DeWitt Cheng reviewed the current exhibitions by Dharma Strasser MacColl and Nancy Mintz in the East Bay Express.
On Dharma Strasser MacColl, Cheng writes:
Combining a subdued palette and a refined nature-focused lyricism suggesting Asian art, introspective yet expansive micro/macrocosmic works like "Every Dark Thing," "Two Clearings," "Three Webs," and "Double Blast" convene competing metaphors — cobblestones, scales, flowers, starry skies, craters, cairns, vegetation, anemones, coral atolls, and maybe scattershot gun-range targets — while paradoxically asserting their origins in method and material.
And on Nancy Mintz, Cheng writes:
Mintz's sculptures in steel, ceramic, wood, and glass in her show Mother May I turn iconic shapes — egg, house, moon, ladder, and keyhole — to explore psychology and perception. If that list of motifs sounded Magrittean, it is; Mintz shares with that skeptical, ironic Surrealist a love of impossible logic, perfectly stated.
Read the full review at the East Bay Express.