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Patricia Sweetow Gallery

January 8 - March 1, 2009

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Recent Paintings + The Hunt Jamie Vasta, Heather, 2008
Patricia Sweetow Gallery is pleased to welcome Bay Area artist Cornelia Schulz in her exhibition of Recent Paintings. In conjunction with her exhibition is an illustrated catalog with an essay by Renny Pritiken, the Director and Curator of the Nelson Gallery at UC Davis. We are also pleased to welcome Jamie Vasta in our project room. In her second exhibition at the gallery Vasta will present The Hunt, a series of hunting trophy shots in glitter and stain on wood. Exhibition dates are January 8 - February 14, 2009. The artists' reception is January 8, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. Patricia Sweetow Gallery is pleased to welcome Cornelia Schulz, one the most innovative, under-recognized abstract painters working in California today. For over 46 years, Schulz has honed her skills in small abstract paintings of complex shape and color, utilizing independent supports that are joined as the painting develops. Intimate in scale, Schulz's paintings are poured, brushed, inked, washed, and sanded until a complex juncture of form and surface explode with color and texture. Offering an elaborate visual puzzle, Schulz uses a variety of media; oil, oil alkyd, acrylic, wax and ink in her continued exploration of non-objective painting. This series of small paintings proves to be her most seductive and interesting investigation yet. Since 1962, Cornelia Schulz exhibitions include the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, University Art Museum, Berkeley, California, the Hansen Fuller Gallery, and Patricia Sweetow Gallery in San Francisco. In 1973, Schulz began teaching at the University of California, Davis, where twice she chaired the Art Department. In 2002, Cornelia retired with the title of Professor Emeritus. Jamie Vasta's first one-person exhibition, Mustn't, concluded with reviews in Artweek, Art in America, SF Bay Guardian, Art ltd, and several blogs. Her insouciant medium of glitter and stain are fine-tuned to accentuate perplexing storytelling. Mustn't, began with Angela Carter's feminist reworking of fairy tales, and ended with a magical landscape, where women with mystical powers cavort in deadly play. In Vasta's current paintings, titled The Hunt, she searched the web to find the consummate hunter trophy shot, only this time depicting young female hunters and their prey. While not interested in casting political, or social commentary, she meticulously crafts exquisite composites reflecting the pride of the kill. Jamie began the series one year before Sarah Palin came to our national political consciousness, although there is one small work with Sarah and her daughter Bristol - call it an homage. Vasta's work has been written about in Art in America, art LTD, Artforum!s "Critic's Picks"; Modern Art Obsession, The Boston Globe, New York Times, SF Weekly, and The Bay Guardian. She receive
Recent Paintings + The Hunt CORNELIA SCHULZ, Further Steps, 2008