room for painting room for paper Presents Lorene Anderson and Quentin Morris
Exhibition 9 in the room for painting will provide many visitors to the gallery with their first in-depth look at the work of Oakland artist Lorene Anderson. Anderson works with a deft mix of casein, acrylic, ink, and mica pigments to create gravity defying imagery with a highly individuated color/light. Her paint application is intuitive though her method is grounded in an intellectual rigor. As a catalyst to creating this series of paintings, Anderson has drawn on a literary reference, Italo Calvino’s 1972 novel, Invisible Cities. The paintings take their titles from cities in the book, described in prose poems by Marco Polo to the emperor Kublai Khan.
For the 9th show in the room for paper, the gallery presents the Black Drawings of Philadelphia painter Quentin Morris. Shortly after opening the gallery I was introduced by the painter John Zurier to the radical work of Morris, a man of strong identities—Native Philadelphian, African American, Nam-Myho-Renge-Kyo Buddhist, and, now in his 60s, an artist still living and working in the house where he was born. For over 40 years Morris has painted and drawn exclusively in black.This is his first West Coast exhibition.
Exhibition Dates: August 6 through August 29, 2009
Opening: August 6th from 5:30-7:30 pm.
room for painting room for paper
49 Geary, 2nd Fl
San Francisco CA 94108
T: 415.772.0977
Gallery Hours: Tu – Sa: 10:30am – 6:00pm
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Kimberly Kradel
Bryan Stillman
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