Up now is a group of 12 of my small paintings at Los Medanos College. The space looks lovely! Thanks to Dave Tallitsch for curating! Here is the press release:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Los Medanos Art Gallery will host Somewhere and Nowhere: Paintings by Nick Borges and Cara Tomlinson from October 7 – November 4, 2010. The act of painting is an act of discovery. By putting paint down and taking it off, the painter clears a path in what was a limitless and unknowable wilderness, discovering the painting in the process. Nick Borges and Cara Tomlinson both work with abstraction, but have forged their own paths. Each offers a series of paintings that exhibit a masterful use of materials, as well as profound insight in their discovered works.
Cara Tomlinson’s work has been shown nationally in solo and group shows at museums and galleries, and she has been awarded several artist residencies. Tomlinson received her undergraduate degree from Bennington College and her M.F.A. from the University of Oregon. Tomlinson presents a series of elegant paintings “concerned with the process of construction: how houses, paintings and bodies are made.” In these works, paint “conceals and covers over but also creates the illusion of an opening and space . . . transforming familiar boundaries into the unfamiliar.” Currently she lives and works in Portland, Oregon, where she is Assistant Professor of Painting at Lewis and Clark College.
Nick Borges received his B.A. and M.A. from California State University Sacramento. His work has been exhibited throughout Northern California. Borges creates large-scale, non-representational paintings influenced by the light and the topography of the Northern California wilderness. He paints in a painterly, gestural style in the tradition of Willem de Kooning and Joan Mitchell. He lives and works in Harbin Hot Springs, in Lake County, California.
A reception for the artists will be held from 5:30-7:30 PM, October 7, 2010 at Los Medanos Art Gallery. The public is invited to attend. Los Medanos Art Gallery is open Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, from 12:30-2:30 PM and 5:30-7:30 PM. For information call (925) 439-2181, ext. 3463 during regular gallery hours. The gallery is wheelchair accessible.