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Exhibition Detail Ward Schumaker Books and Drawings Meridian Gallery 535 Powell Street San Francisco, CA 94108 1 person has recommended this exhibit January 24th, 2008 - March 1st, 2008 Opening: January 24th, 2008 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
	Ward Schumaker, detail from the book Elixir Refused © Courtesy of the Artist and Meridian Gallery

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The work of Ward Schumaker exudes a similar spontaneity. Books and Drawings, shown in Meridian's second floor Drawings Gallery, features some of his recent large-scale hand-painted books and other works on paper. Schumaker uses text in an intuitive combination with expressionistic painting. The text, coming from a variety of sources, is layered on the painting, sometimes partially obscured. The dynamic between text and painting reveals no implicit narrative, but often invokes a spiritual content.

Schumaker stopped painting at the age of 22, in 1965, when one of his paintings was deemed obscene and he was forced to remove it from a competition. Ten years ago he began painting again and while only recently begun exhibiting, has now shown locally, nationally, and internationally.

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