Wolfe Contemporary Shows Works on Paper in "Sight Unseen"

Written by Caroline Bastable Sunday, 30 October 2011 22:55

San Francisco, CA.- Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art is pleased to present "Sight Unseen", a summer group exhibition of works on paper. Featured artists include Dan Attoe, Kirsten Deirup, Shawn Kuruneru, and Frank Magnotta. “Sight Unseen: Works on Paper by Various Artists" is on view at the gallery until July 15th.With the exception of Portland-based Attoe, all are based in New York City and rarely exhibited in the Bay Area.

These artists offer an array of different modes of seeing; some complementary, some sharply contrasted, all generating a broad diversity of internal dialogues that fuel the creative process.  The resulting images on paper, be they made with paint, ink, graphite, or gouache, embody emotional interpretations and expressions of movement, memory, and projection. Uniting them all is a dedication to craft and a penetrating visual scrutiny of surroundings as observed, remembered or imagined. Deirup’s carefully executed, quasi-surreal depictions of objects and scenes that have no counterpart in reality create a sense of peering through a window to observe an inner mind, while Magnotta’s highly rendered still life tableaux are instilled with an equally compelling sense of the unreal.  Kuruneru’s studies of dogs and dancing women echo layered captures of each image the eye perceives (or mind remembers) in observing a single movement, with a staccato and haze of associations. These are complemented by Attoe’s constellations of thought, hovering like projected ruminations over landscapes.

Founded in 2005, Wolfe Contemporary is dedicated to the principle of exposition in visual art. Accordingly, their curatorial mission is to provide epiphanic visual experiences that compel audiences to adopt new modes of observing, processing, and decoding visual information that eventually become a permanent part of how they perceive and respond to the world around them. They take great pride in having mounted the “first-ever” shows of several established and emerging artists from across the US, Europe, South America and China in the San Francisco Bay Area. The gallery's artists have garnered critical praise in local and national publications and media, including art ltd, Artweek, KQED Public Television, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, S.F. Weekly, S.F. Bay Guardian, Flash Art, and Village Voice, and have exhibited at the Oakland Museum, the Civic Gallery of Milan, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and numerous other venues. Wolfe Contemporary was the subject of the 2009 PBS Documentary "Seeking Art in Shanghai," which documented a scouting trip to China and subsequent group exhibition at the gallery in San Francisco. Visit the gallery's website at ... http://www.wolfecontemporary.com

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