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Gallery Wendi Norris

November 6 - December 15, 2008

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161 Jessie Street San Francisco, CA 94105
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Gallery Reception: November 6th, 6-9pm All three rooms of our gallery will be hung with the most comprehensive retrospective ever given to this important American painter. Appropriate as the centerpiece, the largest canvas ever completed by the artist, is "Past and Present," a profound reflection, in one painting, on his entire life and life's work. From Dinnerstein's drawings of The Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1956 to small and large oil and chalk pastels and over half a century of paintings, this show attempts to give the visitor the broadest possible perspective on a life that has always been about art, and maybe even insight into the mind and emotions of an artist who had the guts to stick to figurative and representational imagery when doing so was completely out of vogue. Hundreds of years from now much of the last sixty years of art will be long forgotten, but if there are still people around to appreciate and investigate the world in which we now live, Dinnerstein's art will convey more of the quotidian and emotional lives of today's New York City than an investigator could garner from almost any other source. This exhibition also coincides with the publication of a large monograph by Chronicle Books, examining Dinnerstein's life with an introduction by Raman and Wendi and essays by Pete Hamill and Dr. Gabriel Weisberg.