“100! The Silver Lining” with viewers, by kathryn arnold, 100 10″ x 10″ canvases, oil and silver paint on canvas,
This is a photo I took at my exhibition at Sandra Lee Gallery. Two viewers are in front of my large installation.
I have a number of works on paper plus one small canvas piece in the upcoming SF MOMA Artists Gallery Warehouse Sale May 9-13, 2012, located at Fort Mason Center, Building A, SF, 94123. The preview party is this Wednesday, hope you can make it by!
http://www.sfmoma.org/visit/artists_gallery
a day at the studio, kathryn arnold, mixed media on paper, 30 x 38″
The Deceased, kathryn arnold, acrylic on paper, 34 x 27.5″
The Elements, Kathryn Arnold, acrylic on paper, 22 x 30″
cloud of cranes complete with instructions, kathryn arnold, mixed media on paper, framed, 42 x 45″
Pastel Set #1 by Kathryn Arnold, oil on canvas, 18 x 18″
field with yellow by kathryn arnold, acrylic on paper, 30″ x 22″
a distant time, kathryn arnold, oil on canvas paper, 36″ x 18.5″
jewel rendition by kathryn arnold, acrylic on paper, 21 x 30″
kathryn arnold, sky to earth, acrylic/paper, 22″ x 17″
Yesterday took down exhibition at Sandra Lee Gallery – space felt very very empty with my work off of the walls, even with the other artist’s work still up. This was my second gallery show in San Francisco – the first one at mark Wolfe Contemporary contained just one work of mine whereas this exhibition was a two-person.
I will have work in the SF MOMA Artists Gallery warehouse sale which happens a week from Wednesday (May 9) http://sfmomaag.blogspot.com/2012/04/19th-annualartists-warehouse-sale-huge.html
http://www.fortmason.org/events/events-details?id=2213&start=2012-05-09&end=2012-05-13
100! (100 factorial) The Silver Lining, Kathryn Arnold, 100 10" x 10" canvasses, Medium: oil, enamel, silver paint on canvas
Please be invited to drop by my current exhibition (which is part of a 2-person exhibition with Carol A. Levy) which opens on April 3 and runs through April 27 at Sandra Lee Gallery 251 Post, St, suite 310, SF, Ca. 94108. The opening reception is April 7 4-6 PM and there will be an artists’ talk on April 21 4-6 PM.
Hope you can make it by!
Me – I will be exhibiting “The Silver Lining” pictured above:
“…The grid becomes an actual entity filled with 100 10” x 10” canvases, the end size being 10 squared giving physical form to the concept of infinity. The parts can be moved by the viewer. Like real life, nothing is static, yet keeps a sense of underlying structure in the realm of pure chance and chaos. In “100! Silver Lining” , the 7th work of this series, the images used are from Kathryn’s own photographs of the briefly blooming flowers at Joshua Tree National Park and are placed upon a slender silver grid (“Silver Lining”) making an ecological/environmental statement …”
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“Sierra Manzanita Feeling” a 70″ x 70″ oil on canvas, two works from an earlier imagist/symbolist series: “coolness of twilight is sent over you” (Mallarme) 66″w x 54″h oil on canvas and “I made love to a dream” (rimbaud) 48″w x 36″h oil on canvas and one 4′ x 7′ Coastal View. There are also some additional works available in the gallery such as two small 18″ x 18″ framed paintings.
Sierra Manzanita Feeling, kathryn arnold, 70" x 70", oil on canvas
Coastal View, kathryn arnold, 4' x 7', oil on canvas
"I made love to a dream" (rimbaud) , kathryn arnold, 48"w x 36"h, oil/canvas
“coolness of twilight is sent over you” (Mallarme), kathryn arnold, oil/canvas, 66"w x 54"h
This is my press release:
Kathryn Arnold, San Francisco based artist , exhibits one of her large 100! installations at Sandra Lee Gallery with additional paintings during the month of April 2012.
