ECHO - SAN FRANCISCO

ECHO: Eight San Francisco Artists Respond to Surrealist Masterworks

Gallery Reception
October 08, 2009
6:00 to 8:00 pm

Echo is the first exhibition at Frey Norris Gallery to exhibit the important Surrealist masterworks in the gallery's Annex alongside artwork from the contemporary gallery. We have suggested a painting or sculpture by eight important Surrealists to eight of our Bay Area artists and asked them to respond or invent around the resonances between their own interests and the content and ideas in the historical piece. The result will be pairings, one historical with one new piece, that synthesize art from 1939 to 2009. This project highlights the often misunderstood or overlooked ideas of the historical artists, demonstrating their foresight in creating art that projects a timeless power and mystery. Similarly, the pairings present contemporary artists with a challenge, creating a bridge that will measure their visions against artwork by some of the most storied artists of the last century.

Participating San Francisco Bay Area artists are Susannah Bettag, Kate Eric, Rodney Ewing, Michal Gavish, Joshua Hagler, Dana Harel, Hayv Kahraman and Mary Anne Kluth. These will appear with Surrealist artworks by Leonora Carrington, Max Ernst, Leonor Fini, Gunther Gerszo, Wilfredo Lam, Wolfgang Paalen, Dorothea Tanning and Remedios Varo. A wide range of objects, including paintings, drawings and mixed media sculptures will be included in the exhibition.

Date :	8 octobre 2009
Heure :	18:00 - 20:00
Lieu :	Frey Norris Gallery
Adresse :	456 Geary Street
Ville :	San Francisco, CA
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Téléphone :	4153467812
Courriel :	raman@freynorris.com

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THEORY OF THE UNFORESEEN - SAN FRANCISCO

Mary Anne Kluth and Laurel Roth: Theory of the Unforeseen

Gallery Reception
September 03, 2009
6:00 to 9:00 pm

Laurel Roth and Mary Anne Kluth are both fascinated by the process author Michael Pollan describes as "reductive science".

Roth's new works will examine the ways that science has enabled industrialized farming to manipulate humanity's place in a larger ecosystem. Using hardwoods carved and polished by hand to a perfect Brancusi-like finish, she meticulously recreates the largely unseen remains of food animals such as cows and pigs. Embellished with Swarovski crystals, and presented like relics, these bones celebrate the very evidence of selective breeding omitted in discussions of the current system of food consumption in the United States.

Kluth's new paintings will depict the dissonant relationship between humanity and landscape that can result when one focuses too closely on empirical perceptions. Contrasting loose, spontaneous mark-making with obsessive techniques and photo-realist depiction, the resulting images will relate the tragic romanticism of radio astronomers, individuals that spend their lives staring at computer models of places and events impossible to directly experience.

Both artists are interested in the ways people attempt to articulate a human niche in the cosmos, and the human strategies that both propel and foil that endeavor.

Heure de début :	3 septembre 2009 à 18:00
Heure de fin :	11 octobre 2009 à 17:00
Lieu :	Frey Norris Gallery
Adresse :	456 Geary Street
Ville :	San Francisco, CA
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Téléphone :	4153467812
Courriel :	raman@freynorris.com

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AT FREY NORRIS - SAN FRANCISCO

Hello everyone,

If you're wandering near Union Square on Sunday, drop in and ask me a riddle. We'll be here 11 to 5 and would love to see you.

See Shalinee Kumari's American Debut until July 19th, 2009


Cheers,

Raman

SHALINEE KUMARI - SAN FRANCISCO

Shalinee Kumari
Shalinee Kumari: American Debut
Gallery Reception
June 18, 2009
6:00 to 9:00 pm


At least since the 14th century, women in the Mithila region of the state of Bihar in northeast India have painted auspicious images on the walls of their homes. Traditionally, these paintings were done on ritual occasions, especially to celebrate marriages, and encourage fertility and prosperity. Over time several distinctive styles of Mithila painting have evolved. Then in the late 1960s the women began transferring these paintings to paper for sale. Today, woman in the region still adorn the walls of their homes with these paintings. But with the advent of newspapers, improved transportation, radio, and especially the BBC reaching into Bihar's rural villages, a small group of these artists began grappling with more contemporary subjects, drawing on their unique indigenous aesthetics. Shalinee Kumari is arguably the most progressive of these artists, producing highly narrative, vibrantly colored critical works on hand-made paper illustrating currently pressing issues such as the evils of dowry, bride burning, capitalism, inflation, corporate control of the media, global warming, terrorism, and the sexual exploitation of women. But she also does paintings on women's cricket, gender equality, and women's liberation. The artist will create fifteen new works for this exhibition, her first outside of India.

Date :	18 juin 2009
Heure :	18:00 - 21:00
Lieu :	Frey Norris Gallery
Adresse :	456 Geary Street
Ville :	San Francisco, CA
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Téléphone :	4153467812
Courriel :	raman@freynorris.com

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