East Bay Express – review of art show, July 2008
An activist’s artistic double-take on Life in These United States.
“Toasting the End of Capitalism at NoneSuch Space is Gilardin’s two-pronged take on the state of the nation. Her social-documentarian photographs include “Earthquake, San Francisco Marina,” showing a Loma-Prieta-damaged building under TV klieg lights; .. Her Dadaist/Surrealist montages include “Tasting Room,” in which a gigantic turkey dinner sits on a showroom floor next to Cadillacs (one afire); and “Hard Rain,” a scene of eco-apocalypse, with buildings crumbling and burning, and cars falling from a flaming heaven. Can capitalism learn to behave? Stay tuned.”