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Eleanor Harwood Gallery
May 16 - June 27, 2015Info
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http://www.eleanorharwood.com/
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(415) 867-7770
Reception
May 16, 2015 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm
James Chronister, Better Bowls, More Crackers 1, 2015, Acrylic polymer and latex on canvas, 50 x 40 x 1.5
May 11th, 2015 (San Francisco, CA) - Eleanor Harwood Gallery is pleased to present James Chronister’s new solo show “Better Bowls, More Crackers”. In a studied departure from Chronister’s previous work he presents a series of paintings focused on formalism, gesture and repetition. Since his first solo show with the gallery in 2009, Chronister has been painting with a dot technique. The first body of work was loose and had a painterly feel with a sense of play in the works. The next body of work in 2011’s Now We Lustre tightened and also used a small amount of color in the backgrounds of the paintings. By the third body of work, Bitterroot exhibited in 2014 there was a discernible angle to all of the tiny brush-marks mimicking a ben day dot pattern. These paintings had a palpable self-imposed rigidity. Chronister felt this five-year investigation of creating extremely intensive paintings from a found image via various means of reproduction had reached its conclusion. Chronister had to consider what was next.