Winter Group Exhibition: Introducing Kelly Falzone, Michal Gavish, Mary Anne Kluth, Tomokazu MatsuyamaFrey Norris Gallery and Annex
456 Geary Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
Tomokazu Matsuyama, "The Night of the Rays," 2008, acrylic on paper, 20 1/2 x 28 1/2 in.
Four new artists: After an intense vetting process, Frey Norris Gallery introduces four promising young artists - Kelly Falzone, Michal Gavish, Mary Anne Kluth and Tomokazu Matsuyama. This winter group exhibition will open to the public on December 17 and run through February 1, 2009. We invite each of you to visit the gallery or the Web site to learn more about these artists and their blossoming careers.
Holiday Hours: The gallery will be closed November 30 - December 9 and December 24 - January 2, 2009.
Frey Norris Gallery and Annex
456 Geary Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
T: (415) 346-7812
F: (415) 346-7877
Gallery Hours:
Tuesday — Saturday 11:00 am to 7:00 pm
Sunday 11:00 am to 5:00 pm
Closed on Monday.
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More information: http://freynorris.com/docs/Frey-Norris-Winter-Group-2008_event.htm
More about the artists:
• A recent MFA graduate of SFAI, Kelly Falzone mines the nostalgia-rich terrain of sitcoms she watched as a child, creating often hysterical or manic collages around such TV shows as Gilligan’s Island, M.A.S.H., etc. References to slapstick, vaudeville-inspired comedy and oversimplified caricature evoke sentimental laughs and tragic meltdowns when painted in Falzone’s signature bleeding watercolors.
• Michal Gavish earned her PhD in Physical Polymer Chemistry and worked in the applied sciences around semiconductor crystal growth and pharmaceutical research in Israel, Switzerland and the United States. A 2008 graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute, Gavish now mixes literary concepts around the indefinite impulses of growing cities with similar geometries found in crystal growth, all expressed through innovative, multi-layered, unique prints made using brightly contrasting photo-mechanical and serigraphic techniques.
• Making use of a variety of thick and thin papers, Mary Anne Kluth contrasts spontaneous acrylic splash marks with meticulous in-painting and photorealistic cut-out watercolors, creating three dimensional pieces that reference a variety of cosmologies and theories of art-making. Her cut paper and video and mixed media installations boggle the viewer with their time consuming and fastidious presentation and rich terrain of historical allusions.
• Splitting his time between Tokyo, New York and San Francisco, Tomokazu Matsuyama invests mythical importance in cultural and ethnic conflations. His storybook paintings, installations and works on paper mine a deep well of Japanese folklore and textile patterning, while granting their protagonists’ blonde hair, blue eyes and a variety of small cultural markings that make for riveting hybrids. Legendary painter/printmakers like Utagawa Hiroshige and Katsushika Hokusai find rebirth in fairy tales superficially rooted in the 21st century.
