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"The Three Graces"
Soloman Dubnick Gallery,
Sacramento Nov 7 2004 Review
in the Sac Bee
...Kim Scott's "Sofia, Antanaklasi, Filanthropia (Wisdom,
Reflection, Charity)" packs a powerful punch. Wearing a bejeweled
Greek warrior's helmet, wisdom is accompanied by an owl, symbol
of Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom. Reflection is a coy, sexy
figure with a moon face and red-rimmed eyes. Charity is a many-breasted
tomato-woman attended by a tomato worm and a sphinx moth. It's
a compelling work that communicates directly with the viewer's
subconscious....
Columns - November 18, 2004 Surrealist movement: After nearly a decade of incubation,
the Surreal Estates artist community in North Sacramento
is looking a bit more, uhhh ... real. The development finally
broke ground on Saturday, November 6, and off-site improvements
by the city and utilities are under way. Currently, six of 11
lots are spoken for. "Residence construction is set to begin
in January," explained organizer and artist Kim Scott.
"We really need member-owners for the remaining five units
for that to happen."
Kim Scott, "Rays,"
acrylic on plywood panel, 2002.
"A young female dreams of potted meat," reads the legend
on one garish cartoony painting by Stephanie Skalisky. Another
carries the title "JoJo the Squish Face Fish Boy." And
"Little Baby Dimples" looks like something one might
run into after mixing a petroleum ether binge with Roy Orbison
records. Across the room, leering faces--many of them unfamiliar
variations of artist Kim Scott's, or skulls, or alien heads--beckon
from the wall; many of these are done up in lurid black-light
paint. Welcome to Genetic Mishaps Meet Carnival Sideshow,
a dandy exhibition of more than 300 pieces by Skalisky and Scott,
two of the more intriguing and entertaining artists on the local
scene, at the Toyroom Gallery this weekend. No, it isn't quite
Halloween yet, but this show will get you in the proper mood.
It'll be up from 6:30 p.m. until "late" on Friday and
Saturday, October 18 and 19, at the gallery, located in the alley
behind 2419 2nd Avenue.
Because our art guy didn't
write up this weekend's Toyroom Gallery show, here it is. Cold
Steel features art by Sunny Buick, Brian Hutflies and Tex.
Buick curated a show last month at the 111 Minna Gallery in San
Francisco, a sci-fi themed exhibition that featured everything
from Robert Williams to such local artists as Kim Scott, Bruce
Gossett, John Stuart Berger, Stace Cooper, Groovie Ghoulies frontman
Kepi and the great Skinner. The current Toyroom show features
reasonably priced art that appears to be rooted in a tattoo or
carny aesthetic. The gallery is open Thursday, Friday and Saturday
from 6:30 p.m. until "late"; it's located in an alley
off 24th Street, just north of Second Avenue. It's usually a pretty
good scene to make at some point in the weekend.
Last weekend, Skinner was
part of a show titled Battle of the Ultrabrothers at the
Gallery Horse Cow at 1409 Del Paso Boulevard, along with Pete
Bettencourt and Norm. Skinner's vibrant pieces, firmly rooted
in a weirdly psychedelic pulp-horror aesthetic, damn near jumped
off the walls, and they looked even cooler when viewed through
3-D glasses.
Skinner himself was quite
lively, too, animatedly describing his new theatrical metal combo,
the Little People. According to the artist, the band is standing
on the verge of conquering the known universe, which may or may
not include Sacramento. Dunno about you, but I can't wait to see
that one, whatever it is.
Outside the Horse Cow, in
the empty lot next door, former MatrixArts director Rhett had
set up a temporary art gallery inside a rented truck. His fly-by-night
Art Pimp Gallery was kind of a promotion to announce his new Web
site, www.artpimpgallery.com; the truck featured miniatures of
clowns painted by Rhett that were Jackass-funny, along with some
other stuff.
