Radical Beauty Part 4

Radical Beauty Part 4

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Rhythmix Cultural Works Presents

Love Our Island Art Walk

Radical Beauty, Part 4

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Featuring Art Installations by
Sonja Hinrichsen, Mark P. Fisher, Elizabeth Dante & Tomyé: Living Artist

Live Music with:
Daniel Berkman, Jacques Ibula and Patrick Landeza

Plus:
Living Statues by Modern Collective Dance Company

Friday, July 13 | 6 pm-9 pm
Center Court, South Shore Center, Alameda

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On Friday, July 13th from 6:00-9:00pm, Rhythmix Cultural Works and South Shore Center present Love Our Island Art Walk – Radical Beauty, Part 4 at South Shore Center. At this unique Art Walk locale, installation artists will share the empty windowed facade of Suite 770 (across from Trabocco’s in the Center Court) to construct their works of moving figures and images as live music and wandering statues fill the South Shore corridors.

Tomyé Living History Room

Living History Room, 2016, mirror, gouache, ink drawing by Tomyé: Living Artist. Image courtesy of the artist.

With support from the California Arts Council, “Love Our Island Art Walk,” is an art-centric creative placemaking project that utilizes public art, storefront art installations, and music performances to activate Alameda’s historic downtown districts.

Sonja Hinrichsen Bird Performance

Birds by Sonja Hinrichsen. Image courtesy of the artist.

About the Artists

Sonja Hinrichsen examines urban and natural environments through exploration and research. Her work manifests in immersive video installations and interventions in nature. Sonja’s ongoing community arts project Snow Drawings has been featured on numerous websites, blogs and magazines, such as the Huffington Post, Spiegel online (Germany), WIRED (US and Japan), Public Art Review (US), SOMA Magazine (US) and more, and has won numerous artist residency awards around the globe.

As a child in the 1960s, Mark P. Fisher’s father made many constructions for Mardi Gras floats, galas, and a wax museum in papier-maché and other mediums. His grandmother painted pictures of chickens in watercolor, the theme of which frequently enter his current work. His installation experience blossomed through numerous Fourth of July Celebration piñatas he fashioned in collaboration with his friend, the late, great Michael Carraher. All these experiences inform Fisher’s current work in which he constructs entire worlds with figures and heroes battling over the balance of creation and destruction.

Elizabeth Dante and Tomyé: Living Artist are prolific exhibiting visual artists, whose exhibition paths have intersected often since 1994. They consistently create dynamic imagery that goes beyond the predictable, extensively offering portraiture and figurative artworks to the public. The mediums Dante enjoys fabricating in are metal, ceramic, stone and found objects. Tomyé is very expressive with gouache, ink drawings, wood, fused slumped glass and repurposed items.

About the Musicians and Entertainment

Modern Collective Dance Company (Living Statues – Interactive artistry in motion), is a group of Monterey Bay Area artists, mastering in contemporary, modern, interactive theatre, and circus arts whose mission is to connect, create, and perform works which entertain and inspire. Founder and artistic director, Mercedes Johnson, has performed professionally with Keiko Fujii Dance Company, Iona Contemporary Dance Theater, South Pacific Theater and Tandy Beal & Company.

Mark P. Fisher Marduk

Marduk by Mark P. Fisher. Image courtesy of the artist.