The Adobe Books Backroom Gallery is proud to present LUMINOUS FLUX opening May 10, 2013, featuring new work by painter Laura Sutro, a medium of the gloaming hour.
In her gallery debut, Sutro evokes a sublime isolation, an atmosphere of impasse and uncertainty, between real and virtual vantage points. In these nocturnal settings, a fugitive luminosity recedes out of absorbingly dark monochromatic color. Featuring orchestrated color of a unique and compelling design—vibration, contrasts, varying between synthetic and organic colors. In this exhibition, she presents works of art in various stages.
LUMINOUS FLUX was organized by curator Daniella Fernandez Murphy.
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We've just added artwork listing by some amazing artists: Mitzi Pederson, Randy Colosky, Castle Face Records, Kelly Lynn Jones, Vogtsmith, Jesse Schlesinger, Alena Rudolph, Chris Corales, and Colter Jacobsen. Stayed tun ed for more to be added soon!
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Keep It Cherried, a two-person exhibition featuring artists Michelle Guintu and Joe Roberts. The show marked these San Francisco artists' first exhibition at the Backroom Gallery, brought together based on their shared impulse to create through their own obsessions. Based on inherently introverted personal infatuations, the artists presented painting, drawing, and low-budget assemblage.
Making something out of nothing is a prime artistic act. Neither harbor pretensions about their work or the impetus that pushes them to create.
Michelle Guintu combines facets of cultural identification and transcendent personal expression, without polish or refinement. Everyday cultural detritus (R. Kelly, McDonalds, Sonic The Hedgehog, canon of Abstraction) realize new potentials in their transformations. The collusion of the discarded distills a Lynchian consciousness, rendering a surreal and nightmarish craft.
Bay Area off-ness: artist Shalo P offered up a dense array of lowlands that lie inside.