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Solo Exhibition
SDAI 2009

Press: "Lust for Life" by Katherine Sweetman
for the San Diego City Beat

Press: "C'est la Vie " by Sandra Shrader for Under the Sun Magazine

The cover of the San Diego City Beat on the occasion of "C'est La Vie"

Essay by Jane La Motte

Photos of the show

from Thursday, June 4, to Sunday, July 12, 2009

C'est La Vie
San Diego Art Institute

"A San Diego Artist distills everyday moments and world events into a pure essence of color, space, and shadows, inspiring others to connect to the world around us."
Sandra Shrader, Under the Sun Magazine, June 2009.



“C’est la Vie”, a site-specific project, 2009 -
(the wall is 45 feet long)

 

Created and painted from a series of recent photographs of landscapes and of people, taken in San Diego and in the adjacent deserts, “C’est la Vie” proposes a series of snapshots of the way I see the place where I live.

The puzzle-like installation, made especially for the SDAI space, continues the exploration started with “Here it’s Peace”, my first solo show at the SDAI in June 2008, and with the ensemble of six large paintings “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness” presented in the show “New Contemporaries II” (San Diego Art Prize 2009) at Noel-Baza Fine Art in February-March 2009.


photo courtesy Leslie Ryan

The small paintings, specially created for the installation,
are from 4 different series I worked on:
- Territories series/landscapes (desert and ocean - some completely abstract),
- Territories series/connections (people in abstract landscapes),
- Territories Series/Troops (soldiers),
- Watching series (portraits).

I created a stream of mixed images which tells about the world directly related to me and about some events which affect my life indirectly (the war, the border, the credit crisis).

San Diego Art Institute
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San Diego, CA 92101
(619) 236-0011

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Sun 12 noon to 4 p.m.

Here are some of the paintings presented in the show:


Territories Series: Troops - #3
2009, acrylic on canvas, 12”x12”


Territories Series / Landscapes - #10
2009, acrylic on wood panel, 8”x8”


Watching Series #8
2009, acrylic on wood panel, 8”x8”


Watching Series #10
2009, acrylic on wood panel, 10”x10”


Territories Series: Connections #1
2009, acrylic on wood panel, 4"x4"


Territories Series: Connections #2
2009, acrylic on wood panel, 4"x4"

 


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