Two exhibitions
dal 20/10/2004 al 27/11/2004
Segnalato da
20/10/2004
Two exhibitions
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
Rebeca Bollinger: Drawings and Photographs. The new series of photo-drawings is conceptually based on the idea of Robert Rauschenberg's 'Erased Willem De Kooning Drawing'. Lucas Samaras: Mixed Media Drawings and Photographs. Lucas Samaras's photographs and mixed media drawings have been selected from several of his many series.
Rebeca Bollinger: Drawings and Photographs
Lucas Samaras: Mixed Media Drawings and Photographs
Opening October 21st and running through November 27th, the Rena Bransten Gallery (77 Geary Street, San Francisco, CA 94108) will exhibit new drawings and photographs by Rebeca Bollinger and a selection of mixed media pieces and photographs by Lucas Samaras.
Rebeca Bollinger's new series of photo-drawings is conceptually based on the idea of Robert Rauschenberg's "Erased Willem De Kooning Drawing". Bollinger deconstructs photographs by pulling out sections of information, essentially erasing areas, by digital means. Her process creates a partially abstract landscape that has the feel of a photo realist drawing with sketched parts to be filled in later or taken in a different direction altogether.
Ms. Bollinger obtained a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1993, was the recipient of a Eureka Fellowship from the Fleishhacker Foundation, a SECA Award in Electronic Media from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1996, and a National Endowment for the Arts grant in 1998. Her work is included in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the M.H. De Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco.
In the image a work by Rebeca Bollinger.
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Lucas Samaras's photographs and mixed media drawings have been selected from several of his many series. Samaras has been the subject of much of his work since the 50's and is described by Donald Kuspit in his essay for "Unrepentant Ego - the self-portraits of Lucas Samaras", published on the occasion of his 2003-04 Whitney exhibition by the same title, as "an Old Modern Master, the last of the authentic avant-garde masters, for his art, like no other today, reveals the unlimited freedom, depth, breadth, wealth of possibilities - profound and ceaseless creativity and experimentation..."
Mr. Samaras was born in the small town of Kastoria in Macedonia, Greece, moved to New York in 1948, and graduated from Rutgers University College of Arts and Sciences in 1959. He began exhibiting his pastels and painting while still in college and today is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, the NY Museum of Modern Art in New York.
October 21 through November 27, 2004
Reception: Thursday, October 21, 5:30 – 7:30pm
Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday 10:30 to 5:30, Saturdays 11 to 5. For more information, contact the gallery directly at (415) 982-3292.
Rena Bransten Gallery
77 Geary Street
San Francisco