Susan Longini COLD+HOT 2010

Susan Longini
Red Tinged Leaves #3, 2010
Pâte-de-verre glass
28 x 63 x 3 in.

Carmen Spera COLD+HOT 2010

Carmen Spera
Barbie Uzi, 2010
Blown, engraved and found
glass, mixed media
16 x 15.5 x 3 in.

Tim Tate COLD+HOT 2010

Tim Tate. Give and Take (diptych), 2009
Original video, edition of 5
Run time 6:00

Carol Lawton COLD+HOT 2010

COLD+HOT 2010:

Carol Lawton. CO2, 2008. Cast, engraved glass. 8 x 6 x 2.5 in.

Lawton will present drawings in a 3 person exhibition at the Olive Hyde Art Gallery on Friday, July 23 from 7 to 9 PM.

Michael Janis COLD+HOT 2010

MICHAEL JANIS is co-director of the Washington Glass School. An artist working with glass, his work is cerebral, well crafted and beautiful. Using glass as the foundation for his work, Janis sets out meticulous drawings incorporating Chicago landmark buildings and metaphysical ideas. The resulting milky white panels possess an uncommon visual appeal.

Janis' statement notes that he seeks interactive commentary using simple forms and intricate glass powder drawings to create unusual juxtapositions of imagery. His painstaking process of developing scenes (suspending them within layers of glass, employing elements of light, color, and sequence), are a gift of time and process that give rise to a contemplative aspect of his imagery. Working hard to create meaning out of his work, Janis favors dream-state surrealism that uses figures, text and common objects to hint at vague yet universal questions - artworks that suggest meanings while encouraging viewers to arrive at their personal conclusions.

Michael Janis' work is currently on exhibition at COLD+HOT 2010, and will be shown at the Fuller Craft Museum in 2011. He lives and works in Washington, DC.

Reason to Party: Mark Leibowitz

Mark Leibowitz was a recently featured artist at the Reason to Party First Anniversary benefit for Visual Aid, At the Crossroads, and the Future Leaders Institute.

A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Mark Leibowitz graduated from Stanford University and lived in Spain and Brazil prior to moving to Los Angeles. His work blends lifestyle, fashion, travel and portraiture. Recent projects include backstage coverage of the fashion shows in New York, Milan and Paris, as well as 30 days of shooting for a coffee-table book on South Africa to benefit youth and education in South Africa.

Leibowitz, a philanthropist, contributes to several causes supporting youth and fine art, in the belief that we are all one community and one hand can always help another. His work can be seen in publications by Glamour, Wired, InStyle and Vogue, and online for Vanity Fair.

Johannes Mehserle

Thoughts and prayers to the people of Oakland.

Tonight is the first night in a long time that I remembered to be grateful I live in a suburb. Working in downtown SF, I let my staff go home as soon as we heard the Mehserle verdict, the rest of the building seemed to follow. At 6 is was unusually empty and quiet. There was concern about rioting and violence. In SF, things were calm. Twitter feeds at 7 began with news of calm gatherings, at 9, the news on Twitter and KCBS was of bottles and police in riot gear. At 9.30, winding our way home on Hwy. 24, we saw a ribbon of flashing blue and red lights, we stopped counting at 12, but think we saw 50, maybe 60, police reinforcements, complete with vans, trucks, red firefighter trucks and white paramedic vans. A bizarre, unnerving spectacle on the nighttime freeway.

My heart goes out to the residents of Oakland. A riot and violence like this is tragic - so much loss. In the news, as we arrived home, the stories began to come in of protesters hurt, a young woman's injury to the eye, stones, bottles, tear gas.

Join me to express solidarity with the residents of Oakland, hope for their safety, and soonest return to peace.