Exhibits at the Louie-Meager Art Gallery

Fall 2005 - Main Gallery

David Tomb: Vim and Vigor - works on paper

• Wednesday, September 14 - Saturday, October 15
• Reception and Artist Lecture: Wednesday, September 21, 6:30pm - 8:30pm

Artist David Tomb (pronounced "tom") provides the College with quite a treat. He is presenting a substantial amount of drawings and paintings in solo shows at two venues.

"Tomb uses his subjects' appearance to get his hand going, not as inroads to their character. Visitors leave the show knowing no more than when they arrived about the people Tomb portrays, likenesses aside."
- Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle

On Wednesday, September 21 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm there will be a reception for artist David Tomb in the Louie-Meager Art Gallery in the Smith Center at Ohlone College. Mr. Tomb will be giving a talk on his mixed media drawings at 7:30pm in the Jackson Theatre.

Faculty are encouraged to inform students about this opportunity to meet and mingle with a professional artist.

The second venue to view his works is (this show includes mixed media paintings and drawings):

• Portrait Parlor
  Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco
  September 9 - October 1
  Opening reception: September 9, 6:00pm - 8:00pm

For more information, visit Mr. Tomb's website at http://www.davidtomb.com/.

Magi Amma - Chair Series

• Friday, October 21 - Tuesday, November 22
• Artist Lecture: Wednesday, November 16, 12:00pm (noon) - 1:00pm

Artist's Statement

sincerely I respond
to listen
accommodating repose
listen to
these rocks upon which
we rest
sincerely in response
I wait
some where between
joy and silence
uncaught by myths
matrix

My work challenges "the woman's place in society" as well as celebrating her achievements. It is based on my life as a woman, raising my two daughters alone. My work and family are connected in a deep way. Perhaps because my own artistic life has been so intertwined with (sometimes retarded, sometimes advanced by) my life with my two daughters, I feel that I did not find my true voice as an artist until after my youngest daughter left home. Soon after she left, I became an active feminist, one who believes in the social, financial, and political equality of the sexes.

Visit Magi Amma's website.

Relapse: Neosurrealism

• Monday, December 5, 2005 - Wednesday, February 8, 2006
• Reception and Artist Panel: Wednesday, January 25, 6:30pm - 9:00pm

Comics, underground books, paintings, drawings, prints, stencils and skateboards in the new genre, NeoSurrealism, by emerging artists Orlando Lacro, Lou Lima, Roxanne Zuniga and others will be featured. These artists have shown in national alternative publication events such as Alternative Press Expo (APE) in San Francisco and in Bay Area nonprofit galleries such as Barbarella's in San Jose.