popUp Gallery will exhibit works on the theme of “Abundance”
popUp Gallery will exhibit works on the theme of “Abundance” on Friday, November 8, from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. The works include a scene of adventures with donuts, wonderful pastries and microscopic organisms. According to the curators of the show, “there are also reminders of our throwaway mentality, maps that chart the global vastness of self-indulgence and haunting reminders of those who do not share in the wealth - those for whom abundance is just a dream and hunger is their reality. These artists pose questions about how - and, perhaps more importantly, by whom - "abundance" is defined.” Sounds like a thought provoking show. The popUp Gallery is at 1517 Park Street in Alameda.
Features artists include Gabriele Bungardt, Mi’ChelleFredrick, Eric Joyner, Michael Kerbow, Hap Leonard and Michelle Mansour.
It has been said that power and wealth desensitize people other’s pain. Bungardt explores the that idea in the art she is showing.
Fredrick uses a combination of colored pencil and watercolor to give her paintings a delicate and ethereal quality
Joyner lush paintings are the “essence of abundance” with the playful robots and their nemesis giant delicious looking donuts.
Kerbow paintings and sculptures called Topography “resents imagery that encourages us to question our actions and consider the impact that our personal choices may have on the world around us.”
Leonard paintings of cast off furniture and other items are his expression of our throwaway mentality.
Mansour says of the painting she is displaying that“The tensions between the scientific & the spiritual, the corporeal & the ethereal are what drive the work.”
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