Charles Desmarais in DATEBOOK Reviews William Swanson’s “Florascape”

November 30, 2018, 3:08 pm

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November 29th, 2018

By Charles Desmarais

 

Drift and slope. William Swanson’s new paintings are deceptively easy to like. His exhibition “Florascape,” at Eleanor Harwood Gallery through Dec. 15 (1275 Minnesota St., S.F. http://eleanorharwood.com),?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss feels a bit like a walk through a mirror universe to ours, a place where nature is somehow mathematically rationalized.

 

Alumina Drift, acrylic on panel, 47 x 74 inches, 2018, Photography by Shaun Roberts

 

The 6-foot-wide “Alumina Drift” takes center stage among 11 semi-abstract landscapes that fairly glow with a light of crystalline purity. It sets us at the edge of a vast scene of mountain and lake — a vista of what lies before us and also, impossibly, above us, held aloft by a network of misty ribbons. In “Operational Slope” we glide among structures made up of no more than lines and wings, above a broad valley.

 

Operational Slope, acrylic on panel, 34 x 38 inches, 2018, Photography by Shaun Roberts

An implied grid underlies every picture, bringing rigid structure to what was wild. To propose that the world can be so controlled is not the same as to say that it is safe.

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Brain Alfred sits down with artists and musicians in galleries and their studios to discuss their process and inspiration in their creative life.

 

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Tiffanie Turner “California Homes” April 2019

April 9, 2019, 4:10 pm

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Tiffanie Turner’s upcoming Solo Exhibition is featured within California Homes, in the April 2019 edition. ELEANOR HARWOOD GALLERY- San Francisco “What Befell Us” is a new body of large scale botanical sculpture created by Bay Area artist and author Tiffanie Turner. This new work is a continuation of Turner’s meditations on our tolerance of aging... Read more »

Dana Hemenway featured in 48 Hills, “Fall Arts Preview: 10 can’t miss art shows”

September 5, 2019, 12:51 pm

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By Matt Sussman, September 3rd, 2019

FALL ARTS PREVIEW Gallery season leaps into fall affect this week: Check out arts writer Matt Sussman’s picks for enlightening, expanding experiences.  

Dana Hemenway: Differently Structured Possibilities at Eleanor Harwood (Sept 7 – October 26)
Approaching materials commonly found at the hardware store (extension cords, ropes, light bulbs) with a fiber artist’s hand, Dana Hemenway creates woven sculptures that are both a part of and hang apart from their built surroundings. At once abstract and oddly tender, Hemenway’s work creates visual poetry out of the frequently hidden circuitry that surrounds us.

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Kira Dominguez Hultgren featured in KQED: “Six Bay Area Art Shows to See in 2020”

January 15, 2020, 5:08 pm

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KQED: SIX BAY AREA ART SHOWS TO SEE IN 2020

by Sarah Hotchkiss, January 2nd, 2020

Kira Dominguez Hultgren, I Was India: Embroidering Exoticism

March 4–April 12
San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, San Jose

“Using two Punjabi phulkaris embroidered by a relative around 1925 as a starting point, Bay Area artist Kira Dominguez Hultgren traces themes of colonialism, contemporary exoticism and craft. Her woven work, large-scale and vibrant, incorporates a variety of textures and materials, including climbing rope, wool, Indian cotton and Chinese silk. If you can’t wait until March to see her work in person, her solo show at Eleanor Harwood Gallery opening Jan. 11.”

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James Chronister within “Art Center branches out, pay tribute to the trees”| Palo Alto Weekly

February 19, 2020, 4:43 pm

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“Rooted” examines the art of the arboreal, both symbolically and scientifically

by Karla Kane / Palo Alto Weekly 

Uploaded: Wed, Feb 19, 2020, 10:17 am

Following in the footsteps of last year’s nature-themed exhibitions that focused on the sky and encounters between humans and non-human animals, the Palo Alto Art Center is currently making like the Lorax and speaking for the trees.

“This community cares deeply about its trees,” Art Center Curator Selene Foster pointed out at the opening celebration for “Rooted: Trees in Contemporary Art.” After all, she said, “We are named after El Palo Alto, a tall tree.”

