For Immediate Release
Contact: Sandra Lee Gallery
251 Post Street, Suite 310,
Phone: (415) 291 – 8000
Email: art@sandraleegallery.com
Sandra Lee Gallery Presents: Exploration & Celebration Finale
Featuring artists: Dong Phan, Wonju Shin, David Jang
Exhibition Date: November 1st – November 28th, 2009
Artist reception in conjunction with San Francisco’s 1st Thursday Art Walk:
November 5th, 5:00pm – 7:30pm
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Sandra Lee Gallery, formerly Evolving Art Gallery, will conclude its inaugural group exhibition, Exploration and Celebration, at our new Union Square location. This grand finale will showcase internationally and nationally renowned contemporary West Coast artists. As part of our continued investigation into current trends in artistic practice, this exhibition features artists engaged in the act of visual expression as central to their art making process. Participating artists include Dong Phan, Wonju Shin, and David Jang.
David Jang reconstructs the wasteful nature of mass production in order to highlight the often disregarded or ignored commodity byproducts that have become both the wheat and chaff of our society. Instead of the traditional canvas and paintbrush, Jang transforms aluminum cans, wood scraps, and packaging into a meditation on the aesthetics of human refuse. The irony of his work lies in his labor intensive practice of burning, waxing and distressing his materials which contradicts one the basic tenets of consumer culture – convenience and disposal.
The horse is one of western art tradition’s favorite beasts, having been repurposed time and again to signify strength, grace, freedom, and the frontier. For Dong Phan, the image is not simply a referent, but a vehicle for self-actualization, symbolic of heritage and transience. It also symbolizes the creative force, the confrontation between the artist and his canvas. Phan aggressively builds and tears apart each painting emulating the powerful tracks of a beast tearing away at the earth on an unending journey through life.
Each mark in Wonju Shin’s meticulously rendered pencil drawings represent a conscious decision among an infinite number of possible directions. Of her work Shin elucidates: “No single choice stands alone. A choice that’s been made and a choice that’s overlooked coexist and together they balance out to become a whole.” Obsessive repetition is a means for exposing the artist’s creative process which, in this case comprise both the form and content of Shin’s oeuvre.
Sandra Lee Gallery aims to connect serious art collectors and art lovers with exemplary original painting, sculpture, and photography with an emphasis on Asian contemporary art. Sandra Lee Gallery specializes in West Coast artists. Gallery Hours: Monday – Friday 11:00am to 7:00pm Saturday 11:00am to 5:30pm. Other hours by appointment.
rmerly Evolving Art Gallery, will conclude its inaugural group exhibition, Exploration and Celebration, at our new Union Square location. This grand finale will showcase internationally and nationally renowned contemporary West Coast artists. As part of our continued investigation into current trends in artistic practice, this exhibition features artists engaged in the act of visual expression as central to their art making process. Participating artists include Dong Phan, Wonju Shin, and David Jang.
David Jang reconstructs the wasteful nature of mass production in order to highlight the often disregarded or ignored commodity byproducts that have become both the wheat and chaff of our society. Instead of the traditional canvas and paintbrush, Jang transforms aluminum cans, wood scraps, and packaging into a meditation on the aesthetics of human refuse. The irony of his work lies in his labor intensive practice of burning, waxing and distressing his materials which contradicts one the basic tenets of consumer culture – convenience and disposal.
The horse is one of western art tradition’s favorite beasts, having been repurposed time and again to signify strength, grace, freedom, and the frontier. For Dong Phan, the image is not simply a referent, but a vehicle for self-actualization, symbolic of heritage and transience. It also symbolizes the creative force, the confrontation between the artist and his canvas. Phan aggressively builds and tears apart each painting emulating the powerful tracks of a beast tearing away at the earth on an unending journey through life.
Each mark in Wonju Shin’s meticulously rendered pencil drawings represent a conscious decision among an infinite number of possible directions. Of her work Shin elucidates: “No single choice stands alone. A choice that’s been made and a choice that’s overlooked coexist and together they balance out to become a whole.” Obsessive repetition is a means for exposing the artist’s creative process which, in this case comprise both the form and content of Shin’s oeuvre.
Sandra Lee Gallery aims to connect serious art collectors and art lovers with exemplary original painting, sculpture, and photography with an emphasis on Asian contemporary art. Sandra Lee Gallery specializes in West Coast artists. Gallery Hours: Monday – Friday 11:00am to 7:00pm Saturday 11:00am to 5:30pm. Other hours by appointment.