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Crown Point Press

September 22 - November 29, 2009

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20 Hawthorne Street San Francisco, CA 94105
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Chance and Construction Tomma Abts, Untitled(5 spots), 2009
Featuring the color etchings of Tomma Abts Crown Point Press announces an exhibition of prints by a diverse group of artists whose subject matter focuses on process. London-based painter Tomma Abts, for example, allows a mark or a technique to direct a composition. New York artist Brad Brown and the avant-garde composer John Cage permit chance operations to play a significant role in creating their work. Tomma Abts, the focus of this exhibition, makes small-scale, consistently-sized paintings and drawings. This past spring she completed five color etchings, her first project at Crown Point Press. Abts’s style resists categorization. In a recent interview she explains, “I am not interested in translating something onto the canvas. It is all about starting with nothing as a given—maybe choosing a color, making a shape and going from there. I want to make it all up myself from scratch. I am intensely involved with the process of constructing.” In one of her etchings, for example, Abts began constructing an image by laying down bits of torn paper onto the copper plates; these shapes in the final work seem to cast shadows beneath ruled soft ground lines. Also included in this exhibition are prints by Robert Barry,Terry Fox, Laura Owens, Markus Raetz, Ed Ruscha, and Richard Tuttle.
Chance and Construction Tomma Abts, Untitled(triangle), 2009
Chance and Construction Tomma Abts, Untitled(brushstroke), 2009
Chance and Construction Tomma Abts, Untitled(diagonals),2009
Chance and Construction Tomma Abts, Untitled (12 bits), 2009