“Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?” ~ Paul Gauguin "I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best."  ~Frida Kahlo   NOTE: This essay is about Tony Pinto’s brilliantly conceived and curated “Self/not Selfie” exhibition currently at the Golden West College Gallery. As its name indicates, the exhibition focuses on artists’ private images of themselves (i.e., self-portraits)—not on contemporary Smartphone photographs

Softness as a weapon. That's the fire. Juniper Sikora, Experiment Artist, working with activated biofilm, 60cm x 90cm, 2025, Photo credit: artist At 54, Juniper Sikora is obsessed with bioplastics, oysters, memory foam faces—materials that hold memory, resilience, and fragility all at once. She's embedding frequency, RFID, and AI into sensory works that whisper rather than shout, but still change the room they enter. It's that delicious tension between tenderness and power th

Behind My Camera: 8x10: 2018 At 70, Kimberly-Ann is converting beaded necklaces into bracelets. She's also just finished entries for two simultaneous shows, and next on her radar is another Call & Response bookmaking project and a local art fair. Her work is eclectic and varied. She works in leather, semi-precious beads, on gourds, with many different types of paint, paper, and found objects, as well as photography. She's been creating art in one form or another since she can