Posts Tagged ‘East Bay Open Studios’
Norton Factory resident Kathryn Rummel of Kreate Photography is a passionate and driven photographer and multi-media artist.
Kathryn sees the human form as a powerful work of art in itself. Her series Everybody is Beautiful {Body Scapes + Impressionist Form} was cultivated from a deep desire to celebrate the unadorned human…
Read More Comments Off on East Bay Open Studios Artist: Kathryn Rummel | Kreate PhotographyNorton Factory resident artist Jess Wainer will have her studio open this Saturday from 12 to 3 p.m. as part of the final weekend of East Bay Open Studios at Norton Factory.
Jess Wainer’s work combines sculpture, painting and drawing to captivate and challenge viewers. She uses the contours and expressions…
Read More Comments Off on East Bay Open Studios Artist: Jess WainerHeather Day’s paintings begin at every seam, edge, and mark. Then layers of paint overlap revealing collected moments of interaction. Every mark creates a series of expectations similar to a conversation. When a question is asked, an answer is anticipated. Stitches and mark making lead to energetic movement reading like handwriting stretching…
Read More Comments Off on East Bay Open Studios Artist: Heather DayWorking with painting, drawing, print-making, collage, animation and digital media, Anna Valdez explores the meaning of memory and identity. Valdez incorporates articles from her home, such as plants, fabrics, vessels or records into her work as a form of self-representation, and understands the domestic sphere as emblematic of personal and…
Read More Comments Off on East Bay Open Studios Artist: Anna ValdezAaron Shifflett’s work finds spirituality in compositions inside and around us. They take abstracted gore and combine them with compositions from microbiological cultures and stellar matter. Images of innards, muscles, and bone are an uncomfortable reminder of our fragility and death. After death, cultures living within us will continue to…
Read More Comments Off on East Bay Open Studios Artist: Aaron ShifflettTina Kraft grew up in a rural town near Cleveland, Ohio where she started drawing and painting at an early age. She has spent the last three decades on South Florida’s eastern coast, painting the native landscape. She recently completed her MFA at the New York Studio School.
Tina will be exhibiting her…
Read More Comments Off on East Bay Open Studios Artist: Tina KraftWe are very pleased to be showing the work of Julia Nelson-Gal during East Bay Open Studios. Her Mythology Art History series commingles art historical icons from many cultures with elements of nature creating surreal, fanciful characters.
View more of her work on her website,www.julianelsongal.com, and during East Bay Open Studios…
Read More Comments Off on East Bay Open Studios Artist: Julia Nelson-GalSonia Sinton’s work focuses on the juxtaposition of soft and hard and chaos and order, by mixing steel with feminine colorful fibers to create complex structures and surfaces. View Sonia’s work on her website, soniasinton.blogspot.com, and during East Bay Open Studios at Norton Factory in Oakland June 7-8 and 14-15,…
Read More Comments Off on East Bay Open Studios Artist: Sonia SintonLaurie Close’s work investigates notions of depth and space on the painted surface. There is a dependency on opposing positions finding the right balance, a struggle between order and chaos. Hard edges and flat space is met with atmospheric illusion. By challenging the visual structure tension is created. Uncertainty is…
Read More Comments Off on East Bay Open Studios Artist: Laurie CloseArtist Genevieve McClendon’s goal is to create a space in which an experience of energetic flow, creative magic and vibration can be translated into a meditation of the heart and be shared.
View Genevieve’s work in-person during East Bay Open Studios at Norton Factory June 7-8 and 14-15, 11 a.m. to noon daily…
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