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Eleanor Harwood Gallery

April 25 - June 14, 2009

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1295 Alabama Street San Francisco, CA 94110
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Allegories of Control
Allegory is defined as "a representation of an abstract or spiritual meaning through concrete or material forms".* Both artists essentially work with abstraction and subtle meaning, but work in divergent manners. Sylvia approaches her work with a methodical and thought-out idea of what the finished piece will look like, whereas Paulini's paintings evolve as they are created. Sylvia's labor produces the work that she has already conceptualized. She hand-cuts each piece of paper from the ledgers and leaves the lattice-like grid to be a finished piece or alternately "reconstructs" the leftover pieces into Agnes Martin-like fields of pale color. Sylvia's faint terrains carry a similar emotional and subtle charge as Martin's do. A quiet sensitivity to light and changes in the direction of the fibers in the paper is realized upon closer inspection. Laura's work at a first glance looks completely symmetrical and geometrically perfect but closer inspection reveals fluxuation in direction, alignment and pattern. Alternately focusing on the negative space in her work rather than the positive reveals another much more loosely constructed order. Paulini's combined study of and interest in "sacred geometry" and process-oriented geometric abstraction informs her process. She creates paintings that illustrate change, growth, and decay within a stable, still, and iconic image while still also supporting her meditative, careful, and slow approach to image making. We look forward to seeing you at the opening! If you can't make it to the opening we are happy to schedule an appointment.