2019-20 Platform Gallery Exhibition: Critical Mass

The 2019–20 Platform exhibition engages with the IHC’s public events series theme, Critical Mass, which explores threshold moments, impactful aggregates, and tipping points in multiple registers and environments. The artwork displayed in the Platform exhibition gallery brings the University’s academic and community guests into dialogue with Critical Mass in creative ways.

Artists
Linda Ekstrom, College of Creative Studies, UC Santa Barbara, www.lindaekstrom.com
Gretchen Henderson, www.gretchenhenderson.com
Amiko Matsuo, Department of Art, Allan Hancock College
Brad Monsma, Department of English, California State University, Channel Islands
Mirella Z. Olson, Santa Barbara, CA, www.mzolson.com
Symeon Shimin (1902-1984), www.symeonshimin.com
Kolaya Wilson, Studio Art, UC Santa Barbara

Linda Ekstrom
Seed
Photograph
2016

Gretchen Henderson
“Field Note: star-shaped seep” from Life in the Tar Seeps (Great Salt Lake, UT)
Photograph
February 2018

Gretchen Henderson
“Field Note: barn owl feathers” from Life in the Tar Seeps (Great Salt Lake, UT)
Photograph
February 2018

Gretchen Henderson
“Field Note: rusting sands” from Life in the Tar Seeps (Great Salt Lake, UT)
Photograph
March 2019

Amiko Matsuo and Brad Monsma
“Bat Cone Burn” from Pyrometric: Earth and Ash in the Anthropocene
High-fire clay, underglaze, fire
2016

Amiko Matsuo and Brad Monsma
“Bat Cone Ash” from Pyrometric: Earth and Ash in the Anthropocene
High-fire clay, underglaze, ash
2016

Amiko Matsuo and Brad Monsma
“Landscape with Ash and Phos-Chek” from Pyrometric: Earth and Ash in the Anthropocene
Wildfire ash and Phos-Chek flame retardant on Hiromi paper from Echizen, Japan
2018

Mirella Z. Olson
Journeying with the Caravan
Collage and mixed media
2019

Mirella Z. Olson
Waiting at the Border
Collage and mixed media
2019

Symeon Shimin
1902-1984
The Pack
Oil on canvas
1959

Symeon Shimin
1902-1984
Group in Discussion with Hands
Oil on canvas
1961

Symeon Shimin
1902-1984
Contemporary Justice and the Child
Tempera on canvas
1936-1940
Department of Justice Building, Washington, DC

Kolaya Wilson,
Look Back at Me
Mixed Media
2018

Kolaya Wilson
Infected Center
Mixed Media
2018

Kolaya Wilson
Affixed Inner Beams
Mixed Media
2018