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Linda Stark, Spectacled Cobra, 2005, Courtesy Oakland Museum of California
Oct 4, 2008 – Mar 8, 2009
Wednesdays–Saturdays (10am–5pm)
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Oakland Museum of California
1000 Oak St
510.238.2200
$8
Oakland Museum of California's Chief Curator of Art, Philip Linhares, ignores the myth of a San Francisco/LA cultural divide and showcases some of SoCal's best and brightest in this survey of contemporary painters. The Date Farmers' salvaged-metal canvases and pop iconography evoke Mexican advertising art, while Don Suggs colorful concentric-ring paintings recall Kenneth Noland's target-like circle paintings. Steve Roden's abstractions are often influenced by his experimental sound work, while Loren Holland refracts elements of urban Chicano and African American culture into lush, Gauguin-like portraits that archly exoticize their subjects. And while group shows invariably leave out a few names, a visit to L.A. Paint is a far cheaper than a round-trip ticket to LAX.
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