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© 2009-10 Togonon Gallery
PAST exhibitions - AUGUST 2009 |
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Group
Exhibition “Liberating Landscape” Paintings and Photographs Artists featured: Kristen van Diggelen, Tomashi Jackson, Bernardo Poggi Leigh, Klea McKenna, Ben Needham, Jackson Kyle Patterson. Exhibition: August 6-27, 2009 Opening Reception: August 6, 2009, 5:30-7:30 pm Togonon Gallery is pleased to present four painters and two photographers in a summer exhibition that explores the ways in which artists immortalize the world around them. Like historians, artists create representations of reality. Over time these representations replace memory and become reality. In this show, each artist depicts a landscape through either a literal, figurative, political, or personal lens, and finds various ways of preserving memories within his/her art. Kristen vanDiggelen 
looks critically upon the social-political climate of the West
Coast. She expresses the struggles and conflicts she has as a
member of West Coast society through her oil paintings of
battlegrounds. VanDiggelen received her B.A. from UCLA in
2006.
She earned the MFA Graduate Fellowship at the San Francisco Art
Institute where she received her M.F.A. in 2009. VanDiggelen lives and
works in San Francisco.Tomashi  Jackson
explores the use of light sensitive materials that have the ability to
hold and preserve memory. Jackson explores how waste management affects
landscapes and indigenous collective memory. Just as humans impact the
environment, so the varying relationship between viewer and artwork
constantly transforms the piece. Jackson will complete her B.F.A. in
2010 from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in
New York. She is the 2008 recipient for Benjamin Menschel Fellowship
for Creative Inquiry. Jackson lives and works in New York. Bernardo Poggi Leigh explores his interest in the physical and conceptual process of reception though mixed media. He views his art as the evolution of process and subject. Leigh earned his B.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2001. Leigh lives and works in San Francisco. Klea  McKenna
is fascinated by the way in which ecological microcosms mirror human
life. With a hand-made camera McKenna photographs minute
specimens in black and white and enlarges them to human
scale.
She places people face to face with the natural world, which they take
for granted in their everyday lives. McKenna studied photography at
UCLA, UCSC, and Florence Art Institute. She earned her MFA from
California College of the Arts in 2009. McKenna lives and
works
in San Francisco.Ben Needham 
uses landscape as a metaphor for memory. His oil paintings
present cross-sections of the earth, where he reveals that both land
and memory are made up of layers containing evidence of various
experiences. Needham received his B.A. in Studio Arts from Skidmore
College in 1996. He studied at the Parsons School of Design in Paris
and completed his M.F.A. in painting from the San Francisco Art
Institute in 2001. Needham lives and works in New York.Jackson Kyle Patterson explores his personal landscape by merging photos he has taken with photos found in f  amily
albums. Through photomontage he combines the new and the old to tell an
original story and inspire the viewer’s imagination. Jackson received
his B.A. at the University of Arizona in 1998 and his MFA from the San
Francisco Art Institute in 2009. He was awarded first place in Paul
Sack Building Award in 2009. Patterson lives and works in San Francisco.
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