Other stuff: The seventh annual Tower of Youth
Teen Digital Reel Showcase and Awards are this Saturday, April
19, at the Antioch Family Life Center, 7650 Amherst Street (near
the Meadowview-Pocket Road exit off I-5). Doors open at 9:30 a.m.,
and the program, including lunch, runs from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30
p.m.; admission is $10 for those under 18 and $15 for adults.
Screening will be the 20 top digital-movie entries, in six categories,
along with a presentation about digital career visions by someone
from Sega Entertainment.
Oh, and David Houston, the
subject of a cover profile in the March 27 issue of SN&R,
will play that night at the True Love Coffeehouse, 2406 J Street,
starting at 9 p.m. Admission is $7. Also on the bill are Holly
Holt and Keri Carr.
John Stuart Berger, "Don't
Mess With Bucky," acrylic on canvas, 2002.
Normally, we like to tout local galleries in this space. But a
show that just opened up at the 111 Minna Gallery in San Francisco
deserves your attention, if you have an appetite for artfully
rendered mutant kitsch. The local angle is that a number of Sacramento
artists are featured in Sci-Fi Western: Art by Hundreds of
Space Cadets, including Kim Scott, Bruce Gossett, John Stuart
Berger, Skinner, Stace Cooper and Groovie Ghoulies frontman Kepi.
They're in the good company of such names as Robert Williams,
Mark Ryden, Todd Schorr, Gary Baseman, Isabel Samaras, Clayton
Bailey, Ron English, Jeff Soto and Eric White. The show, curated
by Sunny Buick, features fantastic pieces inspired by the space-age
collision of frontier and outer-limits motifs, and it'll be up
through March 29. The gallery is located at, well, 111 Minna Street,
which is near Second and Mission streets. Its phone number is
(415) 974-1719, and its Web site is at www.111minna.org.
Calendar - October 17, 2002 TOY ROOM GALLERY:More than 250 works created especially for this
Halloween-themed exhibit by Kim Scott and Stephanie Skalisky.
Artists' receptions, 6:30pm Th 10/17-Sa 10/19. Call for gallery
hours. Between 2nd Ave. and Sloat Way, East of 24th St. and South
of Broadway. Call 457-5269 for more information.
Kim Scott, detail from
Sun Mask, copper, oil on panel, 2002.
With three different exhibitions up through March 2, Solomon Dubnick
Gallery certainly is offering quantity this month. And while the
works of various photographers are attractive, and the "Dog
Park"--an installation of ceramic pooches by Maru Hoeber--is
certainly whimsical, it's the mask collection in the Upper Gallery
that should grab your fancy. The gallery got a number of area
artists to riff on Mardi Gras for a show titled "Masque Parade,"
and some of the items they came up with are closer to Absinthe
Avenue than Bourbon Street. Even though Fat Tuesday has passed,
hey, check it out anyway. Solomon Dubnick, located at 2131 Northrop
Ave. just west of Howe Avenue, is open 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesday
through Saturday or by appointment; the phone number is 920-4547Kim
Scott, detail from Sun Mask, copper, oil on panel, 2002.
Dan Samborski, detail
from "High Voltage,"acrylic on clayboard, 2004.
"This would make a great quirky little story on the local
art scene," the press release from artist Dan Samborski stated.
Back in the mid-1990s, Samborski covered the art beat for SN&R
as part of what he called a tag team, with fellow artist Ken Magri.
And on next week's Second Saturday (May 8) art walk, Samborski
and Magri will be part of a show of miniatures in Izzy Schwartz's
mobile Mini Van-Go Gallery, which will make stops at Solomon Dubnick
Gallery (6 p.m., 2131 Northrop Avenue), at 20th Street Art Gallery
(7 p.m., 911 20th Street), at the Art Foundry Gallery (8 p.m.,
1021 R Street) and on Del Paso Boulevard (9 p.m., most likely
near Gallery Horse Cow at 1409 Del Paso Boulevard). Also showing
will be Jim Albertson, Jack Ogden, Kim Scott and others. Samborski's
own work has a certain twisted resonance; his painting "High
Voltage," above, depicts an acquaintance who chose to celebrate
Valentine's Day in a rather unorthodox manner.
