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Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art

October 14 - October 14, 2010

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1 Sutter Street Suite 300 San Francisco, CA 94104
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Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art is pleased to inaugurate its new space in San Francisco’s famed Flatiron Building with a new series of oil paintings from Oakland-based portraitist Ryan Martin, in his second solo show with the gallery. Following the warm reception of his 2008 gallery debut, and subsequent successful outings at art fairs in New York, Chicago, and Miami, Ryan Martin continues to probe the boundaries of portraiture, this time with a heavy concentration on color. As in his earlier work, he places his subjects in surreal, dreamlike landscapes populated with meticulously rendered plants, animals, and figures from mythology. Viewed as a whole, Martin’s compositions present as deconstructivist visual biography – an amalgam of objective image and subconsciously generated association that combines to form the totality of experience of another person in the mind of the viewer. Also showing in the Annex will be paintings by Craig LaRotonda.