narangkar
Author archive
Exhibition Review by Maria Porges at Shotgun Review
October 4, 2009
October 4, 2009 “With assured brushwork and equally deft needlework, Narangkar Glover has made a group of canvases that feature a homemade concrete skateboarding bowl located in her own Oakland backyard. This extraordinary structure, fondly referred to by those who know it as ‘the pond,’ is painted in real life a color that can only […]
Exhibition Review by DeWitt Cheng at East Bay Express
September 30, 2009
September 30, 2009 “California’s natural paradise, El Dorado, is also a hotbed of creative innovation. This nature/culture paradox informs Narangkar Glover‘s oil paintings, pencil drawings, and embroidery depictions of a concrete skateboard bowl, vividly aqua-blue, with bright yellow edging stripes. We see it either empty, almost an abstraction, or more three-dimensionally, as a backdrop to […]
Work reviewed by Theo Konrad Auer at Oakbook
September 3, 2009
September 3, 2009 The Month Ahead in Oakland Art by Theo Konrad Auer “Narangkar Glover is one half of the husband and wife team that run the great and uncommonly consistent and innovative Oakland artspace Rowan Morrison in the Temescal neighborhood. What many regular attendees of their openings might also know is that she is […]
Paint By Needle selected as Critic’s Choice, East Bay Express
December 1, 2007
December 1, 2007 Critics Choice by Jakki K. Spicer “Two artists use stitching as their medium in this show at the Rowan Morrison Gallery. Narangkar Glover embroiders and paints on her canvases, the most interesting of which is a color wheel in thread. The color wheel is usually a basic exercise in color theory, asking the […]