William Haddad, detail
from "Sukie," acrylic on panel, 2004.
One interesting aspect of Sacramento's art scene is how many of
its artists teach developmentally disabled students at the Short
Center North. Among these artist-teachers are such area luminaries
as John Stuart Berger, Kim Scott, Stephanie Skalisky, Skinner
and Steve Vanoni. This weekend, the Toyroom Gallery is featuring
art by the Short Center North teachers and their students. We've
only seen a few of the student-produced pieces, and although it
would be easy to couch them in the "outsider art" category
(which they are), they are oddly engaging in the manner that they
express a level of unconscious strangeness that most so-called
normal folks can't access. The teachers also have pieces in the
show, which is up Thursday, Friday and Saturday (September 16-18)
at the gallery, located east of 24th Street in the alley directly
behind 2419 Second Avenue. Hours are 6:30 p.m. until "late."
Calendar - October 21, 2004 TOWER FRAMING AND DESIGN
GALLERY: Gallerie Macabre, a group exhibition featuring works by Christopher
Bales, Corey Okada, M. Parfitt, Mark Bryan, Kim Scott and others.
Gallery hours are 11am-6pm Tu-Sa. 2131 Northrop Ave., Suite B.
Call (916) 923-6204 for more information. Through October.
Arts&culture - November 11, 2004 Splendor, mirth and good cheer By Jackson Griffith The Three Graces: Contemporary Artists Convene on Classical
Theme; at Solomon Dubnick Gallery, 2131 Northrop Avenue.
Through December 4, with a Second Saturday reception from 6 p.m.
to 9 p.m. on November 13. "Grace" is, among other
things, the title of the late singer Jeff Buckley's debut album
and hexagram No. 22 in the King Wen sequence of the I Ching. Triple
it to make three graces, and you have, in Greek mythology, the
goddesses Aglaia (splendor), Euphrosyne (mirth) and Thalia (good
cheer). Raphael painted them, as did Peter Paul Rubens. And, most
likely, so did Pamela Colman Smith--she for the Three of Cups
card in the Rider-Waite tarot deck.
An invitational show this
month at the Solomon Dubnick Gallery offers a contemporary look
at this classic theme. Titled, well, The Three Graces,
the exhibit gave 20 artists--Mark Bryan, M.R. Chase, Jorg R. Dubin,
Ronald Gibbons, Tom Gracy, Sheldon Greenberg, Irving Marcus, Jeff
Myers, Chris Newhard, Jack Ogden, Monique Passicot, Gary Pruner,
Kim Scott, Jerald Silva, John Tarahteeff, Lorraine Vail, Camille
VandenBerge, Rimas VisGirda, Jian Wang and Ken Waterstreet (a
few of them among the area's better-known creatives)--the opportunity
of creating something new from the mythological past.
Some of the pieces in the
show are fairly straightforward, compositionally: Pruner's "The
Look," a study of three bathing beauties in colored pencil,
turns the three graces into a tanning-oil ad. Dubin's "Boxed"
switches genders and plays down, depicting three joyless men melting
from the top down. Others work from dream language: Scott's "Sofia,
Antanaklasi, Filanthropia" recasts the three graces as red,
white and blue mutant women in some midnight lounge of the doomed;
and Tarahteeff's "The Three Graces," Bryan's "Billy's
Big Night" and Myers' "Delicate Balance" offer
other windows into that twilight world just before waking consciousness.
The show's most sensual piece is Newhard's "Three Graces
Twice Compromised--Abraham's Legacy," a posterior-focused
keyhole peek at three veiled harem members that Governor Arnold
Schwarzenegger and old-school rapper Sir Mix-A-Lot, given past
public statements, would appreciate.
Also at the same location,
in the Director's Choice Gallery, is a collection of paintings
by Jessica Dunne titled Travel Studies. And in the Tower
Framing & Design Gallery section of the building, there's
an exhibition by Robert Bowen titled Anxiety and the Moral
Misery.
