Opening Reception: Friday, June 4 from 6-9pm (in conjunction with Oakland Art Murmur)
Bay Area abstract painter Maya Kabat’s work explores the urban landscape as a metaphor for the human condition. Rather than viewing the city as a static entity, she approaches it as an organic system that evolves from a matrix of human needs and funtions. Kabat’s work exposes a vision of the city as a living organism where growth, birth, death and decay mingle as forms and structures stack and grow, evolve and shift, only to decay, and dissolve again.
Using a range of scraping tools, Kabat creates her surfaces with stripes, gouges and broad slabs, applying, scraping away, and re-applying layers of paint. Paintings are built and edited, obliterated and reconfigured in an ongoing process of exploration. She ultimately simply abandons the piece, as for her the paintings are never really "done". The artist’s active painting process mirrors a view of the city as a living record of human activity and history.
NEW GALLERY HOURS: Thursday-Saturday 12-6pm and by appointment
