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Originally Posted by Philip 

one could only wonderbread the amount of people it took to make that Hirst sandwich

(photo Jacqueline Ramseyer/SVCN/January 16, 2012) Artik art curator Kathryn Funk shows artist Pantea Karimi, center, and Artik owner Bill Gould where she wants to hang some new pieces of Karimi's in their work space/gallery.

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There is a line that Funk says won't be crossed in the works she chooses for exhibitions. "I would never show anything that was pornographic," Funk says. "It has to have a quality to it."

Although nudity or some violence is not verboten, it has to be within a particular context, and not confrontational, Gould and Funk say, pointing to paintings by artist Pantea Karimi hanging in the Focus Gallery. At a glance, the pieces feature intricate shapes, florals and patterns in a rainbow of pastel shades. But a closer look reveals more provocative images, such as the likeness of the Ayatollah Khomeini. "This is an excellent example of finely done, quality images that are loaded politically and socially," Funk says.