Artist Alley

 

The Radiance of Oblivion  ~ oil on wood panel

What is it about the color of Blue? The color of our World, the Sea, the Sky, and True Love. It is the color of a butterfly's wings, the color my baby's eyes. In my past posts, I have extolled my Blue Happiness of the Great Blue Pacific.

Yesterday, The Color Blue had a different meaning in one of the exhibitions at the Oceanside Museum of Art.  An incredible Blue Painting of immense power and energy which stopped me, my awareness, of a great power, it reached deep into my soul. Floating on this field of a most intense shade of blue was a black vibrating cloud of black, its form changing and dispersing as you walked around the space. The title of this work of Artness, 'The Radiance of Oblivion' .

Yes, this is what it is all about...We dare to think of the unthinkable, and yet it is always there, a perpetual miasma whispering in the back of the head, seeping down the back of your neck, you know it for what it is...the unknown of the ever after. I see this painting as another shade of blue, the shade of knowing. It is seductive, and beautiful, this knowing, and I thank the artist.

 To view this painting is an experience—a truth from  Tatiana Ortiz-Rubio. 

The text of her work was written by Lara Bullock, Ph.D. I wish that it had been written by the Artist, for would have let me enter the door of the Blueness of her Truth. This link will take you to a story that tells her story of her Daughter and the disability of her interaction with time. Her work is also in the pstairs gallery.  

"Fire Raiser"  Rupinder "Rupy" Kaloti

Artist Rupinder "Rupy" Kaloti has a solo showing in the upstairs galleries titled The Gathering. She has transformed her paintings into sculptural forms, giving the viewer a time-space historical story of her family and other Punjabi families of how and why they immigrated to America. Her story, so lovingly told, brings to the viewer a recognizable truth of our own families and how all of our histories have blended together to make our country: Out of Many ~ One.

My past work as an artist included sculpture. I worked in bronze. Because of that, I was taken by a very small sculpture using a large stone, copper, and wood by artist Kevin Perrault. As a woman, I appreciated the metaphor of smallness juxtaposed with a cactus in close proximity to the woman. Kevin Perrault has the imagination to create in a small artwork, a huge commentary of our women's world of being "the other." The cactus with the thorns exemplifies fighting a hurtful struggle in our daily lives—the political wars and religious control over our existence. We stand with our soft woman bodies, looking up at this dominant, thorny future, and hope...