Robert Ortbal’s sculptures explore essences. Not actual essences, as in molecular structures, but unfathomable things: like the physical structure of smells as they exist in psychological, emotional and sensory space.
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Sac City College 4 @ JAYJAY
Ever since Robert Rauschenberg built his legendary “combines” from cast-off junk sculptors have relied increasingly on found objects and industrial materials. Repurposed, they convey new meanings that go beyond associations we normally affix to them.
Art Stimulus @ JAYJAY
This group show of primarily abstract works from gallery artists is a triumph of programming with many individual highlights.