The 50x50 shows at Pacifica’s Sanchez Center are juried competitions with an unusual premise. Accepted artists commit to creating fifty pieces in fifty days, all in the same 6”x6” format in the same materials, with the same theme. The pieces are mounted in arrays of forty-nine, with one framed image set aside, mounted next to the artist’s statement and CV. This year, sixty-seven mid-career artists were accepted, making for a diverse but high-quality show. ( See jpeg for the list of participating artists.) My random sampling of reception photos from August 26 does not represent everyone, but the show is well worth seeing, and it continues until October 2 www.sanchezartcenter.org/EXHIBITIONS.html
1. Celebrating art.
2. Celebrating art.
3. Reception crowd. 67 artists plus posses.
4. The Players.
5. Lisa Aksen’s “Meditations on the Human Condition Drawn from Artwork in Museums”
6. Vanessa Woods’ “50 Collages Exploring and Deconstructing Greek Mythology.”
7. Daniele Derenzi with “Stairways: San Francisco Soul.”
8. Janet Jones, “Letter Forms, Language and the Printed Word.”
9. Donna Grant, “Let’s Go Coastal.”
10. Amanda Devlin with “My Life in Skirts.”
11. Andra Wiley, “The Life and Death of a Fox.”
12. Katherine McGuire, “Endless Summer”
13. Amanda Krauss, “My First or Best Bird Sighting for 50 Days.”
14. Reception.
15. Charles McDevitt, “City Bits, Urban Landscape Details.”
16. Jana Carrey, “Senseless Acts of Beauty.”
17. M. Victoria Vargas with “Abstract.”
18. Donnasue Jacobi, “Dogs at Play.”
19. Ziba Afshar, “Dreams.”
20. June Yokell with “Water, Reflections, Brush, Bramble, Trees, Movement.”
21. Ron Tanovitz, “Artifact Fragments.”
22. Paul Hazell, “Bamboo Springs Eternal.”
23. Grace Breyley with “Rare, Scare, Uncommon Cooked a Short Time.”
24. Mary Medrano, “Dog Portraits.”
25. Michael Pauker, “Exploration of Abstraction as a Language, Using Color and Form.”
26. Michelle Echenique, “Life in All its Fullness: Embracing the Full Catastrophe.”
27. Michelle Echenique.
28. Leah Thompson Bromberg, “Dilapidated Family Transportation: Hoarded History of Quotidian Spaces, Now Valueless.”
29. Sarah Beth Goncarova, “Cosmos,” and Linda Masotti, “Migration: Convergence of Lines Traveled.”
30. Roxanne Worthington, “Dreams of Home: Memory, Imagination & Longing.”
31. Dotti CIchon, “Ordinary Transformed into Extraordinary: Stairways, Ceilings, Floors and Walls.”
32. Dotti Cichon.
33. Roland Abellano, “Accessing Memories,” and Sarah Beth Goncarova, “Cosmos,”
34. Amy C. Hart, “Highlights of the High Sierra.”
35. Michael Risenhoover, “Images Taken Through the Viewfinder of a 1960s Camera.”
36. Lynne Todaro with “Inspired by Joseph Cornell.”
37. Goran Konjevod, “Pinned Paper.”
38. Peter Foley, “The World 2.”
39. Gale Frances with “An Irreverent View of Our Culture of Fear.”
40. Melanie Hart, “My Whimsical Village.”
41. Alice Kelmon with “Nature, Abstract.”
42. Justin Disney, “Music for the Eyes.”
43. Cherie Hacker with “Abstracts.”
44. Reception.
45. Ranjani Mohana, “Skies.”
46. Margaret Grisz-Dow, “Contemplating the Figure.”
47. Charley Paff, “Beyond Chow: Re-envisioning Out Stake (at left).”
48. Barbara Kirst with “Solitude, Interior Places.”
