Tue June 30, 2015
The Telegraph Hill Gallery presents 'SIegriest & Siegrlest: Landscapes and Beyond'
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The Telegraph Hill Gallery will hold a closing reception on June 26, 2015 from 6pm to 8pm. The exhibition, “Siegriest & Siegriest: Landscapes and Beyond” features oil paintings and mixed media work spanning four decades from the 1940s to the 1970s by father and son artists Louis Bassi Siegriest (1899-1989) and Lundy Siegriest (1925-1985). The show runs through June 30.
Louis belonged to the Oakland-based Society of Six artists including Selden Gile, August Gay, Maurice Logan, Bernard von Eichman, and William Clapp. The group favored the style of French fauvism and the vibrant palette of modern European and American artists shown at the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, instead of the tonalism, which dominated California art that period. Louis’ post-impressionist plein air group pioneered modern art in Northern California in the 1920s. He moved on to abstract painting in his middle years but seldom departed from the possibilities presented by the western landscape. The Oakland Museum honored Louis with a retrospective exhibition in 1972. His works are in the collections of the Oakland Museum, Stanford University Museum, and the University of Nevada.
Lundy was a modernist painter who was known for abstract expressionism in both landscape and figurative work. He also painted in plein air vividly colored pastoral settings. He became part of a nucleus of Northern California painters including Terry St. John and Peter Brown who revived more traditional approaches painting landscapes in the manner of the Society of Six. Lundy appeared in one man and group exhibitions, notably in the Whitney Museum in New York and in the traveling exhibition, 17 American Painters, which included Richard Diebenkorn, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Motherwell, and Ad Reinhardt, that opened at the Brussels World Fair in 1958. His works are held by major museums, including the Denver Art Museum, Oakland Museum of California, and Santa Barbara Museum of Art.
The show features eighteen oil paintings and mixed media work from 1940s to 1970s. Louis and Lundy were described as intuitive painters who were greatly informed by their surroundings. Both interpreted the physical and historical changes in western landscapes through most of the twentieth century.
Louis’ abstract mixed media work imbued with reference to his travels to the Nevada desert, Spain, and Mexico and to America’s fascination with the lunar mission and space exploration. He used sand, gypsum, and asphalt to create dimensionality and to make his paintings look as much like fragments of the terrain as images of it. Lundy’s abstract expressionist streetscape paintings in oil focused on the changing and grim urban setting in the Bay Area and reflected post-war pessimism. By the 1970s both returned to plein air work, each empowered with a unique vision and each continuing with artistic license in their interpretation of California landscape.
Telegraph Hill Gallery https://www.telegraphhillgallery.com
{TH(e)Gallery} 491 Greenwich Street San Francisco CA 94133
Monday to Friday 1:30 PM to 6:30 PM, Saturday by appointment
For more information please contact [email protected] or call 415.767.9794
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Louis belonged to the Oakland-based Society of Six artists including Selden Gile, August Gay, Maurice Logan, Bernard von Eichman, and William Clapp. The group favored the style of French fauvism and the vibrant palette of modern European and American artists shown at the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, instead of the tonalism, which dominated California art that period. Louis’ post-impressionist plein air group pioneered modern art in Northern California in the 1920s. He moved on to abstract painting in his middle years but seldom departed from the possibilities presented by the western landscape. The Oakland Museum honored Louis with a retrospective exhibition in 1972. His works are in the collections of the Oakland Museum, Stanford University Museum, and the University of Nevada.
Lundy was a modernist painter who was known for abstract expressionism in both landscape and figurative work. He also painted in plein air vividly colored pastoral settings. He became part of a nucleus of Northern California painters including Terry St. John and Peter Brown who revived more traditional approaches painting landscapes in the manner of the Society of Six. Lundy appeared in one man and group exhibitions, notably in the Whitney Museum in New York and in the traveling exhibition, 17 American Painters, which included Richard Diebenkorn, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Motherwell, and Ad Reinhardt, that opened at the Brussels World Fair in 1958. His works are held by major museums, including the Denver Art Museum, Oakland Museum of California, and Santa Barbara Museum of Art.
The show features eighteen oil paintings and mixed media work from 1940s to 1970s. Louis and Lundy were described as intuitive painters who were greatly informed by their surroundings. Both interpreted the physical and historical changes in western landscapes through most of the twentieth century.
Louis’ abstract mixed media work imbued with reference to his travels to the Nevada desert, Spain, and Mexico and to America’s fascination with the lunar mission and space exploration. He used sand, gypsum, and asphalt to create dimensionality and to make his paintings look as much like fragments of the terrain as images of it. Lundy’s abstract expressionist streetscape paintings in oil focused on the changing and grim urban setting in the Bay Area and reflected post-war pessimism. By the 1970s both returned to plein air work, each empowered with a unique vision and each continuing with artistic license in their interpretation of California landscape.
