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Gallery Exhibition

Image by Doris Yen

Dates:

August 13 through September 30, 2009

Donor-Only Preview Reception:

Thursday, August 13, 2009, 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm

Opening Reception:

Thursday, August 13, 2009, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Location:

3245 16th Street (at Guerrero Street), San Francisco CA 94103

During the traditional gallery introductions season, Creativity Explored presents new work in printmaking and drawing by Walter Kresnik, Bertha Otoya, Ana Maria Vidalon and Doris Yen. The four artists employ a remarkable expressiveness of line in their mediums, which is further enhanced by their monochromatic palettes.

Walter Kresnik revists and refines his previous work in portraiture, using artists and musicians as his subjects. These intricate drawings are paired with renderings of cultural landmarks from the country of origin of each of Kresnik’s subjects.

Doris Yen, Berta Otoya, and Ana Maria Vidalon vigorously explore printmaking, a medium that is new for the three artists. Yen‘s mastery of line is further highlighted by the printmaking process, as seen in her works of fish and animals. Bertha Otoya also incorporates fish as a subject matter, along with animals, script, and images from hand-made stamps in her monoprints and in a stand-out 70-foot long scroll. Vidalon has experimented with several printmaking techniques to introduce entirely new content to her work. Inspired by sheet music, she employs chine-colle techniques that enable her to incorporate actual sheet music into her delicate compositions of lines and notes that dance across the surface of her works on paper.

The exhibition is curated by Amy Auerbach and Amy Taub. You can learn more by reading the press release.

The opening reception will feature music by the West Side Jazz Club, a San Francisco-based collective of musicians seeking to balance modern, innovative jazz music with a solid tradition of small-group bebop.

You can view some great pictures by Kally Kahn of the opening reception on SF Station. Thanks Kally for some fantastic pictures of artists, artwotk, guests, musicians, babies, and dogs!

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