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Mirus Gallery

March 21 - April 6, 2013

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540 Howard Street San Francisco, CA 94105
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Better than Candy Allison Renshaw
Mirus Gallery is pleased to announce its fourth exhibition and first solo show, Better than Candy by Southern California-based artist, Allison Renshaw. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition in Northern California and will highlight her body of work from 2009 to the present with approximately 20 mixed media works and drawings. I am interested in how fragments acknowledge ambiguities and open the work to a variety of interpretations. -Allison Renshaw In Better than Candy, Allison Renshaw presents a selected body of work marked by themes of convergence, both in material and style. Renshaw’s artworks are a dizzying confluence of mediums and imagery so various they provoke the viewer into a prolonged exchange as the eye roams the canvas piece-by-piece, element-by-element. While the multiplicity of shape, color and pattern is undeniable, there is also an internal rhythm to these works that evoke the controlled chaos of jazz and experimental music. Not surprisingly, critics have compared Renshaw’s work to Wassily Kandinsky’s “abstract music paintings” while also noting the influence of Pop art and Surrealism.