“Reflections: On Crossing” Anne Subercaseaux at Newmark Gallery

April 3, 2007 to April 28^th, 2007. Opening Reception, April 5^th,5:30 to 7:30 PM

San Francisco, CA. Newmark Gallery San Francisco announces it’s solo exhibit of Ann Subercaseaux’s current series of oil paintings. Derived from the solitary act of commuting across the Bay Bridge, these works explore the interplay of structural elements, lights and shadows to produce beautiful and haunting abstracts. The flashes of light and streaking shadows glimpsed in those brief glances that reside just outside our pedestrian visual consciousness of cars, asphalt, iron and water are the groundwork for these skillfully rendered, meditative paintings.

Initially, Ms. Subercaseaux’s paintings read as pure, minimalist abstraction. Only upon deeper inspection does one begin to perceive the familiar. And if the viewer is inured to commuting across the Bay Bridge - one of the busiest bridges in the United States, it carries an average of nearly 300,000 cars a day – or crossing any body of water for that matter, then the personal revelation of the image emerges. This intersection of the abstract and concrete (quite literally) produces deeply moving, as well as accessible, images.

“In all her works, even the most modest, she conveys intimations of the mystery that dwells beyond the façade of the commonplace. And in her finest works…she conveys a sense of the sublime equilibrium of life.” Robert McDonald, “The Art of Anne Subercaseaux”, 1995.

Anne Subercaseaux was born in Rochester, New York. Her grandmother and mother were also well-respected painters. A graduate of Lake Erie College in Ohio, she also earned a B.F.A. in Illustration at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco. She has exhibited extensively throughout the U.S. and received numerous awards and honors including election to Fellowship in the Royal Society of Arts and Commerce, London, England and, most recently, a Residency at the Morris Graves Foundation in 2005 culminating in a solo exhibit at the Morris Graves Museum of Art in Eureka, CA in December, 2007.

Newmark Gallery San Francisco is located at 251 Post Street, Suite 412 in the Union Square area of San Francisco. Founded by Mark Wladika in 2004, we are committed to representing the highest quality contemporary art from the Bay Area and Europe. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11 am - 6 pm and by appointment.

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