By Sam Mondros
From glitter-trailing roombas to dreamworld sleepovers and Impressionist pairings, here are the Bay Area art shows worth your time this month.
It’s not every day you see the ubiquitous designs of an oriental rug carved into the wooden floors of an art gallery. But nothing about New York artist Selva Aparicio’s work is of the ordinary.
At Gallery Wendi Norris, the New York-based multidisciplinary artist has brought everyday objects to life with a brushing of autumnal colors. From her recapitulation of Frank Lloyd Wright’s iconic Tree of Life window to Velo de Luto (2020) — “mourning veil” in Spanish — a wall-mounted installation composed of the wings of 17-year cicadas sewn with the hair of three generations of women in the artists family.
