Event Listing - Galleries

Thu Oct 8 - Sun Nov 15

Echo: Eight Bay Area Artists Respond To Surrealist Masterworks

Location	Date and Time
Frey Norris Gallery 456 Geary St. San Francisco, CA 94102 cross street: bet. Taylor and Mason Streets district: Union Square/San Francisco Centre	Thu Oct 8 (6pm) Sun Nov 15 (show ends)

Description

Gallery Reception: Thursday, October 8, 6:00 to 9:00 pm

"Echo" is the first exhibition at Frey Norris Gallery to simultaneously exhibit the Surrealist masterworks in the gallery's Annex alongside artwork from the contemporary gallery. We have suggested a painting or sculpture by eight important Surrealists to eight of our Bay Area artists and asked them to respond or invent around the resonances between their own interests and the content and ideas in the historical piece. The result will be pairings, one historical with one new piece, that synthesize art from 1939 to 2009. This project highlights the often misunderstood or overlooked ideas of the historical artists, demonstrating their foresight in creating art that projects a timeless power and mystery. Similarly, the pairings present contemporary artists with a challenge, creating a bridge that will measure their visions against artwork by some of the most storied artists, writers and thinker of the last century.

Participating Artists: Susannah Bettag, Leonora Carrington, Max Ernst, Rodney Ewing, Leonor Fini, Michal Gavish, Gunther Gerszo, Josh Hagler, Dana Harel, Hayv Kahraman, Mary Anne Kluth, Wilfredo Lam, Wolfgang Paalen, Dorothea Tanning, Remedios Varo.