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Room for Painting Room for Paper. On October 1st a new gallery is opening on the 2nd floor at 49 Geary in San Francisco. As the name implies, the gallery program will comprise parallel exhibition spaces, with one room dedicated solely to showing contemporary painting and another to works on paper, including drawing, photography and collage. The project is directed by San Francisco painter George Lawson, and will feature work by artists from California, across the country, Europe, and the Pacific Rim. The inaugural exhibition presents Judith Belzer in the room for painting and Tama Hochbaum in the room for paper.
Judith Belzer
Judith Belzer will show multi panel paintings continuing her ongoing series, "The Inner Life of Trees." Belzer's paintings explore the interdependencies of the natural world. They oblige us to reconsider the term, realism. They function at once as accurate and revealing renderings of their motif, and as working metaphors for the discipline of painting itself. Her work is profoundly layered, and remarkable in the depth of its parallel exploration of both nature and the nature of paint. Judith Belzer understands what a swinging gate the nature that surrounds us is. She understands our integral part in it. Her paintings affirm our place in that continuum, where our inner life is shared, even with the trees, through surfaces that run deeper than we can imagine. Belzer works in Berkeley, where she lives with her husband, writer Michael Pollan.
Tama Hochbaum
Tama Hochbaum will show digital photographs of trees. Her work explores complex overlays, multiple perspective and a luminous palette. With her latest series of composite images, she manages to reach back and pull all the chapters of her personal narrative into one integrated whole. Rather than fracturing the image, the multiplicity of approach in these photographs, with slight shifts in light, angle and scale, creates a greater coalescence and clarity. Her realization of her motif is crystalline, and is lent even greater universality in her series concentrating on the archetype of the lone tree. These works are rich, at once slowly revealing and yet immediately accessible. Hochbaum works in Chapel Hill, North Caroilna, where she lives with her husband, composer Allen Anderson.
Reception for the artists is Thursday, October 2nd from 5:30 to 7:30.
The show runs through November 8. Gallery hours are Wednesday through Saturday from 11:00 to 5:30.
room for painting room for paper
49 Geary 2nd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94108
415-772-0977
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