Local Art

Xiaoze Xie:
Panorama of Eternal Night

Artist Xiaoze Xie’s first exhibition with the San Francisco gallery is featuring the multi-panel painting “Panorama of Eternal Night.” The work, which combines media images of the global pandemic with famous works of art history. The artist’s theme is on the ongoing psychological trauma of the coronavirus pandemic.

Liam Everett:
Untitled (Oraibi)

Sebastopol, California painter Liam Everett features several large and commanding abstract canvases. It is not surprising to learn that Everett’s primary interest is exploring the very act of painting. It is noticeable in the many textures and uses of the material seen in the works: pooled, scrubbed, patterned, airbrushed, and so on.

Jordan Kantor:
Untitled (20A)

This exhibition features an installation that re-purposed materials employed during the process of painting but are rarely considered the end result. This idea is found in a series of colorful abstractions on cotton rags, sewn to canvas. The rags, once used for removing color from a painting-in-process or cleaning a paintbrush, have been gathered, sewn to un-primed canvas, and stretched. Attached to each side of the stretched object is a wooden slat, which has been painted to match a single color found in the cotton rag.

Tadashi Moriyama & Robert Minervini:
A Necessary Ruin

This artwork is post-apocalyptic: shells of finely rendered, multi-story buildings hold court over an otherwise structure-less landscape that is filled only with shrubs, grasses, and marshland. Luminous multi-hued skies — oranges and pinks, blues and yellows — place the scenes at the beginning or end of the day, a visual metaphor for the larger “end of days” message. But these works are more hopeful than full of doom; they are very sparsely populated with humanity, small flowers are in bloom. The tone is of rebuilding and regeneration. These structures are new, as indicated by the presence of a crane in one work, placed far in the distance, and the fact that they are whole and show no signs of wear.