Minoosh Zomorodinia – scopecreep

Kent Manske: Nature’s Dilemma

December 2–30, 2023

This selection of work addresses Kent’s emotional and philosophical conflicts as a contributor and participant in consumer culture while simultaneously having deep concern and empathy for the survival of other species.

Palo Alto Rinconada Library Gallery
1213 Newell Road, Palo Alto, California
(next to the Palo Alto Art Center)

Tuesday–Sunday, 10am–6pm, Thursday 12–8pm

de Young Open 2023

through January 7, 2024

Nanette’s monoprint Milagros for Times Like These is included in The de Young Open 2023. The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco magazine featured Nanette’s work in the inside front cover! Additional work in this series may be seen at The Main Gallery in Menlo Park.

De Young Museum, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco

Garland Variations

A California Society of Printmakers Risograph Anthology

Seven new drawings from Kent’s 2023 series Existential Epistemologies were created for, and published in, Garland Variations, a Risograph Anthology publication. Master Risograph printer Zach Clark of National Monument Press shares “Garland Variations exists as an experimental publication in which each of the participating artists collaborated with me to make original works intended for Risograph printing, many for the first time. The results are a collection of work I feel is truly unique within the intersection of Riso and traditional printmaking.” Garland Variations features the work of Beth Fein, Megan Broughton, Kent Manske, Kelly Autumn, LeeAnn J. DiCicco, Kevin Harris, & AV Pike.

Kent Manske, from *Existential Epistemologies*, 2023

Nanette reviews Transcending Physicality: The Essence of Place

through December 16, 2023

After visiting Transcending Physicality at SFACG—it is a poignant and engaging show—Nanette wrote a review published by Slippage.net. The exhibition was curated by Minoosh Zomorodinia. Nanette has been following Minoosh’s projects since interviewing her during a residency at Recology. You can read that interview at Whirligig.

San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery.
War Memorial Veterans Building
401 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 126

Wednesday–Saturday, 12pm–5pm

Art Bias First Sunday’s Open Studios

Sunday, December 3, 2023, 11am–5pm

This month’s First Sunday’s Open Studios will have extended hours with holiday events planned.

Art Bias, 1700 Industrial Road, San Carlos, California

Whirligig has just published its 25th interview

In early 2009 Nanette launched our Whirligig project. The impetus has always been to celebrate creatives in our communities by bringing a little bit of attention, and hopefully insight, into what they do and why they do it. The real benefit for us though, has been how the interview process helps us to get to know these individuals, and our resultant increased understanding and appreciation of their various practices and works.

The series name, Whirligig, comes from its historic roots as both a torture device and a toy, characterized by its whirling or spinning nature. We named it thus as a celebration of the creative life, which may sometimes be torturous, often leaves us spinning, but without a doubt is the most amazing playground.

Whirligig Interview with Minoosh Zomorodinia

Minoosh Zomorodinia, Resist — Minoosh Zomorodinia, *Resist*

Minoosh Zomorodinia is an interdisciplinary artist and curator working in time, space and the natural world. Her current art practice involves nature walks which are documented via smart phone app. The resultant maps are then made tangible via a variety of both old and new technologies. There is an edgy, accessible humor in much of her work—this she calls “the abstract absurd.” In actuality, Zomorodinia uses all aspects of her making to parse and comment on current critical issues including borders and territories, colonialism, immigration, culture and identity, stereotyping, relations of the self to the environment, the power of technology, and the art world itself. Her work is both layered and engaging—smart, funny, and often visually exquisite.

You can read Minoosh’s Whirligig Interview here.

Summertime Exhibitions

Kent is showing in the annual Salon at the Triton Museum
Triton Museum of Art
Santa Clara, California
through September 12, 2021

Kent Manske
*Omnis Cellula e Cellula*, Version 6 (Cells 25, 03, 55, 29)

We both are showing in the California Society of Printmakers‘
Extraction: Response to the Changing World Environment
Sanchez Art Center
Pacifica, California
through August 15, 2021

Nanette Wylde, *On Longing XIII*, monoprint

Nanette’s artist’s books and prints are also on view at:
The Main Gallery
883 Santa Cruz Avenue
Menlo Park, California
Tuesday—Sunday, 11am—5pm

We continue to look forward to times when we can gather together carefree. We wish you safe keeping, good health, engagement and hopefulness.
Kent & Nanette

It’s a Wrap!

Whirligig celebrates #25