In Plain Sight: Tony Skinner

Artist Tony Skinner is a figurative artist and illustrator. His work is characterized by layered illustrations of people. Color and texture are two of the tools he uses as he explores the human figure and condition. This body of work deals with the housing insecurity problem that continues to plague our country in every community—Skinner noticed the problem magnified in […]

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Works of Robert Moyer, at BAYarts

Artists are most celebrated for their big shows at major institutions. Nonetheless, measured in terms of impact on the world, commercial artists and teachers give big names a run for the money. Commercial artists are the image makers who define the look of the world—from the way people are remembered in portraits to the way landscapes are perceived, to how […]

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Perpetual Alchemy: Allison Bogard Hall at BAYarts

Imagine a turbine always in motion; it spins quietly and eternally in the background, barely humming, gathering energy and transforming it into something else. It’s a sort of mechanical alchemy: a cool, perpetual transmogrifier that harnesses power from one source and outputs something completely different. Welcome to Allison Bogard Hall’s creative process. For the past eighteen months, Hall has immersed […]

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Christopher Kaspar and Greg Martin, Exploring Perspectives: An Exhibition of Shifts, at BAYarts

According to Christopher Kaspar, the start of Shifts can be traced back to his and Greg Martin’s participation in group shows at Photocentric, curated by Michael Loderstedt. It was amidst these exhibitions that they found themselves drawn to each other’s creative processes, recognizing the subtle nuances that distinguished their respective styles. They are exhibiting together this summer at BAYarts. The […]

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Edward A. Raffel: Analog Man in a Digital World,

And now for something completely different. Edward A. Raffel creates modern art—i.e. physical items that haven’t existed before in a style that is new—using combinations of materials and techniques chiefly unexplored. He does not, however, currently use a computer as part of his process. This exhibition at BAYarts contains a condensate of roughly four years of life/work product, with a […]

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Time, Life, and Taxes: Barbara Martin’s Now and Then, at BAYarts

It’s an extremely varied collection of media and message in Barbara Martin’s exhibit, Now and Then, on view August 11 through October 7 at BAYarts.  The artist’s highly skilled scratchboard portraits of birds mingle with found object assemblage and 2D collage in a couple of different veins, and one larger installation that makes a category of its own. Taken altogether, […]

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BAYarts presents Simultaneous Contrasts: Works of David Kuntzman and Priscilla Roggencamp

Outwardly, there may seem to be few clear connecting points between David Kuntzman’s linear, conceptual abstractions and Priscilla Roggenkamp’s figural, textile sculptures. The artists feel this is part of the fun of working together. In describing Simultaneous Contrasts, opening at BAYarts on July 14, Roggenkamp advises the connection may not be obvious between the saturated colors of Kuntzman’s paintings and […]

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