Artist: Miya Ando Stanoff
Stanoff uses sheet steel as her canvas; brushing, etching and polishing yield texture; heat and added pigments give subtle effects of hue and tone. The resulting works are reflective abstractions that suggest horizons, the purity of the space where water meets land and sky. Although physically demanding to create, the works themselves are tranquil mediations on quietude and transcendence.

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August 12 - September 6, 2008

Bandini Art will be closed and will re-open September 6th, 2008

October 25 - December 6, 2008
Artist's Reception Saturday, October 25th, 2008

Artist: Jennifer Vanderpool
In Vanderpool’s installation a garden occupies the gallery. The garden’s vistas stretch into the distance courtesy of trompe l’oeil wallpaper, providing the perfect setting for a pergola of twining plastic bag flowers, a fountain, and luxuriant floral displays made from bubblewrap and drinks carriers.

December 13, 2008 - January, 2009
Artist's Reception Saturday, December 123th, 2008

The Weight of Exchange
works on paper by Tm Gratkowski, Susan Holcomb
and Luke Whitlatch
From a seeming tangle of fragmented vignettes of pattern, color and texture, Gratkowski distills social and political crises through his graphic paper constructions. Incorporating contemporary art references, advertising images, and archaic gender and racial propaganda, Gratkowski’s multi-layered works provide provocative and unsettling looks at the history, residue, and current state of inequality and strife.

As a continuation of her fascination with the majesty and enigma of the night sky, Holcomb translates her sumptuous nightscapes into fluid works on paper. The paintings blend reverence and tongue-in-check references to signs that decorate and attempt navigation of her imagined constellations.

Whitlatch’s abstract paintings on paper have an affinity for constructivism with a reserved sentimentality. Minimal and complex, the works are both sophisticated and rough-around-the edges odes to painting and memory.