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Patricia Sweetow Gallery

January 6 - February 13, 2011

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480 23rd Street Oakland, CA 94612
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Remembering + Ground Cover and other Stories Charles Eckart, No. 2, 2010, oil on canvas; Courtesy Patricia Sweetow Gallery
PATRICIA SWEETOW GALLERY is pleased to present, Remembering, works from the estate of Dennis Leon. On view with be 5 drawings from his Thicket's (1994) series, along with drawings, Dedicated to my Father (1984) - there will also be a selection of wood and bronze sculpture related to the Thicket's drawings. We also would like to welcome Guest Artist, Charles Eckart. Charles will present 7 oil paintings in an exhibition titled, Ground Cover and other Stories. Exhibition dates are January 6 through February 12, 2011. Reception for the artists is Thursday, January 6, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. "There can be no doubt that the desire to relate meaning and personal experience to each other remains as a great - perhaps the greatest - aspiration for an object maker.” Dennis Leon, 1994 PATRICIA SWEETOW GALLERY is honored to host the work of DENNIS LEON, (1933 - 1998). After too long a hiatus, we are honored to bring Dennis Leon's sculpture and drawings back to the present, where they rightly belong. For this exhibition, co-curator, Christin Nelson and I decided to bring two bodies of drawings together, Dedicated to my Father (1984), and Thicket's (1994), along with wood and bronze sculpture from the same time frame. Although some years separate the making of these drawings, they coalesce into a powerful, reflective exhibition. DENNIS LEON, born in London, England, was Professor and Chair of the Sculpture Department at the California College of Arts and Crafts from 1972 to 1988. He retired Professor Emeritus in 1992, and in the following year received a Distinguished Faculty Award and Honorary Doctorate. His drawings and sculpture are included in the permanent collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; and the Storm King Art Center, New York, among others. Honors include a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Beginning in the late 1950’s Leon exhibited frequently in museums and galleries, including numerous one-person exhibitions at the Kraushaar Gallery in New York, as well as the Fuller Goldeen Gallery, Cheryl Haines Gallery, and Paule Anglim Gallery in San Francisco. It is with great pleasure we present Bay Area Artist, Charles Eckart. His exhibition will include seven oil paintings of various sizes. Each work is an abstracted landscape, lavishly painted with a palette knife and brush. The impasto surface is redolent of the trees and flowers of the environment that surrounds his home in Point Reyes. Charles was the recipient of the Phelan Award Competition is 1965, 67 & 69. He has had exhibtions at Allan Stone Gallery in New York and Hansen- Fuller Gallery in San Francisco before beginning a long lasting relationship with Charles Campbell who supported his work for over 20 years.
Remembering + Ground Cover and other Stories Dennis Leon, Heelstone, 1990, wood, pigment; Courtesy Patricia Sweetow Gallery