Artist Marcia Clay’s Solo Exhibition featured at the Telegraph Hill Gallery

SAN FRANCISCO - Oct. 7, 2014 - PRLog -- SAN FRANCISCO, CA – The Telegraph Hill Gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of San Francisco artist Marcia Clay from October 14 through November 14, 2014 with a reception on Friday, October 17 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM.  The exhibition “North Beach Stories: Paintings & Etchings by Marcia Clay” will feature intaglio etchings and oil paintings, all of which suggest a North Beach narrative depicting the artist’s vision and experience of her multicultural neighborhood.

Clay is a long-time resident of North Beach and has been capturing impressions of its environs for over thirty years. The works featured in this exhibition, primarily a selection of recent aquatint etchings, derive their inspiration from the pleasures of street life in the summer.  Languid and lightly clad women, families in their leisure stroll, sight-seers, pet owners, young and old populating park benches, and a wine-sipping sidewalk café clientele form a narrative of North Beach at summertime, as seen through the artist’s eyes.

“Marcia’s work is not photographic,” writer Ernest Beyl points out: “It reveals a distorted realism skewed by her highly selective imagination. Her black and white etchings sizzle with what legendary photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson described as his seemingly random but exacting approach to photographic art – the Decisive Moment.”

Clay’s career began at the age of fifteen, when a museum curator happened to spot one of her earliest oil paintings being framed at a shop.  The curator tracked Clay down, visited her home, and offered her a solo exhibition at the de Saisset Museum in Santa Clara.

Clay, still just fifteen years old, headed to France to study art at the Ecole des Beaux Arts and later continued her studies in painting, drawing, and printmaking in Japan. From those early years onward Clay has pursued her passion for making pictures combining Western and Eastern influences in her work. The Washington Post once described her as “a prodigious talent.”  She has exhibited extensively to strong critical acclaim in Europe and in the United States.

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