Plastic Antinomy Number 3: The Blue/Green Issue 2009

Plastic Antinomy Magazine is focused on bringing regional and national attention to the visual arts of San Francisco and its sister city of Oakland. This issue features Josh Keyes, Gary Baseman, Eric Parra, Wave Organ, Sentient Salon, Shirley Shor, Alixis Amann, Ron Garrigues, Alicia Escott, and The Oyster Pirate Workshop. Through its print and online magazines, Plastic Antinomy fills a critical void and provides focus and coherence to the San Francisco Bay Area's vital and diverse arts scenes. Plastic Antinomy is dedicated to educating the public about visual arts in order to help develop a deeper understanding and respect for the arts as well as to help develop the Bay Area's arts and artists. With dialogue comes growth. Plastic Antinomy provides the forum. Hype, buzz, dialogue, criticism, call it what you will. It is the talking about that gets things noticed. San Francisco and the Bay Area have a very real, very vital art scene that is suffering from a profound lack of dialogue. And because of this lack, our art is often ignored by the art world at large and shockingly, by San Franciscans themselves. When confronted with the bounty of visual art that fills the Bay Area, the response is apathetic silence. Visual art is so ubiquitous to San Francisco and Oakland that we have disengaged from it. Enter Plastic Antinomy, a quarterly art publication dedicated to bring focus, coherence and well deserved attention to San Francisco Bay Area visual arts by talking about them in direct, honest and (hopefully) entertaining reviews, interviews and articles. Not everybody will like what we have to say. Good. If we all share one opinion or are afraid to say otherwise, neither the arts scene nor the artists grow. It is antinomy, the paradox of opinion, that encapsulates that very idea.

Independent curator Layla C. Lyne-Winkler is the editor and publisher of Plastic Antinomy: visual art in San Francisco & Oakland, a quarterly arts magazine distributed throughout the Bay Area. www.plasticantinomy.com