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Beyond the Lens opens next week

Traywick Contemporary is pleased to announce Beyond the Lens, an exhibition featuring the work of Johnna Arnold, Marco Breuer and Lothar Osterburg. The show challenges the traditional limitations of photography, going "beyond the lens" to explore the diverse possibilities of the medium. Beyond the Lens marks the start of Traywick Contemporary's 15th anniversary year, presenting a group of artists representative of the gallery's history with a survey of their work from both past and present.

View images from the exhibition

 

January 15 - March 31, 2012

Thursday - Saturday, 10am - 4pm by appointment

Live from Aqua Art Miami!

We are officially up and running in Room #201 at Aqua Art Miami. If you haven't already, download your VIP pass here and join us tonight for the VIP Preview Opening from 8-11 pm. See you soon...

East Bay Express and Art Practical on Lena Wolff's Another Country

Lena Wolff, Radiance Flag, 2011, Paper collage and watercolor and gouache, 37 x 37.5"

The East Bay Express reviewed Another Country, the current show by Lena Wolff.

Wolff's marriages of geometric abstraction with traditional handicraft work nicely, evoking Midwestern comforters and perhaps also Middle Eastern mosques.

Wolff's show is also featured as an event pick on Art Practical.

Lena Wolff on Visual Art Source

Lena Wolff, The Ever Expanse, 2011, paper collage with powdered graphite, 26 x 24"

Read DeWitt Cheng's review of Lena Wolff's current show, Another Country, on Visual Art Source.

"In her current show of a dozen or so small collages, “Another Country,” she moves away from traditional figuration and narrative in favor of abstraction, symmetry and minimalism, using repeated elements — the triangles, squares and rhomboids that derive from stitchery’s pattern books — to construct iconic structures reminiscent of hard-edged painting, but enriched with cultural subtexts that went lacking, for the most part, in Stella, Noland, et al."

There is still plenty of time to stop by and check out Lena's show, Another Country, as well as our group show, Visitors, both of which are up at Traywick through December 17. 

Amy Kaufman in new exhibition at Sonoma State University

Amy Kaufman's fantastic piece, Ellipses, is part of a new exhibition at the Sonoma State University Art Gallery, Absence/Presence: Contemporary Abstraction. Amy's work is a great fit for the show, which explores a wide range of approaches to abstract art over the past twenty years. Spend a day enjoying autumn in Sonoma with some fabulous art. 

Absence/Presence: Contemporary Abstraction

November 3 - December 11, 2011

Sonoma State University, University Art Gallery

1801 East Cotati Avenue

Rohnert Park, CA 94928

 

 

Traywick Contemporary at AquaArt Miami, December 1-4

If you find yourself in Miami the first week of December, stop by to see us at AquaArt Miami at the Aqua Hotel in South Beach. We'll be in room #201.

We are excited to be back in Miami exhibiting at this spirited and not-to-miss fair. You can get more information at aquaartmiami.com, or download a VIP pass to the fair. See you there!

Lena Wolff + Visitors now open

Lena Wolff's Another Country and the group show Visitors are finally here. We are thrilled to be closing the year with these two wonderful exhibitions, and hope you will stop by to see Lena's new paper collages and lightboxes, as well as work from artists Rebecca Barten, Tammy Rae Carland, Signe Olson, Melody Owen, Amy Rathbone and Miriam Klein Stahl. And don't forget to check out Paper Quilt Project: Collaborations in Contemporary Craft, a concurrent exhibiton at the Berkeley Art Center curated by Lena Wolff and featuring the Visitors artists.

 

Lena Wolff, The Hunt for Other Moons 3, 2011, Paper collage with watercolor, gouache, hole punch, and pinpricks, 12 x 11"

 

Signe Olson, Building #2, 2011, Gouache and graphite on paper, 22 x 15"

Johnna Arnold gets some Southern Exposure

We're very excited about a new series by Johnna Arnold! This piece from the series was selected for participation in Southern Exposure’s entry-fee free juried exhibition of work by Northern California artists, Proof. The exhibition runs September 16 through October 8. Hurry before it's gone! 

Johnna Arnold

Ikea Parking Lot/I-80, Emeryville, CA, 2011
C-Print
32 x 40"

Exciting end-of-summer updates for Lena Wolff

In other summer news... 

The Alameda County Arts Commission recently acquired a new piece by Lena Wolff! Violet Tower is the fourth piece of Lena's to be selected by the ACAC for their permanent collection: Gathering Trio were acquired in March of last year.   

Mark your calendars for Lena's much anticipated solo exhibition which opens here Saturday, October 8! Stay tuned for more information. 

Summer is winding down, but there are still lots of great things to come this year at Traywick!

Lena Wolff 
Violet Tower, 2011
Paper collage with watercolor
36 x 25"

Review of Benicia Gantner: Eos in East Bay Express

DeWitt Cheng reviews Benicia Gantner's current show, Eos, in the East Bay Express.

"While her material may be computer-cut vinyl, her designs come from drawing; her intricate floral assemblages, also suggestive of fireworks, derive their simplified shapes, flat backgrounds, and overall patterning from Kandinsky/Pollock modernist abstraction -- but also, perhaps, from quilting and embroidery."

Eos is up through July 23rd. Give us a call and stop by to see the show.