The 3D sculptural paintings/assemblages of Berkeley artist Tom Holland fill the Main Gallery until February 12. Aluminum and fiberglass sheets are looped, twisted and riveted together to form free-standing planar sculptures whose colorful palettes and loose, gestural paint handling suggest an Abstract Expressionist (or Impressionist) treatment of the California landscape that also exploits the properties of the then-new epoxy paints of the 1960s and 1970s. Some related watercolors on paper and epoxy paintings are included here. Holland has taught at SFAI, UC Berkeley, and UCLA. His work resides in many prestigious museum collections, including those of MOMA, SFMOMA, the Whitney, the Guggenheim, and LACMA. Holland will speak about his work this Sunday, February 12, at 4pm. My caption information is incomplete, so only a few titles are listed at the moment; if I have time on Sunday, I’ll capture and post that info. The pictures as presented here are in illogical chronological order.
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Also showing until February 12 is a show of Arts Guild of Pacifica members, entitled Something Edgy, focusing on the provocative and subversive—the only reasonable reaction to much of what's going on now. Here endeth the editorial.
http://www.sanchezartcenter.org/EXHIBITIONS_West.html
