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Headlands Center for the Arts presents:
2012-13 Tournesol Awardee Exhibition
Friday, July 12 - Friday, August 9; Opening Reception Friday, July 12, 6-8pm, San Francisco
MORE INFO: http://www.headlands.org/
Headlands' Tournesol Award recognizes one Bay Area-based painter each year with a generous cash prize and a year-long studio residency. The Luggage Store hosts 2012 - 2013 awardee Brett Goodroad's culminating solo exhibition.
Current Tournesol Awardee Brett Goodroad's work begins with the rigorous study of a particular historic genre of painting. He attempts to embed himself in the context of the era, and to internalize its sensibilities. His current work is informed by his admiration for 18th century painters such as Watteau, Fragonard, and Boucher. These Masters' Fete Galante paintings celebrated the folly, absurdity, and decadence of their times, qualities Goodroad feels are paralleled in our own century. Like those artists, he paints both single portraits and groups of people in pastoral landscapes. And, as in the Fete Galante paintings, where the human subjects were often shown performing scenes from Commedia del'Arte (a 16th century improvised form of theatre that featured masked "types" of characters), Brett's figures have a definite theatrical arrangement - in contemporary language, they are evocative of a "pop-up" play.
Goodroad has exhibited at Gherlinda Village, Ellera, Italy; Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis; Perfect Place/No Place, San Francisco; The Sustainability Academy of Monterey, Monterey, CA; Ab-Small, Austin; Lobot Gallery, Oakland; and Red Brick Gallery, Ventura. He has been the recipient of the Millay Colony for the Arts and Vermont Studio Center awards. Goodroad received his BFA in Painting from Montana State University and his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. He currently lives in San Francisco.
DATE/TIME:
Friday, July 12 - Friday, August 9; Opening Reception Friday, July 12, 6-8pm
LOCATION:
The Luggage Store Gallery
1007 Market Street
San Francisco, CA, 94103
415-255-5971
http://www.luggagestoregallery.org/http://
COST/REGISTRATION:
Free Admission.
MORE INFO:
Website: http://www.headlands.org/
Email: info@headlands.org
Phone: 415-331-2787
About Headlands Center for the Arts:
Situated in a campus of artist-renovated military buildings in the Marin Headlands, just minutes north of San Francisco, Headlands Center for the Arts hosts a range of programs for artists and the public. Through these programs, Headlands offers opportunities for artist research, dialogue and exchange that build understanding and appreciation for the role of art in society.
