NEXT FEATURE FRIDAY SHOW SEP 28 2012

Coming up fast:

Feature Friday Art opening night with Curated Art Event by Firehouse Art Collective directors: Tom Franco and Julia Lazar.

September 28, 6-9pm inside the Public Market hall in Emeryville, CA 94608

Featured artists:

Korianna Kisielprice
Kristina Lim

With light refreshments, a big live music line up emceed by Tom Franco, and a chance to meet the artists.

Always fun and with so many choices of ethnic foods you just can't go wrong...also check out our friends at Hot Italian if you are craving hipster ambiance.

Korianna Kisielprice

Kristina Lim

Bio
Kristina Lim is known for her vibrant landscapes captured with the bleeding translucency of watercolors and the thick intensity of water miscible oils. “The solidity of a mountain peak jutting out of fog, the waves breaking in a green blue ocean – I’m inspired by nature’s uncompromising force. Like the mariner shooting the albatross we are destroying what saves us.”
Born in Berkeley, California in 1981, Kristina is an artist and activist currently living in her hometown. A member of the Firehouse Art Collective, she has had a solo show at the Mudrakers Café in Berkeley, and exhibited at 200 in Brooklyn, NY, SOMArts in San Francisco, and at La Peña Cultural Center in Berkeley amongst others. Kristina curated an exhibit at the Chinese Cultural Center in San Francisco in 2007 featuring two of her pieces. She is also an artist with Bok Choy Apparel. Kristina graduated from Vassar College in 2004 with a degree in Studio Art.

Artist Statement

The solidity of a mountain peak jutting out of fog, the waves breaking in a green blue ocean – I’m inspired by nature’s uncompromising force. Like the mariner shooting the albatross we are destroying what saves us.
The mountains have been my redemption. When the pieces of my life cracked and fell apart like a jackhammer on porcelain, I found solace in climbing mountains and volcanoes, swimming in the Amazon and the Pacific, and painting those moments of peace, wonder, and beauty. I let the physicality of medium – the bleeding pigment of the water color run and create clouds, light, space, and waves. Or how the thick painterly quality of the oils work to create solid mountains and expressive light-touched clouds. The medium and my physical experience with place guide the process.
There is so much in life we try to control and predict. Nature at least is honest; there is no facade of day after day of unchanging normalcy. Life mimicking life much like art responds to life through a watery whisper of clouds and the strength of a purple white snow capped volcano.