Located at 973 Valencia Street between 20th and 21st streets, La Casa del Libro reflects the needs of the local community. The store is owned by Anja Fulle, Antonio H. Tovar and Rodolfo C. Tovar.
La Casa del Libro is open Mon - Sat from 11am - 7 pm. For more information call 415-285-1399 or visit La Casa del Libro's web site.
Deborah O'Grady at La Casa del Libro
Deborah O'Grady's work can be seen at her web site and at her .Mac homepage.
Her "The Soldier's Dream" can currently be seen at the Berkeley Arts Festival Gallery, 2324 Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley, California.
The example below, "Blue Bird," can be seen there. For more information, please contact her at by email.
Jan Watten at La Casa del Libro
GESTURES
Gesture – To show, express or direct.
This body of work has evolved from my series “Aspects of Identity” in which an individual was photographed with an object that they felt portrayed an aspect of their identity. The hands of my subjects have played an important and integral role in this series.
In my continuing pursuit of investigating identity through portraiture, I have made a transition to photographing only the hand. Each hand is extremely unique – yet universal and non-gender specific. My images are simplified and in close detail – like a topographical index – revealing expression and symbolism by a simple gesture.
PARTS – Youth Culture Series
This body of work has evolved from two series “Aspects of Identity” in which individuals were photographed with an object that they felt portrayed an aspect of their identity, and “Gestures”.
This new group of work, abstract and isolated fragments of young people, has interested me for some time. The images portray children and adolescents – childlike yet on the verge of forming into the adult they will soon become. The images depict an integral component of their identity – the part that makes the whole.
In both series I am interested in how identity is portrayed through a small but very revealing aspect of someone.
Luis Delgado at La Casa del Libro
Artist Statement
“What is said is done, what is lost is doomed, what is forgotten is dammed.”
I create photography based prints, books, and installations with history and societal systems as my theme, specifically the concept of the hero and the anti-hero. I use a visual language of icons and gestures assembled into compound images to create narratives that address this issue. This language, which I have gathered over many years, consists of photographs of iconography and inanimate representations from many historical and mundane settings throughout the world, as well as imagery taken from mass media outlets. My goal is to achieve a uniquely personal social commentary and analysis using my language of iconography as its voice.
For more information, visit Luis Delgado's web site.
Germán Herrera at La Casa del Libro
Artist Statement
Most of these images were felt, not thought.
The reason for their creation is because they can be created.
Creative Principle at work, playing.
The work points to a certain direction, the viewer is to balance the equation; she/he may recognize some aspect of the self in the piece, if so, two parts of the whole have communicated.
These are glimpses into the Vastness where everything comes from.
- Germán Herrera, 2005
For more information visit Germán Herrera's web site or contact him by email.
