Trevor King

My Grandfather's Pots

2011 - Present 

Wood, plexiglass, collection of my grandfather's sketches/word search books, steel, sandblasted earthenware, colored slips, terra sigillata 

2013

Photo Credit: Alex Mandrilla

Trevor King

My Grandfather's Pots

2011 - Present 

Wood, plexiglass, collection of my grandfather's sketches/word search books, steel, sandblasted earthenware, colored slips, terra sigillata 

2013

Photo Credit: Alex Mandrilla

Cosmo Whyte

Family Jewels

Passports

Cosmo Whyte

Wishing you were here

Charcoal, gold leaf and paint on paper

2013

For the past year I have been traveling with my family’s outdated passports. For my sister and I, these documents were our first visas. For me, these objects are a constant reminder of the stressful process and politics involved in crossing borders from developing nations into what is considered the first world. The accompanying drawing, Wish you were here, should be viewed in relationship to the passports.

Photo Credit: Alex Mandrilla

Parisa Ghaderi

(untitled)

Tea kettle, Persian songs

2013

When my breakfast is smoking cigarettes and drinking tea

                           When the teacup nests in my palm,

                    My world is so bitter these days,

                                  Come and sit with me,  

                                           From     far       far      away 

Photo Credit: Alex Mandrilla

Sage Lewis

Second Sight (series)

Charcoal, graphite, pastel on laser enlargement prints, ink jet paper

2013

Second Sight

A supposed power by which occurrences in the future or things at a distance are perceived as though they were actually present.

Photo Credit: Alex Mandrilla

Philip Spangler

Art from Real Life

2013

Particle board, melamine, curated objects from the studios of Mary Ayling, Parisa Ghaderi, Trevor King, 

Sage Lewis, Liam O'Conner, and Cosmo Whyte

In the time between the conception of an idea and the realization of an artwork a sense of magic and allure accumulates. As a work of art changes and grows, it is as though it springs to life. Through sore feet, scrapes, and sawdust on my glasses, I am aware of my own being and of the life of the object in front of me. 

Art from Real Life is an installation that displays creative works and source material curated from within studios of artists participating in this show. Some of these objects were simply made as artistic outlets intended solely for working through ideas. Other objects are logically and efficiently designed.  This archive is intended to display works that are intrinsically connected to the artist and the art that they create.

Photo Credit: Alex Mandrilla

Phillip Spangler (Foreground)  

Sage Lewis (Background)

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Liam O’Connor

One foot in the other

Shoes (9 months of walking)

2013

Photo Credit: Alex Mandrilla

Liam O’Connor

Where do babies come from?

Found footage, 0:14 min, loop.
2013.

Where do babies come from? is comprised from a loop of home video footage taken during the Loma Prieta earthquake, which struck the San Francisco Bay Area on October 17, 1989 at 5:04 p.m. PST. The quake lasted 10–15 seconds, killing 63, injuring 3,757, and leaving between 3,000-12,000 people homeless. O’Connor was born 9 months later in San Francisco, CA.

Normally the reflections of a window allow us to see in two directions: an image of ourselves and an image looking through the window itself. In the isolated moment of the quake we can only see the ripples of the distorted reflection—similar to the image that we have when we try to look at the past. We imagine that we can see things as they were, but our distance from that event distorts the picture.

Photo Credit: Alex Mandrilla

Mary Ayling

The Third Thing

projection, faces of the moon, wooden bed frame, air

In a physical way, we don’t have the moon.

        :           At times, we are possibly two,

                    but there is some third thing

Visceral alliance between two bodies begins with an exchange of glances in a space of openness.

Photo Credit: Alex Mandrilla