Blank Space | Oakland, CA

It's Gonna be Awesome

new work by Narangkar Glover

September 10 - October 11, 2009

Reception:
September 12th 6-9pm

First Friday Reception:
October 2nd, 7-10pm

Sunday Tea;
September 20th 3-6pm(tea generously provided by NUMI tea of Oakland)

It's Gonna To Be Awesome features largescale oil paintings, one large scale (40 x 60 inch) embroidered painting, and a number of smaller studies. In this body of work Glover deals with personal space and individuality. The curvilinear shape depicted in her paintings is the homemade concrete skate bowl in her back yard. This is a landscape built for a single leisurely and social activity: skateboarding. The paintings serve as homage to the individualistic lifestyle around it, and the efforts made by individuals to sustain it. Aesthetically interesting is the bowl as a unique structure, and its juxtaposition with the jasmine, bamboo and lemon trees indicative of East Bay gardening. Narangkar gives treatment to her works as landscapes with definitive borders by including elements such as fences and telephone wires - reminders of the city that surrounds this oasis.

Narangkar Glover holds a BFA from California College of the Arts (1999), and begins her MFA candidacy at the University of California at Berkeley this fall. She lives an works in Oakland, California and has exhibited widely throughout the Bay Area in spaces such as Giant Robot SF, Oakland Art Gallery, Blankspace Gallery, 21 Grand and the Richmond Art Center.

image: Today, oil on canvas, 2009
60" x 72"

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