Current Exhibition
The Friends and Neighbors Effect
Bryson Gill Solo Show
In the Triple Basement: _Japa_Oliver Halsman Rosenberg & Friends
January 8 - February 7, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, January 8, 7-10pm
Bryson Gill’s densely layered paintings explore the fine line between abstraction and figuration, all the while struggling between the rational and the natural. The composition of Gill’s ambiguous landscapes, totemic structures, and portraits remain just recognizable enough to create a spectrum of meanings and emotions. Gill has spent the last year and a half in Berlin developing a new body of work that plays with subtle humor and obscure historical references.
Gill has had solo shows at Co-Lab, Copenhagen; Triple Base Gallery, San Francisco; Kayo Gallery, Salt Lake City and Jáce Gáce, Portland. He has been featured in group shows at Gallerie Davide diMaggio, Italy; Galleri Kant, Denmark; Headlands Center for the Arts, Marin and Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma. In 2005 he attended an artist residency at Halle 14 – Stiftung Federkiel Leipzig, Germany.
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In the Triple Basement:
_Japa_
Oliver Halsman Rosenberg and friends
Including work by and objects from the collections of Kori Alexander Girard, Leighton Kelly, Eliza Bishop, Zipporah Lomax, Joni Nelis, Pauline Beaudemont, Dene Fyfe, Tara Lisa Foley, Pinki Kumari, Simon Brooks, Ainoha Ananda, Ajit Chauhan, Frank Collozzo, Joel Stockdill, Jake Cahill wearing tattoos by Freddie Corbin and others.
Tea served by Tea Master Jon Oda
After one year of nomadic art making in India, Oliver Halsman Rosenberg returns to his San Francisco roots to share the work he made, as well as create a shrine with work by other travelers, locals, and friends he met during his journey. "Japa" is Sanskrit for the repetition of a mantra under ones breath, and Oliver will use the underground Triple Basement space to frame this work from abroad. Exhibiting small gouache paintings he made on recycled eucalyptus paper from Munnar, as well as drawings on rice paper from Phaplu, these series are infused with local inspiration as well as imagery mined from probing the subtle depths of consciousness. Tea Master Jon Oda will be creating a special brew opening night for this brief return home before Oliver departs again in January to attend the Kumbha Mela in Hardiwar, and continue developing this body of migrant work.