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Noel-Baza Fine Art
Thurs, February 19, 2009 – Sat. March 21, 2009
Public opening Kettner Night, Friday, March 13, 6 to 9 pm
2165 India Street - San Diego, CA 92101
Gallery Hours: 11-6 Tuesday-Thursday, 11-8 Friday and Sat. closed Sun, Mon
Info: Patricia Frischer 760.943.0148 or noel-baza@cox.net 619.876.4160 |
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Daniel Ruanova works with a variety of materials, often transforming canvases and found objects into unexpected forms. Despite his interest in drawing from popular culture, Ruanova is keenly aware of the formal concerns in painting and sculpture, and works to push the traditional boundaries of these media through his unconventional use of materials. He uses the fictitious worlds of children's toys, videogames, and comic books to create an ironic take on the current realities of war and violence. Ruanova presents a political commentary that is informed by the direct relationship of living at the border with the Unites States, but is global rather than local in its scope. |
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Gustabo Velasquez’s work focuses on human migration and how it intersects with and leaves traces on the physical landscape. He studies crude patchwork constructions for ideas and collects debris off the street, with the intent of adding it to future compositions. His art is made up of a collection of castoffs like himself from both sides of the border. He uses the unwanted refuse as layers in the backdrop of his art, while slipping in drawings, text, stitched sowings and paintings onto the items with the idea of creating a dialogue between the history of the objects and his own experiences. |
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David Adey was born in Morristown, NJ in 1972. He graduated with a BA in Visual Art from Point Loma Nazarene University in 1994. He spent the next six years in the graphic design field first in New York and later in San Diego with Mires Brands Inc. working for clients such as Intel, Pepsi, Nike, Qualcomm, Taylor Guitars, Hasbro, Sega, and Universal Studios. He left Mires to attend Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan where he received his MFA in Sculpture in 2002. He has had recent exhibitions in San Diego, Los Angeles, Detroit, Boston and Berlin. He is currently professor in the Department of Art and Design at Point Loma Nazarene University. Adey is showing at Luis de Jesus Seminal Projects from Oct 18 to Nov 20, 2008. |
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Jen Trute attended Massachusetts College of Art in Boston from 1978-1983 majoring in painting and graphic design. She freelanced as a graphic designer and illustrator in Boston and San Francisco until 1989 when she started specializing in storyboard and advertising illustration and worked for ad agencies in New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco, and Orange County. In addition she worked as a portrait artist in her free time. For the last 8 years she has been creating detailed, surreal paintings with environmental themes, and uses her advertising experience combined with her knowledge of traditional painting techniques to support environmental awareness and progress. |
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Being bilingual and having an interest in mathematical science has made Keikichi Honna question the function of language. Even though recorded words or written texts do not change their physical appearances; their meaning always contains a certain amount of ambiguity and uncertainty. Those fuzzy boundaries of words depend on each individual's experiences, as such each word brings Honna images and concepts which are uniquely his own. As a co-founder of the Pop Zen Institute , Honna focuses on humor, sarcasm, and irony, all of which reveal a huge gap between the letter and the spirit and reveal the limitation of human knowledge. Interestingly, modern physics and mathematics shares this same kind of dilemma. Honna's work, as visual analogy and pun, acts as his own accelerator, in which he observes the effects of collision of different concepts and images. |
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“Art is all about freedom…” Tania Alcala was born and raised in Mexico City. She obtained a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Ottawa University in Phoenix, AZ and a master’s degree in Transformative Arts from John F. Kennedy University in Berkeley, CA. The sense of the ethereal that Alcala discovered in the paintings of artists like Mark Rothko, is what inspired her to become a commercial pilot to seek the freedom that she craved. Alcala’s atmospheric pieces convey her deeply moving experiences from the skies along with her lifelong
fascination with color. These abstract, expressionistic works of art have an inner
complexity, compellingly and sensuously immersing the viewer in a uniquely personal way. Tania Alcala is represented by Noel-Baza Gallery. |
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K.V.Tomney received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from San Diego State University in 1988. For the past few years her work has been in pen and ink with a combination of silver mediums. An influence of southern California mid-century design is suggested in many of these works. They are somewhat spare, reductive drawings. This particular series has been shown in local venues which include the La Jolla Athenaeum Music and Arts Library, 4 Walls Gallery in San Diego and the Carlsbad library. |
