James Siena
dal 23/1/2003 al 15/3/2003
Segnalato da
23/1/2003
James Siena
Walter Galleries, San Francisco
This exhibition highlights a selection of Siena's production from the past twelve years including twenty small and medium paintings on aluminum, small drawings and two larger wall drawings executed on site in the Walter Galleries. Siena will also present a lecture to students and the public at the SFAI lecture hall, Friday, January 24, at 4:30 pm.
Painting and drawing
January 24- March 15, 2003
Reception: Jan 24, 5:30-7:30pm
Walter Galleries
800 Chestnut Street
San Francisco, CA
Event Contact:
P Streckfus
(415)749-4507
pstreckfus@sfai.edu
Image:
James Siena, untitled (Yellow and Black), 1991, enamel on aluminum, 19 ½ x a5 1/8 in.
The San Francisco Art Institute is pleased to announce the residency and exhibition of works by painter James Siena. Continuing the school’s innovative integration of its academic and public programs, Siena’s January residency will culminate in an exhibition of paintings and drawings including two new, commissioned works produced for the exhibition, on view January 24 – March 15 at the Walter and McBean Galleries with a preview and reception Thursday January 23, 5:30 – 7:30 pm.
This exhibition highlights a selection of Siena's production from the past twelve years including twenty small and medium paintings on aluminum, small drawings and two larger wall drawings executed on site in the Walter Galleries. Prior to the opening of his exhibition Siena will be in residence at the San Francisco Art Institute to teach a two-week intensive drawing course. Siena will also present a lecture to students and the public at the SFAI lecture hall, Friday, January 24, at 4:30 pm.
James Siena is known for his intricate abstract paintings of repetitious geometric forms derived through sets of specific pictorial strategies. Siena refers to these strategies as algorithms, sets of strict guidelines he devises to make meticulously rendered drawings and enamel paintings. Working from his own lexicon of prescribed nesting devices, mazes, grids, latticework, spirals, ellipses, or key patterns, each algorithm elicits a complex composition to achieve various visual effects, often described as hypnotic or even mesmerizing.
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A LECTURE BY JAMES SIENA Painter
January 24, 2003
4:30 pm
SFAI Lecture Hall
800 Chestnut Street
San Francisco, CA
Event Contact:
Greg Sandoval
(415)749-4563
gsandoval@sfai.edu
James Siena is known for his intricate abstract paintings of repetitious geometric forms derived through sets of specific pictorial strategies. Siena refers to these strategies as algorithms, sets of strict guidelines he devises to make meticulously rendered drawings and enamel paintings. Working from his own lexicon of prescribed nesting devices, mazes, grids, latticework, spirals, ellipses, or key patterns, each algorithm elicits a complex composition to achieve various visual effects, often described as hypnotic or even mesmerizing.
Siena’s January residency at SFAI will culminate in an exhibition of paintings and drawings including two new, commissioned works produced for the exhibition, on view January 24 – March 15 at the Walter and McBean Galleries with a preview and reception Thursday January 23, 5:30 – 7:30 pm.
This exhibition highlights a selection of Siena's production from the past twelve years including twenty small and medium paintings on aluminum, small drawings and two larger wall drawings executed on site in the Walter Galleries. Prior to the opening of his exhibition Siena will be in residence at the San Francisco Art Institute to teach a two-week intensive drawing course.
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