The Painting Salon is a lecture series creating dialogue around contemporary art in the Bay Area. Every other month, we invite two artists present their work at a new art space, gallery, or artist studio. With the nomadic venue and expanding roster of presenters, the Salon fosters community by introducing new audiences to artists and artists to each other. The Salon is curated by Bay Area artists Brittany Ficken, Camile Messerley, and Laura Rokas.
Miguel Arzabe makes colorful and dynamic abstractions - paper weavings, paintings, videos - to recover moments of uncanny human interconnectedness. He starts by looking outward, finding beauty whose time has passed - paper ephemera from contemporary art shows, traditional indigenous textiles, modernist paintings, discarded audio recordings. They are methodically deconstructed, analyzed,reverse-engineered. Drawing from the cultural techniques and motifs of his Andean heritage, Arzabe weaves the fragments together to produce unlikely intersections between form and content, the nostalgic and the hard-edged, appropriation and authorship, failure and redemption. Arzabe lives in Oakland and is a charter studio member at Minnesota Street Project.
Terri Friedman's work has always been engaged with an expansive material and color exploration, issues of Gender, landscape, the body, the brain, and recently the national climate of anxiety and uncertainty. Her current textile based work engages the loom as a tool to create woven paintings and large scale woven murals. Friedman received her BA from Brown University and her MFA from the Claremont Graduate School before launching her career in Los Angeles. She has been included in many solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally at such museums as (MOCA Geffen Contemporary, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Orange County Museum of Art Biennial, San Jose Museum of Art, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archives, Torrence Art Museum, John Michael Kohler Art Center) and numerous galleries. Her work has received critical reviews in publications such as Artforum, Art in America, Frieze, Sculpture, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and more. Most recently she was featured in 2019 Phaidon Press’s: ‘Vitamin T: Threads and Textiles in Contemporary Art’.
1275 Minnesota St America/New_York public
The Painting Salon presents Miguel Arzabe + Terri Friedman
The Painting Salon is a lecture series creating dialogue around contemporary art in the Bay Area. Every other month, we invite two artists present their work at a new art space, gallery, or artist studio. With the nomadic venue and expanding roster of presenters, the Salon fosters community by introducing new audiences to artists and artists to each other. The Salon is curated by Bay Area artists Brittany Ficken, Camile Messerley, and Laura Rokas.
Miguel Arzabe makes colorful and dynamic abstractions - paper weavings, paintings, videos - to recover moments of uncanny human interconnectedness. He starts by looking outward, finding beauty whose time has passed - paper ephemera from contemporary art shows, traditional indigenous textiles, modernist paintings, discarded audio recordings. They are methodically deconstructed, analyzed,reverse-engineered. Drawing from the cultural techniques and motifs of his Andean heritage, Arzabe weaves the fragments together to produce unlikely intersections between form and content, the nostalgic and the hard-edged, appropriation and authorship, failure and redemption. Arzabe lives in Oakland and is a charter studio member at Minnesota Street Project.
Terri Friedman's work has always been engaged with an expansive material and color exploration, issues of Gender, landscape, the body, the brain, and recently the national climate of anxiety and uncertainty. Her current textile based work engages the loom as a tool to create woven paintings and large scale woven murals. Friedman received her BA from Brown University and her MFA from the Claremont Graduate School before launching her career in Los Angeles. She has been included in many solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally at such museums as (MOCA Geffen Contemporary, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Orange County Museum of Art Biennial, San Jose Museum of Art, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archives, Torrence Art Museum, John Michael Kohler Art Center) and numerous galleries. Her work has received critical reviews in publications such as Artforum, Art in America, Frieze, Sculpture, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and more. Most recently she was featured in 2019 Phaidon Press’s: ‘Vitamin T: Threads and Textiles in Contemporary Art’.