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Embrace Matjames Metson, Kim Tucker and Michael Giancristiano February 2 - March 16th, 2013Opening Reception February 2nd 6-10pm
"Embrace shows us how to remember that we all are the imperfect, the hope-filled the commonplace and the haunted."
In the dense assemblage pieces by Matjames Metson, it is easy to imagine him collecting and gathering in his arms things from previous lives - vintage photographs, pencils, tools, boxes, gears, pencils - and lovingly carrying these articles to his studio. There he rescues them, forms alliances between the refugee story.
Kim Tucker’s tribe of built clay creatures remind us of aspects of our corporeality we would rather not admit. Her creepily expressive and familiar monsters reflect her fondness for their afflictions and desires. We can’t help but share her acceptance of them just as they are.
Michael Giancristiano scrapes, sands, patches, rubs, paints stains and grows more and more intimate with each revelation of process. He entices the individual story and personality from each piece of plywood until his labor of love discloses a view we never expected. Artist Bios: Kim Tucker Michael Giancristiano
Curated By Katherine Huntoon Katherine Huntoon has spent nearly thirty years as a curator and gallery director in the Southeast. She earned her BFA in Studio Art concentrating in assemblage and installation work at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA and her MA in Southern Studies with a concentration in contemporary self-taught art at University of Mississippi Center for the Study of Southern Culture, Oxford, MS. Over twelve years she served as Gallery Director and Curator at Old Dominion University building an off-campus gallery and part-time position into a $1.2M museum building with a collection of over 300 pieces of contemporary folk art. She was founding director and curator of Delta Axis Contemporary Arts Center in Memphis, TN, a not-for-profit, artist-run community visual arts center for 3 years. Following Hurricane Katrina she spent one year as curator of the historic Walter Anderson Museum of Art in Ocean Springs, MS on the Gulf Coast recreating collection records and overseeing the conservation of multiple pieces. She left a position as Director of Exhibition Programming at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond, VA to come to California and engage in a freelance curatorial career. Press Mentions: Embrace at OCCCA Matjames Metson, “Embrace” Group Show at OCCCA, Santa Ana, Catwheel
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