Linda Tapscott
Coalesce, 2021
Radical Regeneration, the 3rd Artist Members Biennial, is now open through October 16, 2022. The exhibition feature 15 artworks selected by juror and local Bay Area artist, Adia Millett. Her juror statement is as follows:
While looking at the work submitted around the ideas of renewal, repair and revitalization in our present state, I noticed that so many of the objects conveyed a sense of the collective. Shapes, colors, textures, and materials, pieced together, suggest movement and change. The small circles, X’s, and lines seem to be a part of a revolution or migration. The specificity of these parts within each piece asks the viewer to connect just enough to make subtle meanings, but when the parts come together, the artworks become worlds. In these worlds you can find traces of tracking time and expanding communities.
What makes these pieces radical is not some bold statement about our culture or some political movement we are running to or from. These works of art put aside one’s overt agenda to remind us of one simple, but crucial element of growth and positive change… that is the value of connection.
Maggy Rozycki Hiltner
7 Red Xs, 2019
