of place until I understand my connection to it.
 
Exploring the idea of “belonging” as one of the senses, I am curious to know how it evolves; whether we live most of our lives in one region or we take a nomadic trail, I am interested in what is it that gives us a sense of belonging. What is a constant in an ever-changing landscape? There are many layers of a locale to explore, just as there are levels of responses when we are intent on realizing them through relationship to place. I investigate these questions in each location that I inhabit. I attempt to cultivate a sensual exchange with the natural world utilizing the approach of phenomenology, a philosophical discipline that describes ways the natural world makes itself evident to our awareness. As I research this fluid region of direct experience and the structures and sub-structures of place, my artwork defines a personal connection separate from the purely objectified, mapped world, and I come to understand more fully, a sense of “belonging”.

Catherine Richardson “Maps”, Drawings and Paintings:
The “maps” and paintings are larger 2D format. They follow the system of a map without being navigational tools, but rather a collection of stories of my experiences in relation to place.


Will taitWill Tait:

Tait’s first conscious memory of making artwork goes back to when he was six years old. Fascinated by how the Old Masters created the illusion on a two-dimensional surface of objects in space, as he grew up he drew what was around him. For the most part Will drew flowers, leaves, trees, weeds in fields, and other natural subjects. Later Tait studied for several years at The Art Students League of New York in Manhattan.

In addition to sculpture Will paints, draws, creates one of a kind furniture, and also uses computers as a creative medium. Will Tait’s work is in corporate collections, the Palace of the Legion of Honor, several galleries and he has exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art artist’s gallery. http://willtait.com/

Will Tait~ Sculpture~ In His Own Words:
Inspiration for my wood sculpture has always been gleaned from nature. Currently (2007) I look to the physical manifestation of the interplay between natural forces. These forces can be ephemeral like the shapes formed by foam on the edge of waves interacting as they meet the sandy beach and, at other times, a more solid manifestation, such as bark shaped by the growth of a tree, or roots shaped as they grow by the resistance of nearby soil and rocks. For me these manifestations exist in what I think of as the space between the seen and the unseen. This constantly fluctuating space, filled with dynamic energy in constant flux, influences my process and my art profoundly. “My work is more about beauty as I find it in the natural world than intellectual concepts. I suppose at heart I am a romantic.,”  - Will Tait














Burdened Dreams

Paintings and sculpture by Marty McCorkle and Victoria Skirpa


Opening Artist Reception July 21, 6-9pm
Show runs through 8/16/2007

Victoria Skirpa

Two self-taught artists, a sculptor Victoria Skirpa and painter Marty McCorkle, display distinctive figurative work that reflects compulsive artistic visions that originate from narrowly self-imposed rules. Often transcending the burden of obsession, the resultant works resonate with misshapened but lyrical depictions of the organic and human form, challenging whether these artists are trapped or liberated by their burdened dreams.

About the Artists

Marty McCorkle:

Marty McCorkleMcCorkle’s work blends oil painting and computer to deliver engaging, sometimes startling figurative images. Using the computer like a blade, McCorkle follows self-imposed rules to digitally cut up bodies into bands and circles of color at the expense of subjects’ outline and volume. McCorkle then paints from these computer screen images onto canvas, amplifying suggestions of movement and of vision’s ephemeral quality. McCorkle’s more dynamic paintings become experiential snapshots while his more contemplative images stand as studies in deconstruction.
http://martymccorkle.com/Burdened Dreams


















Victoria Skirpa:


JeweleryRabble FishSkirpa’s glass-work confronts and explores the tension in attraction and repulsion; the grotesque is a point of inquiry. Her metalwork tends to evoke futuristic universes. She often seeks a playful relationship with work, evocative of feminine iconography and sexual innuendo. However, a continual thread remains: the relationship of forms to living bodies - animal, human, and insect. On display will be glass, metal and mixed media sculpture and jewelery.

Skirpa’s self imposed rules are evident in the dance between opposites, never resting on any side, in constant opposition of each other. Opposites and opposition fuels the energy of her work, dynamic tension, and continual movement, sometimes exhausting and often exhilarating.

“Collapsing a piece into only one possibility , seems never enough, as if cheating the work, of a life it could have had” – Victoria Serpa
http://www.victoriaskirpa.com


Metal & Glass Sculpture






A Question of Belief

A group show of paintings, photography and sculpture featuring,
Cherie Raciti, Nina Glaser and Marianne Hale

Show runs through 7/14/2007


"A Question of Belief" showcases three extraordinarily diverse artists, who express the power of belief through photography and sculpture. Writings in the sand. Uncommon views of beauty. Celebrations of an artist's unique view of the Buddha…

Discover for yourself which beliefs these artists reveal...

About the Artists

Cherie Raciti:

BuddhaAs Professor of Art at San Francisco State University, Cherie Raciti has won multiple awards over the years. Her work is included in many permanent collections including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.  Raciti will be presenting acrylic, mixed media paintings of simple shapes and patterns derived from both the sacred and the secular found in many cultures. Part of this work is her Buddha Head series, a 2 1/2 D take on traditional views of the Buddha figure that invite intimacy with the viewer.













Nina Glaser:


Nina GlasserAfter 20 years of an amazing international photography career that included teaching at the Academy of Art University, and the publication of two monograms: "Outside of Time" and "Recomposed". Nina Glaser has completed the body of work she felt she was destined to do. Although she no longer creates art, she has graced us with a return showing of a few of her images for this show.  Glaser's work is both haunting and extraordinarily powerful, a personal favorite in the private collection of the FLOAT curator. Glaser has transferred her story telling and creativity to the Art of Hypnotherapy.























Marianne Hale:


WonderMarianne Hale firmly believes in the power of positive change on a global level, and does everything in her power to send out this message.  Development Associate by day, an amateur photographer all her life, she is entering the gallery scene with an intention to share her message of nature revealed with as many people possible.  Strongly under the influence of fairy dust, she quite literally writes her messages of empowerment and belief in the sand, revealing what nature already knows.



 









“Homage to the Ordinary”

A group show of collage, sculpture and photography
by Tauna Coulson and Tempe Sikora
A minimalist view of travel

Tempe

Artists Tauna Coulson and Tempe Sikora guide you through their personal discovery and celebration of the beauty within the ordinary. Their artwork will be presented through collage, sculpture, photography, and infused with the DJ music of g Dub.

“Homage to the Ordinary” is a collection of work from two artists, and friends, whose approach to art  attempts to capture the overlooked elements around us, transforming fragments into a delicate, bold,  harmonious whole. Coulson and Sikora welcome you to explore their personal, elemental, and sometimes whimsical perceptions of life.

About the artists:

TaunaTauna Coulson

A graphic designer by profession, Tauna Coulson is no stranger to visual intrigue. With her extensive knowledge of grid theory, visual hierarchies and composition, Coulson illuminates a sensitivity and feminine beauty unique to her art. Between a discernible fascination with color and line, and a 3-dimensional aspect of her work, one finds it hard to define as merely collage.
 
This exhibition, Coulson's first public show, has previously been enjoyed only by friends and family in her home. You're invited to view her many years of material and inspiration.
www.coulsondesign.com