Esoteric Echoes

     Kelly Lindner is the new addition to the Sacramento State University Galleries and the Art Department.  Before CSUS, she received her MA in Curatorial Studies and BA in History; through the years, her presence was found in collections and exhibitions throughout the bay area.  Lindner worked with CSU Chico from 2014 to 2019, and through the years, she helped promote many artists through solo and group exhibitions.  Her open mind allows different mediums to express the artist's contemporary work choice. Kelly Lindner's question would be; What inspires you to choose the artists or collections?      The University Galleries feature many artists; in the Else Gallery, Seongmin Yoo showcases her Malting Molting exhibition.  Seongmin Yoo Tube (detail 1) , 2020 Basket vines, silk embroidery thread, fabric, and needles      Seongmin Yoo Digesting Self (profile view) , 2020 Basket vines, handcrafted needles, and silk embroidery ...

https://hyperallergic.com/625412/an-eco-conscious-museum-will-sprout-from-a-logged-rainforest-in-mexico/?utm_campaign=daily&utm_content=20210302&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter      In Hyperallergic news, on March 1, 2021, the global art, architecture, and scientific community received news about a project in the southern tropical rain forests of Mexico.  An ecological research museum will be constructed from a barren strip of land caused by illegal logging; however, Fernanda Raiz, founder, Mexican art collector, and environmental activist, envisioned an opportunity to recycle this location into a research museum.  The nonprofit organization Fundacion Raiz is a team consisting of ecologists, biologists, healers, and active members within the Ecuadorian and Peruvian indigenous communities; to conserve nature, educate, and re-establish healthy relationships with the Earth around us.  Their work is inspirational; check out the Caemba Pr...

  Crossroads, 2020. Gerald Stone (Seminole/Cherokee) Acrylic Due to COVID-19 The Crocker Art Museum is still closed in accordance with county and state health orders.  But there is still virtual activity happening at the museum, Crocker presents an exhibition of regional Native American artists  Multiple Horizons: Native Perspectives at the Crossroads . https://www.crockerart.org/collections/multiplehorizons?page=1 Sacramento water ways has been a crossroad of trade and gatherings to the indigenous people of the land.  The Crocker Art Musuem is built on Nisenan territory, the Sacramento local Native artists want their work to give the viewers a greater standpoint of contemporary tribal life.   https://youtu.be/URAPsXDr1P4  (Video 12:24 minutes) Knife 1, Knife 2, Knife 3, 2019. Jeremy Peconom Traditional Mt. Maidu Utilitarian Art We are first introduced to Jeremy Peconom, who is a traditional mountain Maidu artist.  He prefers his work to be seen...

Nathalia Edenmont - Nobel https://www.nancyhoffmangallery.com/nhg-video Duration (1:29 Minutes)      Nathalia Edenmont was born in 1970, Yalta, former USSR, now she lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. Nathalia mostly photographs women and butterflies but in the images she has made a dress consisting of thousands of beetles and grasshoppers accessorized with a necklace of butterflies. The woman subject is a "Queen with no King". Edenmont discusses the passing of her mother at the age of 14 leaving her with vivid images of "nature possessing her body", through this experience the viewer is able to see a connection between the proud strong woman accepting the courses of nature.