2024 “In-Flux: Recalibrating The Unknown” a group show

This small piece is going to be in “In-Flux: Recalibrating The Unknown” a group show of over 170 artists organized by @sfartistsalumni.

Statement:

“Often, I use as a painting source photo printouts of 3D objects placed directly on a scanner bed. This small gouache painting is from the ‘Groomsmen, Even’ series, based on dimestore level plastic figurines of groomsmen individually wrapped in plastic and scanned. At the other end of the scale, I’m currently working on a large oil painting of multiple wrapped groomsmen in their original plastic bag. While the large scale, added complexity, and natural reflection of the medium in the oil painting creates a shinier, darker, more structural work, these small studies in gouache are more intimate and ghostly. The reflected plastic starts to look more like a shroud, and the figurine loses its hard-edged mass-produced features to become more vulnerable and unearthly.”

“Groomsman, Even-study 2”
gouache on paper, 2022
6” x 7.5” (11” x 13” framed)

Museum of Northern California Art
Chico, CA Art Museum
Opening reception March 22, 2024

de Young Open 2023

Signals, a group show at the historic Canessa gallery in North Beach, San Francisco.

Shown: “Flower Wrap – Orange” and “Flower Wrap – Blue Sky” both oil on canvas, 36″ x 54″, 2023, from the Paintings for a Dark Room series.

Exhibit statement:
Signals, a group show at the historic Canessa gallery, brings together 5 artists who share a common thread of spending a youthfully influential development time in their artistic careers in San Francisco in the 1980s and 90s, and who have managed to continue their work since, despite all the challenges that brings. Clare Radigan is influenced by the mesmerizing natural environment of her current base in Florida, but her large dream-like panoramic view of Colca Valley in Peru dominates her work in this exhibit; Anne Seeman’s work is deeply influenced by her decades of working with community gardening projects in Visitacion Valley, San Francisco; Susan Matthews’ paintings are symbolic interpretations of impactful events that result in imagined scenarios, she is based in Oakland CA; Leslie Straw explores common but ambiguous objects with a hyper reflective/refractive surface that blurs the boundary between subject and context, she is based in San Francisco; Simone Simon’s work, while non-representational, is influenced by nature, the nature of consciousness, and the psychological realms they encompass, she is based in Petaluma, CA.

Even through their various experiences, these artists’ works share an intensity of vision, seeing hard and listening to the signals of life, and the challenge of expressing them as art.

We’re pleased to include photos by Karyn Yandow, spiritually ever present.