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Marisol Rendón was born in 1975 in Manizales, Colombia. She began her BA in the School of Arts at the Caldas University, where, after her graduation, she worked as a professor for four years. In 1999 she acquired the title of, Specialist in Semiotics and Hermeneutics of Art, offered by the National University of Colombia. In 2001 she traveled to The United States in order to earn her MFA, in the Masters of Fine Arts program at Claremont Graduate University, California; where she focused her studio practice in installation as one of the new genres of art. In the last few years, Marisol has had several exhibitions in Southern California, where she resides, and also in her country of origin. In both countries, The United States and Colombia, she has obtained numerous awards and distinctions. Currently she serves as an associate professor in the Department of Arts and Communication at Southwestern College, California. |
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Born in the small town of Ojai California not (Ohio), Matt Stallings is now a resident of San Diego for over 10 years. Stallings finds inspiration from most things that are uncomfortable, offbeat, simple, and adds his twist to popular culture. Working with his brother Jeromy Stallings running Ninthlink.com an online design and development agency downtown, He still finds time to show his works in the Gallery Space and produce illustration works for the advertising world. His medium is mainly acrylic on wood, but you can find smaller paintings on paper and canvas. |
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Originally from Marseille, France, Michèle Guieu lives and makes art in San Diego. Her many travels, years living in Senegal, a father geologist and a mother biologist, and a continued interest in world and political events, has only been matched by her insatiable curiosity and unbridled passion for art. It has made for a body of work un-characteristically pure, filtered, and highly astute in its ability to transform a visual vocabulary into essential language that reflects our personal and collective hardships and joys. Guieu worked as a graphic designer with the political group Grapus and obtained a Masters Degree in Visual Communication from the ENSAD in Paris. Her work has been shown in Paris, Copenhagen, Le Mans and San Diego. June 2008 saw her solo exhibition Here it’s Peace featured at the San Diego Art
Institute. |
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Omar Pimienta (Tijuana-San Diego) is an interdisciplinary artist who uses the lens of personal-geography while working with media such as photography, video, installations, and text, among others, in order to explore social landscapes, collective and individual histories, and
the spaces within/between the imagination and the image. He received his B. A in Latin American Studies from San Diego State University in 2006, and is currently an MFA candidate in the Visual Arts
department at the University of California, San Diego. He has published two books of poetry, Primera Persona: Ella (Ediciones de La Esquina,2004) and La Libertad: Ciudad de Paso (CECUT, 2006), which has recently been re-edited by Aullido Libros (Huelva, Spain). |
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Tara Smith is interested in the ambiguity of abstraction while using aspects of recognizable landscape painting to explore perception and its guises. Her scraped paint surfaces and layered washes reflect the constantly distorted relationship with share with our environment. Within her current series, Monster Truck's, Smith explores
man made structures such as semi trucks and gas towers as nostalgic landmarks and autonomous beasts of our world. Tara Smith graduated with distinction form Goldsmiths College, University of
London (MFA) after studying at The Art Institute of Chicago (BFA). Her works have been shown in London, New York, Chicago and California. |
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In 1995, Yuransky galvanized a new aesthetic balance between the natural, technological and virtual world’s that co-exist in today’s information age. The artist decided definitively to pursue art as the main focus of his life’s work at the age of five. To gain important perspective, he pursued studies in science and engineering as pre-requisites for his future creative endeavors. Subsequently he achieved success in the business world as the founder of Ego Id, Inc. (a creative marketing, design, and product manufacturing firm) so that his art would have a completely controlled environment. Yuransky opened Zedism Gallery in November 2006 and founded the School of Zedism shortly thereafter to showcase his collection of Zedist works, educate the public and teach the style to other artists. *Zedism is an aesthetic tuning fork of current western culture and heralds a prophetic glimpse into the “micro/macro” world of fine art, scientific progress, digital information systems and human interaction.” |
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