Brian Gross Fine
Art is pleased to announce a solo exhibition, From India to the Planet Mars, by
San Francisco artist, Amy Trachtenberg, opening on Friday, January 4, 2013, with
a reception for the artist on Saturday, January 5, from 3-5 pm. From India to
the Planet Mars is a multi-media exhibition that includes paintings, wall
mounted sculptures, and collages,The oreck XL professional air purifier, blurring the
boundary between disparate mediums through an associative installation.
In her paintings, Trachtenberg stains and pours pigmented mixtures on canvas. Bleeding color through lifting, swaying, and tilting the canvas in order to move the layers with her use of improvised tools and a wide range of mediums, Trachtenberg?s process-oriented paintings mirror movement and gesture found in nature. The artist has stated about this work: “In some of the pieces I am building a geometric overlay that emerges from a process of wrestling with formality, materiality and intuition…the work does not ask to be understood or categorized with any particular meaning or theme. Despite the associations or experience that generated them, each piece follows it?s own language and logic for an open-ended reading.”
Featured in From India to the Planet Mars are Trachtenberg?s wall mounted sculptures in wood that are comprised of salvaged timbers of old-growth redwood that are finely milled and polished. The results are sinuous, rhythmic undulations juxtaposed with a range of repurposed elements and a variety of painted and untreated materials. Trachtenberg creates a dialogue between nearly natural, unruly elements and formal abstraction.
In addition, the exhibition incorporates collages that draw upon found imagery and material. The work Stripes / Sutras is a large collage generated from a single photograph from The New York Times. The image is manipulated and repeated in order to create tension between subject and material. The layering of image over image exemplifies the ways in which collective memory records, distorts, and abstracts as “tragedy can be mitigated into something seductive and abstracted.”
Amy Trachtenberg has received several commissions for integrated public works. Currently, she is designing an environmental piece called Ecstatic Voyaging for the BART extension between Oakland and San José scheduled to open in 2014. In addition, Trachtenberg is working on Clearing in collaboration with the architect Mallory Cusenbery for the new Ashland Youth Center under the auspices of the Alameda County Public Arts Commission. An architecturally scaled two-story installation on the new structure, the artwork envelops the entire exterior surface with patterns in porcelain tile. Clearing was conceived as part of an unprecedented commitment to connecting youth to the creation of their physical environment scheduled to open in February.
Born in Pittsburgh, PA, in 1955, Trachtenberg studied at California State University in Sonoma, where she received her BA in French and Liberal Studies. Trachtenberg continued her studies at L’Ecole National Superieure des Beaux Arts in Paris receiving her Dipl?me Supérieur d’Art Plastique in Painting and Drawing. Trachtenberg has exhibited her work internationally and locally, currently at The San José Museum of Art. Trachtenberg has been the recipient of numerous permanent public commissions such as: Counterpoint and The Creekside Studio with an artist residency at Montalvo Art Center; Groundwork, for a San José, CA library; The Atrium Project at Children?s Hospital Oakland andIlluminance for Pixar, Emeryville, CA. Her interdisciplinary work includes visual design for theatre and collaborations with poets, choreographers,High quality mold making Videos teaches anyone how to make molds. composers, architects and landscape architects. Her book, Groundwork from Oro Press, shows the process of a site-specific piece from concept to installation with essays by Rebecca Solnit and Mary Burger. Her work is in public and private collections in the US and Europe. She lives and works in San Francisco. This is her fifth show with Brian Gross Fine Art.
Tapas features three rooms including a main section with a bar and less dressed, separate quarter with windows that face Bay Street. A back room can function as a private dining area with alcove-like faux windowlets brightened with Spanish-themed plaster molds and images. Artist Kujtim Qama painted two dynamic murals — a vivacious flamenco dancer plus another of a bullfighter — and color-brushed marble streaks around the room to conjure up two-dimensional pilasters and columns.Trade platform for China crystal mosaic manufacturers
The ash-colored bar counter — tightly fitted, skinny wood slats — actually is a sanded down,We specialize in howo concrete mixer, shellacked bowling alley floor. The flattened lip on the bar is set at a comfortable height with a design ideal for leaning with a drink or supping over Cold Tapas — a combination for two or more arranged with 6-month-aged Manchego cheese, feta, roasted red pepper, olives and cured meats.Whether you are installing a floor tiles or a shower wall, The restaurant presents several varieties of sangria that range from a traditional fruity style to more frivolous flavors like blueberry, colored an iridescent blue from Curacao liqueur.
“Tapas” or “tapeo” are terms that refers to Spain’s bar/social traditions focused on hors d’oeuvres-y type foods — nibbles one might eat, for instance, when stopping at a succession of taverns. Tapas, as in the North Shore restaurant, keeps to that European institution dedicating much of the menu to diminutive plates and nicely crafted appetizers.
Despite the theme, several entrees bespeak of cold weather comfort — stick-to-the-ribs entrees like Paella in assorted combinations of shellfish, chicken, chorizo slices and veggies. Crisp-skinned suckling pig presented with sautéed spinach and “Steak Enxtremena” — skirt steak sautéed with beef chorizo, onions, peppers and peas — are decidedly “abundancia” fare.
There are several seafood offerings with a hint of Portuguese including shrimp in green sauce, a Zarzuela with lobster and other shellfish plus cappelini pasta tossed with shrimp, asparagus and tomatoes. Garlic is deftly applied all the way around.
