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Don Strandberg: paintings in The Frame Maker showroom through October 31.

September 16, 2009 – 7:31 pm

Artist Don Strandberg opened “Towards Color”, his show of new paintings and mixed media pieces, last week in The Frame Maker showroom.

” In this work I’ve used theme and variation, and repetition to explore some basic ideas about form and composition.

I’ve chosen easily recognizable motifs like bars and stripes, dots, and grids in order to concentrate on the direct method of manipulating the formal elements as such. This allows me to avoid having to invent a format within which to do so.

The aim is simplicity and clarity, while allowing the work to remain somewhat open ended.”

-Don Strandberg, September 2009

While very spare conceptually, Don’s work has a certain lushness of color and texture that overflows his “found” geometric formatting and demands the viewer’s attention without apology.

Don Strandberg's Toward Color at The Frame Maker

Check out Don’s work in person through October 31 in The Frame Maker showroom, 3102 Reynard Way, San Diego, CA.

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ArtWalk on the Bay this weekend!

September 13, 2009 – 3:54 am

We almost forgot– tomorrow is the second day of ArtWalk on the Bay, a more refined version of Little Italy’s ArtWalk happening with food and wine on Marina Park behind the Marina Marriot in downtown San Diego. Preview the artists and attractions at www.artwalkonthebay.com.

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KPBS review of The Art of Photography in downtown San Diego

September 4, 2009 – 6:55 pm

Angela Carone of San Diego local KPBS loves Stephen Churchill’s Art of Photography show, too!

As many of you know, I love photography. So you can imagine how thrilled I was to sit and listen to Charlotte Cotton, the curator and head of photography at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, talk about where photographic art is at this particular juncture in history. She was in town for the opening of the Art of Photography Show, currently on view at the Lyceum Theater and for which she served as the sole judge. The show features 111 winning photographs chosen from a pool of 16,000 entries from around the world. Yup, that’s right. She looked at 16,000 photographs!

Read the rest of her enthusiastic review and see a few of the wining images on the KPBS website. This one of a kind international photography competition and exhibition in San Diego runs through November 1 at the historic Lyceum Theatre in downtown San Diego. Find out more at www.artofphotographyshow.com

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Kraig Cavanaugh on Mark Quint in Escondido

September 1, 2009 – 8:49 pm

TFM received this link today to Kraig Kavanaugh’s article on Mark Quint’s exhibition at the California Center for the Arts in Escondido right now.

Mark Quint has thirty-years in the art racket. Over that time he has represented numerous artists and earned the respect of the San Diego art community for encouraging both art collecting and art making in this region. A new exhibition Quint: Three Decades of Contemporary Art at the California Center for the Arts Museum in Escondido includes an impressive roster of local, regional, and nationally recognized artists that Mr. Quint has represented over the years. Artworks drawn from local private collections as well as other museums and galleries represent this sampling from artists such as Mel Bochner, Byron Kim, Ryan McGinness, and Manny Farber. The exhibit is strongly diverse and was curated by California Center for the Arts Museum curator Olivia Luther.

Kraig Cavanaugh is a San Diego-area college art history and studio instructor who has written articles and art reviews for Artweek and Gallery News. Once an artist himself, he was also co-director and a co-curator for Spruce Street Forum’s visual art program and has curated for Sushi Performance and Visual Arts.

Read his entire commentary here.

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