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pat sparkuhl & dennis hare
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Coast
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Courage of convictions, enormous originality and talent. The aesthetically honest assemblages of Dennis Hare and Pat Sparkuhl offer viewers much to contemplate and visually enjoy.
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patrick maisano
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OC Weekly
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There is a certain dream-like cast to the works of Patrick Maisano. His paintings, now on view at Space on Spurgeon under the collective title "Awakenings," are the soft-focus photo album of the young and the restful. Odd groupings of the human and the humanesque crowd into frame and peer at the viewer through huge, soulful eyes, and through these we are drawn into the mysterious scenes, each a Through the Looking-Glass minus the mescaline. Remember the time we all turned blue and broke bread with the homunculus and that two-headed dog/bird? I don't either, but here's me with a ram, a dove and an anthropomorphic horse with both eyes on the same side of her head like a flounder. Because she's wearing a dress, that's how.
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ArtScene
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By his own account a reclusive artist, Patrick Maisano's paintings form their own narrative tapestry. However much his images solicit the feeling that we are sharing his dream states, their stylistic consistency keeps them firmly rooted within their own cohesive visual world.
That world may be personal, but by virtue of both style and tone there is a close kinship with, indeed a dependence on the precedent of Latin American magical realism, as well as the late romantic Surrealism recently seen in the Long Beach Museum exhibition "Eugene Berman and the Legacy of the Melancholic Sublime." Touches such as the outsized almond eyes quote Picasso's Catalonian flavored Surrealism of the 1930s.
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gary simpson
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OC Register
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Gary Simpson, a strapping white-haired Alexander Calder look-alike, has creative flair and ambition, equal to and often greater than his girth. The self-taught artist's works combine elements of paintings, wall sculptures, assemblage pieces, frescoes and modern-day fossils. The pieces grow from his distinctive vision and from his propensity to experiment with a variety of materials and techniques.
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spaceonspurgeon
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OC Metro
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Walking into Space on Spurgeon, a new gallery in Santa Ana, is like entering a 20th century painting - one that is influenced by fauvism and cubism. The walls and multi-storied ceilings are alternately painted an intense pink and a deep, sky blue, emphasizing the geometry and angles of the space. Even the bathroom is pink and blue.
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