Over the past 35 years, Oakland-based artist Kerry Damianakes has amassed an extensive body of unconventional and playful works directly informed by her desire to reproduce the everyday. Damianakes remains primarily committed to an ongoing series of velvety oil pastel drawings - faithful tributes to foods that alternately elicit a state of well-being or decadence.
Read MoreAndrew Hostick at Western Exhibitions
Hostick’s current solo exhibition and Yellow at Western Exhibitions includes a selection of 11 works completed over the past several years. Unframed, these intimate graphite and colored pencil drawings are mounted directly on the wall, allowing viewers to experience the salient physicality of their surfaces without a barrier. Born in 1962, Andrew Hostick has maintained a creative practice at Visionaries + Voices’ Cincinnati studio since 2010.
Read MoreRaquel Albarran: Amputation Farm
A robust visual language slowly unfurls across Albarran’s supersaturated drawings, her personal preoccupations translated here through densely applied colored pencil marks. Endearing yet grotesque tableaux are populated by impossible pregnancies, deconstructed cheeseburgers, disarticulated jaws, splayed toes and fingers, disembodied eyeballs, knobby phalluses, and prolapsed organs.
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