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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SAN FRANCISCO, September 28, 2009. CAIN SCHULTE GALLERY SAN FRANCISCO is pleased to announce Connie Connally's Drawn Out Conversations, a new body of work on canvas and paper. This exhibition will be on view at Sagan Piechota Architecture, at 315 Linden Street in San Francisco, from October 21 until December 5, 2009.
In this second solo exhibition with the gallery, Connally builds a connection between language of abstraction and perception of landscape, retaining the initial experiences in drawings then translating them into "talking points" for the paintings. As the most involved after years of experimentation with different visual resources, Drawn Out Conversations successfully balances the abstract with the non-objective. Influenced by Alice Neel and Joan Mitchell, here Connally alludes to the natural world without directly depicting it. In addition, for this selection, Connally is expanding on a strategy already in embryo in the past year, whereby a particular image is developed in two different media. This can be seen with the drawing/painting pair titled "Changing Tides", in which the painting came first, and the drawing second. Because of its immediacy, the drawing provides an inherently more intimate experience, and communicates the artist's intentionality more directly, while the painting continues the conversation while adding new layers of vision and meaning. Connally's work then offers compelling investigations in transferring this same immediacy from one medium to another.
A figurative artist in the past, Connally successfully renewed her artistic practices in order to fearlessly turn landscapes into abstractions. Originally from Oklahoma, Connie Connally lives and works in Santa Barbara, CA. She shows in Texas, California, and New York, and has won several awards nationwide.
Artist reception: Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 6:00 - 8:00pm
At Sagan Piechota Architecture, 315 Linden street (@ Octavia).
About Cain Schulte Gallery
Cain Schulte Gallery seeks to champion emerging contemporary artists working in a range of media with a focus on painting, who bring fresh interpretative visions to their genre and work within the context of the most contemporary art trends.
Contact information SF: Cain Schulte Gallery San Francisco, 714 Guerrero Street, San Francisco, CA 94110, Phone: 415.543.1550, info@cainschulte.com, www.cainschulte.com.
Gallery Hours: Wednesdays 12pm to 5pm, and by appointment.
BERLIN, September, 2009. CAIN SCHULTE GALLERY BERLIN is proud to announce its inaugural exhibition on October 22, 2009. The Berlin gallery, located in Schöneberg near Winterfeldtplatz in a spacious 'Berliner Altbau' apartment, with its director Kit Schulte, will feature the first of a series of introductory solo shows of our American artists. Both the San Francisco and the Berlin gallery are now poised to represent their selected group of American and European artists in a cross-cultural setting. Several exhibitions will be traveling between the two locations. "As Seen on TV", an exhibition of new wall sculptures by Los Angeles artist David Buckingham shown this summer in San Francisco, will make its Berlin debut.
In his work, Buckingham re-creates famous lines and popular images from the movies, cartoons, and TV, in discarded metal-never painted, just assembled and welded together-that he harvests from junkyards and abandoned machinery he finds in the Southern California desert.
The pieces included in the show feature images and symbols extrapolated from the media, in particular from TV shows of the '60s and '70s, and movie lines from films related the era (Platoon, Taxi Driver). The artist re-contextualizes them as iconic images of the American culture with a wry sense of humor.
While similar pop imagery usually tends to promote a romanticization of the era and seem to rely on the feel-good effect of memorabilia, Buckingham's work takes a more critical approach. Eschewing a direct endeavor at sentimentalism, his work aims at investigating the dichotomy between what was happening at home and in the world, and how it was dealt with by the media and in the private realm. So, while the country was ravaged by the Vietnam War, the Civil Riots, and shaken by the sexual revolution, the TV was showing Barney Fife, Will Rogers, and Batman, as a way to divert the public's attention, at the same time providing an instance of escapism from the unsettling reality.
The references in Buckingham's work are easily accessible and engage the observer in an active participation at the exact moment of recognition, lending an added level of significance, and amusement, to the points in which factual reality becomes altered by the act of memory.
David Buckingham's work has been displayed in several solo and group shows in galleries in Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, and his works are in many private collections In the US and in Europe.
Vernissage: Thursday, October 22, 2009, 7pm
Contact information BERLIN: Cain Schulte Gallery Berlin, Winterfeldtstr. 35, 10781 Berlin, Phone: +49 (0)30.21005237, info@cainschulte.de, www.cainschulte.de
Gallery Hours: Wednesdays 11am to 6pm, and by appointment.
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Cain Schulte Galleries | 714 Guerrero Street (@ 19th Street) | San Francisco | CA | 94110
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