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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.

- John Bankston
- 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: