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| I am drawn to the beauty of colour and the arresting purity it
possesses when separated from form and context. Through painting and
photography, I focus on light, shadow, and the subtle nuances found
in common experiences. By abstracting actual occurrences into
subliminal fields, I amplify moments that often go unnoticed and
create portals to subconscious unveiling. My interest lies in experiences that are nonverbal and unexplainable in traditional language. The goal is to encourage psychological introspection and create a space for sensory perception. By allowing the formal to be a spark for the internal, I speak to experiences beyond words – the moments which carry great weight in the body yet are not fully resolved in the mind. Each is an illumination, a meditation, aimed at promoting self-knowledge and discovering oneself through stillness. |
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Lumina
cerulean 042107, 2007 |
Lumina
sage 051007, 2007 |
Lumina mauve 082107, 2007 |
| Biography Born: Boston, 1971 Lives and works in Mill Valley, CA EDUCATION: San Francisco Art Institute, MFA Painting, 2006 UC Berkeley, Interior Architecture, 2003 Columbia University, BA Political Science, Honors, 1993 SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 2010 Keira Kotler, Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, Oakland, CA Keira Kotler, SFMOMA Artist Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2009 Lumina, Gallery NAGA, Boston, MA [in]sight, The Untitled Gallery, Sausalito, CA 2007 Keira Kotler, Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, Oakland, CA 2006 Luminas: Recent Photoworks, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA The Language of Color, Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael, CA 2005 New Photography, Root Division, San Francisco, CA SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 2010 Cynosure: New Work from East Bay Galleries, Worth Ryder Gallery at the UC Berkeley Museum, Berkeley, CA SITE Unseen 6, SITE Santa Fe + James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM 2009 Altered States, Di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA Metaphysical Abstraction, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA 2008 Bridge Art Fair, Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, Oakland, CA Phenomena of Essence, Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, Oakland, CA Wild Things, Di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA All Colors in Mind, Rosenbaum Contemporary, Boca Raton, FL A Flavor of POP, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM SITE Unseen 5, SITE Santa Fe + James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM 2007 Art Miami, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM Moon Proof Madness, Di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA Chroma, Gensler San Francisco, San Francisco, CA Still, Contemporary Quarterly Project Space, www.contemporaryquarterly.com Systems + Transmutations, Root Division, San Francisco, CA Purple Rain, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM 2006 Cream, From the Top, Arts Benicia Center Gallery, Benicia, CA San Francisco Art Institute MFA Exhibition, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA SITE Unseen 4, SITE Santa Fe + James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM MOMENTUM, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA Taste, Root Division, San Francisco, CA 2005 EMERGE! 2005, Gen Art, San Francisco, CA Gallery Artists, CFA Gallery, San Anselmo, CA San Francisco Biennial Exhibition, Herbst Exhibition Hall, San Francisco, CA Considering Orange, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2004 Gifted, CFA Gallery, San Anselmo, CA Considering Red, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA Art Chicago, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM 2003 Explorations, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM Inaugural Exhibition, Lendrum Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA SELECTED PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS: Westin Hotels & Residences, Napa, CA GWK, Inc., Boston, MA Marshfield Associates, San Francisco, CA Squawk Box Studio, Los Angeles, CA Jensen Architects, San Francsico, CA Weil Gotshal + Manges LLC, Redwood Shores, CA Yogaworks, San Francisco, CA Yogaworks, Mill Valley, CA Aston Pereira, Sacramento, CA College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM BIBLIOGRAPHY: Lyric Representation of Sacred, Peter Selz, Berkeley Daily Planet, October 29, 2009 Immanent Domain, DeWitt Chang, East Bay Express, October 28, 2009 Fluent in Confluences, Cate McQuaid, The Boston Globe, September 23, 2009 Heaven, Art of Elysium, Christie’s Auction Catalog, January, 2009 First Friday 2008: A Year in Review, Piedmont Post, January 7, 2009 Bridge Art Fair Exhibition 2008 [book], Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, December 2008 Westin Verasa Art Collection [book], November 2008 Leading Contemporary Artists Raise Funds for CCBF, Yahoo Finance, September 8, 2008 Keira Kotler + Jenn Shifflet, Jakki Spicer, Artweek, February 2008 Keira Kotler + Jenn Shifflet, Critic’s Choice, Saira Masood, East Bay Express, Nov. 14, 2007 Keira Kotler + Jenn Shifflet, Critic’s Choice, Jakki Spicer, East Bay Express, Nov. 7, 2007 Moon Proof Madness [exhibition catalog], Di Rosa Preserve, October 2007 ‘Still Standing,’ Gay Dawson, The Bohemian, April 2007 STILL [exhibition catalog], Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, April 2007 ‘Cream’ at Arts Benicia, Cherie Louise Turner, Artweek, October 2006 Simplest Art - Color Solo, Where Magazine, May 2006 West Coast: MFA Review, Chris Cobb, stretcher.org, May 2006 San Francisco Art Institute Master of Fine Arts [exhibition catalog], May 2006 New View: See the World through Different Eyes, San Francisco Chronicle, April 20, 2006 American Art Collector, Volume 2, Book 1, Alcove Books 2005 Art in Review, Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, December 2005 Nice Surprises at ‘Emerge,’ Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, November 2005 Gen Art EMERGE [exhibition catalog], November 2005 Explorations at Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, THE Magazine, April 2003 |
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