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4/3/2009

Two Exhibitions

Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco

Sono Osato
"Babylon: The Buried Language Series"

Sono Osato opens an exhibition of new paintings, Babylon: The Buried Language Series, at Brian Gross Fine Art on March 5, with a reception for the artist from 5:30-7:30 pm. Osato's work embodies ideas connecting language, archaeology and geology. A combination of encaustic, oil painting, drawing and assemblage, the visual elements create rhythms of movement and texture. The exhibition will be on view through April 25, 2009.

Echoing historic layers of ancient texts and shifting geographical strata with thick layers of paint, Osato's previously heavily painted surfaces give way to a more open approach. In Niniveh, a large triptych measuring 64 by 143 inches, hundreds of small, reclaimed objects attached to panel create a visual polyphony, like remnant hieroglyphics. Mining parts from vintage typewriters and computer parts, Osato recontextualizes the metal hardware into compositions as though archaelogical detritus. Merging and emerging from the real objects, silhouettes of drawn objects vie for space, perfectly integrating and creating a greater depth of surface. The painting has a powerful, physical presence with a vertical rhythm to the elements, revealing layers of the past marching to a hidden order.

Sono Osato was born in Baden Baden, Germany, in 1960. She received her BFA from Arizona State University, Tempe, and her MFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland. Osato’s work has been featured in exhibitions throughout the Bay Area including San Jose Institute for Contemporary Art; The Oakland Museum; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; and di Rosa Preserve, Napa, California, among others. She has been a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant in 2008, 1999 and 1989. She currently lives and works in New York City.

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Hadi Tabatabai
"The Space of a line"

Bay Area artist, Hadi Tabatabai , opens an exhibition of new work, "The Space of a line," at Brian Gross Fine Art on March 5, with a reception for the artist from 5:30-7:30 pm. Tabatabai's work is an elegant combination of drawing, painting and sculpture that explores ideas of meditation and perception. The meticulous crafsmanship of these intimate, enigmatic works invite self-reflection. On view through April 25, 2009.

For his first solo exhibit with Brian Gross, Tabatabai continues his exploration of the line as a physical space. Working with a variety of materials, in addition to paint, Tabatabai creates "paintings" with a sculptural, three-dimensional quality. The works, which range in size from 5 x 4 inches to 30 x 24 inches, are intricate constructs made out of basswood, thread, styrene, beeswax, and grout. He creates subtle shifts within the surface plane, delineating lines by slightly raised or lowered edges to create grids. Through the use of light and shadow, depth of field, and other optical obfuscations, the positive and negative space in the grid becomes indeterminate. The resulting work evokes the relationship between what is imagined on the surface and what is actually rendered- questioning the perception of what is seen.

Hadi Tabadabai was born in Mashhad, Iran, in 1964 and immigrated to the United States in 1977. He received a B.S. in Industrial Technology from Fresno State University (1985) and a B.F.A. in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute (1995). His work has been shown widely in London, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Philadelphia and can be found in the collections of The Achenbach Foundation at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, The Progressive Corporation, Cleveland, Ohio, and Werner Kramarsky, New York City, among others. Tabatabai recently received a Pollock-Krasner Grant (2008) and has been an artist in residence at the Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, California (2007), as well as an affiliate artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, California (2006-2007).

Image: Sono Osato

Brian Gross Fine Art
49 Geary Street - San Francisco
Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Friday 10:30-5:30, Saturday 11-
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