Giorgi Gallery Presents: Nina Katz - A Year in Portraits
Can a person's life be affirmed in one picture? Nina Katz has explored this and other questions with a daily ritual of sketching portraits from the Obituary section of the New York Times. Intrigued by repetition and process, Nina took her daily interest in reading NY Times obits to drawing them every day. The paintings evolved from this process as an obvious next step to creating a personal interpretation of public memory.
Nina Katz is an emerging artist, living and working in Berkeley, California. She studied at the Art Students League of New York, the San Francisco Art Institute, and the California College of Art. Nina was a runner up in the 2008 Reflect-Arts: Women's History Month: Relics and Remembrances art competition. She was also a winner in the 2006-2007 Berkeley Civic Center Art Exhibition, and has exhibited her work in the San Francisco Bay Area and is in private collections in California and New York.
A full year of original pencil drawings on accordion fold Moleskin sketchbooks will be displayed. Oil portraits inspired by the drawings will be sold.
April 3 - April 30, 2010 Reception : Saturday, April 3, 5-8 pm.
Joe Fischer: Stories and Sale.
A selection of small works from the renowned Fischer Collection of Asian Art will be on sale for the holidays.
Joe Fischer will share stories from his 50 year adventure traveling and collecting Asian Art.
Reception: Saturday December 12th, 11 am -6 pm
Show runs December 10th -24th; Gallery hours Thurs. - Sat. 11-6pm
Trois Femmes de Métal
Opening Reception: Saturday November 7th, 4- 8pm p.m.
Show runs November 4th -29th; Thrus. - Sun. 11-6pm
Affordable gifts thru the holiday season
Gabe Curry, Elizabeth Dante, and Angie Garberina,
women of vision who use their sharp wit, to imprint paper and shape metal.
Amie Oliver
On the Road to Dharma
October 1st - 31st, 2009
Opening Reception
Thursday, Oct. 1st 7-9 pm
The work was created during an expedition to Lhasa, Tibet during July 2009. Each day was recorded on a 7"x7" piece of arches hot press paper. These and the mixed media assemblages were created for a "Moving Cultures" exhibition in Lhasa, Tibet and one in the Orange Gallery in Guangzhou, China.
Oliver exhibits her paintings in solo exhibitions galleries from coast
to coast in the United States and has had work included in exhibitions in
China, France, Germany, Scotland, South Korea, Turkey and Tibet.
She has been awarded fellowships and residencies at the
Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris and Moulin a Nef in Auvillar,
France; the Oberphalzer Kunstlerhaus in Bavaria, the Vermont Studio
Center and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. Her work is included in
numerous public and private collections. You can learn more about Oliver’s
artwork at http://www.amieoliver.net.Oliver Bio
Deep Water
Recent oil paintings and drawings
from Bay Area Realist
Ryan Blackman
July 30th - Sept. 26th
Reception July 30th 7-9 PM
For the last nine years, Ryan has been painting realist subjects
in oil with a focus on the figure and urban settings. Ryan's Work
is inspired by the feeling or mood of a subject,
rather than it's literal representation.
“The title of this show, Deep Water, has been named from a
gut-reaction one has while engaging the work. In a way, my paintings
are inspired by reactions such as this; from the feeling or mood of
a subject, rather than its literal representation.
Typically, my process of creating struggles back and forth;
creating and destroying, defining and obscuring until an
apparent presence surfaces. To me, this is not unlike
the struggle in life to understand or confuse people,
experiences, and identity."
A bay Area Native,
Ryan lives with his wife in Oakland,
and works for a fine-art handling company.
For more information on the artist, please go to his website at
If you are an artist interested in showing your work at the Giorgi, please contact us via email (giorgigallery@yahoo.com) with a description of your work and link to your website, or place we can see images of your work. If this is not possible, please send us an artist packet including, artist statement, resume, CD with jpg images of your work along with a brief description of each piece.
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