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Patricia Sweetow Gallery

May 1 - June 22, 2008

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480 23rd Street Oakland, CA 94612
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No Vanishing Point
PATRICIA SWEETOW GALLERY is pleased to present the exhibition of Gale Antokal, No Vanishing Point, drawings in chalk pastel. In our Project Room is artist Sarah Wagner , with her installation, Nuclear Family. Reception for the artists is Thursday, May 1 from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. On Thursday, May 29 at 7:00 pm, PSG presents two performances featuring the work of NYC choreographer Aynsley Vandenbroucke, and Bay Area Choreographer Christy Funch. The evening is curated by theatre director/choreographer Regina Miranda. This event is open to the public, but space is limited. Bay Area artist Gale Antokal continues her haunting series of drawings looking at loss, and memory. In her 2004 exhibition, We are so Lightly Here, the artist delivered a vision of displacement with images of milk pouring down a flight of stairs, groups of people walking with baggage in hand, monumental mountains shrouded in snow, sledders disappearing down a hill, billowing smoke, footprints in snow, a lone skater gliding across a field of ice, and birds in chaotic flight. Her queries were eloquently posed through those drawings, "What do we leave behind to prove we have ever existed? What is left after all is taken away?" In her current series, No Vanishing Point, Antokal reduces her visual vocabulary to a few images, the glimpse of trees in a forest, and the embattled skies filled with clouds. Her palette is muted, with icy tones of blue and grey reverberating with ghostly evanescence and collective foreboding. As endangered species disappear by the thousands, Antokal's allusion to loss conjures personal, as well as environmental degradation. On view will be 10 large scale chalk pastel drawings on paper. Gale Antokal was born in New York, New York, and received her MFA from the California College of the Arts in 1984. She is an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design at San Jose State University, California. Antokal held several visiting artist positions and teaching positions including the San Francisco Art Institute, Instructor of Art History at the Lehrhaus Institute, and the American College in Jerusalem. In 1992 Antokal received a Visual Arts Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is included in both public and private collections.