LOFTY AMBITIONS
LIVE / WORK SPACES ARE THE LATEST RAGE. BUT WILL EVERYBODY BE
LIVING AN ARTIST'S LIFE EXCEPT THE ARTISTS?
Artists build their dream
in North Sac Published on
December 5, 2002, Page G1, Article 1 of 4 found, 915 words.
Ceramics sculptor Robert
Charland discovered a new way to create art over the past decade.
He's molded a series of applications, permits and appeals into
a creation that he and eight fellow artists will soon build in
North Sacramento. Charland is president of Surreal Estates Ink,
an artist-built and artist-occupied community of 11 cottages and
11 studios at Calvados Avenue and Oakmont Street, between Arden
Way and Del Paso Boulevard. After nearly a decade of shifting
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Lively altars mark 'Day
of the Dead' remembrance Published on
October 28, 2001, Page EN5, Article 2 of 4 found, 1267 words.
Mounted to commemorate the
traditional Mexican holiday El Dia de los Muertos, altar shows
at Galeria Posada, Crocker Art Museum and Altares del Mundo have
a special significance this year. Many of the altars constructed
by local artists and school groups pay tribute to the victims
and heroes of the Sept. 11 attacks on America. A palpable sense
of sadness and loss pervades many of the works done this year
for what is traditionally a cheerful celebration of the passage
from life to
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Unsettling images, therapeutic
artistry Published on
March 4, 2001, Page EN8, Article 3 of 4 found, 1130 words.
Elisa Terranova's painting
"All the King's Horses and All the King's Men" is a
double self-portrait before and after the tragic accident that
changed her life forever.On Nov. 2, 1980, a car-train collision
left Terranova a quadriplegic who would never be able to walk
or use her hands again.The painting, says Terranova, deals with
the challenges she faced after the crash. On the left, an able-bodied
Terranova strides forth, strong and whole. On the right, she
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Acme Gallery remains
true to its original color Published on
January 28, 2001, Page EN6, Article 4 of 4 found, 1360 words.
It's been 25 years since
artist David Stone founded the Acme Gallery, opening its doors
in the old Marcus Auto Supply building on Del Paso Boulevard in
North Sacramento. The building, at 2022 Del Paso, had at one time
been the city hall of North Sacramento and is the future home
of the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission. Though Acme wasn't
the first artist-run gallery in town, it was the first on Del
Paso, which in the last 10 years has become home to a burgeoning
art district
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Artists Chalk It Up for children, play Picasso Published on September 1, 2000, Page TK30, Article 1 of
3 found, 697 words.
All the great artists of
the millennia have used chalk at one time or another - but maybe
not on concrete sidewalks. Even so, the nearly 150 artists drawing
with chalk at the 10th annual Chalk It Up Sacramento festival,
taking place Saturday, Sunday and Monday at Fremont Park, will
be carrying on an important tradition. "I started doing it
because it was for a good cause - raising money for children's
art programs," said artist Maggie Jimenez, who has participated
in every
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SELF-PORTRAITS
AND REVELATIONS
COMMON THEMES OF REFLECTION, CONNECTEDNESS IN EXHIBIT
Published on 03/22/98, Page
EN8 , Article 2 of 9 found, 655 words.
Self-reflection and a connection
to artwork from the past are some of the themes found in Kim Scott's
work, currently on exhibit at the Michael
Himovitz Gallery. In "Momento," for instance, a self-portrait
rendered in enamel on copper, the red-haired Scott appears in
a rectangle of blue surrounded by white
disks. In two of the disks are small flies, while the third holds
a gold-crowned tooth,and the fourth three pearls.
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A MIX OF "STOCKING
STUFFERS'
FROM ELEGANT TO COMIC, SHOW RUNS THE GAMUT
Published on 12/07/97, Page
EN20 , Article 3 of 9 found, 396 words.
"Stocking Stuffers"
is a compendium of unpredictable small works at the Michael Himovitz
Gallery. They range from elegant, stylized bronze
figures by Carol Gold to Cynthia Hipkiss' wryly comic ceramic
bakers. This off-the-wall assortment even includes a series of
funky "Snow
Domes" by Stephanie Skalisky. Filled with antic plastic figures
- an X-rated Santa among them - these mantelpiece orbs that snow
when upended
are sure to surprise the staid viewer.
