Art and Poetry of Non Linear Consciousness

A Preview of a Collaboration to Be in Mad Hatter's Review

April 27th was the opening at San Francisco's Inner Sunset, the Canvas Gallery for a show called Combined Weight, made primarily up of artists working for Pixar. I personally felt the most interesting work at the show was by Liz Amini Holmes., who has shown at the Canvas previously as well. She is a successful illustrator working for many types of media, and industries, with her art on display at prominant places such as MTV offices in New York. She is a San Francisco native who has done well for herself. 

She has been doing illustrations for some poetry at www.madhattersreview.com, where I am the art director, and find the artists to illustrate the pieces, and work with them on that process. Liz went so far as to illustrate each stanza. That is true artistic passion. Some of the works created for our next issue, due online May 15th, were included in her large display of art at the Canvas. The show at the Canvas Gallery continues through May 22nd. I recommend you look at her pieces, while wandering around with a glass of something lovely in your hand, perusing the work of other artists as well.

Her art at the show holds together very cohesively, and makes a poetic statement about consciousness. Most pieces are centered on a face, usually disconnected from a body. Each face is transformed by its relationship to its surroundings. The faces represent consciousness in a non linear relationship with emotion, concept, personality, situation, dreams. Consciousness in her art is about free association, symbols, fragments and collages of different feelings and memories, not simple, tangible straight forward local, chronological, simple, direct relationships. Her images are painted in a flat manner out of acrylic on wood, and sometimes made into giclees which are very inexpensively priced in their fine frames. These would make excellent purchases, singly or in groups.