Our View
"Strength in numbers." "Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much." "Individually we are one drop, together we are an ocean." There are millions of adages about how teamwork makes for a stronger end result. Some are cheesy (There's no "I" in team, anyone?) and some are ingenious. Artist Kevin Moore certainly sees the value in working in a group. That's why he brought together five other artists for "Mashup" and had them visit a landscape, each armed with a 30-inch-by-40-inch canvas. Together they divided the view and each choose a different section of it to paint. The pieces are put together like some giant, abstract puzzle for a series of large scale depictions of a specific location as seen by a half dozen people. The six artists Brett Amory, Kim Frohsin, David Choong Lee, John Wentz, and Adam Forfang (plus Moore) are based in the Bay Area, but have completely different styles and voices, making for the unusual mashup on view today at the Hespe Gallery in Union Square.
— Laura Jaye Cramer
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