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Last Chance – More Than Your Selfie

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This weekend is the last chance to see More Than Your Selfie at New Museum Los Gatos. It’s been an outstanding exhibition of self-portraits by artists that go beyond the surface of the selfie in a an exploration of what portraiture can convey. We’re extremely fortunate to have works from these artists with us in Los Gatos! There were some fabulous artist talks held in conjunction with this show, a few of which I’ve covered in earlier posts.

Alex Kanevsky – Artist Looking for a Painting

Hung Liu – Official Portraits – Citizen – color lithograph with collage

Self Portrait (In Absentia) oil on linen

Judy Dater – Ms. Clingfree – ektacolor print

Ray Turner – Self-Portrait – oil on glass

Cristina Nuñez – Someone to Love – 2011 – video installation

Julie Heffernan – Self Portrait with Falling Sky – 2011 – oil on canvas

Linda Christiansen – Self Portrait – oil on canvas

Danny Sceible, Robert Arneson, Travis Collinson

Nina Kathcadourian and Philip Hua

Erin Feller and Kim Frohsin

Robert Mapplethorpe – Self Portrait – platinum print

 

Conversation with Philip Hua

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Another great conversation at NUMU, this time curator Marianne McGrath spoke with Philip Hua, an exhibiting artist with More Than Your Selfie on going through May 15, 2016.

He spoke on branding yourself as an artist, the differences between selfies and self portraiture and opened a window into his poetic performative prints, that evolve when exposed to light overtime, his re:active work, manipulated digital prints on construction paper and newsprint, as well as his digital pixelation and Ben Day dot portraits, manipulated with water.

Hua’s work strikes me as very spiritual with transient notions of self and often ephemeral use of materials. It reminds me of the monk who spends days making an intricate sand mandala only to brush it away once it’s completed. There is such a beauty and poignancy to his imagery, his handling and choice of materials and process!  I find his work eye-opening and completely entrancing!

One of his pieces, If it Happened Before It Will Happen Again – pigmented ink and packing tpe on Wall Street Journal newpaper mounted on dibond is currently on exhibit at  Salon at the Triton Museum of Art.

Today’s Conversation at NUMU will be with photographer Judy Dater from 2:30 −3:30 pm, 106 East Main Street in Los Gatos (free with admission – go for the membership!)