Susan Goldsmith - Nature's Radiance

We have been eagerly awaiting the arrival of new works by Susan Goldsmith.  
They have arrived and we want to share them with you!

Susan's dynamic pieces combine the layering of gold, silver or copper leaf with photography, drawing and painting and have beautiful resin surfaces that enhance the shimmering reflections of light. 

Susan Goldsmith
No. 150 Acacia, 2009
Silver Leaf with Pigment Print, Oil Pastel, Oil Paint and Resin on Panel
36 x 36 inches
$8,800

Susan Goldsmith
Eastern Redbud III, 2011
White gold leaf, pigment print, mica, oil pastel, acrylic, oil paint, resin on panel
36 x 36 inches
$8,800

Susan Goldsmith
Paris- In November, 2011
Silver leaf with copper leaf, pigment print, oil pastel, acrylic & oil, resin on panel
30 x 30 inches
$6,000

Susan Goldsmith
Paris- Luxembourg Gardens I, 2011
Silver leaf with pigment print, oil pastel, acrylic & oil, resin on panel
20.5 x 20.5 inches
$2,600

Susan Goldsmith
Hachiya Persimmons, 2010
Oil, oil pastel, gold leaf, resin on panel
17 x 17 inches
$2,200

Susan Goldsmith
Montecito Palms (triptych), 2010
white gold leaf with pigment print, oil pastel, oil, resin on panel
21 x 62 inches
$7,800

Susan Goldsmith
Blue Heron II (diptych), 2010
silver leaf with pigment print, oil pastel, oil, resin on panel
21 x 41 inches
$5,200

Here is what Susan says about her creation process:

"My work is inspired by the beauty I find in nature. I take lots of photographs of trees and some of these images are up in my studio where I paint. I've been creating resin mixed media paintings for the last three years. The possibilities are limitless and I plan to continue exploring these mixed mediums in my work.

My undergraduate degree is in printmaking and drawing while my master's degree is in painting.

These mixed media paintings combine my love of painting with various image making techniques. I've been working with digital imagery for the last seventeen years. My interest grew out of working with digital paint and rotoscope  on special effects for feature films. I began working with gold and silver leaf seven years ago. I got inspired to work with leaf out of my appreciation for antique Chinese screens and my friendship with Robert Kushner. My mixed media paintings are a combination of old and new materials. The metallic powders and interference paints that I work with give my pieces an unpredictable radiance that varies according to the viewer's perspective. So as you walk by one of my pieces you will see the colors change similar to how colors change in nature based on; different times of day or how the wind modifies the effect of sunlight on leaves and branches."

Please contact the SFMOMA Artists Gallery if you'd like to view these or other pieces by Susan Goldsmith.

Claire Pasquier's Portrait Landscape

Claire Pasquier's portrait landscape
Masks from a portrait event





Claire Pasquier is approaching her 100th portrait in her year long portrait landscape!  Claire's project encourages us to slow down and take some time to sit with one another and share a moment or experience rather than rushing off to our next destination.

What Claire says about her project's inspiration:

"San Francisco is unique and famous; it's a small-big city, where people from all over the world seem to crisscross. The idea of this project came to me in Paris after I opened my workshop gallery. The window overlooked a tiny busy street, I watched all the people go by but never stop; it was like the halls in the metro. I felt the need to communicate with all these people and break the protective and indifferent walls that we build when we live in big cities. A portrait is the result of a unique look at a given time. Each portrait is a challenge and at the same time a mutual encounter. Even if we are made alike, each person has unique features, characteristics and stories..."

From January 2011 to January 2012, I'll be doing portraits of people at the SFMOMA's Artists Gallery.

One year! One life!

Here are some fantastic time-lapse videos from a few of Claire's two hour portrait appointments.

Get ready to hit replay!

 

Many of our gallery artists have already participated in the project.  Here are just a few painters, photographers and printmakers.

Painters:

Kim Frohsin, Jennifer Harris, Anthony Holdsworth

Photographers:

Michelle Nye, Winnie Wintermeyer, Kirk Crippens




Printmaker:

Thierry Rosset

Please call the Gallery to set up an appointment or contact the artist on her Facebook  page. The only requirement is that you bring a frame (recycled, new...your taste).

Anthony Holdsworth - Plein Air Paintings

Anthony Holdsworth with his painting
Climate Change Quartet #3 (Fire Over Water)
Oil on canvas
42 x 55 inches
$20,000, 2011

Anthony Holdsworth : Photos by Justin Beck

You may have seen plein air painter, Anthony Holdsworth, with his easle set up on location in San Francisco or Oakland.  His goal is to visually translate a space and it's surroundings to the viewer.  Not an easy task when you think about it.  The light shifts, the traffic flows, passersby are inquisitive.  All part of the experience of the space.  Yet to focus in on how to interperet what you are seeing and feeling is quite a unique challenge.  Anthony once described it like this: 

"If you think about painting the sky...The sky is blue, but you don't just paint the sky blue.  It has light and depth which our eyes can see, the challenge is caputuring that with paint."