Telegraph Hill Gallery https://www.telegraphhillgallery.com
{TH(e)Gallery} 491 Greenwich Street San Francisco CA 94133
Monday to Friday 1:30 PM to 6:30 PM, Saturday by appointment
For more information please contact [email protected] or call 415.767.9794
The Telegraph Hill Gallery will hold a closing reception on June 26, 2015 from 6pm to 8pm. The exhibition, “Siegriest & Siegriest: Landscapes and Beyond” features oil paintings and mixed media work spanning four decades from the 1940s to the 1970s by father and son artists Louis Bassi Siegriest (1899-1989) and Lundy Siegriest (1925-1985). The show runs through June 30.
Louis belonged to the Oakland-based Society of Six artists including Selden Gile, August Gay, Maurice Logan, Bernard von Eichman, and William Clapp. The group favored the style of French fauvism and the vibrant palette of modern European and American artists shown at the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, instead of the tonalism, which dominated California art that period. Louis’ post-impressionist plein air group pioneered modern art in Northern California in the 1920s. He moved on to abstract painting in his middle years but seldom departed from the possibilities presented by the western landscape. The Oakland Museum honored Louis with a retrospective exhibition in 1972. His works are in the collections of the Oakland Museum, Stanford University Museum, and the University of Nevada.
Lundy was a modernist painter who was known for abstract expressionism in both landscape and figurative work. He also painted in plein air vividly colored pastoral settings. He became part of a nucleus of Northern California painters including Terry St. John and Peter Brown who revived more traditional approaches painting landscapes in the manner of the Society of Six. Lundy appeared in one man and group exhibitions, notably in the Whitney Museum in New York and in the traveling exhibition, 17 American Painters, which included Richard Diebenkorn, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Motherwell, and Ad Reinhardt, that opened at the Brussels World Fair in 1958. His works are held by major museums, including the Denver Art Museum, Oakland Museum of California, and Santa Barbara Museum of Art.
The show features eighteen oil paintings and mixed media work from 1940s to 1970s. Louis and Lundy were described as intuitive painters who were greatly informed by their surroundings. Both interpreted the physical and historical changes in western landscapes through most of the twentieth century.
Louis’ abstract mixed media work imbued with reference to his travels to the Nevada desert, Spain, and Mexico and to America’s fascination with the lunar mission and space exploration. He used sand, gypsum, and asphalt to create dimensionality and to make his paintings look as much like fragments of the terrain as images of it. Lundy’s abstract expressionist streetscape paintings in oil focused on the changing and grim urban setting in the Bay Area and reflected post-war pessimism. By the 1970s both returned to plein air work, each empowered with a unique vision and each continuing with artistic license in their interpretation of California landscape.
Telegraph Hill Gallery https://www.telegraphhillgallery.com
{TH(e)Gallery} 491 Greenwich Street San Francisco CA 94133
Monday to Friday 1:30 PM to 6:30 PM, Saturday by appointment
For more information please contact [email protected] or call 415.767.9794
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Louis belonged to the Oakland-based Society of Six artists including Selden Gile, August Gay, Maurice Logan, Bernard von Eichman, and William Clapp. The group favored the style of French fauvism and the vibrant palette of modern European and American artists shown at the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, instead of the tonalism, which dominated California art that period. Louis’ post-impressionist plein air group pioneered modern art in Northern California in the 1920s. He moved on to abstract painting in his middle years but seldom departed from the possibilities presented by the western landscape. The Oakland Museum honored Louis with a retrospective exhibition in 1972. His works are in the collections of the Oakland Museum, Stanford University Museum, and the University of Nevada.
Lundy was a modernist painter who was known for abstract expressionism in both landscape and figurative work. He also painted in plein air vividly colored pastoral settings. He became part of a nucleus of Northern California painters including Terry St. John and Peter Brown who revived more traditional approaches painting landscapes in the manner of the Society of Six. Lundy appeared in one man and group exhibitions, notably in the Whitney Museum in New York and in the traveling exhibition, 17 American Painters, which included Richard Diebenkorn, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Motherwell, and Ad Reinhardt, that opened at the Brussels World Fair in 1958. His works are held by major museums, including the Denver Art Museum, Oakland Museum of California, and Santa Barbara Museum of Art.
The show features eighteen oil paintings and mixed media work from 1940s to 1970s. Louis and Lundy were described as intuitive painters who were greatly informed by their surroundings. Both interpreted the physical and historical changes in western landscapes through most of the twentieth century.
Louis’ abstract mixed media work imbued with reference to his travels to the Nevada desert, Spain, and Mexico and to America’s fascination with the lunar mission and space exploration. He used sand, gypsum, and asphalt to create dimensionality and to make his paintings look as much like fragments of the terrain as images of it. Lundy’s abstract expressionist streetscape paintings in oil focused on the changing and grim urban setting in the Bay Area and reflected post-war pessimism. By the 1970s both returned to plein air work, each empowered with a unique vision and each continuing with artistic license in their interpretation of California landscape.
Telegraph Hill Gallery https://www.telegraphhillgallery.com
{TH(e)Gallery} 491 Greenwich Street San Francisco CA 94133
Monday to Friday 1:30 PM to 6:30 PM, Saturday by appointment
For more information please contact [email protected] or call 415.767.9794
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