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KAROLINE SCHLEH and SABINA SUL�
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, May 23, 5-8 pm
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| Greetings! Mica�la Gallery is proud to introduce the works of New Orleans-based artist Karoline Schleh and San Francisco-based artist Sabina Sul�. Curated by San Francisco Art Institute MFA graduate, Anne Yalon, the opening reception is Friday, May 23 at 5 pm.
 After
Hurricane Katrina, Schleh was forced to rebuild her house. She notes:
"For myself, and many, there is a dream like affect of a familiar place
with not all of the pieces fitting where they used to be." Schleh was
adamant about salvaging the old parts of her house to fit within the
new. Her window panes now reveal a palimpsest of paint illuminating
every color of paint her house has ever been. Her works reveal and
conceal a similar concept.
Schleh's body of work is titled "Stereo" referring to seeing in stereo
with two eyes and seeing the same situation, place, person, event from
two different view points. She verbalizes her work dealing with
"perception and the futility of record
keeping, my ever present backwards handwriting notes containing my
thoughts from when each work was made."
Similarly, Azerbaijan-born Sabina Sul� presents work that can be seen as abstractions of what she chooses to reveal to her viewer. Beginning
with precise realistic drawings of people from live models or photos,
she then paints over the drawing with a transparent layer of color.
Subsequent construction of her work is made by another drawing of a
human figure, followed again by transparent layers of paint, thereby
fragmenting the image to a familiar yet unrecognizable form. "I often
scrape off top layers to uncover the underlying images and rearrange
them. I continue this until the painting loses most of its
representational aspect." Both
artists use traces and fragments to disclose their imagery, leaving the
viewer to place themselves within the work and locate the fragment to
create the whole. Left image: Karoline Schleh, "Green Boat Tracings." Oil, acrylic and graphite on birch panel. 48 x 48 in. 2008. Right image: Sabina Sul�, "Untitled 29." Oil on canvas. 60 x 48 in. 2005. |
Please
visit Micaela's Gallery 2 for highlights of our previous exhibition,
Bag'O/Neo, showing works by John Yoyogi Fortes, Emily Caisip, Pauletta
Changco, Eliza Barrios. Gallery 2 also informally introduces a small collection of work by our
newest artist, Gary Clemenceau.
 Image credit:
(left) John Yoyogi Fortes, "Christonite." Acrylic on canvas, 84 x 72 in. 2007.
Exhibition catalog available for purchase.
The current exhibition of work by Karoline Schleh and Sabina Sule is on view from May 20 through June 31.
Opening reception is Friday, May 23 at 5 pm
LOCATION: 333 Hayes St., San Francisco, California 94102
CONTACT: Anne Talon | anne@micaela.com | 415.551.8118
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About Mica�la
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Mica�la,
a fine art gallery, represents contemporary fine art.
The gallery assembles several solo and group exhibitions
annually, with emphasis on idea-based work, visual pleasure and
artistic vision, as influenced by culture, emotion, intellect and the
politics of life.Mica�la
is located at 333 Hayes Street, between Franklin + Gough Streets.
Summer gallery hours are Tuesday-Saturday from 11 to 6 pm, Sunday and
Monday by appointment. For more information, please visit
our website at micaela.com (click image) or write to Anne Yalon at anne@micaela.com.t. 415.551.8118 f. 415.551.8138 w. info@micaela.com url: micaela.com
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All images are courtesy of the artists and mica�la, and protected by all copyright/trademark laws everywhere.
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