Anthony Holdsworth
Bay Bridge Panorama, 2008
Oil on canvas
30" x 120" inches
$20,000



Anthony Holdsworth
Beneath the Bay Bridge # 5, 2000
Oil/C
40x30
$5,000

Anthony Holdsworth
A Break in the Clouds, 2004
Oil on canvas
36 x 34 inches
$3,500

Anthony says this about his process:

“ I generally work on location in the city. The urban landscape is an accurate and disquieting testament to our common condition. I encounter it first-hand in the hope of conveying its original intensity. Though sometimes devoid of people these ‘cityscapes’ emerge from my interaction with passersby and inhabitants at each site.

Color theory and Perceptionism (a term coined by color theorist Faber Birren) provide a foundation for my work. I weave qualities of light throughout a painting to create interacting harmonies that compel attention and convey a mood. I seek an approach in which the abstract dynamics of color and paint application play an essential role in conveying the essence of place. My interest in place has drawn me to paint traditional regions of Europe and Latin America where the close connection to the natural environment sheds light on the surrealistic disassociation of  American streets.”

Many of Anthony's paintings show his concerns about the way we impact our environment and the effects of global warming.  Recently one of his projects moved Anthony off the city streets and into a San Francisco garden, where over a period of five and a half months he documented the life cycle of a single sunflower in a project called Season of the Sunflower : The Continuous Oil Painting. 
 

(Video is best veiwed in full screen.)

This video is composed of 450 images of a painting that was repainted daily on location over a 5 and one half month period to reflect the life-cycle of a sunflower in a San Francisco garden. To Holdsworth's knowledge, this is the first time a 'continuous oil painting' of this nature has ever been created.

Reminder of Tomorrow's Event - Exhibition Talk, Tour and Booksigning With Don Ed Hardy

Don Ed Hardy will give a talk and tour of exhibition highlights of  The Unruly Art of Don Ed Hardy, and also sign books on August 20, 2011 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Several of his books and limited edition show posters are available for purchase at the gallery.

Art for Life, $20



2000 Dragons, $50



Beyond Skin, $98

Tattooing the Invisible Man, $90

The Unruly Art of Don Ed Hardy
limited edition show posters, $150







Hardy will talk about his original artwork informed not only by a lifelong involvement with tattoo, but also a far-reaching knowledge of Western and Asian art history.  

Check out a few other posts about The Unruly Art of Don Ed Hardy including a SPARK segment and a review of the show in Square Cylinder.  We look forward to seeing you!

Location: SFMOMA Artists Gallery, Bldg. A, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA. 94123

Mark Bowles - Changes in the Weather

Fall seems to be fast approaching as we begin to feel the seasons change. 
Today we feature the paintings of Mark Bowles, who uses form and color to capture the beauty in the transitioning of light and weather.  We'll keep you posted as new works from Mark will be arriving to the gallery shortly!

Mark Bowles
Atmosphere #35, 2009
Oil on canvas
48 x 48 inches
$8,000

Mark Bowles
Atmosphere #40 (2009-40), 2009
Oil on canvas
60 x 80 inches
$16,000

Mark Bowles
Changing Weather, 2010
Oil on canvas
36 x 36 inches
$4,500

Mark Bowles
Nightfall, 2010
Acrylic on canvas
30 x 40 inches
$4,000

Mark Bowles
Storm, 2009
Acrylic on canvas
30 x 40 inches
$3,600

Mark Bowles
The Weight of the Weather, 2010
Acrylic on canvas
48 x 36 inches
$6,000

Mark Bowles
Tropical Light, 2010
Oil on canvas
36 x 48 inches
$6,000

Mark Bowles
Untitled 54, 2010
Acrylic on canvas
40 x 30 inches
$4,000

Marilynne Morshead - Capturing Texture and Light




Marilynne Morshead
Discovery Series
Maelstrom, Flury, Serenity, Sail, Flow, Burst & Journey, 2009
Photography
16 x 20 inches
$800 each


Fashion by Alexander McQueen

  

Being bold is an art.
Looking at everyday life in a different light can surely change your perception. 

