Group Art Exhibition “It’s not one thing… it’s everything” opens November 6 at Canessa Gallery

A new group exhibition inspired by – and commenting on – current times will feature paintings, sculpture and video at the historic Canessa Gallery in North Beach.  This powerful collection of recent works promises to move, challenge, delight and inspire, featuring work by artists Jon Altemus, Peter Brown, Vicki Gunter, Dana Lawton and Robert Perkins.  The collection, which ranges from allegorical to purely abstract, includes mixed media, paintings, sculpture, and a video montage.  The exhibition opens November 6 and will be available by appointment through November 27.
Location: Canessa Gallery, 708 Montgomery Street @ Washington, San Francisco

Make reservations at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/its-not-one-thingits-everything-tickets-124950055981
 @Itsnotonethingitseverything on Instagram 

​TRADING PLACES 
​Canary & Elephant Series




Exhibited @ Epperson Gallery
in 
WHAT LIES BENEATH

February 14 - March 15
2020

I would love to share my newest sculpture, Farewell To Spring, with you at Epperson Gallery. And I am happy to have a second piece, Humming Aquilegia, in this wonderful show.

~ CANARIES & CLIMATE DISRUPTION ~
 
It's a bitter success, this opportunity to share When Our Ship Comes In with you. 

While walking the Berkeley Marina with my love, Peter, I saw a huge white and blue block, floating in the San Francisco Bay. It triggered memories of the faces of Alaskan glaciers and their calved icebergs.

When he told me it was a car carrier ship, I 'saw' an arctic iceberg slammed up to the backend of that car carrying ship.  These weird looking ships carry 13 stories of 5,500 climate-changing vehicles.

This is a kinetic sculpture. Its ice-filled berg slowly melts, flooding the Americana scene of little red school house, corn field, white picket fence & American Gothics with apple pie & pitch fork. As the waters rise little messages in a bottle float. The cautionary, yellow, canary sits atop the American flag.

This year, floods and fires have destroyed & ended many lives. This is happening now, time is running out, no more waiting for $-our-ship-to-come-in-$. Our beautiful earth is the only ship that matters.
Melting Glaciers = Canary in the Coal Mine for Earth. 
Fossil Fuels + Corporate Profit = Elephant in the Room.

I feel an urgency to create art in this revolutionary time and value clay’s infinite potential − mirroring our own.
With love, Vicki

I invite you to explore my process as I created 
​Casa Azul - “Feet, what do I need them for if I have wings to fly.” Frida Kahlo

​My first 37 years as an artist were as a dancer, choreographer & healer. I have worked with many people in pain. As a massage therapist, I have felt many different bodies, spines, hands, feet. Now, as a clay artist, spines sometimes subconsciously flow from my hands.
 
I visited Casa Azul in 2013 photographing its vivid blue walls & green trim. Like many of us, I love Frida’s art. I imagine she was able to sustain & be true to her self, creatively, politically & sexually because of her art.
 
When I began, Casa Azul, I looked at x-rays & photos of her broken collarbone, bolts in her spine, her studio, HER…painting a hammer & sickle on her body cast while trapped in it. I felt her true ‘house’, was her rib cage & heart.  And of course, her arms, which, when faced with amputation of her leg, took flight.

click for details: Bedford Gallery 
Links to videos and blogs about my work and the Bedford Gallery:
Casa Azul at The World of Frida from OverDressed for Life - blog
City of Walnut Creek video of World of Frida
Blog by Deborah Adeyanju about my solo show - Fall 2017
Clay & Earth
What We Stand On

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Mother Nature - Canary & Elephant Series​
The Artery Gallery's  
California Clay Competition 
April 27 - May 25, 2018

​207 G St., Davis,CA 
Reception at The Artery
Friday, April 27, 2018, 7-9 PM

This piece is subtly kinetic...
I do hope you can come see her!
This series references, the canary-in-the-coal-mine as a cautionary alert of our social & ecojustice issues & the challenges of cleaning up after & removing the fossil-fueled, profit-driven Elephants in the Room.

The exhibit is part of the annual California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art established by Natsoulas Gallery. The opening weekend includes lectures and demonstrations by contemporary ceramic artists. Many pop-up venues include numerous regional Universities and Colleges which exhibit the work of their ceramic students and instructors.

Manzanita Sky
...In Everything Series
After Nature - (27 artists!)
Art Works Downtown
April 20–June 1, 2018
Reception: May 11 • 5–8pm

The DNA genetic code of molecules is evidence of the shared ancestry of all living things. Look for the DNA helix in Manzanita Sky’s branch tips.

My intention is to share work that stirs the visceral will to face our many challenges, with hope & joy, in the beauty that is in us and all other life. Beauty that is under our feet and setting sail at our backs.

Abrams Claghorn Gallery - A very exciting project coming up in June 2018 -  My poem Menopause will be interpreted by oil painting artist Carol Jenkins. I am honored to be interpreting Jeanie Ngo's poem, Soft Hands, with a new ceramic sculpture! Nine other poems are being interpreted by eleven artists.

Wildlands ...by a thread 
Abstract Sanctuary 5
Gillia Gallery
​Verum Ultimum Gallery in Portland Oregon.
 
Abstract - existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence

​Sanctuary - a place of refuge or safety, a haven, shelter or preserve

​Is the Sanctuary of our natal Earth becoming an Abstraction to its human inhabitants?
Check out all 40 artists here!
February 10 - April 1, 2018