"Someplace Somewhere …" at the Telegraph Hill Gallery

SAN FRANCISCO - Dec. 8, 2014 - PRLog -- SAN FRANCISCO, CA – The Telegraph Hill Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of San Francisco Bay Area artists Martine Jardel, Wendy Robushi, and Scott Grabowski. The exhibition runs from December 5, 2014 until January 16, 2015 with an opening reception on Friday December 12, 2014 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM. Titled "Someplace Somewhere ... " the show will feature Jardel’s mixed media drawings, Robushi’s mixed media cut paper, and Grabowski’s oil paintings.

Jardel is known for her compositional rhythms that explore the space of representation and abstraction. The series of drawings is an ambivalence of forms and space and an engagement with the ambiguous and the unknown. Jardel created the moody and atmospheric quality with layers of graphite, charcoal, oil pastel, crayon, and pigment stick until the image is obscured and gestures of abstraction takes over without a fixed identity. Her work suggests images of landscapes and seascapes and the ephemeral departure from certainty. “My intent is to visually communicate a play of contradictory forces, disruptions, and shifts wherein no message is delivered, no names named and no places known. I like to see my work as spaces of ambiguity inviting the viewer to a patient contemplation. Drawing is a transient moment in time and space where lines, shapes, and colors are vestiges in state of metamorphosis.”

Robushi has created a body of work based on the mandala, the ancient ritual and spiritual symbol of the universe. In her earlier pieces she applied layers of color and then paint, draw, and scratch to create a multi-layered effect. Her latest work takes the mandala to its simplest form. The work primarily in monochrome incorporates cut paper built in multiple layers creating a 3-dimensional surface. What is revealed in her work is that the meticulous, precise, and repetitive paper cutting is both a medium and a craft and the mandala as a form of artistic expression and a tool for transformation and balance. “Often, I work with repetition, particularly the repetition of a symbol, word, series of words, in circular, linear or grid patterns. While working in this repetitive manner, the creating of the piece becomes a visual mantra for me, and the creation of the painting has as much importance as the finished work.”

Grabowski’s work features cityscapes of San Francisco and New York City. He paints commonly observed urban scenes with a keen awareness of shapes, light, and scale and interpret them with a heightened reality instead of replicating them in photographic detail. Grabowski’s makes order of the urban chaos with his composition and highlights -- a busy street with snarled traffic and construction site and a lone massive machinery standing guard or an empty square in the middle of the night flooded with billboard lights and the wet pavement reflecting the glare. “Life is a continuous stream of fleeting moments ... The subjects could be in the midst of a passing blur or slowly emerging but never still ... Where the shadows are peeled away to reveal the light edges and surfaces ... To imply rather than to state ...To suggest rather than to show ... To leave more of a mystery rather than an explanation.”

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