Vol. 08.15.2017 | Silvia Poloto
ABOUT SILVIA POLOTO
Brazilian-born Silvia Poloto is an accomplished artist working in a range of visual disciplines. She is known for her lively abstract canvases and mixed-media sculptures. Recognized for her dynamic compositions and color sensibility, Poloto exploits a vibrant visual vocabulary of boldness and subtlety. Her deftly handled juxtapositions unfold in rich, textured hues and expressive gesture. The result is a body of work characterized by equal amounts of surprise, playfulness and provocation. Her aesthetic choices engage the viewer on a visceral level.
Poloto has worked in a variety of media, including photography, sculpture, painting and video. Elements of each of these media find their home in her current work.
While the Bay Area is her current home, her work has been exhibited throughout the U.S. and abroad, including United Arab Emirates, France, Spain, Jordania, Italy, Romania, Croatia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece and China among others.
In the Bay Area, her work has been featured in exhibitions at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Italian American Museum and the DeYoung Museum, where she was an artist-in-residence.
Poloto’s work has been acquired by more than 80 institutional and corporate collections around the US and by more than 900 private collectors around the world.
Vol. 08.13.2017 | Sunday Selects
MCKENZIE DOVE
Her work consists of pure oil paint applied entirely with palette knives. All of her paintings have a thick, layered texture that she developed after studying the Impressionistic and Expressionistic movements.
KELSEY IRVIN
In a world that is becoming more digital each day, I’m driven to bring new life to objects that may otherwise be lost and deteriorated in time. The challenge I seek is to maintain a balance between working with such old objects and recreating them in a contemporary artwork that holds the test of time.
BRANDON REESE
Reese’s work is predominately known for their simple, familiar forms created in a variety of methods and at such large scales that they push the traditional boundaries of ceramic art.
ROBERT MARS
Mars creates heavily layered mixed media pieces celebrating the icons of the 1950s and 1960s, honoring vintage Ephemera while maintaining a clean, modern design aesthetic in his work.
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GREAT GARDENS: SUNNYLANDS
For the second episode of the latest series of Great Gardens—now in editorial partnership with House & Garden magazine—London-based filmmaker Toby Amies captures cacti galore with a study of the Sunnylands Center and Gardens in Rancho Mirage, California.
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Vol. 08.08.2017 | Kim Fonder, Avery Klein, Caty Smith
ABOUT KIM FONDER
Kim Fonder is thoroughly influenced by texture and touch, reflecting Da Vinci’s quote, “Simplicity is the ultimate
sophistication.” The new paintings play with neutrals, soft whites and, tawny grey washes that pair with her constant
fascination with Japan. Objects such as indigo batiks, as well as found sake brewing bags continue to be a part of
her ethnography and expression.
ABOUT AVERY KLEIN
Inspired by the Aesthetic Movement of the 1800s, Klein’s minimal work and neutral palette pares down the total
graphic elements of her pieces. Seeking to elicit a feeling of calm transcendence through her collection of work on
handmade paper. Klein utilizes form and texture to enhance and display her modern vision. Reminiscent of French
poet, Franck André Jamme’s collection of tantric paintings featured in “Tantra Song” published by Siglio Press in
2011, Klein’s paintings create a transcendent desire for further exploration.
ABOUT CATY SMITH
Smith’s assemblages, while natural and representational, are global in perspective. Her collection of mixed media
work is from a recent trip to Iceland which created a paradigm shift, deepening her awareness of nature’s perfect
alignment. Previously shooting for structured assignments with the likes of National Geographic, this body of work is
Smith’s venture into impassioned observation and approach.
Vol. 08.06.2017 | Sunday Selects
AVERY KLEIN
Minimalism inspires the work of Avery Klein. Her experience with screen printing and graphic design play an integral role in the clean design of her pieces. Klein uses a modern approach to the values of the aesthetic movement that began approximately around 1868.
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AT TEA WITH THE LEGENDARY PAINTER WAYNE THIEBAUD
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IN RESIDENCE: MARK HADDAWY
Inside the John Lautner-designed Los Angeles house restored to its original incarnation
HOW TO FEAR LESS: VINCE VAUGHN
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08.01.2017 | Karine Léger
ABOUT KARINE LÉGER
Karine Léger’s approach first involves the need to deconstruct in order to lay the foundations for an introspective reconstruction. In the studio, bits of torn and cut-up paper and photographs form a growing pile on the work table. Individual pieces from the pile will be meticulously selected for colour, texture and shape, to be arranged and rearranged, assembled and reassembled, in a quest for the right balance. Each of her paintings consists of simple clean lines and a restricted palette.
Through the simplicity of her structures and the clarity of the forms, her paintings suggest a skyline or a geometric terrain. There are places where the line becomes mountain, where the gesture evokes the tide, a breath of time passing. The layers and monochrome touches add a profoundly moving dimension to these pieces.
The work of Karine Léger is a pretext for a meeting of shapes and shades which seem to emerge from a hidden light source. It creates a contemplative space for the viewer to lose – or indeed find – themselves for a moment.
Vol. 07.30.2017 | Sunday Selects
JENNIFER WAGNER
With a deep understanding of the mechanics of pigment, transparency, refraction, and finish from her time studying classic car restoration, Jennifer Wagner creates prismatic depth in her pieces. An abstract expressionist, she manipulates shadow, blur and reflection through her “built up” pieces. Wagner reveals her visual idiom: “Creating freedom from control and randomness from organization”.
KELSEY IRVIN
Irvin is driven to bring new life to objects that may otherwise be lost and deteriorated in time. The challenge she seeks is to maintain a balance between working with such old objects and recreating them in a contemporary artwork that holds the test of time.
CONNIE NOYES
Connie Noyes transforms inherited, found, forgotten, discarded and unvalued materials into thoughtful work. She examines the social constructions of idealized beauty and the value assigned to it. Noyes’ paintings question the over-determined role beauty plays in society today.
OBJECTS
Exhibit by Aberson has been searching for and acquiring objects from around the world. A fusion of modern design and primitive form, these design objects are hand-selected to add texture and interest to spaces.
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VOL. 07.25.2017 | FEATURE JEN PACK
ABOUT JEN PACK
Jen Pack’s fabric constructions are created to allow light to pass through them, combining the effects of ambient light and translucent fabric. Using commercially available rather than hand dyed silk, the works are actually collages arranged from available color. Investigating color theory and the interaction of color is the main function of Pack’s work. But unlike the typical association of color theory as hard edged, the works are organic rather than clean lined - as are patterns and forms in nature. The work marries the imperfect quality of the handmade with the sameness and regularity of machine stitching. Pack strives to integrate hybrid ideas: straddling the fence between craft and art, color theory and the rawness of an emotional response to intense color, and reinterpreting formal minimalism in the context of a feminine convention.
Jen Pack earned her BFA from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA, and has exhibited her work in a number of galleries throughout San Los Angeles, and Portland. Pack’s unique works in chiffon have been reviewed by the LA Times and Artweek