Our banner in July, 2014 was in support of the
new Visual Arts component of the SD Visual Fringe Festival. In most cities these festivals do include fine art but as San Diego is only in its second year, we were gratified to
see them adding more visual arts this year.
There are
two main displays, one at the Spreckles Theater SD Fringe Festival Lobby and
one on the third floor of the Ten
Street Art
Center. As I was attending a couple of
productions at the Tenth Street,
I concentrated more on this exhibition put together by Gailee Walker Wells the director of Theater Arts West.
This fledgling theater company is exploring a permanent location in San Diego but they have
already put on several independent productions. One of those at the Encinitas
Library asked writers to take their inspiration from visual artists. So it is
not too surprising that Kevin Charles
Patterson found Gailee to help mount this first foray. She also produced Off
Broadway On Broadway, a selection of scenes from their repertoire, for
the Fringe this year.
Ed Coonce has experience in working with the
community to create aspects of a larger work that he then composes and
polishes. The results are unique to his style but still collaborative. David Cuzick takes line drawing in a new direction in some very original works. He is showing with Gabriele Bitter whose works are abstract and Noreen Ring who used mixed media to create little worlds of wonder.
Those four artists made up this special exhibition for SD Fringe Festival
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| Ed Coonce |
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| Ed Cuzik |
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| Gabriele Bitter |
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| Noreen Ring |
But the
adjoining room at the Ten Street Gallery space was also packed with goodies as
well. James E. Watts delights with
his 3-d assemblages, Sean Brennan’s
stripes and strangely intense especially considering their small size. Frances Love revels in lush color and Kelly Kincaid was a favorite of mine
with the solo figure. Also in black and white were wood cut like faces by Brett Barnett.
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| James E. Watts |
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| Sean Brennan |
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| Frances Love |
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| Kelly Kincaid |
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| Brett Barnett |
Bonus play
rave is for Ira Bauer-Spector and
her/his performance of Miss M saves the Universe. Great
voices, fun story and I thoroughly enjoyed myself. Watch for other productions of the Breakthrough Workshop Theater
Bonus
exhibit this month was a display at the SD International Airport in the new part
of Terminal 2 Gallery. A series of works by Judit Hersko were
stunning displayed showing the evolution or maybe the ruination of a fan coral
called Seven Days of Dissolution. Acrylic tanks are filled with black
sea fans with Capiz shell sculptures of human hearts and lungs in a carbon
dioxide. We are big fans of Jusit’s work and know she is also participating in
the Innovation
Incubator project This will be one of the last shows of Constance White who is moving on to a
lofty position as City Art Administrator of Charlotte, North Carolina. We will
miss her more than we can say but know that when you eventually ends up running
the NEA she will have fond memories of her time in San Diego.
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| Judit Hersko |
