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Indepth Arts News:
"Corrections - Some Magic... and some Truth"
2009-03-05 until 2009-03-16
SOMArts Cultural Center
San Francisco, CA,
USA United States of America
As artists, we often express our feelings and thoughts concerning injustices, abuses of power, good and evil, or just the way we would like the Earth to be. Even if its only our own little corner of the world or in our own heart and soul. Making corrections, righting wrongs. This exhibit is dedicated to that theme. An example of a wrong could be a polluted landscape, political or governmental abuses, ignorance and lies, war scene or a disaster. An example of a right (a correction) could represent or express any situation that has been corrected. The work can be of any style or media: representational, abstract or conceptual. Many of the artists in the exhibiton promote their works with Portfolios at absolutearts.com. Artists participating in the exhibition are Brad Michael Moore, Frank Ettenberg, Cassandra Gordon-Harris, Harriette Lawler, Midori McCabe, Pia B. Lehmann, Ione Citrin, Gadi Veneziano, Virginia Erdie, Rodrigo Piedrahita Escobar, Diane Hill, Christian Moeller, Jasmine Ronel, Betty Bastai, Sarah Bindman, Donelli DiMaria, Bill Jackson, Sun-Young Jin, Elizabeth King, Rivka Kos, Terry Kruger, Linsay Locke, Neil Nieuwoudt, Marat Paransky, Billy Rose, Cecilia August Sand, David Trachtenberg, Solomon Walker, and Genevieve Williams.
Summary
As artists, we cant raise money the way musicians can, but we can raise awareness and focus. This one exhibit wont change the world, but at least we artists can stand together and hopefully get some attention paid to what wed like to see corrected.
The state of the world these days often seems so grim and hopeless, terribly out of balance, in desperate need of some magic.
Some Magic . . . and some Truth.
Copyright/2007/Harriette Lawler.
IMAGE
Artist: Cassandra Gordon-Harris
Title: Shelf Life
Year Created: 2008
Medium: Oil Painting
Width: 36 inches
Height: 60 inches
Depth: 2 inches
Framed
Price: US$ 5,400
Purchase online or by phone> The exhibit will also include visitor participation. Attendees can write down something that they feel needs correcting. Such as: abuses of any kind, overpopulation, corporate greed, political corruption, or whatever one wishes - global, national, local, or personal. They could then feed this Wrong into a paper shredder that would be set up in the gallery. (Something will be posted stating that only Wrongs that are NOT motivated by anger, hatred, bigotry/intolerance, or jealousy/envy should be fed into this shredder.)
We will also have a secondary shredder to receive petty or selfish concerns - just so people can get these things ìoff their chestî or just to get rid of the negative emotions that they are causing a person to harbor. At the end of the opening reception, our court jester will read aloud some of the Wrongs to be righted. In olden days, the kings court jester was the only one who could present truths in public before the king - without losing his head.
Summary
As artists, we cant raise money the way musicians can, but we can raise awareness and focus. This one exhibit wont change the world, but at least we artists can stand together and hopefully get some attention paid to what wed like to see corrected.
The state of the world these days often seems so grim and hopeless, terribly out of balance, in desperate need of some magic.
Some Magic . . . and some Truth.
Copyright/2007/Harriette Lawler.
IMAGE
Artist: Cassandra Gordon-Harris
Title: Shelf Life
Year Created: 2008
Medium: Oil Painting
Width: 36 inches
Height: 60 inches
Depth: 2 inches
Framed
Price: US$ 5,400
Purchase online or by phone
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