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Artist reception May 21, 3-6pm
Crown Point Press is pleased to announce a new color etching by Robert Bechtle. His latest print is featured in the gallery along with a group exhibition titled Views of San Francisco that highlights Bay Area-inspired prints by artists who have worked in the Crown Point studio over the years.
Robert Bechtle has lived in Northern California his entire life, and he continues to find inspiration in its suburban neighborhood streets. In his latest print Three Houses on Pennsylvania Avenue, 2011, rows of terra cotta rooftops are bathed in cheerful sunlight emanating from a clear blue sky. The large soft ground etching is inked in a pastel palette and layers of diffused light and shadows stretch across driveways, streets and parked cars. In this meticulous depiction of his Potrero Hill neighborhood, Bechtle continues to reveal beauty in ordinary details of the everyday.
