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Curated by : Carl Heyward 

THE AMERICAN HEART OF WINTER
Opening Sat Nov 14th Noon - 5pm 
Observing Pandemic Safety Protocols

Press Release
Start: Immediately
End: January 1, 2020
Beginning this November, through the winter into the Brave New Year, Gallerie Renee Marie presents THE AMERICAN HEART OF WINTER, featuring a host of talented contemporary working artists operating in the SF Bay Area, throughout the United States and around the world, each facing the challenge of Art Practice in the Pandemic. Curator Carl Heyward has selected a range of works from artists operating in various media resulting in an eclectic, yet harmonious blend.
 
Working in various media, these practitioners navigate the hurdles inherent in art making present in the best of times, now amplified to a deafening roar as the Covid -19 crisis approaches its one year anniversary.
 
Optimism, persistence, resilience and resolution mark the works selected by Heyward for this exhibition which will include these artists and others to be inserted in the course of its run: 

Brian Auerbach
Patricia Calabro 
Helen S. Cohen
Linda Coppens
Carol Dalton
Mark Eanes
Bill Gian 
Andrea D. Guerra 
Margot Hartford 
Marianne Kolb
MP Landis 
Aldo Longo
Chiyomi Longo
Elise Marshal
Thalo Morse
Massimo Nota
Heyward Redux
Robert Reed 
Gregory J. Rose
Martin Segobia 
Usha Shukla 
Akiko Suzuki 
Diane Williams
Note :
The current exhibition Brian Auerbach's OBLITERANTS : and Other Brush Strokes (with Debbie Cooper) closes Saturday October 31st
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