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Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art

October 22 - November 29, 2009

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1 Sutter Street Suite 300 San Francisco, CA 94104
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Quietly I Will Wait Quietly I Will Wait. Installation view.
Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art is pleased to present "Quietly I Will Wait," an exhibition of new sculpture and drawings by Bay Area favorite Jud Bergeron, returning to San Francisco in his first solo exhibition at the gallery. In this new body of work, Bergeron pays tribute to Bill Reynolds, a poet and dear friend who died tragically several years ago. Using wood and steel, Bergeron has crafted the hundreds of individual letters that comprise Reynolds' poems, assembling them into sculptural compositions - some figurative, some abstract - of striking sensitivity and materiality. Bergeron's new works, complemented by a new series of quasi-abstract works on paper, carefully recompose the metaphorical building blocks of poetic language into the literal building blocks of material form, and vice versa. In this manner, they invite us to consider that our perception of the whole - be it a material form or an aesthetic experience - derives form the subconscious pre-perception of the sub-forms and sub-patterns that make up the parts. A long-time fixture on the Bay Area art scene, Bergeron relocated to New York in the mid-2000s where he now lives and works. He has mounted solo shows at Sloan Fine Art, Aidan Savoy, and Metalstone Gallery in New York, and Earl McGrath Galley in Los Angeles. He has also participated in groups hows at at Andrea Schwartz, 111 Minna, and Wolfe Contemporary's predecessor gallery, Urbis Artium, in San Francisco.