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The Dryansky Gallery
April 16 - June 4, 2015Info
2120 Union Street San Francisco, CA 94123 Google Map »Reception
April 16, 2015 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Miriam Cabessa, Untitled, 2010, Oil and gold dust on lien, 24 x 52 inches
The Dryansky Gallery Presents Miriam Cabessa, Hands On: Works from 2007–2014
Hands On marks Miriam Cabessa’s first exhibition in San Francisco and features works created using the artist’s body, found objects and fabric in combination with liquified graphite on paper or oil and gold dust on canvas or linen. The works in this exhibition are a continuation of the ongoing inquiry of material and process that defines the artist’s long-term professional practice. Miriam Cabessa’s work explores the binary of process and result. In her practice, the artist places a canvas or paper on the floor, and bends over to directly apply paint to the surface on the floor. Though this process of production is reduced to the most basic of elements—hands, paint, ground—the resulting imagery is often clean and concise, betraying the primitivity sometimes associated with the hand as a tool for painting. The topography of her painting is a smooth, meditative expanse that can look either like geographical strata or digital feedback, depending on the viewer’s worldview.