Judit Hersko News Today

This weekend in the arts: Georgia O'Keeffe and Henry Moore at San Diego Museum of Art; "Good Natured" at the downtown library; Thirty years of genre books at Mysterious Galaxy; new (and closing) exhibits at Bread and Salt; Broadway's "1776"; City Ballet's "Alice in Wonderland"; and Prebys Play Days at Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.

  Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum (b. 1980, Mochudi, Botswana) creates beautifully diaphanous imagery in a variety of media, including pencil, oil, watercolour, gouache and acrylic paint. The works reference dreams, mythology, historial paintings and personal memories, amalgamating layers of imagery to create emotive, autobiographical paintings. In Storm, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum portrays a couple clearly in distress; the woman leans towards her lover in a state of longing while he tries to push awa...