Staria Stine

This review is all about the art gallery in Murphys which shows its art pieces within the tasting room called Allegorie. Ms Stine is a very creative artist and hand makes all of the art on display. A wide variety of her art can be seen on her web site,

She is constantly placing new pieces on display and for sale. This is some of the most beautiful art I’ve ever seen. There are also hand made jewelry pieces for sale. When you are in Murphys and are looking for a once in a lifetime gift for your loved one, stop in and check out the beautiful pieces on display. You won’t be sorry you did. And while your there try tasting some of Calaveras counties finest wines.
I am including in this Unilocal review the Artists Statement, with the Artists permission, this statement also appears on the web site.
5 thumbs up here folks.
Driven by my curiosity and passion for the natural environment, I am interested in the complex tension that occurs between the man made and organic world. As human evolution becomes increasingly dominated by technology and science, our connection with the natural environment has gradually become more distant, reformulating what we consider to be natural or synthetic. As we continue to advance as a species, it is obvious that we share the mutual desire with nature to survive, to persevere, and to thrive successfully. Through this, I have found that a symbiotic relationship is not always formed, constructing an intricate tension within our co-​evolutionary development.
Primarily, I find most interesting the issues of how we view, understand, and attempt to reconstruct the natural world around us. With our scientific knowledge of nature being relatively surface (but more highly revered), we continue to try to harness the unknown and untame. By sorting information into rigid systems and highly structured formats through studies and testing, dissection and experimentation, we continue our pursuit of harnessing the unknown. Being crucial to our existence, our desire and need to control and manipulate nature is evident. The effects of this are revealed in the ways that we address our bodies through contemporary medicine, and confront the issues of birth and death by means of synthetic intervention and treatment. Similar are the ways in which we cultivate our foods using genetic modification and chemical supplement to optimize results, radically shifting our ideals of what we consider food and health to be.
The aspect in which these artificial and organic elements collide and integrate physically and visually through our current events inspires me to further initiate a dialogue and question this dichotomy through my work. Working abstractly in both organic and manmade materials, I hope to allow the viewer a new opportunity to investigate and question the delicate nature of this equation and reconstruct what we assume as ordinary, embrace a renewed curiosity of the natural, and become re-​enchanted with the familiar.