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2025 Left Coast Annual Juried Exhibition + 2024 LCA Awards Show
Juror Carin Adams, Senior Curator of Art, Oakland Museum of California, selected over 50 pieces from a notable collection of more than 800 entries by artists creating in states skirting the Pacific Ocean (Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington).
Adams noted: “Reflecting the diversity of the Left Coast was the guiding principle for jurying this exhibition. The result is the confluence of distinct stories and individual practices with artworks representing varying degrees of abstraction and representation in a multitude of media”.
There is so much to see, think and feel with these artworks. Discover the sublime wonder of reflective light in Michele Foyer's sculptural painting Outerwest, that floats off the wall surrounded by a glimpse of glowing color. With a longstanding interest in biological boundaries, brace yourself for what may bring about corporeal or psychological horror with Erin Grant's Bees in Your Teeth. The Oregon based artists works challenge the barriers between the human body (self) and the natural world (other). Made of reclaimed fabric, Vicky Knoop's The Moment the Memory Was Lost, explores the fragility of memory. The piecework hints at a fragmented mind, and the broken thread a thought, memory or piece of self that is suddenly gone. Memories are also evoked through Patricia Ludovici's Hiraeth, providing a visual definition for the word that means an earnest longing for a home that no longer exists or never was, in the creation a black glass cuckoo clock, remembering one that was left behind in Berlin. Do you know Paul Fappiano's Night Club Patron? His work depicts a female form in night club attire with bars of music woven into the tapestry. What reality do you find in Tom Colcord's Intimate Astrology? And does that reality shift each time you view the work, discovering new layers and dimensions?
Within this rich variety, each work stands alone without a singular thematic through line. The Left Coast remains a complex and every-changing space.
Showing concurrently is the LCA Awards Exhibition, featuring work by Kimiko Kogure, Kayley Jane Dykman and Sally K Smith, selected by 2024 juror Janna Keegan, Associate Curator, contemporary art and programming, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
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