Join us for a reception for two exhibitions, Saturday, December 14, from 3:00 to 5:00 pm.
Anoka Faruqee & David Driscoll: Dark Rainbow
In an exhibition of new works, Anoka Faruqee and David Driscoll collaborate to create bewildering paintings devised of layers of carefully misaligned, concentric circles, which generate optical effects. The resulting moiré—the fusion of two or more patterns, which create another, much more complex pattern—echoes various natural systems, such as wave formations, stress patterns, and magnetic fields. But for the artists, the moiré phenomenon demonstrates that what we perceive as light, form and space is, at its most basic, bits of assembled data. Pixels. Atoms. Nano-particles. These paintings make the invisible tangible.
Wayfinding: Bruce Conner's Marker Drawings
San Francisco’s Bruce Conner is one of the most important artists of the late 20th Century—pioneering art-making in sculpture, drawing, photography, collage and video. In Wayfinding, Hosfelt Gallery brings together a group of exquisite drawings made with “magic” marker between 1963 and 1975 that follow just one of Conner’s many aesthetic and conceptual paths.
Often psychedelic, these drawings informed the zeitgeist of the “Summer of Love” —energetic, innovative and tumultuous, but at the same time introspective and spiritual. Formally and stylistically varied, some follow Paul Klee’s adage that a line is “a dot that went for a walk,” others resolve into mandalas, maps or labyrinths. They reflect a culture in the midst of change, attempting to break with its past and searching for a way forward, as well as an artist attempting to navigate his course through life.
