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Chandra Cerrito Contemporary at Art Market San Francisco Booth #117 Please join us! __________________ Fort Mason Center Festival Pavilion May 1 - 3, 2015
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Sabine Reckewell,
Back-And-Forth, 2015, yarn, wood, screws, 8 x 6 x 7 feet
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Please be our guest! Join us at the Art Party Thursday, April 30, 6:00 - 10 PM
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Fair hours are from
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Friday - Saturday &
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2 - 6 PM Sunday.
Art Market San Francisco will be held at the Festival Pavilion at the Fort Mason Center, located at the intersection of Marina Boulevard and Buchanan Street, San Francisco 94123. Additional details can be found
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Allison Watkins
REILLUMINATE
An Off-Site Satellite Exhibition
at Westin Verasa, Napa
May 1 - July 30, 2015
Allison Watkins' work explores perceptions of materiality primarily through the forms of photography and mixed media. In
Reilluminate, Watkins says, "Most of our relationships with plants are during the day, during the magic of photosynthesis, a time when we can admire the visible beauty of nature lit up brightly by the sunlight. I walk around at night and gather plants and flowers with controlled lighting, illuminating the darkened garden that has receded since the sun has gone down. This process brings attention to the temporal light of the day, having much in common with the temporal existence of plants and flowers- their constantly changing shape and form calls attention to their short-lived life span."
Allison Watkins is a MFA graduate of San Francisco State University, and a BFA graduate of San Jose State University. Her works have been shown in the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Francisco Camerawork, and The Textile Art Center (NYC). Recently Allison's work was chosen by SFMOMA curator Janet Bishop to be included in
New American Paintings (Issue 109). Allison currently makes her home in Northern California, where she teaches fine art photography at colleges and universities in the Bay Area. She is an Affiliate Artist at the
Headlands Center for the Arts and is represented by En Em Artspace in Sacramento, CA.
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On the Line
Lisa Espenmiller
Sabine Reckewell
First Friday Artist Reception
Friday, May 1, 6 - 8 PM
Through May 28, 2015
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Reckewell,
Repeat, (detail), 2015, Espenmiller,
Know when to stop, (detail), 2012
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480 23rd Street (near Telegraph) Oakland, CA 94612 Click here for map/ nearest BART is 19th and Broadway
Hours:
Thursday - Saturday 12 - 6 PM*
First Fridays until 8 PM
*And by appointment
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On the Line
Lisa Espenmiller and Sabine Reckewell at Chandra Cerrito Contemporary
On the Line features the work of Lisa Espenmiller and Sabine Reckewell, two artists who use line, movement, and space with similar intentions. Both focus on material and repetition of pattern, and view their process as a meditative one. Espenmiller has a controlled technique akin to writing on a scroll, while Reckewell fills and redefines an architectural context. Their work mimics one another's, while complementing and transforming the gallery space.
Espenmiller draws horizontal ink lines, one after the other, until the entire surface of canvas or paper becomes a field of meditative resonance. She states that, "making art is a way of deepening my Zen practice and furthering my understanding of The Tao in the same way that my practice of sitting zazen twice a day is, or writing haiku, or tending our garden."
The lines and washes of color in her paintings are visual descriptions of the chi or breath-energy that flows through all things. In her series (the groundless ground) she depicts the ever-changing inner and outer landscape in a quest to sober and quiet the mind. The (chant) drawings are densely woven tapestries of meditative quotes from The Tao methodically repeated and imbued with talismanic power. A mystical form and structure surprisingly emerge from the written patterns.
Similarly, Reckewell's practice is disciplined and repetitious. After carefully considering the dimensions of her installation, she creates simple geometric shapes by stretching ribbons, rope, or tape between walls, ceilings, and columns to make drawings in three dimensions. Manipulating the shapes by changing the spacing between the lines, she then allows gravity to curve the lines and alter the installation's "personality." Hard lines are softened and movement is created by the flow of air in the room.
-Ann Trinca
Sabine Reckewell comes from a background in design and fiber art. Her work is informed by minimalism and conceptual art of the '60's and '70's. She earned her MFA in textile art from the famed Fiberworks Center in Berkeley. In 2011 she revisited and recreated several early installations from the late 70's. She has since created new work in public spaces in collaboration with Pro Arts in Oakland, the San Francisco Arts Commission and the San Jose Institute for Contemporary Art. In 2014 she created site-specific permanent installations for Zoo Labs in Oakland and The Summit in Austin. Earlier this year, her work was selected for "HERE Part II", a 5-person show at the Berkeley Art Center, curated by Aimee Friberg.
Lisa Espenmiller is a poet and writer as well as a visual artist. Her drawings are in a sense another form of written language-a visual haiku offered as objects of reflection. Lisa studied at UC Berkeley and California College of the Arts after receiving her BS in political science from California Polytechnic State University in 1985. She has exhibited throughout California including at the David Brower Center in Berkeley, the Bedford Gallery in Walnut Creek, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art in San Jose, and the Berkeley Art Center.
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About Chandra Cerrito Contemporary
Established in 2007 as a curatorial project space, Chandra Cerrito Contemporary features exhibitions and site- specific installations that highlight exceptional regional and national artists, with an emphasis on conceptual strength, refined craftsmanship, contemporary vision and art historical relevance.
Where:
Chandra Cerrito Contemporary
480 23rd Street
Oakland, CA 994612
(510) 260-7494
Click here for map / nearest BART is 19th and Broadway
Gallery Hours:
Thursday- Saturday 12 - 6 PM
First Fridays until 8 PM
And by appointment, (510) 260-7494
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