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Open Studios 2002 Artist:
Atiba Sylvia Thomas
Assemblage 
Open Studio will be at Ethnic Notion
2070 Columbus Parkway
Benicia, CA
707-558-9474

 atibastormy@aol.com
Exhibits
The Art of Living Black
   Open Studios Vallejo 2001
   Artship Oakland 2001
   Corporate Rotating Exhibit 2001
Succumb
   Creative Marketing Event
   Vallejo 2000
Recognition
   South of Market Cultural Center
   San Francisco, CA 2000
Cleaning House
   Womanmade Gallery
   Chicago 2000
The Active Edge
   Mission Cultural Center Gallery
   San Francisco, 1999
Open Art Studio
   Vallejo Artist Guild 1999, 2000
Resemblance
   Steele Lane Community Center
   Santa Rosa 1998
Rivers of Hope-Rivers of Change
  Sonoma County Museum
  Santa Rosa 1998


"Lest We Not Forget"
18" x 7.75" Assemblage

"Breastplate"
13" x 13" Assemblage		 Whispers
   Morris Center
   San Francisco 1997
Into the New Abstract Art
   Sebastopol Center for the
   Arts 1997
Emerging Manifestation
   SSU Intercultural Center
   Rohnert Park 1996
Circle Vision of Dolls
   Fine Art & Frame Gallery
   Santa Rosa 1995
Artist Statement
   In 1994 I moved to the Bay Area to pursue a master's degree in Psychology/Art Therapy and discovered the artist within.  My art process is through assemblages, a metaphor of reassembling my adulthood.  These discarded objects relocate themselves into refound images of healing.


"Gotta Quarter?"
10" x 10" Assemblage
Sold to Ethnic Notions, Benicia, CA

"Gentle Treasure"
12 1/2" x 19 1/8" Assemblage		    I am a self-taught artist reclaiming my stories through a symbolic imagery of castaway objects that reappear transformed into sculptures of my life experiences.