Friday, December 08, 2006

FLOAT OPENING

Please join the FLOAT gallery for the last art party of the year!

Food - drink - a virtual theater of:

Gesture and Gestalt

Paintings of Albert Hwang and the Glass & Metal Sculpture of Victoria Skirpa

Opening Reception:
Saturday December 16th 06, 6pm-9pm
Show runs 12/15/06 through 01/15/07

What IS Gesture and Gestalt?

A Gesture is a form of non-verbal communication made with a part of the body, used instead of or in combination with verbal communication.

Gestalt: A collection of physical, biological, psychological or symbolic Forms that create a unified concept, configuration or pattern which is greater than the sum of its parts.

The art exhibit Gesture and Gestalt is a meeting place of opposites, an experience that summons you closer. This provocative show is akin to the surreal and evocative of human drama. Together the never before displayed black & white spiral paintings of Albert Hwang and the bodily, organic sculptures of Victoria Skirpa create a virtual theater of gesture and Form/Gestalt.

Who are the artists?

Albert Hwang began drawing from an early age. Hwang majored in studio art at UC Irvine and studied painting in NY before moving to San Francisco in 2005 in order to pursue his career as a painter. Much of his recent work deals with the duality of nature by rendering the tension between opposing pictorial forces. On display will be both his black & white spirals and color paintings. These works will be on public display for the first time.

�There often comes a moment while working on a painting when it seems that the shapes and forms may actually spring to life. If this moment were realized, I may have found myself painting the perfect picture. This cycle of hope and despair is both stimulating and habit forming, acting as an impetus for each successive picture� � Albert Hwang

Victoria Skirpa is largely self-taught, gaining skills through apprenticeship and trial and error. As a result of her incredible creative and material breadth, her skills include glass casting, large and jewelry-scale metal smithing, and restoration.

Skirpas glass-work confronts and explores the tension in attraction and repulsion; the grotesque is a point of inquiry. Her metalwork tends to evoke futuristic universes. She often seeks a playful relationship with work, evocative of feminine iconography and sexual innuendo. However, a continual thread remains: the relationship of forms to living bodies - animal, human, and insect. On display will be glass, metal and mixed media sculpture.

�A Gesture is a form of movement, is something that glides past its motion, resonating in space, moving beyond its initial expression. Gestalt formation is where a gesture stops gliding and is perceived as form.� � Victoria Skirpa

FLOAT, Floatation Center � Art Gallery
1091 Calcot Place, Unit # 116
(located in the front of the historic cotton mill studios)
Oakland, CA 94606

510-535-1702

Give the gift of floatation

A FLOAT gift certificate is an exceptionally unusual gift that says: �try something truly brilliant and out of this world�. It shows that the buyer has put some thought into the purchase. It's also a wonderful present to give yourself during the stresses of the holiday season.

Hope to see ya soon, Cheers!

Allison & Fil
FLOAT

Update and Announcements

After a long break, the Jingletown Oakland blog has returned! Please email any updates, suggestions and requests to be interviewed to: jingletown.arts@gmail.com or to bayarts4u@gmail.com.

Thanks!
Stacy

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Of interest to Jingletown Oakland artists.....

December Holiday Artist Happy Hour

Calling All Contemporary, Cutting-Edge Artists, Writers, Poets,

Gallery Owners, Photographers, Collectors, Actors, Sculptors,

Musicians and those who love the arts!

Thursday December 14, 2006

4:30pm-7:00pm

No Host Bar

Speisekammer Restaurant

****meet inside restaurant ****

2424 Lincoln Ave (at Park St)

Alameda, CA 94501

Parking lot on the right!

Local artists, and those who love the arts, unite. The East Bay art scene is alive and growing; come experience our artist group getting together to talk about art and the local scene at Speisekammer German Restaurant, 2424 Lincoln Avenue, Alameda, CA, on Thursday December 14 from 4:30pm-7pm. Great German Beer, Mixed Drinks, Glogg, Hangar One Vodka and the

best food!!

Bring 15-20 cards or brochures to pass around.

Free to attend.

No-host bar.

Little parking lot on the right of the restaurant.


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The next J.A.B.A. meeting will be held at Institute of Mosaic Art on

December 14, 2006 at 7:30 pm.


Institute of Mosaic Art

3001 Chapman Street

Oakland, CA. 94601