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Gallery Wendi Norris

December 17 - February 2, 2009

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161 Jessie Street San Francisco, CA 94105
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Winter Group Exhibition Tomokazu Matsuyama, The Wind in the Night, 2008
Introducing Kelly Falzone, Michal Gavish, Mary Anne Kluth, Tomokazu Matsuyama After an intense vetting process, Frey Norris Gallery introduces four promising new artists - Kelly Falzone, Michal Gavish, Mary Anne Kluth and Tomokazu Matsuyama. • A recent MFA graduate of SFAI, Kelly Falzone mines the nostalgia-rich terrain of sitcoms she watched as a child, creating often hysterical or manic collages around such TV shows as Gilligan’s Island, M.A.S.H., etc. References to slapstick, vaudeville-inspired comedy and oversimplified caricature evoke sentimental laughs and tragic meltdowns when painted in Falzone’s signature bleeding watercolors. • Michal Gavish earned her PhD in Physical Polymer Chemistry and worked in the applied sciences around semiconductor crystal growth and pharmaceutical research in Israel, Switzerland and the United States. A 2008 graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute, Gavish now mixes literary concepts around the indefinite impulses of growing cities with similar geometries found in crystal growth, all expressed through innovative, multi-layered, unique prints made using brightly contrasting photo-mechanical and serigraphic techniques. • Making use of a variety of thick and thin papers, Mary Anne Kluth contrasts spontaneous acrylic splash marks with meticulous in-painting and photorealistic cut-out watercolors, creating three dimensional pieces that reference a variety of cosmologies and theories of art-making. Her cut paper and video and mixed media installations boggle the viewer with their time consuming and fastidious presentation and rich terrain of historical allusions. • Splitting his time between Tokyo, New York and San Francisco, Tomokazu Matsuyama invests mythical importance in cultural and ethnic conflations. His storybook paintings, installations and works on paper mine a deep well of Japanese folklore and textile patterning, while granting their protagonists’ blonde hair, blue eyes and a variety of small cultural markings that make for riveting hybrids. Legendary painter/printmakers like Utagawa Hiroshige and Katsushika Hokusai find rebirth in fairy tales superficially rooted in the 21st century. We invite each of you to visit the gallery to learn more about these artists, see the work in person and learn about their blossoming careers.
Winter Group Exhibition Michal Gavish, Urban Tapestry (East), 2008
Winter Group Exhibition Kelly Falzone, "Fran" (Rue McClanahan's from Mama's Family), 2008
Winter Group Exhibition Mary Anne Kluth, Between Brahe and Kepler, 2008