Kathryn Arnold’s paintings are a result of intuitive nonobjective processes and contain her search for a clear, precise moment of visual “magic”. At this place where “everything” comes together an integration occurs. Perhaps this is the magic – the moment is ordinary yet contains this indefinable occurrence of integration – of which each is new and previously unseen. Growing from here, a fascination with the ordering function of the grid and its defining relationship to experience. In particular, the idea of 100 things and the grid defining and ordering these. The one hundred things are thoughts, ideas and images all active within the mind. Not active overtly all at once, but activated in the associations and relationships generated. The grid becomes an actual entity filled with 100 10” x 10” canvases, the end size being 10 squared giving physical form to the concept of infinity. The parts can be moved by the viewer. Like real life, nothing is static, yet keeps a sense of underlying structure in the realm of pure chance and chaos. In “100! Silver Lining” , the 7th work of this series, the images used are from Kathryn’s own photographs of the briefly blooming flowers at Joshua Tree National Park and are placed upon a slender silver grid (“Silver Lining”) making an ecological/environmental statement .
Kathryn Arnold
San Francisco, Ca.
Image Caption:
the silver lining
100! Part 7, 100″ x 100″ oil and silver on 100 10″ x 10″ canvasses
Kathryn Arnold
This week immersed in artwriting for ArtVoices “State of Photography in SF” and collecting the necessary images, viewing lots of photography in the city, writing descriptions and more.
Along with that working in the studio with my new set of 6 works and preparing for my upcoming exhibition (2-person) at Sandra Lee Gallery. Almost had a last minute change in the artwork selections last evening but instead added a painting.
Figuring out the installation of 100! (100 factorial) artwork since the gallery has 11 foot high walls so will install it as a horizontal work. Since the mathmatics of the work are hightly important for concept – figuring out the extra two 10″x10″ sections which do not fit in a horizontal. Still in process – more later.
Enjoying the idea of tomorrow – to be immersed in notes in front of my computer all day, a luxury. A contrast to the weekend visit to Yosemite, also a luxury – great temperatures in the valley with crystal clear reflections in waterways.
A discovery yesterday – the two small works which I had framed and dropped off at Sandra Lee Gallery just Friday, one week ago were sold in just 2 days – first learned from my neighbor artist Watchera and then later from Sandra. Pretty nice surprise – will be framing some additional small works in the near future.
Determining the hanging of the work below in my upcoming April exhibition at Sandra Lee Gallery. It will most likely be hung in a horizontal manner.
100! The Silver Lining, 100" x 100", kathryn arnold, oil, 100 10" x 10" canvases, silver paint
Received the February/March issue of ArtVoices – a relaunch of an earlier publication – and am happy with how the two reviews which i wrote for this printed publication turned out (will post here later after I figure out where) and I hope to drop a copy of one of them off at Andrea Schwartz Gallery tomorrow for her artist.
Tomorrow a return to the studio to pick up where i left off on a set of 6 or 7 works which are in muted neutrals and tones. And also on the agenda are to drop off a couple of newly framed works to Sandra Lee Gallery. These two small works can be seen here (click here) . They now have a hardwood maple frames natural with black trim along the front – please go by and check them out. The gallery is at 251 Post suite 310 sf ca 94108.
Reproduction Series: Hierarchical Ladder "Entities", kathryn arnold, acrylic on paper, inkjet print, digital image/computer. 2012
I will be exhibiting a small group of works at the College Art Assciation conference ArtExchange in February, of which these works are a part. Borrowing from Kosuth in presentation – these works contain an acrylic painting on paper, a cmyk inkjet print on photo luster paper, and a digital image displayed on a laptop. The series is titled Reproduction Series: Hierarchical Ladder with these four individual works subtitled “Entities”, “Growth”, “Tally” and “Opening”. The above image shows the view with all three aspects – the ones imaged below lack the digital image on a laptop for the purpose of this blog. This work questions (and brings to light) the way we see, understand and experience things in a digital world – each of these aspects (the physical painting, the cmyk print, the digital image) are viable so how do we differentiate?
Reproduction Series: Hierarchical Ladder "Tally", kathryn arnold, acrylic on paper, inkjet print, digital image/computer
Reproduction Series: Hierarchical Ladder "Growth", kathryn arnold, acrylic on paper, inkjet print, digital image/computer
Reproduction Series: Hierarchical Order "Opening", kathryn arnold, acrylic on paper, inkjet print, digital image/computer
This morning Excel , this afternoon writing and discovered cool thing in Word (yes Microsoft) – the vertically-stretchy help box and in doing so also discovered their included proofing tools. Never knew they were there – perhaps just in this newer version but could be a real timesaver. This is all I am saying for now and for today – power in limits.
Hi, my name is kathryn arnold. I am a visual artist/arts professional based in san francisco. My blog is about current trends in my work, exhibtions and art sightings in the san francisco bay area. Sometimes even art outside of the bay area.
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