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DESCRIPTION:Opening Reception Friday, June 3, 7:00 to 9:00 pm\n\nExhibit Schedule: Fri. 
 June 3 -Tue. June 28, 2011\n\nM- F 12- 5:30 pm, Sat. 10 am - 1 pm or by 
 appointment\n\nIn his exhibit “Out of Context: An Experiment in Chaotic 
 Art,” artist and columnist Davi Barker uses enhanced collage to 
 deconstruct media images of Islam and world events, creating colorful 
 kaleidoscopic arrays of images that play with apparent chaos while 
 suggesting hidden patterns of order.\n\n“As a Muslim, I don’t believe 
 that true chaos exists. I see apparent chaos as an opportunity to witness 
 the signs of God in the natural world. The modern world, especially the 
 information age, is the most pregnant manifestation of chaos, constantly 
 erupting into dazzling disorder. Much of the impact is more subconscious 
 than conscious. I try to strike the viewer there, in the chaos created in 
 the mind. I select images, headlines, and blocks of text from magazines and 
 newspapers and I scramble them, ripping images from their context, breaking 
 grammar and syntax, and I begin to reassemble them randomly. If a pattern 
 emerges, I will foster it, but I am careful not to direct it. The result is 
 a soup of the words and images we are bombarded with everyday, but with no 
 narrative, which forces the viewer to grapple with them subconsciously. Any 
 message the viewer interprets in the composition is a projection of their 
 own mind, not mine because I have divorced the process from my conscious 
 influence. It emerges from the chaos…. Where chaos offers an opportunity 
 to find meaning in the urban environment, solitude represents the return to 
 meaning in the natural world..”\n\nAll are welcome. No special attire is 
 required at ICCNC events.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/06/01/18680903.php
SUMMARY:OUT OF CONTEXT: An Experiment in Chaotic Art by Davi Barker
LOCATION:	\nIslamic Cultural Center of Northern California\n1433 Madison 
 Street\nOakland, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/06/01/18680903.php
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