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“Frank Koci (1904-1983) highlighted the injustices and hypocrisy in America through his art. Koci’s journals and paintings reflected the alienation and estrangement of mid-century America…During the 1960’s he was a participant and close observer of the art and literature that flavored the Beat Generation’s scene in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood.” — Audrey  Darby

An outside artist, who never signed with a gallery, Koci said, "Art is not a question of infinite harmony with the universe but rather the infinite joy and sadness rising from one's experiences."

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This exhibition features a selection of drawings made by Cruz Reynoso on his case notes while serving on the California State Supreme Court, as well as works by other Chicano artists. Chicano art is often produced for the community, a deeply religious community. Rather than artists hiding their faith tradition and producing art with only secular concerns or embracing traditional European religious visual language, the Chicano community creates art about protest and social justice which is fundamentally rooted in the community’s faith tradition.

Above, drawing by Cruz Reynoso; right, La...

Eva Bovenzi lives and works in San Francisco and Colorado. She first exhibited in 1981. Her work is routinely exhibited in museums and galleries.

From DeWitt Cheng's review of the exhibit in San Francisco Art Magazine, May 2007:

"Yet these rich, lyrical works, for all their elegance, aim at something more difficult; they aim, I believe, in effecting a kind of psychic or emotional healing in viewers, realigning them with the world of nature (so unfashionable lately in the world of art theory); they aspire to transcendent metaphor and even spiritual elevation.

From Peter Selz, Messenger Exhibit...

Ido Agassi designed the casing for this special edition of Nilly Digan's volume of poetry, In Everyone There Are Four Sons. Separated with a metal cutout by David Gerstein, one side holds a Hebrew edition, the other, an English one.

Ido Agassi and Even Hoshen Press of Ra’anana, Israel, are exhibiting their handcrafted fine art books in the display cases at the GTU Library December 7, 2009 through February 28, 2010. 

Ido Agassi is a master bookbinder,  printer, and publisher who, in an age of mass production, has returned bookmaking to a genuine craft and fine art form.  His handcrafted,...

Al Pounders: Umbria, The Pulse of Place is on display in the Flora Lamson Hewlett Library from March 17 through Summer 2010.

The artist is professor emeritus of Purdue University and has been a working artist for over 50 years. Since 1986, he and his wife Loren Olson, also an artist, have spent their summers at their home in Umbria.  During this time Pounders has focused on the Italian landscape as his primary "motif for metaphor" in his painting. 

Nicholas Ukrainiec, the curator, writes, "In these works, a window is opened to our mind and senses that enables us see and smell and feel the...