Posts Tagged ‘The Compound Gallery’
Art in a Box curate collections by sending art in boxes
Compound Gallery’s Art in a Box subscription service is transforming the way people collect art by showcasing studio artists’ work in 11” x 17” x 3” boxes.
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Katherine Sherwood, whose show He-Charmers opened last week at The Compound Gallery, located in the Golden Gate arts district in North Oakland, has included a number of her own angiograms in the mixed media pieces that comprise her collection. Fourteen years ago, Sherwood, a professor of art and disabilities studies at UC Berkeley, had a massive cerebral hemorrhage in the left side of her brain—a stroke—that almost took her life and left her mostly paralyzed on the right side of her body. She had to learn how to walk, talk, think and paint all over again.
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