{"id":22208,"date":"2024-03-11T10:18:28","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T17:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/?p=22208"},"modified":"2024-03-18T15:25:07","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T22:25:07","slug":"caldwell-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/caldwell-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibition at Caldwell Gallery explores the perspective of women artists"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Artists whose work is featured in Women's View 2024 at Caldwell Gallery.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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New Beginnings is the title of the painting by artist Noemi Manero featured in the Women's View 2024 exhibition, now on display at the Caldwell Gallery<\/a>\u00a0at the San Mateo County County Center campus through April 26, and is one of 46 works that offer a glimpse into what local women artists are thinking and doing.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMy art tells a story of resilience, celebrating who I am as a woman and an artist,\u201d Manero said. \u201cThrough life\u2019s ups and downs, I acknowledge the challenges I\u2019ve faced and the victories I\u2019ve gained. This painting is about starting over, finding beauty in the chaos, and moving forward with determination.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The canvas of Renata Aryanti, another of the artists featured in this exhibition, is full of midnight blues, greens, yellows and points of light.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Her work, \u201cCosmos,\u201d is inspired \u201cby the vastness of our universe and my emotional response to the unknown and uncertainties. I started doing a lot of abstract with fluid acrylic in 2021, after the pandemic, as my way of processing how to embrace uncertainties and chaos and create beauty from them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Agnes Qui's self-portrait radiates energy, both hot and cold.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Agnes Qui with her self-portrait, Expressions Within, one of more than 40 works now on view in the Women's View 2024 exhibition. Credit: Office of the San Mateo County Executive.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI incorporated both water and fire into my art, as they are very important elements in Chinese culture,\u201d Qui said. \u201cWater is believed to represent intelligence, wisdom, flexibility, softness and malleability. Fire symbolizes energy, creativity, passion, power, strength, courage and assertiveness.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI chose these two elements,\u201d she said, \u201cbecause I feel very connected to them, they represent a big part of who I am, all my inner expressions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

This is the 18th annual Women's View exhibition, which runs through April 26 and opened March 1, the same day Women's History Month kicked off. The event is a collaboration between the Office of Arts and Culture, the Commission on the Arts, and the Commission on the Status of Women.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTaken together, the exhibition gives us a glimpse into the diverse creative processes of women in our communities,\u201d said Aimee Shapiro, executive director of the Office of Arts and Culture.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cVisitors can view artwork throughout the Caldwell Gallery, read artist statements, and discover what personal meaning the work has for them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Works include oil, acrylic and watercolor paintings, tapestries, photographs, mixed media and more. Entrants must be women or local artists who identify as women.<\/span><\/p>\n

With 2024 being the year of a hotly contested US presidential election, several of the works have social and political themes.<\/span><\/p>\n

The overall winner of the juried exhibition is \u201cFrom Mother to Son: Don\u2019t Let Them Steal Your Sunshine,\u201d a collage of acrylic, fabric, and paper created by artist Rebecca Archer.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cLooking at a photo of Alabama from 1956, I was struck by how sweet and innocent these two little black boys looked and my instinct as a mother was to protect them. But because it was a photograph from 1956 and they were black, I was also aware that there was little anyone could do to protect them,\u201d the artist described. The title is inspired by Langston Hughes\u2019 poem Mother to Son.<\/span><\/p>\n

Selma Tufail took second place for her oil on canvas work, \u201cThe Fountain,\u201d while Echo Lake Wodarczyk\u2019s watercolor and ink work, \u201cMadness,\u201d took third place.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Caldwell Gallery is located on the first floor of the San Mateo County Hall of Justice in Redwood City. Admission is free.<\/span><\/p>\n

You may be interested in:<\/strong> Aimee Shapiro: San Mateo County's new arts and culture director<\/a><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Esucha esta nota:   Nuevos comienzos es el t\u00edtulo de la pintura de la artista Noemi Manero presentada en la exposici\u00f3n Women’s View 2024, que ahora se exhibe en la Galer\u00eda Caldwell\u00a0en el campus del County Center del condado de San Mateo hasta el 26 de abril, y es una de las 46 obras que […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":22209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14,11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-community","8":"category-cover","9":"category-culture"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22208"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22432,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22208\/revisions\/22432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}