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Patricia Sweetow Gallery

November 1 - December 16, 2012

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Gale Antokal, Blossom + Chuck Eckart, Paintscapes

Gale Antokal, Blossom #34, chalk pastel on paper, 17 x 16 inches

PATRICIA SWEETOW GALLERY presents Gale Antokal, Blossom, chalk pastel drawings, and Chuck Eckart, Paintscapes, oil paintings. The exhibition opens November 1, ending December 15, 2012. Reception for the artists is Thursday, November 1st, from 5:30 - 7:30p.m. Gale Antokal applies chalk pastel as a painter glazes with oil, achieving light and tonal complexity rarely seen with her medium. She returns to a 2 ½ decade focus on still-life, presenting 30 small format chalk pastel drawings of one utilitarian object. The scalloped edge, and functional use of her object suggest the exhibition title, Blossom, however the title is where comparison to flora ends. A meticulous investigation of form and color, the 17 x 22 inch pastel drawings thoroughly surpass expectations. Gale Antokal is a Professor in the School of Art at San Jose State University, California. She held several visiting artist positions and teaching positions including the San Francisco Art Institute, the Lehrhaus Institute, and the American College in Jerusalem. Antokal received a Visual Arts Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is included in both public and private collections nationally and internationally. Bay Area painter Charles Eckart will present 10 oil paintings in his second exhibition at PSG. With the current exhibition, Paintscapes, Eckart focuses on the material of paint, building his impasto surface with the notion that paint is it's own referent, yet still giving his viewers landscape references, such as bright colors emerging from a dark ground, or urban grays mixed with cool blues. Kenneth Baker comments, "Eckart locates, or brings into being, a focal plane where we can dwell on the pleasure of seeing paint regain the materiality it sacrifices to subject matter in most figuration. On the same plane, we experience what anyone who knows painting will recognize as real expertise." Charles was the recipient of the Phelan Award Competition is 1965, 67 & 69. He has had exhibitions at Allan Stone Gallery in New York and Hansen- Fuller Gallery in San Francisco before beginning a long relationship with Charles Campbell who supported his work for over 20 years. Gallery hours: Tuesday through Saturday 11:00 - 5:30 pm

Gale Antokal, Blossom #34, chalk pastel on paper, 17 x 16 inches