Exhibition dates: August 16– November 9, 2007
Krishna Khalsa and Cynthia Ona Innis
Opening Reception: Thursday August 16, 5 – 7 p.m.
Gallery 555
555 12th Street, Oakland, CA
Lobby Hours: Monday through Friday 7 a.m.– 6 p.m.;
Third Thursdays 7 a.m-8 p.m.

Open and free to the public. BART, AC Transit and Wheelchair accessible.

Presented by the Oakland Museum of California Professional Services division
Professional Services Exhibition Archive

Krishna Khalsa Anisotropic, 2007 wood, nails Photo: Michael Temperio

The thought process behind my work begins with my material. I have been working with construction grade two by fours that I cut into small and unrecognizable units. I am interested in removing my materials from their original context and re-placing them into a context of my own making. Recently I have been recycling the material from each piece into the next piece. The material in these pieces has been used up to three times before this manifestation. In each incarnation, the material units become smaller and smaller and the work changes accordingly. Through this construction and re-construction I hope to truly understand and exploit my materials.

Krishna Khalsa Anisotropic, 2007 wood, nails Photo: Michael Temperio

I am also interested in how people navigate through space. With my work I hope to create spaces that are unusually ordered and surprising. The work teeters on the line between the organic and the architectural. I am intrigued by the combination of these forms and continue to explore their similarities and their differences through process and experimentation.

Krishna Khalsa

My work continues to be an investigation of forms under transformation. While collaborating with the materials I use, I explore the healthy/sick, sublime, wet/dry, sexual, growth/rot, stiff/limp/squishy, thriving and failure that are the fragile

Cynthia Ona Innis Billow, 2005 oil on canvas Photo: Michael Temperio

properties of the body and nature. The materials range from traditional oil on canvas to mixed media with the use of satin, ink and paint with a strong emphasis on line and process.

Growth stages in plant and animal forms interest me. Exposing a transitional pivot at the tipping point—a moment of exchange as forms cluster and morph, creating

Cynthia Ona Innis Core 2, 2007 mixed media Soon, 2005 mixed media on stretched satin Photo: Michael Temperio

new forms en-masse. These surging biomorphic shapes that range in color from healthy greens, hearty reds to stained, earthy browns suggest a physical and botanical reference amidst an environment also caught in flux.

Cynthia Ona Innis

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