New Exhibits by El Cerrito Digital Artist Lisa Yount

Lisa Yount is happy to announce that she will have a solo show of new digital fantasy collages featuring flame fractals, “Fractal Fantasies 2,” in the upstairs gallery of the El Cerrito City Hall, 10900 San Pablo Avenue, from January 20 through February 26. She will hold a reception for the exhibit on Saturday, January 24, at the City Hall from 2 to 4 PM. Lisa’s work can also be viewed at the City Hall any weekday during business hours and on her website, www.lionlight.com.

“Fractals--mathematical patterns that repeat themselves endlessly, at infinite levels of detail--are equally fascinating to scientists and artists,” Yount explains. “In nature, they appear in everything from clouds to riverbeds, leaves to blood vessels and branching nerve cells. Happily, computer programs can generate fractals for people like me, who understand nothing of their mathematical nature, to play with. Just as Max Ernst and other Surrealist artists of the 1920s and 1930s built paintings around the random patterns of grain in old wood floors and smoke from snuffed candles, I use fractals as a sort of Rorschach test, letting them suggest images to me, then add photographs and other material to make more visible to others the magical worlds that I see within them.”

Yount will also have four non-fractal digital collages on exhibit in the “The Golden Years,” a group show at the Expressions Gallery in Berkeley (2035 Ashby Avenue, half a block from the Ashby Avenue BART station). Yount’s work “The Eye of Time 2” is featured on the show’s banner and advertising. A reception for this show will be held on Saturday, January 17, from 6 to 8 PM. The exhibit can be viewed during gallery hours (Wednesday-Saturday 12-5 PM, Sunday 12-3 PM) during the show’s running time, January 17 through April 10. Yount will be at the gallery during the reception and also between 2:30 and 5 on February 11 and March 11.