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The Luggage Store
October 9 - November 6, 2015Info
1007 Market Street San Francisco, CA 94103 Google Map »Reception
October 16, 2015 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Cate White. _____ Doing Yoga in the Park; 2015. 64 x 44 inches acrylic, spray paint on canvas
The Luggage Store hosts the 2014–15 Headlands' Tournesol Award Exhibition. The Tournesol Award recognizes one Bay Area-based painter each year with a generous cash prize and a year-long studio residency at Headlands. Cate White (2014-15 Tournesol Awardee), an artist whose life is intimately connected to the streets of West Oakland, paints portraits of friends, scenes from her experiences in Ferguson and a Louisiana prison, and archetypal characters involved in universal human struggle. She calls painting “a tool for reconciliation.” Her image-rich, post-comic paintings complicate and critique the social structures that divide us—including race, gender, and class—and poignantly narrate individual and shared vulnerabilities, rendered here as undeniably fraught, humorous, heart-stopping, and unapologetically authentic.
Exhibition is on view at The Luggage Store from October 9–November 6, with opening reception on October 16, from 5–7PM.
An artist talk by Cate White is October 28 at 6PM.