Traywick Contemporary

Charles LaBelle in Singapore Biennial

Charles will present a new body of work -- created specifically for the Singapore Biennial --  from his ongoing BLDGS Entered Series titled Public Intimacy (Singapore).

Here's more information about the Singapore Biennial:

Featuring 60 artists from 30 countries, the third Singapore Biennale, titled 'Open House', will be open to the public from 13 March to 15 May 2011. Over half of the artists are creating new commissions or premiering new works. 'Open House' is presented across four exhibition venues, each with their own particular character, that draw upon emblematic spaces in Singapore.

 

Benicia Gantner work acquired by Crocker Art Museum

Rubyspace + Sidestream, a new work by Benicia Gantner, has been acquired by the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, CA.  Her piece joins other noteworthy pieces by recognized California artists as part of the Crocker's permanent collection and will be on display at their newly expanded building.

Available now: Amy Kaufman exhibition catalog

We're pleased to announce the publication of Amy Kaufman: Recent Work, the catalog accompanying the current exhibition at Traywick Contemporary.  No contemporary art library will be complete without one.

The catalog features an esssay by Elizabeth Finch, the Lunder Curator of American Art at Colby College Museum. An excerpt from the essay is quoted below:

For Willem de Kooning, content was "a glimpse of something." Kaufman, by contrast, practices a meditative rather than a momentary deployment of looking and sensing, a connoisseurship of visual and haptic experience. Her looking is absorptive; it gathers patterns, visual rhythms, textures, and colors.

The book is available for $20.00, plus $5.00 for shipping and handling.

Amy Kaufman drawing acquired by Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

We are pleased to announce that the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco has acquired their second piece by Amy Kaufman.  Rug Beater, 2010 (Charcoal on paper, 47 x 40") will now be in the permanent collection of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts -- the celebrated works on paper collection of the FAM --  located at the Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.

Portia Hein: Midnight in Malibu group exhibition

Portia Hein's work will be in a group exhibition opening at Meulensteen Gallery (formerly Max Protetch) in New York.   Featuring the work of several notable Los Angles based artists, the show runs January 13 through February 19.

Upcoming Amy Kaufman show

Amy Kaufman, Rug Beater (detail), 2010, charcaol, 47 x 40"

We are busy finishing up the final details for the our show, Amy Kaufman: Recent Work, opening next Sunday, January 9th. It is sure to be a fantastic show of Amy's new paintings and works on paper, so mark your calendars and kick off the new year with some fabulous art. 

Amy Kaufman

Recent Work

January 9 - March 5, 2011

 

Benicia Gantner site-specific commission for San Jose Museum of Art

Benicia Gantner debuts newly commissioned installation at San Jose Museum of Art. Commissioned by and conceived for the museutm,  Scaffolding + Sky  is now on view as a new addition to the San Jose Museum's growing permanent collection.

Review of Rachel Davis and Portia Hein shows

 

 

DeWitt Cheng reviews the current shows by Rachel Davis and Portia Hein in today's East Bay Express.

Hein is showing six oils and three mixed-media works on paper dealing with Romantic/mythic motifs from nature — forest landscapes, trees, moons, birds. Titles like  "Moonrise," "Pastel Forest," and "Tree of Life" hint at her aspirations, while titles like "Starry Night" and "Sun Flower" testify, nervily, to one artistic ancestor. Perfervid exaltation is not her style, however; Hein's iconic evocations of nature are mediated by abstraction, memory, and painting process.

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Davis' Forbidden City paintings are more graphic in sensibility, though no less fanciful in mood. The adoptive mother of two Chinese orphans, Davis focuses here on the thousand-building Ming Dynasty center of imperial power, a soul-crushingly heavy pile in reality (at least before the Olympic makeover) that Davis adorns with fantastic foliage and clouds and thus renders weightless and lyrical.

Be sure to read the review and visit the gallery to see the exhibitions between now and December 18th.

Charles LaBelle at Cavallo Point

Charles LaBelle, Driftworks - Miami (Colors), 2004, Compound Photograph, 28 x 94 1/2"

We are happy to announce a show of Charles LaBelle's compound photographs now on exhibit at the Art Gallery at the Cavallo Point Lodge in Sausalito. If you get a chance, do stop by and enjoy Charles' work and the hotel's beautiful setting at the Golden Gate Bridge. 

Charles LaBelle: Driftworks

November 1 - December 31, 2010

Cavallo Point Art Gallery

601 Murray Circile

Sausalito, CA 94965

Cavallo Point Art Gallery

Lena Wolff San Francisco General Hospital Commission

Tree of Life, proposed drawing for mosaic

More news about Lena Wolff's commission for the San Francisco General Hospital, she will be completing three large-scale mosaics for the hospital by the end of next year. We are excited to see Lena's work in this new medium!