Tires are omnipresent yet invisible in our lives until one goes flat.
Kimberly Piazza’s paintings propose fantastic methods for recycling tires.
She writes: “What are we going to do with all the old tires?One of the luxuries I enjoy as a painter is that my proposed solutions don’t have to be proven scientifically or be mechanically viable.”
Kimberly Piazza’s work is a meditative look at humankind’s impact on the natural environment.
Opening: Friday, April 2, 2010, from 2p.m. to 12 midnight
Admission: Adult $15, Child $7.50
Show runs from April 2 to May 1, 2010
Pacific Pinball Museum
1510 Webster St., Alameda, CA 94501
Museum Hours: Tuesday-Sunday 2pm to 9pm, with extended hours to 12 midnite Friday and Saturday.Closed Monday.
The oil paintings of Kimberly Piazza are rooted in the industryscape of her youth along the shores of the Detroit River and Lake Erie.The inner worlds of factories, the one-way windows with bars, the pipes and tunnels, gears and screws are forms she consistently uses to create her work.She recycles the materials used to create her art, and re-uses the photographic abstractions that she takes during her visits to junkyards.