Troy Dalton shows a
series of intimate figure pa
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ART TO ART
A GUIDE TO SECOND SATURDAY / SECOND SHIFT
Published on 07/11/97, Page
TK15 , Article 5 of 9 found, 944 words.
It may still be one of Sacramento's
better-kept secrets. But Second Saturday/Second Shift, the gallery
crawl that happens on the second Saturday of
each month, has a devoted following.
"I didn't even
know there were galleries in midtown and downtown until I read
about (the event) in The Bee," says Ursula Binggeli, a marketing
director for a local law firm.
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LEGACY OF A VISIONARY
EXHIBIT OFFERS RARE CHANCE TO VIEW HIMOVITZ COLLECTION
Published on 02/16/97, Page
EN9 , Article 8 of 9 found, 695 words.
"It's my favorite piece
in the show," says Julia Himovitz. She's talking about Luis
Cruz Azaceta's watercolor of a dismembered body in a room whose
floor is strewn with cigarette butts.
"I was just a little
girl when I found it in a drawer at the Candy Store Gallery in
Folsom. When I showed it to my father, he said, "You really
have
an eye, Julia.' He bought it and I hung it in my bedroom."
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THE VIEW FROM
A DISTANCE
PAINTINGS AND PHOTOGRAPHS CAPTURE EXOTICISM OF THE EAST
Published on 01/21/96,
Page EN6 , Article 1 of 1 found, 718 words. "Journeys East,"
the current show at the Michael Himovitz Gallery, brings together
the works of two artists who have turned for inspiration to Asian
culture, religion and philosophy. Sacramento painter Kim Scott
and photographer George Berticevich, who lives in Mill Valley,
have both traveled extensively in the East - Scott to India and
Thailand, Berticevich to China and Tibet.
Scott's small, meticulously rendered oil paintings, etchings and
gouaches have some of the feeling of Indian miniatures, bu
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CULTURE AND MONEY
FEDERAL FUNDING FOR THE ARTS IS STILL UNDER ATTACK. SOULD IT BE?
Published on 10/24/95,
Page C1 , Article 1 of 3 found, 1768 words. Denise Williams
stands on the downtown mall underneath Gerald Walburg's huge metal
sculpture, the Indo Arch. It was erected in 1979 and cost the
taxpayers $70,000, a tab that caused heated debate at the time.
Now, on a recent evening, Williams, a computer programmer, isn't
disturbed.
But she also isn't very impressed.
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MR. POTATOHEAD
AS EVERYMAN - AND WOMAN, TOO {BYLINE} VICTORIA DALKEY BEE ART
CORRESPONDENT
Published on 10/23/94,
Page EN9 , Article 2 of 9 found, 721 words. In Mick Sheldon's
hand-colored woodcuts at the Michael Himovitz Gallery, Mr. Potatohead
and a whole family of spudheaded characters take us on a romp
through city streets, biblical tales and Greek myths. Like the
ceramic artist David Gilhooly, Sheldon has created a whole new
world, a parallel universe, peopled by imaginary creatures with
knobbly potato heads and stick arms and legs. Their adventures
are eminently entertaining. Mr. Potatohead is Sheldon's alter
ego, as is made clear by "Self Portrait as H
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ART & WHIMSY
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ARTISTS DISH UP SOME FUN - AND YOU CAN JOIN
IN {BYLINE} PATRICIA BEACH SMITH BEE HOME FURNISHINGS WRITER
Published on 10/08/94,
Page CL8 , Article 3 of 9 found, 304 words. Take 80 plain white
plates, add porcelain paint, imagination and six dozen of Northern
California's best known artists, and you have "Paint-A-Plate,"
a benefit for the Crocker Art Museum. The artists' plates will
be on the block during live and silent auctions from 8 p.m. to
midnight Thursday at William Glen in Town and Country Village,
Fulton at Marconi avenues. The plates can be previewed starting
