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| Katie Ruiz, Home |
By Patricia Frischer
AUG
19 - SEPT 11, 2019
April Rose and Katie Ruiz obviously share a love for color and the title of the show reflects this, but they have quite different stories that they are communicating.
Rose's rainbows and eyeballs are fun and upbeat and have a sort of hippy happy female vibe. You can imagine her in a yoga position sending out positive energy to the universe.
Ruiz, on the other hand, it all about weaving color into her compositions much like threads in a native rug or blanket. She uses the symbols from native Americans to communicate the paths we take in life. Along the way she makes fetish objects that live as sculptures outside the work. But in her most successful compositions the two meet together as she actually makes tapestries that are fetish objects. Home illustrated above is original, vibrant and very covetable.
This was my very first time in the brand new gallery space at SD Mesa College. It is a long rectangular space which has possibilities, which the very talented director Alessandra Moctezuma and her gallery students will I am sure discover as the space is used for more and more exhibitions. In this instance the eye was immediately drawn to the ceiling by a large strung yarn piece by April Rose. The ceiling is full of industrial pipes, conducts and cables and quite distracting for this show which is itself so colorful that it bombards the senses.
PARK
IN LOT 1 IN FRONT OF THE STUDENT SERVICE BUILDING
AND THE NEW FINE ARTS BUILDING.
AND THE NEW FINE ARTS BUILDING.
Gallery
hours: M, T, W 11am - 4pm, Th 11am - 7pm.
By appointment on Fridays. Closed weekends and Holidays.
By appointment on Fridays. Closed weekends and Holidays.
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