Generally speaking, the working process of fine artists entails solitary hours and internalized creative energies spent in private studios, striving toward highly personal expressive ends. Studio artists function in an inherently different, more solitary way than those working in film, music, theater, and multimedia settings.
There are exceptions, even in the Santa Barbara scene, such as the memorable Westmont Museum of Art show from 2015, Tug, with works collaboratively fashioned by artists Keith Puccinelli and Dane Goodman. We can now add to that slender collaborative exhibition list the show Timely, now gracing the walls of the Architectural Foundation Gallery.
In this case, the collaborative pact between sinuous porcelain sculptor Joan Rosenberg-Dent and Caroline Kapp, an experimental photographer who also works with drawing, is mostly a conceptual and thematic one, with occasional hands-on interactions. The pair initially connected when they were involved together in a group show at the Channing Peake Gallery and recognized a simpatico in their separate artistic directions and visual/contextual interests.