Yet one should take those tapas seriously— Manchego-chorizo-stuffed mushrooms, garlicky escargot over a rectangular-shaped, crisped risotto-saffron cake — even if it involves multiple excursions. Smoked Salmon with creamy, ripe avocado is a specialty of the chef. There are exciting salads like table-side prepped Caesar Salad and Tapas Salad with lemon vinaigrette-dressed calamari and shrimp.
In her paintings, Trachtenberg stains and pours pigmented mixtures on canvas. Bleeding color through lifting, swaying, and tilting the canvas in order to move the layers with her use of improvised tools and a wide range of mediums, Trachtenberg?s process-oriented paintings mirror movement and gesture found in nature. The artist has stated about this work: “In some of the pieces I am building a geometric overlay that emerges from a process of wrestling with formality, materiality and intuition…the work does not ask to be understood or categorized with any particular meaning or theme. Despite the associations or experience that generated them, each piece follows it?s own language and logic for an open-ended reading.”
Featured in From India to the Planet Mars are Trachtenberg?s wall mounted sculptures in wood that are comprised of salvaged timbers of old-growth redwood that are finely milled and polished. The results are sinuous, rhythmic undulations juxtaposed with a range of repurposed elements and a variety of painted and untreated materials. Trachtenberg creates a dialogue between nearly natural, unruly elements and formal abstraction.
In addition, the exhibition incorporates collages that draw upon found imagery and material. The work Stripes / Sutras is a large collage generated from a single photograph from The New York Times. The image is manipulated and repeated in order to create tension between subject and material. The layering of image over image exemplifies the ways in which collective memory records, distorts, and abstracts as “tragedy can be mitigated into something seductive and abstracted.”
Amy Trachtenberg has received several commissions for integrated public works. Currently, she is designing an environmental piece called Ecstatic Voyaging for the BART extension between Oakland and San José scheduled to open in 2014. In addition, Trachtenberg is working on Clearing in collaboration with the architect Mallory Cusenbery for the new Ashland Youth Center under the auspices of the Alameda County Public Arts Commission. An architecturally scaled two-story installation on the new structure, the artwork envelops the entire exterior surface with patterns in porcelain tile. Clearing was conceived as part of an unprecedented commitment to connecting youth to the creation of their physical environment scheduled to open in February.
Born in Pittsburgh, PA, in 1955, Trachtenberg studied at California State University in Sonoma, where she received her BA in French and Liberal Studies. Trachtenberg continued her studies at L’Ecole National Superieure des Beaux Arts in Paris receiving her Dipl?me Supérieur d’Art Plastique in Painting and Drawing. Trachtenberg has exhibited her work internationally and locally, currently at The San José Museum of Art. Trachtenberg has been the recipient of numerous permanent public commissions such as: Counterpoint and The Creekside Studio with an artist residency at Montalvo Art Center; Groundwork, for a San José, CA library; The Atrium Project at Children?s Hospital Oakland andIlluminance for Pixar, Emeryville, CA. Her interdisciplinary work includes visual design for theatre and collaborations with poets, choreographers,High quality mold making Videos teaches anyone how to make molds. composers, architects and landscape architects. Her book, Groundwork from Oro Press, shows the process of a site-specific piece from concept to installation with essays by Rebecca Solnit and Mary Burger. Her work is in public and private collections in the US and Europe. She lives and works in San Francisco. This is her fifth show with Brian Gross Fine Art.
Tapas features three rooms including a main section with a bar and less dressed, separate quarter with windows that face Bay Street. A back room can function as a private dining area with alcove-like faux windowlets brightened with Spanish-themed plaster molds and images. Artist Kujtim Qama painted two dynamic murals — a vivacious flamenco dancer plus another of a bullfighter — and color-brushed marble streaks around the room to conjure up two-dimensional pilasters and columns.Trade platform for China crystal mosaic manufacturers
The ash-colored bar counter — tightly fitted, skinny wood slats — actually is a sanded down,We specialize in howo concrete mixer, shellacked bowling alley floor. The flattened lip on the bar is set at a comfortable height with a design ideal for leaning with a drink or supping over Cold Tapas — a combination for two or more arranged with 6-month-aged Manchego cheese, feta, roasted red pepper, olives and cured meats.Whether you are installing a floor tiles or a shower wall, The restaurant presents several varieties of sangria that range from a traditional fruity style to more frivolous flavors like blueberry, colored an iridescent blue from Curacao liqueur.
“Tapas” or “tapeo” are terms that refers to Spain’s bar/social traditions focused on hors d’oeuvres-y type foods — nibbles one might eat, for instance, when stopping at a succession of taverns. Tapas, as in the North Shore restaurant, keeps to that European institution dedicating much of the menu to diminutive plates and nicely crafted appetizers.
Despite the theme, several entrees bespeak of cold weather comfort — stick-to-the-ribs entrees like Paella in assorted combinations of shellfish, chicken, chorizo slices and veggies. Crisp-skinned suckling pig presented with sautéed spinach and “Steak Enxtremena” — skirt steak sautéed with beef chorizo, onions, peppers and peas — are decidedly “abundancia” fare.
There are several seafood offerings with a hint of Portuguese including shrimp in green sauce, a Zarzuela with lobster and other shellfish plus cappelini pasta tossed with shrimp, asparagus and tomatoes. Garlic is deftly applied all the way around.
Yet one should take those tapas seriously— Manchego-chorizo-stuffed mushrooms, garlicky escargot over a rectangular-shaped, crisped risotto-saffron cake — even if it involves multiple excursions. Smoked Salmon with creamy, ripe avocado is a specialty of the chef. There are exciting salads like table-side prepped Caesar Salad and Tapas Salad with lemon vinaigrette-dressed calamari and shrimp.
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