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Gallery Bergelli

May 13 - June 16, 2011

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http://bergelli.com/
(415) 945-9454

483 Magnolia Avenue Larkspur, CA 94939

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Doble Tree. Oil on canvas, 40 by 30 inches

Gallery Bergelli is pleased to present new paintings by San Francisco artist Daniel Tousignant. The work will be on display from May 13 - June 15, 2011. The reception will be held on Friday, May 13 from 6pm-8pm, with Artist's talk from 7pm-7:30pm. "I love recalling collective memories of peaceful landscapes, creating environments with open, expansive, clear horizons - an old tree, a vista of pastureland, and the distant billowing clouds of my lazy youth." -Daniel Tousignant His Botanicals refract light so beautifully that they become a natural medium for the luminous way that he sees and portrays his subjects. The pure, pigmented colors are layered and blended on custom-made black lacquered wood panels. In a review, Barcelona's Metropolitan Magazine described Tousignant's art as follows: "Looking at the work of San Francisco artist Daniel Tousignant is like staring at a freeze frame of the best dream you've ever had, and the effect is a sudden wash of chest-clutching happiness. The beauty evoked by his landscape is so intense that it elevates them into the realm of abstraction, even though on the surface they're utterly representative. There is some living depth, all the more fascinating for its hiddenness, breathing behind every leafy branch. The artist says that trees reflect the beauty and vulnerability of all living things. Maybe this vulnerability is what we see just under the surface of his canvasses, and what elicits such a visceral reaction to his work." Mr. Tousignant attended the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Chicago Art Institute, Central School of Art in London, and the Royal Academy in London, England. Tousignant has exhibited in galleries throughout the US and recently in Barcelona, Spain. The last four years Daniel Tousignant has donated artwork to the Heroes & Hearts program of The San Francisco General Hospital Foundation.

Single Tree of Life. Oil on canvas, 30 by 24 inches

White Birch. Oil on panel, 48 x 48 inches

White Birch 4. Oil on panel, 24 by 24 inches

Single Tree of Life I and II. Oil on panel, 84 by 60 inches (on two panels)

Coral. Oil on panel, 20 by 20 inches

Silhouette Trees. Oil on canvas, 24 by 30 inches

White Birch 10. Oil on panel, 48 by 72 inches