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Togonon Gallery

October 5 - October 31, 2010

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77 Geary Street Second Floor San Francisco, CA 94108
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Recent Paintings Cathering Woskow-Figure Gold Profile-2010
Togonon Gallery is pleased to present a three-person show of recent paintings by California-based artists Servando Garcia, Connie Harris and Catherine Woskow. All three artists take a contemporary approach to traditional painting genres, exploring issues of style through experimentation and formal play. Over time, the art practice of these artists have grown with ease to incorporate elements of realism and abstraction. Combining painting techniques from a long list of sources, Servando Garcia’s work offers viewers quirky, idiosyncratic spaces, ranging from the humorous to the uncanny. Garcia’s favorite subject matter is daily life, where as observed by art critic Kenneth Baker, the artist “takes on the disconnection between painting and ordinary life by dissolving images in streaming brushwork.” Garcia’s other favorite subject noted by art critic DeWitt Cheng, is “the act of painting”, where Garcia’s apartment interiors are not constrained by the rigors of representation…and more free to let paint be paint.” Garcia completed his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and his MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago. Art writer and curator Glen Helfand, refers to Connie Harris’ work as “a form of action painting” comparing them to “Mark Tobey’s spiritually inflected patterns and Brice Marden’s curvy gestures.” Harris’ new paintings deal with shades of black with white print, and white and dark print, interchanged. The predominately white paintings explore a relationship of continuous text with the background, in a push pull dialogue -- as in the Japanese notan; words and letters appear randomly, moving off the edge of the canvas. These paintings are drawn from a grid of categories -- such as literature, music, ecology, science -- as well as responses to what is heard, felt, and seen. Harris completed her BFA and MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. In her first exhibition at Togonon Gallery, Catherine Woskow introduces her Vertical Series, paintings that the artist describes as oscillating between representation and abstraction. Utilizing vibrant reds and oranges in her palette, Woskow applies layers of both thick acrylic and fluid glazes with minimal lines of graphite speeding across the top layers, creating rich surfaces of ambiguity with glimpses of recognition. Widely exhibited in the U.S., Woskow studied art at Sonoma State University, at Bradford Liberal Arts College in Massachusetts and the Koningkijke Academie in the Netherlands. About Togonon Gallery: Founded in 1994, Togonon Gallery exhibits West Coast and International artists working in all media.
Recent Paintings Servando Garcia-Refridgerator-2008
Recent Paintings Constance Harris-Nil Nil-2010