Simon Zalkind and Sandra Kaplan Talk

Please come to hear Curator Simon Zalkind discuss this exhibit with me, 

7 PM, Thursday, December 17, 2015.

Come and see the real collages!

 

And view the rest of my joint exhibit with painter James Cook, 

"Heaven and Earth",

Singer Gallery, 

Mizel Arts and Cultural Center, JCC

350 S. Dahlia St., Denver

 

The exhibit continues through December 18, 2015

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Hours: 9 AM - 4 PM, Monday - Friday, 1 PM - 4 PM Sunday, closed Saturday

 

"Heaven and Earth" Exhibition Continues

Installation view of "Heaven and Earth"

Installation view of "Heaven and Earth"

Eleven Space Collages

In The Beginning

Installation view of "Heaven and Earth"

"Heaven and Earth", an two person exhibit of paintings by Sandra Kaplan and James Cook, curated by Simon Zalkind and installed in the Singer Gallery of the JCC/Mizel Center for Art and Culture, at 350 S. Dahlia Street in Denver, continues through December 18, 2015. Hours are Monday through Friday, 9 AM - 4 PM, Sunday, 1 PM - 4 PM, closed Saturday.

An artist's talk and closing party, with Sandra Kaplan and Simon Zalkind will be on Thursday, December 17. Please watch here for the details, to be announced later. 

Blurred Lines and Galactic Stories Interview

"Edge of the Cosmos", 36" X 36", acrylic on canvas

"Big Band And The Trifid", 36" x 84", acrylic and oil on 4 canvases

During my recent exhibit in the Art Gallery of the Fulginiti Center For Bioethics and Humanities on the Anschutz University of Colorado Medical Campus, I was interviewed by the Comcast/Aurora News Weekly.

My tech wiz, Keith West, with permission from the TV station Aurora News Weekly, was able to extract my interview from the balance of the newscast, put it on my Website, and also on YouTube. So click on one of these links and travel with me to the Outer Limits. You might also find out a bit about my new paintings and collages.

And if you unfortunately missed my show, you have a bit of a second chance. I am now represented in Colorado by the Sandra Phillips Gallery. Several of my Galactic paintings will be in a show, "Blurred Lines", which opens at the Gallery, 420 W. 12th Ave., Denver, on Friday, November 7, from 6-8 PM. Come visit!

Wallace Stevens and Galactic Stories

"At The Edge Of The Universe"

My dear friend, Alita Pirkopf, wrote me this email after seeing my show, "Galactic Stories", and I wanted, with her permission, to share it with you.

Subject: Everything and Nothing

Sandra, What a pleasure.

I went to see your work three other times with three different friends. All of us were delighted and involved! I learned all sorts of things from hearing them express what they saw and thought! The talk you and the marvelous curator, Simon Zalkind, was deeply interesting! Such an honor for you to be asked to exhibit in such a meaningful setting. I am rereading your invitation which is absolutely beautiful and thought provoking.

I had been reading the last part of a biography about the later years of the poet Wallace Stevens. Online I read some critic's comment on Steven's Collected Poems which said, "In this work Stevens explored inside a profound philosophical framework the dualism between concrete reality and the human imagination. I am working on what the framework part means but I think that, similarly, you deal with the concrete reality of science and also with the human imagination.

"At the Edge of the Universe," reminds me of Stevens' words in The Snow Man, which, with your help, I just now think I understand. Though you seem more positive than Stevens when he wrote that poem, you too deal with whatever might or might not be.

Maybe you know the poem. The lines I am thinking of are:

And, nothing himself, beholds Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is

I don't think the "And, nothing himself," bit applies to you with your magic, and apparently, later, things didn't seem so grim to Stevens.

Thank you so much!!!

Alita

Star Gazing and My Totally Updated Web Site

                        "Star Gazing", 18" X 18"on canvas, mixed media

"R = 15 KPC", 18" X 18" on panel, acrylic

Please check out  my totally up-dated and re-organized web site at www.sandrakaplan.com. 

There are seven galleries of my work, plus listings of my future workshops and other services. 

The two images above, "Star Gazing" and "R = KPC" are from my latest project, "Space Stories", which was initially inspired by some Hubble images that my daughter, Sacha Wolff sent. Sacha is an aerospace engineer, and our discussions, which often consist of her trying to explain some aspect of her interests to me, or telling me that she can't, have pointed my work in unexpected directions a number of times.

I found historical astronomical images, and many intriguing scientific charts in astronomy books. My initial plan was to playfully do a chronological survey of cosmological  concepts. But as I became more immersed in Egyptian, Sumerian, Chinese, Arabic and European images of day and night, or our cosmos, constellations, and comets, I began to think that chronology should have nothing to do with my plans. Yesterday's "proven" scientific ideas about the nature of our world constantly are replaced by new discoveries, and become today's folklore. 

In my extremely liberal misinterpretation of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, I would  almost randomly organize my multi-panel paintings. And give myself the liberty to come up with my own "Space Stories".

                    "Space Stories", 54" X 54" on 6 canvases, multi media