Traywick Contemporary News

April 2004

Spring at Traywick Contemporary: new Site, new Additions and new News.

March and early April saw the opening of Site 1, the first in a series of exhibitions and projects in changing locations. The show featured new sculpture by Susan Martin in the lower level gallery space at 20 Hawthorne (the Crown Point Press building) in San Francisco. Site 2, in yet another location, is planned for the Fall of 2004 -- more information will be coming this summer, so please stay tuned...

In May and June I will be taking some time off to be with my newly expanded family, returning this summer with announcements about more exciting projects and events. During the summer, I'll be featuring recent work by our artists at the new space in Berkeley. Hours are by appointment, Wednesday - Saturday 11 to 5, so if you'd like to schedule a time to come by, please give a call.

There is always a lot going on with our artists, so the Traywick Contemporary website will now include a News page to track their many activities both locally and nationally. This section will be updated several times a year with news about exhibitions, awards and other interesting facts. Here's the latest...

Linda Mieko Allen recently debuted her paintings in New York at the Nancy Hoffman Gallery. Equilibria ran December 13, 2003 through January 21, 2004. Her work was also featured in Close Calls 2004 at the Marin Headlands Center for the Arts that closed February 24, 2004.

Johnna Arnold Trucks, I-880 N., Berkeley CA, 2003 Archival Digital Print 72" x 36"

Johnna Arnold's large-scale digital photographic prints are currently featured in the Kala Art Institute exhibition, The Big Picture, that continues through May 22, 2004. There will be an artist lecture on May 22 at 2pm.

Women, a solo show by Dennis Begg will open at the Nathan Larramendy Gallery in Ojai, CA on April 19th, continuing through May 22. His work will also be featured in a California College of Art Alumni exhibition at the Mendocino Art Center, May 7 - June 4.

Amy Berk has shown work in several recent exhibitions: Close Calls 2004 at the Marin Headlands Center for the Arts, and in A Postmodern Sewing Circle that will be travelling to the Milton Hershey School Art Museum in Hershey, PA; the Fuller Museum of Art in Brockton, MA; and the Blanden Memorial Art Museum in Fort Dodge, IA.

Jamie Brunson's paintings will be in an upcoming exhibition at the Oakland Art Gallery: Hidden Order: Pattern Content in Contemporary Abstraction. Exhibition dates are August 19 through September 18, 2004. Her work was also recently shown at Robischon Gallery in Denver, CO.

Ellen Carey is working on a solo exhibition which will feature photograms from the early 90s to the present and which opens at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT November 4th, 2004. She was recently appointed as the new Director of Graduate Studies at the Hartford Art School where she is Associate Professor of Photography.

Videos and digital photographs by Ken Fandell were featured in a recent show at the Walter & McBean Galleries at the San Francisco Art Institut. The Great Indoors: Artists Investigate the Day to Day, was organized by Merry Scully and closed in March. Fandell will open a solo show of new work at Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery in Chicago at the end of this month.

Charles Goldman spoke at CCA.s San Francisco campus on Friday, April 2. Goldman is a visiting artist at the University of Oregon, Eugene for the 2003/2004 academic year. Current and upcoming exhibitions include PTGS/2 at the Robert Birch Gallery in Toronto, April 10 - May 9, 2004; Playpen: Summer Selections 2004 at the Drawing Center, New York, June - July, 2004; Merit Badge, The Compound, Hudson, NY, July/August, 2004.

Paintings by Amanda Haas and Linda Mieko Allen are recent additions to the permanent collection of the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, and will be featured in a fall exhibition tentatively titled The New Northern California Abstractionists that opens at the museum in November. Haas' work will also be included in Botany 10, a group show at the Sonoma County Museum opening September 17.

Amy Kaufman Shutter (blue), 2003 Pastel 40 1/4 x 54 1/2"

Both Amy Kaufman's and Jamie Brunson's work was recently acquired by two local institutions, the San Jose Museum of Art and the Crocker Art Museum for their permanent collections. These works will be featured in two upcoming exhibitions: 35 x 35: Thirty-fifth Anniversary Exhibition that opens at the San Jose Museum in October, 2004, and The New Northern California Abstractionists opening at the Crocker in the fall.

Olivia Kuser recently participated in two prestigious residency programs: the Ucross Foundation Residency Program in Clearmont, WY and at the Djerassi Resident Artist Program in Woodside, CA.

Charles LaBelle is included in the current exhibition at the San Francisco Art Institute's Walter and McBean Galleries: Topographies, which was organized by Karen Moss and continues through May 8, 2004. A solo exhibition of LaBelle's work will open in July at Roberts & Tilton in Los Angeles.

An exhibition of Amanda Marchand's photography series 415/514 organized by the San Francisco Arts Commission will open at San Francisco City Hall on March 3 and continues through May 7, 2004. Work from the 415/514 series will also be featured in a solo exhibition in June at Gallery 44 in Kansas City, MO.

Site 1: Susan Martin: New Work 2004 March 6 - April 3, 2004 Installation View

Susan Martin was the featured artist in Traywick Contemporary's Site 1 exhibition which closed April 3rd at the 20 Hawthorne gallery space in San Francisco. Kenneth Baker reviewed the show for the San Francisco Chronicle and Artweek will have a review by Colin Berry in the May issue. Susan also recently completed a public arts project for the City of San Francisco. Her sculpture installation at The Pink Triangle Park in San Francisco's Castro neighborhood helps memorialize the thousands of gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgenders who were victims of the Holocaust.

Dennis McLeod will be in a group show at the Geoffrey Young Gallery in Great Barrington, MA this summer and in a group show at Julie Baker Fine Art this spring.

Recent Los Angeles exhibitions for Stas Orlovski include a group show at Domestic Setting through May 1 and a wall drawing show titled Freewall, at the Kellogg University Art Gallery at CSU Pomona that closed April 10.