What Marilynne says about her process:

Gravitating between reality and abstraction, I am drawn equally to sculptural curves and geometric motifs, seeking order and beauty in chaotic times. The Discovery series blurs the lines between organic form and manufactured design in an opulent awakening of light, shadow and pattern. It's a serene journey into an intimate world, inviting unique interpretations dependent upon the viewer's mood and experience.
Painted with a camera, the series is printed in toned black and white, beckoning everyday objects to become animate. A lamp serpentines into a curvaceous nude, crystal droplets dance and dissolve into the ether, a silk chandelier bursts with raw emotion, a stairwell transforms into a woman's stocking-covered thigh, and a skylight opens a window to the soul. A silent room, a gentle breeze, a rhythmic sound can serve to quiet the mind. In these images, it is the emerging form that guides us into visual meditation.
Discovery is a personal Rorschach Test, an invitation to uncover fresh meaning on a well-traveled path. May we find therein whatever we need, whatever it is we seek.


San Francisco's Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival

Planning to check out this year's Outside Lands Festival? 
We're guessing that, like us, you're counting down the hours with tickets in hand!

Be on the look out for a few of our artists, Mike Shine and Don Ross, who will be showing in conjunction with the festivities.

Once again, this year's Outsider Art will be curated by Juxtapoz Magazine to present an immersive aural and visual weekend.  Make sure you stop by to visit with Mike Shine and his crew! 

Mike Shine

Artworks by Mike Shine


Meanwhile Don Ross' Sutro San Francisco - The 'Outside Lands' A Century Apart is just opening at RayKo Photo Center. 

In this survey, Ross spent a year re-photographing vantages around the City that were originally pictured in a 1910 estate survey and presents several large-format color views taken with a 4″x5″ film camera in contrast to the 1910 black and white enlarged originals, to show how San Francisco was shaped as its residents plowed into the 20th Century.

Don Ross



Exhibition will run from August 11th -  September 15th, 2011



Enjoy, and we'll see you out there!

New Work in by Jennifer Harris

Jennifer M. Harris
The Man in the Blue Boat, 2007
Oil on canvas
30 x 24 inches
$1,350

What new adventures lie ahead for this traveler? 
With colorful characters, Jennifer Harris depicts fantastic dream-like worlds.
Let's keep exploring!

What Jennifer says about her work:


"I realized that one of the first places we learn to define ourselves and our worlds is in childhood stories, both the ones from books and the ones we are told by our families, our cultures, and our society.
It's surprising how often people don't know what story they're living by (myself included).
Today my work explores my fascination with how we relate to the stories in our lives and how we are impacted by those stories.
In my paintings, I create characters in symbolic environments suggestive of children's stories, using them to question our relationship with those narrative worlds."

New work by Kim Frohsin



Kim Frohsin
Merav: Schiele Pose, 1999
Black pencil
18 x 17 inches
$1,600

We just love the new figure drawings that Kim Frohsin brought in! 

This one clearly refrences the work of Egon Schiele. 



Egon Schiele
Squatting Woman, 1918
Black chalk
45 cm x 29.5 cm
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Here are a few more of Kim's recently consigned figure studies.



Kim Frohsin
Lost to Find, 2011
Ink, pencil, dry pigment,  paper
11 x 16 inches
$2,900



 

Kim Frohsin
B. Cali with Cap & Scarf, 1998
Black marker on handmade paper
12 x 10 inches
$1,650

Please contact the gallery if you'd like to see these or other works by
 Kim Frohsin.

Exhibition Talk, Tour and Booksigning

Don Ed Hardy will give a talk and tour of exhibition highlights of  The Unruly Art of Don Ed Hardy, and also sign books on August 20, 2011 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Several of his books and limited edition show posters are available for purchase at the gallery.

Art for Life, $20



2000 Dragons, $50



Beyond Skin, $98

Tattooing the Invisible Man, $90

The Unruly Art of Don Ed Hardy
limited edition show posters, $150







Hardy will talk about his original artwork informed not only by a lifelong involvement with tattoo, but also a far-reaching knowledge of Western and Asian art history.

Location: SFMOMA Artists Gallery, Bldg. A, Fort Mason Center

Coffee Break!

Paul Madonna, All Over Coffee #445, July 31, 2011
Text by Richard Lang.

Two gallery artists have teamed up for today's feature. 
If you saw this Sunday's All Over Coffee by Paul Madonna in the San Francisco Chronicle, then you may have noticed that his collaborator on the text was Richard Lang. 
Madonna's drawings of San Francisco are paired with a text that somehow relates or reflects upon the scene.  This week he collaborated with Richard Lang in documenting the things Richard experiences on his walk to and from work.
So, if your day started like many of us, walking to work with a latte in hand, just remember to keep your eyes peeled.  Some interesting things can occur All Over Coffee.

Check out some previous posts about Paul Madonna and Richard Lang to learn more about their artwork.