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| catalogue | Studio Visit Magazine, volume thirteen, 2011 |
| review | Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA. Exhibition Arts On Fire XII http://www.artguildofpacifica.org/agp_pdfs/DPApril08color.pdf |
| review | The Lab, San Fransisco, CA. Exhibition Steam Alert/Global Headphone Festival (San Francisco) |
| Disquiet, ambient/electronica : Field Notes http://disquiet.com/2007/10/14/stream-alert-global-headphone-festival-san-francisco |
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| -“The Lab is an art gallery, so there was plenty to look at
besides the performers, some of it unintentionally suitable
to the two-day concert. The current Lab exhibit, titled
Look Forward to Seeing It: The Discipline of Anticipation,
includes Donna Anderson Kam’s large-scale pastel “From
Below” (2006), which shows a woman crouching over a
manhole cover (likely a visual pun), wearing nothing but a
pair of headphones, the cable winding off the canvas like
an umbilical cord.” |
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| review | The Lab, San Francisco, CA. Exhibition "Look Forward to Seeing it: The Discipline of Anticipation" work included in exhibition: "from below" from the series "paranoia" |
| "Look Forward to Seeing It" San Francisco Bay Guardian, Picks Section Sep. 26-Oct. 2, 2007 http://www.thelab.org/events/14-events/157-look-forward-to-seeing-it-the-discipline-of-anticipation.html | |
| -"It's hard to think of a better theme for a juried art exhibition than the simple urge to make art in order to see the result. That's the subject curators Reynold Pritiken (who contributed many strong ideas to Yerba Buena Center for the Arts during a tenure there) and Susanne Cockrell fixed on for the new Lab show "Look Forward to Seeing It." In the process, they've found Alexis Amann's gouache-on-paper vomitous ladies and piranha flowers, Donna Anderson Kam's nudes with knives, Morten Dysgaard's filmic looks at identity quandaries, Bradley Hyppa's responsive digitally animated works, and more." (Huston) | |
| review | Mesa Contemporary Arts, Exhibition "Physical Presence: The Figure in Contemporary Art" work included in exhibition: "toxic" and "air-born" from the series "paranoia" |
| "Figurative art comes to Mesa in Physical Presence" Get Out Magazine, East Valley Tribune, Phoenix, AZ. May 23, 2007 http://www.getoutaz.com/story/2302 | |
| -"It's only coincidence-we hope- that Mesa Contemporary
Arts' exhibited "Physical Presence: The Figure in
Contemporary Art" comes on the heels of the record-
breaking attendance of "Body Worlds 3" at the Arizona
Science Center.
Both, after all, examine and celebrate the human body,
and both do so through somewhat explicit means. For "Body Worlds," that means peeling away the skin of
cadavers and plasticizing those bodies into interesting (if
also, yes, weird) configurations. "Physical Presence," meanwhile, features several nude photographs, making it
ostensibly the most eyebrow-raising exhibit at MCA's
two-year-old museum space. "Body Worlds" may plumb the depths of humanity,
anatomically, but the juried Mesa exhibit attempts
something deeper. The end result of a rather vague call
for artists, juror Ann Wolfe says, was a collection of work
that casts a haunting, mysterious gaze on the human
form. "(The artists) are really asking what it means to be
human," she says, "and that's not an easy thing." Just as recent literature has found fodder in apocalyptic
themes (Cormac McCarthy's "The Road," Jim Crace's "The
Penthouse"), so too, it seams, have several of the artists
tapped for the Mesa show: San Francisco’s Donna
Anderson Kam offers two images of naked female figures
crouching with respirator masks covering their mouths, as
if a toxin fills the air."- |
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| catalogue | Brand Library Exhibition, "Borders" work included in exhibition; "toxic" from the series, "paranoia" |
| Brand 35, Borders Thirty-fifth Annual Juried National Competition January 2007 | |
| review | Axis Gallery, National Exhibition of Works on Paper. work included in exhibition; "toxic" and "911" from the "paranoia" series. |
| Victoria Dalkey, "The Jury is In" Sacramento Bee,
Aug, 13, 2006. |
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| -"Juror Scott Shields, chief curator at the Crocker Art
Museum selected 46 pieces by 36 artists from 200 entries
for the show. The wide range of styles and subjects on
view suggest that Shields is an open-minded juror with
catholic tastes; indeed, he likes all kinds of things. The
only criterion he used in picking the works for the Axis
show, he says, was quality.
The result is a strong show of works that demonstrate a
high level of technical accomplishment, as well as
covering a lot of bases, from traditional realism and
abstraction to postmodern appropriation and
conceptualism. - Among the more technically traditional
works are a pair of odd pastel drawings of female nudes
by Donna Anderson Kam of San Francisco. One, wearing a
protective mask, squats in what might be an oil spill or a
puddle of polluted water. The other, holding a cell phone
to her ear, kneels on the floor surrounded by plastic foam
takeout containers and other castoffs."- |
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| review | Long Beach Arts, Works On Paper Exhibition work included in exhibition; "with a knife" |
| Shirle Gottileb, "More Exciting Than the Paper They're Created On" Long Beach Press Telegram, Oct. 2, 2005 | |
| -" With a mundane title like "Works on paper," you'd never guess how much excitement is engendered by the current exhibit at Long Beach Arts. In fact, 270 entries were submitted from all over the country, but juror Ruth Weisberg, the dean of fine arts at the University of Southern California, only picked 40 select pieces to be in the show.- -Weisberg also awarded three honorable mentions: "Weight," Rebecca Zeiss' long parchment scroll that hangs from the ceiling covered with drawings of old-fashioned scales; "Rita With a Knife No.1," Donna A. Kam's pastel drawing of a nude female crouching against a vast background of negative white space-" | |