- ASKING FOR EYES receives critical acclaim in AFRICAN ARTS journal

SANA Art Foundation is proud to announce the publication of an in-depth review of the exhibition, Asking for Eyes, the Visual Voice of Southeast Africa in African Arts, a quarterly journal that explores issues in African art for a wide audience of scholars, collectors and enthusiasts. The article, written by Dr. Barbara Blackmun, provides critical acclaim for both the design and content of the exhibition, emphasizing the “variety and appeal” of the objects on display as well as the “creative energy” that flowed through the exhibition space. Dr. Blackmun praised

“…the exhibition’s presentation of fluid, interlocking, and developing spheres of human life. Mentally, the viewer returned full circle through the spheres, to the powerful and disquieting contemporary sculptures in the introductory gallery…In an exhibition of African art, it was especially refreshing to encounter emphases on the flux of continual change and on the centrality of unique personhood.”

The full article can be found in African Arts, Spring 2006, Volume XXXIX, No. 1. The journal can be purchased by calling 617.253.2889 or by emailing journals-orders@mit.edu.

Asking for Eyes is an exhibition of over 100 objects drawn from SANA Art Foundation. The exhibition was developed and curated by the Art Design and Art History students of San Diego State University, under the direction of Dr. Teri Sowell. The show was first hosted by the University Art Gallery of San Diego State University, Nov. 8 - Dec. 4, 2004, and more recently by the William D. Cannon Art Gallery in Carlsbad, April 23 – July 9, 2006. Additional venues are being considered. Although the objects are not currently on display, an in-depth, 109-page color catalogue is available for sale at the SANA Art Foundation, 131 South Orange Street, Escondido, Ca, 92025. or online at http://www.sanaartfoundation.com/Retail.htm. Catalogues are $20 plus shipping costs.