Artist:
Sheri Tharp

Description:
Sheri Tharp is an artist, professional woodcarver, and master teacher whose work reflects a lifelong attraction to the beauty, subtleties, and strength of the human form.

Photos of Show: Philip Ringler

Participating Artists:
Joy Broom, Susan Casentini, Emily Marcus, Adele L. Crawford, Amelia Miro, John Fadeff, Maya Downs, Fernando Hernandez, Clint Imboden, Laurie Kanemoto, Faye Kendall, Leah Korican, Jerry Leisure, Kyle Milligan, Stan Meek, Omid Mokri, Philip Ringler, Tim Sharman, Denise Snaer-Gauder, Tag Team, Susan Sharman

Show Description:
A group installation show. A month-long build-up to All Hallow’s Eve and, in sensibility, a return to the Victorian Era.

Photos of Show: Philip Ringler

Participating Artists:
Susan Lefkowich, Kyle Milligan, Omid Mokri, Farnaz Shadravan

Show Description:
The arabesque gains its allure and meaning from geographic motifs that are intricate, repetitive, and integrative. Studio Quercus presents the work of four artists who explore varying notions of the arabesque.

Artist:
Andrew Romanoff

Show Description:
Prince Andrew Romanoff fully exploits the vivid clarity and the mysterious translucence of the Shrinky Dink medium. He applies colored pencil and paint to clear plastic sheets that are cooked until shrunk down. His technique is unassuming and his composition straightforward, lending it a quality of innocence that allies it to the tradition of folk art.

Artist:
David Martin

Show Description:
David Martin presents 6 works, part of a larger conceptual installation, that explore the symbolism, metaphor and perception of light.

Show Description:
An Art Guitar exhibition from a collection spanning over two decades.

Artists:
Shivani and Kalias Rajan

Show Description:
"Overt grappling with materials went out of style with the capsizing of Abstract Expressionism and the bobbing to the surface of more industrial, coolly cerebral aesthetics. Going to nature for inspiration (remember Georgia O'Keefe and Henry Moore?) likewise all but vanished with Pop and its buoyant successors (except for Neo-Ex in the 1980s). Sister and brother Shivani and Kalias Rajan, painter and sculptor, respectively, obviously stick with the old-time religion. In Shivani's paintings, California's undulating hills resemble our bodies, "forces within and ... without" seen as equivalent. In Kalias' sculptures, tree branches similarly suggest torsos. While there's a bit too much reverence toward organic form here (and the idea that humanity is part of "Earth's body," in Shivani's words), is that old enough to be new again?"

— DeWitt Cheng, East Bay Express