at 6:30 p.m. (The plates also will be on display from 8 p.m. to
midnight tonight at Phantom Galleries, 920
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MICHAEL HIMOVITZ
DIES AT 45 GALLERY OWNER HELPED TAKE SACRAMENTO ARTISTS TO A NEW
LEVEL {BYLINE} VICTORIA DALKEY BEE ART CORRESPONDENT
Published on 09/28/94,
Page SC1 , Article 4 of 9 found, 665 words. Michael Himovitz,
the trend-setting Sacramento art gallery owner who died Tuesday,
was a preacher with one sermon: Sacramento art was the great undiscovered
secret of the city. His enthusiasm and zeal was such that he built
his gallery into Sacramento's most successful art enterprise,
and in the process helped raise the profile of the city's artists
to international stature. The 45-year-old Himovitz died at his
home at 1:38 a.m. Tuesday, according to Constance Baldwin, an
office manager at Michael Himovi
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LET'S GO {BYLINE}
LAURA LYNN
Published on 09/03/94,
Page SC5 , Article 5 of 9 found, 455 words. A concrete idea
Local artists Kim Scott, Roni Santiago and Arthur Balderamma and
many others are drawing more than creations with chalk this weekend
- they're also drawing an expected crowd of 10,000 to watch them
turn Fremont Park into a palette for the Chalk It Up to Sacramento
sidewalk art festival fund-raiser. Stop by the park between 10
a.m.-6 p.m. today or Sunday and watch their concrete spaces turn
into masterpieces, or get inspired to create your own: A space
and some chalk goes for $10. This bus
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A TINY VISION
OF THE WORLD SAMPLING OF INDIAN MINIATURES GOES ON DISPLAY AT
THE CROCKER {BYLINE} VICTORIA DALKEY BEE ART CORRESPONDENT
Published on 04/10/94,
Page EN6 , Article 6 of 9 found, 1327 words. In 1939, William
Cleary, a vice president with the Pacific Telephone Co., saw a
picture of an Indian miniature in the daily paper.
It was a scene of two elephants fighting, and it immediately brought
back to him memories of home.
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ON DEL PASO BLVD.,
GALLERIES CREATE A SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE {BYLINE} VICTORIA DALKEY
BEE ART CORRESPONDENT
Published on 03/20/94,
Page EN8 , Article 7 of 9 found, 517 words. The Phantom Galleries'
art exhibits and musical performances March 12 along rundown Del
Paso Boulevard were a definite success.
Ongoing performances and exhibitions Saturday and April 1 mean
the art party is not over yet.
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A ROMP THROUGH
THE CITY'S GALLERY SCENE, CIRCA 1980S {BYLINE} VICTORIA DALKEY
BEE ART CORRESPONDENT
Published on 02/27/94,
Page EN8 , Article 8 of 9 found, 755 words. It would have been
hard to predict a brilliant career for the Michael Himovitz Gallery
(then Himovitz/Salomon) when it opened in the late '70s - a rabbit
warren of offices with peculiar art hung on the walls.
But there was Michael Himovitz - whose excitement about art is
palpable. After a few exposures to his aggressive blend of enthusiasm
and salesmanship, it came as no surprise when Himovitz moved downtown
and opened an elegant upstairs space that would set the tone for
Sacramento galleries in
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VISIONS OF HIMSELF
THE PAINTINGS AND CANVASES IN HIS ART GALLERY HAVE HELPED MICHAEL
HIMOVITZ FILL IN THE OUTLINE OF HIS LIFE {BYLINE} BOB SYLVA BEE
STAFF WRITER
Published on 02/09/94,
Page E1 , Article 9 of 9 found, 1623 words. In what was a wildly
errant aerial seeding, the exotic, ill-disposed genes of Michael
Himovitz were somehow deposited in Hanford, a small, sunbaked,
perfectly furrowed and uniform landscape just south of Fresno.
He stood out like a sunflower in a vast cotton field.
Kim Scott
