“Traces of Time Past” by Kay Duffy — Collage & Watermedia

I hate being the one to discover something really cool just as it is ending, but in the Martin Luther King Library, they have an excellent exhibit called “Black and White and Read All Over.” The Allied Artists West organization of professional local artists has put on a tremendous and impactful show on the second floor of the library, but it’s only on display until Aug. 31 (that’s right, tomorrow. I am so up to date).

The idea: Each artist takes a news clipping and responds visually.

The moving piece at the left is called “Traces of Time Past” by Kay Duffy, in response to the news that excavators were digging in San Jose to discover a hidden Chinatown. (Read the article here.)
According to Kay:

The Mercury/News of March 16th, 2008 reported on “Digging for traces of a lost China town” – “Traces of time past” inspired me to create a layered painting starting with the natural and native Indian culture up through the layers of time to the present.

To see more of what is available, in case you don’t have enough time to manically drive to 4th and San Fernando tonight or tomorrow, you can check it out here.

There’s actually yet another interesting exhibit, one that involves teens and digital photography called My World, My Community Digital Photography Exhibit, and the reception is going on right now as I speak. And since I’m typing this from the library, let me see if I can crash the visual party.