Come visit us in booth #110 at artMRKT San Francisco, May 17—20 TAMA HOCHBAUM |
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TAMA HOCHBAUM |
Our 9th exhibition in the front gallery showcases the recent photographic grids of East Coast artist Tama Hochbaum, her 4th solo exhibition with us since inaugurating our program in October of 2008. Hochbaum, originally from New York, currently lives and works in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. For the past several years she has used a soft focus, monochromatic palette and quasi-cubist compositions to offer up the sense impressions of her immediate surroundings and family. In this body of work she has turned her lens inward, constructing something of a dream journal of her vigilance in caring for her mother in her battle with old age and early stage Alzheimer's. Deeply personal, this imagery captures at once the struggle to hold on to memory along with a certain willingness to let memory fade. Train journeys record a receding past; self portraits become an overlay of ancestors; even an evening in front of the television provides an umbilical link to a familial history. Using dance as a metaphor, Hochbaum addresses the most difficult of questions, and in the process affirms her place in an ever-shifting continuum.
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PATTI OLEON |
In the rear gallery we are showing a selection of recent paintings by Patti Oleon. Oleon works from manipulated photographic interiors to paint deftly executed oils, often constructed along a mirror symmetry. Her work might be described in short hand as romantic photo-realism. She currently lives and works in San Francisco and has shown in New York, Boston, San Francisco and Portland, though her exhibition history ties her closely to Los Angeles and includes past shows at Lora Schlesinger, Carl Berg, Angles, and Roy Boyd Galleries. In 2006 she was included in the Los Angeles Art Now show at S.E. Bergen, Norway. Her work is showcased in the 2006 edition of New American Paintings and she is the recipient of grants from the Gottlieb Foundation, the Pollock Krasner Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Ford Foundation, as well as a Fullbright Fellowship in conjunction with the German Academic Exchange Service. This is her first solo show with our gallery.
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