Linda Ridgway

The Anniversary for Victoria and Albert

Text reads: "He turned out the light and went into Jem's room. He would be there when Jem waked up in the morning." - Harper Lee "To Kill A Mockingbird"

Text portion is the poem "The Sound of Trees" by Robert Frost: I wonder about the trees. Why do we wish to bear Forever the noise of these More than another noise So close to our dw...

Michael Gregory was born in 1955 in Los Angeles, CA and received his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1980. Previously living and working in Bolinas, California, Gregory h...

Oil and mixed media on canvas

Beverly Pepper Untitled, 1982-1983 steel and iron 33h x 27.50w x 10d in

This ready to hang piece is constructed out of paper that was torn from book pages and sculpted into colorful flowers. Lisa Meek’s sculptures, collectively titled Biblio Botany, pos...

Elegant and understated, the beauty of calligraphic scripts has resonated across cultures and time. Elizabeth Turk: Written in Stone marks the change caused by technological communic...

14"x19"x6" For Melissa Pokorny, found objects constitute the starting point for elaborate sculptures that have explored gender roles, the public and private spheres, and the nature/culture divide. More recently, her work engages the connection between “things” as potent containers of memory, capably representing loss and estrangement, and the deeply haunted landscape of the everyday. Unremarkable objects become activated and heightened as they are positioned within larger tableau. The compulsion to collect, the status of marginal objects and things, and speculative connections result in fractured narratives that address these occulted objects, the allure of magical thinking and the collapse of the boundaries between the animate and inanimate. Pokorny has been an exhibiting artist for over twenty years. Her large scale, assemblage-based sculptural works have been widely exhibited at venues across the US. Recent solo shows at Platform Gallery in Seattle and Front Room Gallery in New York augment a long career of solo exhibitions, beginning with Gallery Paule Anglim, in San Francisco and continuing with Bodybuilder and Sportsman in Chicago. Selected group exhibitions include venues such as Yerba Buena Gardens, Southern Exposure, Victoria Room, and New Langton Arts in San Francisco, Foodhouse Gallery in Los Angeles, Gallery 400, Columbia College,The James Hotel, and Devening Projects +Editions in Chicago, and The Richard Peeler...