"Kissed by the California Sun" is an oil painting by Cecilia Wong Kaiser, on view through Feb. 5 at BFree Studio.
"At Brown, the idea was that I should be doing sort of bold, angry gestures. And I like to make paintings of small chairs. They were individual portraits, like 8-by8 of little chairs, usually in corners. And that was considered to be not appropriately expressing my oppression, which was confusing for me because I didn't feel like an oppressed person," she said."I felt like a privileged person. Here I was at an Ivy League institution getting to study art and write poetry.
My favorites are a blend of the landscapes and portraiture in a series of ambiguous museum scenes. Museumgoers study oversized works of art, but Kaiser has swapped out the art for — what else? Blue sky."What More Can We Find" is an oil painting by Cecilia Wong Kaiser, on view through Feb. 5 at BFree Studio.. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday. An artist talk will take place at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 25. BFree Studio, 7857 Girard Ave., La Jolla. Free.