Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art is pleased to present “Quietly I Will Wait,” an exhibition of new sculpture and drawings by Bay Area favorite Jud Bergeron, returning to San Francisco in his first solo exhibition at the gallery.

In this new body of work, Bergeron pays tribute to Bill Reynolds, a poet and dear friend who died tragically several years ago.  Bergeron has crafted hundreds of the individual letters that comprise several of Reynolds’ poems out of wood and/or steel, assembling them into sculptures both figurative and abstract, some larger-than-life, others intimate in scale, but all paying potent visual homage to their lyrical source.  These pieces, complemented by a new series of quasi-abstract works on paper, carefully recompose the metaphorical building blocks of poetic language into the literal building blocks of material form, and vice versa.  In this manner, they invite us to contemplate the notion that our perception of the whole – be it a material form or an aesthetic experience – derives from the subconscious pre-perception of the sub-forms and sub-patterns that make up the parts.

A long-time fixture on the Bay Area art scene, Bergeron relocated to New York in the mid-2000s where he now lives and works.  He has mounted solo shows at Sloan Fine Art, Aidan Savoy, and Metalstone Gallery in New York, and Earl McGrath Gallery in Los Angeles.  He has also shown at Andrea Schwartz and 111 Minna Galleries in San Francisco.