BRIDGET ROUNTREE | VALUABLE CONTENT /  by Margaret Hernandez

Valuable Content Juxtaposes social, political and art historical imagery as to question precieved value and generate discussion of content within a visual language. The works look at the everyday world wit the idea that we are not only passively intreating with the environment; we are actually actively thinking it. By challenging dualist representations of the savor and saved, winner and loser, victim and rescuer, the artist seeks to query the ideas and philospies that lead to hierarchal structures of thought. A simultaneity of perspectives occur by reading one image through the other, opening up a new space between what is considered to be known, and what remains unknown. Portraits are dissociated from their original context, by which the system in which they normally function is brought into question. Exploring found imagery becomes a way to revitalize, reorganize and revel the possibility of new relationships among previously defined histories. 

TARA CENTYBEAR | LITTLE DEATH /  by Margaret Hernandez

LITTLE DEATH

  North County based artist, Tara Centybear creates a somber but yet tranquil painting series that explores the intersection of pain in beauty within the human experience.  Her subject, both living and perished birds, represent beauty as a security and the abstract subject of emotional identity which in a traumatic loss, beauty can be redefined.  Little Death combines vibrantly colored birds and their feathers with cool gray toned backgrounds while interjecting objects such as a bag, brick and string, which reflect what the artist refers to as “clashing experiences” akin to the mark a trauma that can often confuse the difficulty in ones life with the beauty.