By Implication

COLLAGE ON VIEW

By Implication: Marsha Balian & Joy Broom
at GearBox Gallery in Oakland, California, USA
28 June-28 July 2018

Marsha Balian and Joy Broom use ephemera and found objects to create evocative artworks suggesting narratives and personal histories. Juxtapositions of imagery and objects are guided by intuition and improvisation. The resulting works hint at stories and relationships which, albeit ambiguous, are indicative of a shared human experience.

Marsha Balian has exhibited throughout the Bay Area and in many parts of the country. Her work has appeared in Kolaj #14, The Permanente Journal, American Art Collector, Studio Visit, Gathering Cloud, a feature story in Scrubs magazine and, most recently, in Dada Centennial: Day of the Dead by Cecil Touchon, founder of the museum of Collage, Assemblage & Construction, and Oneiric Magazine published in Portugal. Her artwork was featured on the cover of the 2016 West Marin Review.

The work of Bay Area artist Joy Broom has been exhibited widely across the US, including the Oakland Museum’s Collectors Gallery, the Triton Museum, the Bolinas Museum, and the Carnegie Art Center in Walla Walla, Washington. She is a recipient of the WESTAF/NEA Regional Fellowship for Visual Artists; was named Berkeley Art Center’s Artist of the Month in March 2015; is a featured artist on The Studio Work art blog; and has had her work reviewed in numerous publications. A wall of her multiple chewing gum assemblage pieces is in the permanent collection of the diRosa Preserve in Napa, California. Her work is represented in numerous other private collections. Joy lives and works in Martinez, California.

(Text adapted from the gallery’s press materials)


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GearBox Gallery
770 West Grand Avenue
Oakland, California 94612 USA
(510) 859-5208

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Image:
Bingo
by Marsha Balian
10″x15″
mixed media: found drawer, assorted found papers, found ball, collaged match box, old glass jar with found faucet washers, found tool case, acrylic paint and assorted found papers, pieces of Bingo game and stationary supplies
2018
Courtesy of the artist