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 "...My interest in minimalism and conceptualism informs the way I look at my family, our history, subculture coding, celebration and resistance. I engage a hybrid aesthetic of minimalism and density, using text, glitter and found objects to demonstrate the necessity for poetry and abstraction in urban life and the power of the personal as political..."     -Sadie Barnette, artist statement, 2016   The newest art museum in the University of California system, the Manetti Shrem Museum at UC Davis, has delivered a politically and personally charged exhibit of Oakland and Compton based artist, Sadie Barnette. Barnette’s first solo museum showcase Dear 1968,... is located in an isolated space within the museum, and fully utilizes all four walls to enact meaning and make public the narrative of her family’s history, and specifically her father, Rodney Barnette’s close involvement with the Black Panther Party. Dear 1968,... is a comprehensive exhibit ...

“These works are a study in finding forms in this flux,  submitting to the work to reveal different paths and choosing one.”  -Artist, Shaun Burner There is something to be said about the presence Shaun Burner brings to the Sacramento art scene. He contributes to the community in multiple ways, through his own gallery space at the Warehouse Artist Lofts called 1810 Gallery, through leading roles with M5Arts events like Art Hotel and ARTSTREET, and a professional career as an artist. Typically when one hears of works by Burner, they envision his murals and large scale works in public places; thus the recent solo exhibition, Forms in Flux , at Beatnik Studios provided a glimpse into Burner’s body of work in a gallery setting that consisted of twenty-eight paintings and showed the development of some new visual techniques. Forms in Flux had three distinctive styles: those reminiscent of his street art style, those which conveyed a narrative with figures, and a newer,...