newmark
gallery san francisco
251 post street suite
412 san francisco ca 94108
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Margaret Bertels
Tel. 415-392-3692
Email: margaret@newmarkgallery.com
PAULA EVERS – CONTEMPORARY DUTCH
MASTER
November 1st to December 15th,
2007.
Opening Reception for the Artist,
Thursday, November 1st, 6 to 8 PM
Mark Wladika, director
of Newmark Gallery, San Francisco is pleased to announce a solo exhibit of new
works by the celebrated Dutch painter, Paula Evers. The gallery introduced this prodigious and much admired
artist to the West Coast with the well-received group show ÒDutch Masters NowÓ
in 2005. Ms. Evers will be
traveling from her home in the Netherlands to attend the opening reception.
Paula Evers was born in
Bergen, Holland in 1942, a city famous as a twentieth-century paintersÕ
community comparable to the French Barbizon and for the Bergen School of
landscape painting. Ms. Evers took classes from Peter Schenk and studied at the
Van Gogh Academie in Amsterdam.
She was a member of the painterÕs group ÒArtBentÓ in the early 1990Õs. Her self-directed style has been described
as ÒLyrical AbstractÓ – akin to the movement from the 1940Õs that was a
precursor to Art Informel in Europe, which paralleled Abstract
Expressionism in the United States.
ÒEversÕ work
increasingly deals with dualism in western thinking. First we meet the almost empty and typically Dutch flat
landscape: metaphor for nature, balance, uncontrollable forces and
passivity. In these paintings
horizontal lines dominate. Single islands of form burst through fields of color
creating distant horizons out of the void.
Secondly we are
confronted with paintings defined by rationalism, culture, society and activity
in which vertical figures are prominent.
Abstracted human forms subtly convey emotion through gesture and color. Figures
press forward, as if present when the painting was initiated, while other pairs
turn away and quietly dissolve into the atmosphere.
In both subjects,
landscapes and figures, we discover traces of the other including compositional
elements, palettes, luminous surfaces, and a dreamlike resonance. Thus they present us with a synthesis
between opposites, constituting a very complex yet visually accessible body of
work, full of both cool and abstract restraint and expressive figurative emotion.Ó Mark Slegers, Arcadia - Paula Evers.
Newmark Gallery San
Francisco is located at 251 Post Street, Suite 412 in the Union Square area of
San Francisco. Gallery hours are
Tuesday through Saturday, 11 am - 6 pm and by appointment.