Approaching Joan Gold’s installation of paintings at Black Faun Gallery is like walking into an animated conversation. The walls seem to dissolve into vibrating pattern. Fifty-eight tall, modular paintings on paper feature superimposed registers framing all-over fields of explosive, dancing pattern. Short, rounded, color-laden brushstrokes gyrate in formation like synchronized swimmers. Brushstrokes are layered, so […]
Joan Gold
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Peeking Inside North Coast Open Studios
It’s the 20th anniversary of North Coast Open Studios and Monica Topping, the event’s hardworking organizer, is in a hurry. NCOS has 17 first-time participants this year, she says, as well as an impressive roster of “charter artists” — those who have exhibited since the inaugural North Coast Open Studios event two decades ago. “We […]
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Seven Plus Plus
I went to Arcata’s Creamery District on foot before the heat wave broke to lay eyes on the new work of public installation art I’d heard about. It turned out to be easy enough to find. On L Street between Eighth and Ninth streets, you could see from far off that the chain link fence […]