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don't miss us at ArtPadSF 2013, the San Francisco art fair at the Phoenix Hotel, May 16-19


painting painting
curated by Amanda Roscoe Mayo

beta pictoris gallery is excited to announce its participation at ArtPadSF 2013, San Francisco's Art Fair at the Phoenix Hotel, with painting painting, an exhibition curated by San Francisco based Independent Curator Amanda Roscoe Mayo.

- Jarrod Beck
- Steven Bindernagel
- Willie Cole
- Clayton Colvin
- Derek Cracco
- Ben Dowell
- Peter Fox
- Deborah Karpman
- Jacqueline Norheim
- Odili Donald Odita
- Michele Pred
- Christian Sampson
- Pete Schulte
- Ellen Siebers
- Leslie Smith III
- Susanna Starr
- Melissa Vandenberg
- Matt Wycoff
- Jake Ziemann

and on the flat screen: Mark Flood's music videos


painting painting aims to look at painting from all sides both in terms of content and practice. The frame is challenged, the use of paint or other materials is exploited, and with experimentation at its heart these works emerge from a larger dialogue.
Painting since Modernism has long pursued a course of knowledge. In the case of Mark Rothko it was that of the Sublime. Ad Reinhardt sought it in the value of abstraction, and Robert Ryman in the paint itself. While painters like Vija Celmins cause viewers to stagger in disbelief at an intricately realistic scene that is the product of hand and brush. Jackson Pollock postulated the gesture. In her essay “Greenberg on Pollock” (1993) Rosalind E. Krauss describes what is known so well about Pollock, the drip and how the work did not “join tradition, culture, and convention” until it was lifted off of the floor and onto the wall. The trajectory of painting has evolved significantly and now resides in the chaotic. There are artists who paint and there are painters who practice, though these are not irreconcilable.
painting painting presents both sides of the coin and all matters of content on the spectrum between aesthetics and the political.

ArtPadSF, May 16 - 19

The Phoenix Hotel
601 Eddy Street
San Francisco, CA 94109



AMANDA ROSCOE MAYO is an independent curator in San Francisco California exhibiting nationally and published internationally. She received her Master’s in Curatorial Practice from California College of the Arts. Her exhibitions are critically curated to engage a multi-generational dialogue with a focus on emerging artists. In addition to her independent projects she is one of a rotating cast of curators curating silent film screenings for the Rock Bar in San Francisco as well as a contributing music and film writer for KQED Arts.

You can find out more about her on her website:


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future shows at the gallery:


Mark Flood


Facebook Farm

May 3 - June 14, 2013

opening Friday, May 3, 6-9pm


Mark Flood

Facebook Farm

May 3 - June 14, 2013

opening Friday, May 3, 6-9pm



John Fields


Diegesis
new paintings


June 21 - July 26, 2013

opening Friday, June 21
@ 6.00 pm


Steven Bindernagel

new paintings

June 21 - July 26, 2013

opening Friday, June 21
@ 6.00 pm



pulp 3... (ire straits)

works on paper, works with paper


the artists:

Dwayne Butcher
Louis Cameron
Bethany Collins
Willie Cole
Peter Fox
Coco Fusco
Guerrilla Girls
Katie Hargrave
James Hoff
Peregrine Honig
Scott Hug
Hedieh Javanshir Ilchi
Deborah Karpman
Tad Lauritzen Wright
Odili Donald Odita
Michele Pred
Pete Schulte
Leslie Smith III
Melissa Vandenberg


August 9 - September 7, 2013

opening Friday, August 9
@ 6.00 pm



Dawoud Bey

Harlem, USA

September 13 - October 25, 2013

opening and book signing
Friday, September 13
@ 6.00 pm

Willie Cole

new work

September 13 - October 25, 2013

opening Friday, September 13
@ 6.00 pm





Derek Cracco


new work

November 1 - December 13, 2013

opening Friday, November 1
@ 6.00 pm

Peter Fox


new work

Nov. 1 - Dec. 13, 2013

opening Friday, November 1
@ 6.00 pm



       2014




Sharon Louden


new work

January - February 2014

opening date TBA



Melissa Vandenberg

new work

January - February 2014

opening date TBA





Big Bear, 2012

Yellow Rose, 1959

Walter Darby Bannard


new work

March / April 2014

opening date TBA

Walter Darby Bannard (born September 23, 1934 in New Haven, CT), also known as Darby Bannard, is an American abstract painter.

Bannard attended Phillips Exeter Academy and Princeton University, where he struck up a friendship and working relationship with Frank Stella, which continued after graduation and eventuated in the extreme minimalism both artists engaged in around 1959 and thereafter. The first paintings from the 1959-1965 period contained few forms, as little as a single band painted around a field of color, and then developed into somewhat more complex geometric forms by the mid-60s. In the late 60s the forms dissolved into pale, atmospheric fields of color applied with rollers and paint-soaked rags. He was associated with Lyrical Abstraction, Minimalism, Formalism (art), Post-painterly Abstraction and Color Field painting.

He began using the new acrylic mediums in 1970 and his paintings evolved into colorful expanses of richly colored gels and polymers applied with squeegees and commercial floor brooms, which continues to the present.

Bannard was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1968.

Bannard’s first solo show was at the Tibor de Nagy gallery in January, 1965 and he had exhibitions there until 1970. He began showing at the Lawrence Rubin Gallery, and then in 1974 at the Knoedler Contemporary Gallery, where he showed for the next 15 years. Currently he shows at the Loretta Howard Gallery in New York City, the Daniel Weinberg Gallery in Los Angeles and the Center for Visual Communication in Miami, Florida. He has exhibited in numerous museums and galleries nationally and internationally to the present day.

Bannard has had close to a hundred solo exhibitions, been in several hundred group shows and is represented in the collections of all the major New York museums and many others around the world. He is a prolific writer on art with over a hundred published essays and reviews; Bannard has taught, lectured and participated in panel discussions, and has been a Co-chair of the International Exhibitions Committee of the National Endowment for the Arts. He curated and wrote the catalog for the first comprehensive retrospective exhibition of the paintings of Hans Hofmann, at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C.

Currently Bannard is Professor and Head of Painting of the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Miami.






Plains Lizzie, 1981/82











 

Pete Schulte


new work

May / June 2014

opening date TBA
 

















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