Neighbors In Sacramento and Time: Two Contemporary Artists on Display at the Tim Collom and B. Sakata Garo
In downtown Sacramento, two wonderful shows of contemporary artists are being held in nearby galleries of the B. Sakata Garo and the Tim Collum galleries. While both artists work in differing media, style and purpose, they both offer great examples of the character of contemporary art. The first show I visited was titled Form is Emptiness, Emptiness is Form: Meditations on the Heart Sutra, featuring the work of William Ishmael at the Tim Collom gallery. Ishmael, an artist local to California, creates work with a range of materials from paint to plexiglass that explores and attempts to understand Buddhist philosophies. This show, as suggested by the title, explores a concept he found in the Heart Sutra- that form is emptiness and emptiness is form. The work tended to have an earthy, weathered appearance, with rough texture and earth-tones, and this went well with the rustic bricks of the gallery. There were, however, smoother, cleaner looking works, which were generally allow...