Through a variety of works by 20 artists, “Rooted” explores trees as subjects, materials and symbols, from fairy-tale whimsy to scientific accuracy.

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James Chronister’s oil-on-canvas paintings of thick woodlands, “Summer 8” and “Deinze,” are difficult to distinguish from photographs at first glance, so meticulous is the detail in the black paint/white background landscapes based on photos taken while hiking with family in his native Montana.

“It’s kind of like California is the place I came to remember what Montana was like,” Chronister, who’s now based in San Francisco, mused.                         

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Artist Talk & Weaving Event “Become the Loom” Part II

Kira Dominguez Hultgren

Schedule · Saturday, February 29, 2020

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Artist Talk: Kira Dominguez Hultgren at Eleanor Harwood Gallery

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM

“Become The Loom” Part II: A Participatory Weaving Event with Kira Dominguez Hultgren at MSP’s Atrium Steps

We are ecstatic to have Kira Dominguez Hultgren speak about Intrusions within the Eleanor Harwood Gallery on Saturday, March 29th, from 1-2PM. Kira will go around the space and discuss the concepts and techniques of each piece.

Following the talk, Kira will lead everyone out of the gallery and down to the Atrium Steps of the Minnesota Street Project building, where she will be leading a participatory weaving demonstration, “Become the Loom” Part II, from 2-3PM. Within the demonstration, your body acts like the loom and the distance between the other participant creates the tension, the large weaving needs, to take form!

Please RSVP for this FREE event through this LINK

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Kira Dominguez Hultgren “I Was India: Embroidering Exoticism” at SJMQT featured in the “To Do List” KQED Newscast

March 5, 2020, 2:51 pm

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Using two Punjabi phulkaris embroidered by a relative around 1925 as a starting point, Bay Area artist Kira Dominguez Hultgren traces themes of colonialism, contemporary exoticism and craft in I Was India: Embroidering Exoticism. Her woven work, large-scale and vibrant, incorporates a variety of textures and materials, including climbing rope, wool, Indian cotton and Chinese silk. The show starts March 4, 2020 and runs through April 12, 2020.

Newscast Published Feb 27, 2020 2:44 PM, Sarah Hotchkiss

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https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-segmented-audio/embroidering-exoticism-at-san-jose-museum-of-quilt?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss

 

Review of Lee Materazzi’s “I Fucking Love You”, Gilad Segal @segalprojects

April 6, 2020, 1:13 pm

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Orange, Prints, Animal and Masking Tape, all 2020, all C-Prints, by California based artist Lee Materazzi. Currently on view at the Eleanor Harwood Gallery is a brilliant new exhibition by Lee Materazzi. Titled, "I Fucking Love You," the exhibition presents over a dozen new photographs of the artist contorted, bound, painted, and covered in stickers. The images are beautiful, offering an easy gateway to the artist's deeper reflections on motherhood, womanhood, and the physical imprint left by acts of domesticity. I was fortunate to write the introductory essay to Lee's 2011 book "Spaces with Meaning.” In those early works, Lee photographed herself and her mother, both executing and being consumed by domestic chores. Her newest work is her most personal yet. I think any parent could look at works like "Masking Tape" and "Animal" and feel a bond with the artist. Brilliant and beautiful, the artist has literally been mummified – or mama-fied – by her children. The images speak to the bodily sacrifice of being a parent, expressed through Materazzi's physicality within the work. In a poem by the artist that accompanies the press release, Lee states, "I become decorated, celebrated, sparkly, mutilated, and destroyed." One could easily argue that this line describes the journey of motherhood; our children taking (and given)all our physical strength so that they can thrive. Through the colorful and cheerful material choices utilized in her work, It feels as if Materazzi collaborated with her children, their stickers and colored tape becoming the vehicle through which to bind and bury their mother. Lee has inferred the next generation in her work, much like she did about herself in her earlier collaborations with her own mother. A final gift comes in the form of the artist's revelation as to why we capitulate to domestic responsibilities and personally sacrifice our physical self for our children and partners. It's a simple and powerful motivation that comes from the very title of the show, I Fucking Love You. I fucking love this show. #curator #artconsultant #artcollector #contemporaryartist #photography #motherhood #sacrifice #power #women #children #leematerazzi

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