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| SMAart Gallery & Studio 1045 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA 94109 Gallery hours: Tue - Sat 11:30 am - 5:30pm 415-962-7877 steve@smaartgallery.com |
| 1045 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA 94109, 415-962-7877, www.smaartgallery.com |
the Essential and the Ephemeral Margaret Keelan's solo exhibit, the Essential and the Ephemeral. For the past few years Margaret Keelan’s sculptures have been glazed, stained, fired, then glazed, stained and fired again to give the surfaces the look of disintegrating paint over weathered wood. Keelan states, “this softening and reduction of form so that its essential nature is revealed is a metaphor I am using for life being lived, my exploration of the process of growing up and growing older. These latest small sculptures recall the “Santos” figures of Mexico and Central America and incorporate a reproduced 19th century doll head. Although my figures echo contemporary concerns, the borrowing of earlier styles gives them more of an ageless quality.” Linda Gastrom, Professor of Art, states, “The subject conveys a sweet sentimentality twisted into melancholy that touches my emotional core and helps me remember the complexities of childhood and life” Date: May 1st - 31st 2013 Gallery Hours: Tue-Sat 11:30 am—5:30 pm Opening Reception: Thursday May 2nd, 6-10pm |
| Dance of Childhood |
| Dancer with Cardinals |
Darwin's Atoms The landscape/figures of “Darwin’s Atoms” are about Israel’s intensely personal interpretation of the enduring connection of love. Israel states, “traveling alone recently from California to Montana, I experienced poignant sorrow and profound solace in the configuration of the terrain, remembering the same journey that Bill Lassell and I had made ten years ago, newly in love”. The piece Apostrophe* begins the series, representing the figure in terms of geography and calling upon a sense of the landscape inhabited by memory. There is a wonderful Peter Voulkos quote where he says, of the omnipresence of clay through time, "I could be throwing my grandmother!" Charles Darwin said that all molecular particles on earth do constantly recirculate, through people, rivers and rocks. For any (all, perhaps) of us who have suffered loss, there is a sense of universal rhythm to that idea. Date: June 4th - 29th 2013 Gallery Hours: Tue-Sat 11:30 am—5:30 pm Opening Reception: Thursday June 6th, 6-10pm (Free event) |
| Geography |
| Scribe |
| White Rat |
