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can really influence the way you look at an artwork. two examples. gerhard mayer makes drawings, both on paper – we showed some a couple of months ago in san francisco...
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our next show in san francisco
will be chris ballantyne, opening the 30th of january. using simple, graphic imagery, he describes the edges of american landscape. places between suburbia and wilderness. scenes that are almost...
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more mark making
on my walls. the second sol lewitt piece is “wall drawing131″ 1972 “straight lines of random length and direction, each drawn from the end of a previous line. they may cross.” drawn in black...
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the last images (i promise) that i’ll post
of the “wall drawing” show: above: wendy hough’s chalk on black paint drawing on the left, and gerhard mayer’s printed on vinyl and applied to the wall. below: sol lewitt and wendy hough....
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studio visit with lordy rodriguez…
lordy rodriguez makes drawings – ink on paper. they’re based on map making. but are more about lordy’s interpretation of the world than they are about real places. his workspace: sketches tacked...
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a nice bit of domestic curating…
a friend has done a beautiful installation in his library, juxtaposing lordy rodriguez’s “topographical” drawings with ken price sculptures. the biomorphic forms and bright colors have a nice foil in...
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my writing about jay defeo
for the publication we produced for our exhibition: 1. a compass is an instrument used to describe a circle or arc. Family lore says that as a child Jay DeFeo would spend hours practicing to draw a...
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a look back at our clementina street gallery
i opened hosfelt gallery in october 1996 – 15 years ago. today is the last day in our clementina street gallery in san francisco. we’ve been here for 13 years. feeling a bit nostalgic… so...
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this is not a chair
ruth marten makes really smart artworks drawing on antique etchings. i mean that figuratively — in that her work is inspired by the imagery of the old prints she gets in flea markets — as well as that...
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curating an opening exhibition
while our new space is gorgeous, a gallery is only as good as the art in it… an inaugural show is the benchmark, setting your audiences’ expectations. we couldn’t open with a solo exhibition. the...
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a studio visit with william t. wiley,
in preparation for his first solo show at hosfelt gallery. visiting wiley’s studio is like going into a dark room after being in bright sunlight — your eyes need to adjust to the density before you can...
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“the moon,” a new series of drawings from crystal liu.
like all of her work, these use nature as metaphor to explore human emotion. her inconography of trees, water, rocks, mountains, clouds and the stars and moon recount stories, or maybe it’d be more...
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our booth at PULSE in miami
the dust has settled on what was our best art fair ever. here’s a look at our booth: one of emil lukas’ “larvae” paintings (made using fly larvae to drag pigment across the canvas, leaving inky...
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andrew schoultz is ripping up his drawings…
and working like crazy on what will be a spectacular installation… opening here on saturday. Filed under: art, curating / exhibition design, drawing, painting
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we’re installing an exhibition called JAY DEFEO / ALTER EGO
here’s a bit about my curatorial vision for the show: When i began considering an exhibition of pairs of related works by Jay DeFeo – twins, if you will – I thought of Joseph Conrad’s story The...
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a panel discussion about jay defeo’s exhibition
at hosfelt gallery, with julian cox and veronica roberts, moderated by todd hosfelt: Todd Hosfelt: Thank you all for coming. We are so lucky to have two really smart and insightful people to talk...
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patricia piccinini’s 1st solo show on the west coast
patricia piccinini’s work is often not easy to look at, but it affects us profoundly. it is grotesque, shocking and disturbing at the same time that it’s poetic, tender, compassionate and beautiful....
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I’ll bet your relationship to art began with a crayon.
Remember the smell? The scratchy sound of the yellow and green cardboard flap folding back in a pixelated-spectrum-reveal? Which do you choose first? The joy of that short-lived,...
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