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We are in a startling time hearing the cries of children torn from their parents at the American border. Beyond this country, refugees are seeking sanctuary around the world. The multi-year Sanctuary project is a visceral response to their humanity.
For decades I created individual paintings and assemblages ranging from abstract through figurative in a variety of mediums and I’ve been in many exhibitions. I’ve been well reviewed in shows including the California African American Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. And my work was featured at the Los Angeles Art Show at the Convention Center in 2019.
Now Sanctuary is a three-part installation that expands on all my previous work. Entering Part One a visitor is immersed in life-size drawings with sculptural elements draped ceiling to floor behind a chain link fence. These walking figures are parents seeking refuge and children caged behind ropes. The 60-foot installation makes the viewer a witness to the refugee journey.
In Part One (2019), the figures travel by land. Part Two (2020) is travel by sea. Hand made “rafts” have canvas sails where the refugees are drawn in the same charcoal style as the walkers. Behind the rafts that fan out across the gallery floor will be a 36-foot wide abstract mural that I painted to suggest the devastation they are escaping.
I am currently beginning Part Three, the Shelters. These are fabric-draped free-standing structures that will culminate the journey. Watch for their debut at TAG in 2021.
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Website: pamdouglasart.com
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Shirley Asano Guldimann is a Southern California artist, whose works are held in private collections. Her figurative art, painted on slippery surfaces with water-based mediums, evokes the transient and elusive nature of her subjects. This questing after the fleeting reflects her Japanese-inflected aesthetic.
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Website: studiotabby.com
My recent work is abstract and grows intuitively from the first mark of color placed on the surface. I start with a color and explore an aspect of that color - often I'm interested in complimentary color. If a representational elements appears, I follow it and move the work in that direction.
I mix media using paint, pencil, ink, and pastel, as needed to get to where the work needs to go. The handmade paper series is part of my abstract work. It is created by developing sheets of paper from pulp that I sculpt, texture, and paint. This approach is quite different from how I develop representational work.
I think of my representational artwork as pausing time. Each image captures a space in time for personal contemplation and rest. The space can be any place, but it is almost always outdoors in nature, on the street where I live, or places I visit.
Fog, rain, and darkness are frequent subjects of my work. They offer the contemplative space I am trying to achieve and leave room for interpretation. The media and techniques I use emphasize the ambiguity of what I see. I work predominantly in colored pencil for these representational landscapes and atmospherics.
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Website: arlenew.com
The paintings of Jewish-American artist Judy Zimbert are made from the application of multitudinous layers of paint. As many are removed as restored in Zimbert’s attempt to capture the ambiguous nature of existence and infuse each piece with all the emotions felt and experienced within life’s moments. Each work is original to Zimbert’s experiences of summers in Michigan, life in her own neighborhood or travels to distant lands.
Inspired by the post-war angst of such painters as Lucien Freud and Frank Auerbach and the German Expressionist art movement, Zimbert’s paintings use symbolism to evoke meaning as well as human traits, to express intensity, place and mood. She aims to translate the emotional quality of everyday and current events and to weave a visual narrative for her viewer, inviting that viewer to immerse himself or herself into a a shared emotional experience. Judy Zimbert currently lives and works in Beverly Hills, California.
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Website: judyzimbert.com