AT HOME WITH WORKS GALLERY Giammatei is a proud member of many galleries and nonprofit art organizations around the San Francisco Bay Area and the world. One of these is Works Gallery in San Jose, CA, a nonprofit art and performance center that focuses on celebrating the process of art creation as much as the finished product and encourages its residents and visiting artists to take creative risks. Works accomplishes these goals by hosting professional development classes and networking events for artists creating with various media. It is in line with Giammatei’s aesthetic, which emphasizes how we, ourselves, as well as the rest of the natural world, are continually under construction.
The tech-themed works include a version of children’s classic Goodnight Moon that is made to look digitized, reflecting on the changing nature of our early experiences. Other pieces touch on children’s literature, some with more whimsy than social critique. She crafted gilded binoculars that incorporate pages of E. Nesbit’s T he Magic City and another piece inspired by the Edward Lear poem The Owl and the Pussy-Cat .
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