Greetings!,
We've been busy this week packing and shipping artwork
for our first show at SOFA Chicago (more about this below), the
ultimate sculpture and functional art show! All, while somehow enjoying
the warm sunny weather of a true San Francisco Indian Summer...! If
you haven't been by to have a look at Joel Hoyer and Martin Freeman's
exhibition, "Mandalas for a New Century," I'd like to invite you to
grab a quick look at your calendar and make a moment to drop by!
On behalf of our gallery, and my fabulously hip Hayes
Valley neighbors, I invite you to visit our corner of San Francisco and
our current exhibition. We hope you'll enjoy the show!
Warm sunny regards,
Micaela
P.S., our current exhibition ends October 31...!
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 Joel
Hoyer is a master gilder using old world techniques to create intensely
rich color fields. His works are personal, inspired by a childhood in
Hawaii and created in a meditative spirit. He sculpts atolls in gesso,
gilds them in gold leaf and casts them adrift on deep brown-hued oceans
of Polynesian bark cloth. If I had to choose my favorite of Hoyer's
artworks, I'd have to select one of his small egg tempera paintings.
Simple, stunning and naturally modern, he uses pure color pigment and
creates the richest color fields I've ever seen.
Martin Freeman's work is best described as playful and expressive.  Inspired by museum
visits of his youth and the sculptures of the Emeryville Mud Flats,
Freeman's work takes outsider art to a new level with paintings based
on his collection of toys and objects given to him by friends. He
creates paintings from anything imaginable and then cuts them all up to
develop his current work - layers of his past in surprisingly
disciplined compositions of color, form and texture. Hoyer and Freeman
have created an exhibition of mix and match artworks, where the
everyman viewer becomes an unknowing art critic and designer. By
taking rigid, historical painting processes into today's modern world
to create opposing and complimentary artworks that are obviously
contemplative yet emotionally impulsive; Hoyer and Freeman's work
reminds us of the beauty of pure color and the indulgences of gold and
toys, aligned with notions of decorative influence.
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Breaking News:
Mica�la Gallery will present artworks at SOFA Chicago, the foremost art fair
of post-craft masterworks bridging design, decorative and fine art. The acronym stands for "the international expositions of Sculpture,
Objects & Functional Art." Galleries and represented artists hail from Argentina,
Denmark, Japan and South Africa. We are privileged to show works by
David Ruth, Lee Miltier (known for his incredibly free, yet
functional, glass forms), James Walker (a former student of Stanislav
Libensky), and introduce Justin Ginsberg. If you're in Chicago from
November 2nd through the 4th, please drop by and say hello. We're in
Booth 703.
Douglass Freed Solo Exhibition
DATE: November 9
TIME: 5 pm
LOCATION: 333 Hayes St., SF
Mica�la Gallery is proud to announce the opening of Douglass Freed's solo exhibition, on Friday, November 9, at 5 pm.
 For his first solo exhibition at Mica�la, Douglass Freed presents multi-paneled oil paintings, epic in both size and scope. His luminescent canvases find the grey area between traditional landscape painting and its abstraction into color fields. Much of Freed's work takes on a cinematic quality, not only by its size and dimension; but in his usage of the diptych and triptych as systems to break enveloping natural settings into interstices of time and transition. His work will be featured in Mica�la's Gallery 1.
In Gallery 2, Mica�la presents Anne Yalon, a cross-disciplinary San Francisco based artist whose work speaks to a landscape's potential as a witness to events. For this show, Yalon presents ghostly prints from Polaroids of the Irish countryside. Ranging from ruins to shipwrecks, they are heavy with the palpable weight of memory. Additionally, her split screen video, "Reoriented," mixes rhythmic sound with the artist's footsteps as she takes the viewer around present-day Treasure Island and its ruins from the 1939 World's Fair. Yalon's plumbing of the residual memory embedded in landscape acts as poignant punctuation to the immediacy of Freed's panoramas. |
Other News:
DECEMBERJulie Lazarus + Dave Patchen - Blown glass scupture exploring abstract shape and design. Lazarus and Patchen reference classical Murano elements through their use of color and technique. Exhibition opens December 7.
Art Now Miami - Lest you think Mica�la Gallery is resting on just one art fair...we're presenting the works of Zenith Foundation, Peter Foucault, Jenna North and Bethany Marchman at Art Now Miami! Exhibition runs December 6 - 9, Miami, FL.
JANUARY/FEBRUARYTIno Rodriguez - Fantastic paintings of postmodern fairy tales with mythical qualities founded on the artist's childhood legacy. Exhibition opens mid January.
MARCHJenna North + Ryan Hackett - Two-person exhibition of paintings by SFAI MFA candidate and graduate. Exhibition opens March 1.
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