Evolution of Shell Dweller is up and running for the whole month of June. It is so much fun to see visitors dwell in the big shell! You still have time to step into the aquatic universe and add your presence to the wall of polaroids. I hope to see you at the closing reception where I will elaborate on the origin stories behind my work!
Closing Reception: June 29th, 4 – 7pm
Artist talk at 5pm
Show runs June 1st – 30th
1251 Solano Ave, Albany CA 94706
Phone: 510.526.9558
I am very happy to have two of my sculptures in this important show, Sculpture Now, at the Peninsula Museum of Art in Burlingame, CA. It comes down next weekend so go visit soon!
Peninsula Museum of Art
1777 California Drive
Burlingame, CA 94010
650.692.2101
This exhibition presents works by 25 Pacific Rim Sculptors focusing on serious social or environmental issues challenging our country and planet and resulting in humanitarian crises: pollutants damage our atmosphere to the point of extreme climate change, fires, crop failures; insecticides and industrial wastes poison our land and waterways; and discarded plastic chokes our oceans and kills already over-fished marine life. Scarce resources lead to strife. Borders close to desperate, asylum-seeking refugees and children are torn from their parents. In these times of unprecedented and rapid change, artists’ voices need to be heard more than ever.
JUROR:
Brigitte Micmacker, Owner of Sculpturesite Gallery (previously A New Leaf Gallery), has owned and operated galleries for 28 years and counting.
Craft Rebels is a group show at Abrams Claghorn Gallery, featuring Bay Area artists who use traditional craft approaches to make work in response to current events and social issues. My wall figures and free standing sculptures will be a part of this fun show!
Generous Kingdom II is an exhibition that explores symbolism, narrative and beyond. My sculpture, Unspoken Sorrows, was selected to be a part of this show at Verum Ultimum Gallery in Portland, Oregon!
Generous Kingdom II Opening Reception:
December 2, 6-8pm
Welcome! Today marks the launch of my new DikarevArt Blog. As a ceramic sculptor and installation artist living in San Francisco, I am constantly creating, and my work is ever-changing. My blog will regularly showcase my newest works, both during their fabrication and as finished pieces.
Sharing here some of the esoteric processes and techniques that I employ will serve to give readers a clearer insight into my creative approach. I will also shine a light on the work of other accomplished artists I admire in various genres, and explore some of the daily inspirations that feed and inform my creativity.
Through the new blog, I’ll also keep readers up to date on upcoming exhibitions, ensuring you know exactly when and where to see my latest works. A clearing house for all things DikarevArt, this blog will be the single best way to stay up to date on my creative output and development as an artist.
Entitled Alice: Positive Anxiety, the new piece you see in the photo above was completed during the tumult of the recent election. Hand built in the whitest porcelain and finished with china painting, it is a work imbued with complex, conflicting emotions. Though Alice’s despair is evident in her pose and the mascara that colors her cheeks, a diminished hope still radiates from her eyes; one hand held over her mouth in surprise, in her other she holds a butterfly, a symbol of the ephemerality of happiness.
Juxtaposing smoothly finished surfaces with raw textures that evoke fossils and found objects, this piece is at once optimistic and melancholy, condensing longing, loss and desire into a statement of resilience and possibility.
For a look at other finished artworks from my Escapists series click here, and don’t forget to visit dikarevart.com often to see my latest work.