deluge..a watercolor show

Fri, May 12
7-9pm
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"Deluge"
a watercolor show..
May 12-June 18,2006
reception,
May 12, 2006 7-9 pm

Bucheon Gallery is proud to present the group exhibition Deluge.
Featuring work in watercolor by over twenty artists, Deluge examines
the various ways in which contemporary artists employ a traditionally
conservative material. The opening reception will be held on Friday,
May 12, from 7-9 p.m.

As the many diverse works in the exhibition demonstrate,watercolor is
both conceptually and physically slippery. The moment one artist
confirms the viewer's expectations,the practice of another confronts
thatunderstanding.
The simplest and most direct of artists' materials, watercolor,
nonetheless, demands a level of technical facility that belies its
immediacy. In some paintings,thin washes of color, delicate drips,
watery splashes,and pools of intense hue are evidence of the artist's
ability to control the medium. Other pieces in the exhibition rely on
the precise application oftransparent color to describe a detailed
form or delicate image. However, all the works in Deluge use the
nature of "watercolor" as content and material.

The paintings and drawings in the exhibition range in scale from
painstaking miniatures to large narrative works. Many of the pieces
are figurative, while others traverse the territory between realism
and abstraction.

Deluge features artists from San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York
and includes; Jeanne Lorenz,Eckhard Etzold, Jacqueline Cooper,Cynthia
Hooper, Maggie Miller, Enid Blader, Matthew Thurber, Rebecca Bird,
Elizabeth Huey,Terri Saul, Laura Ball, Peter Coe, Jim Winters,Hiroshi
Kimura, Mugi Takei, Peter Hristoff, David McDermott, Timothy Marvel
Hull, James Sheehan, Olive Ayhens,Ricky Allman, Dean Monogenis, Keith
Shore, Mala Iqbal,Annie Costello, Merrilee Challis, Eric White,
Magalie Guerin and Jerad Walker.

In Deluge watercolor is the unifying element across all painting
genres; portrait, landscape, still-life,and narrative. Most
interestingly, however, the fluid nature of watercolor facilitates
transitions between these tropes within single artworks. It is,
perhaps,this aspect of the paint that frees it from tradition and
marks it as the most contemporary of materials.

Venue:

bucheon gallery
389 grove st
san francisco
415-863-2891
bucheon.com

Additional Info:

415-863-2891
www.bucheon.com