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Patricia Gillespie Patricia Gillespie’s “quilted” images blur the boundaries of painting while their initial soft allure give way to cutting social insight. Gillespie stretches hand-stitched quilting and batting over plywood frames and sets raised jig-sawed wood figures over the patterned backdrop. The resultant playful compositions capture a moment in a larger, unknown story, enticing the viewer to complete the narrative. While superficially a perspective of gender roles, Gillespie’s work humorously addresses the complexity of expectations we face in our daily lives. “Internment Camp” depicts a reclining bustiered woman, “X-ray Vision” shows a woman ironing, and in “These Shoes Suck 1” a pair of legs sport stylish stilettos with an adhesive bandage on one ankle. Bethany Ayres Ayres’s new playful plywood paintings feature vignettes of personified nature and supernatural experience. Ayres continues her figurative narrative themes, with her graphic style and limited color schemes involving the increased challenge of fluorescent-stained panels, making contrast between colors even more magical and otherworldly than previous images.
Plywood painting by Bethany Ayres In these new images, Ayres shows us moments of satisfaction, discovery, and happiness, including a living room bedecked in fluorescent orange French Country décor, a mermaid discovering a precious pearl lunch and sparrows gathering mysteriously together in celebration. Ayres’s paintings have been reviewed in the East Bay Express, San Francisco Bay Guardian, and Diablo magazines and her work has been collected in several private and public collections, including The Detroit Institute of Art Museum. Hillary Kantmann Hillary Kantmann’s series of sensual, human-scale feathered sculptures organically emerge from the gallery walls and floors with feathery surfaces waving and fluttering from passerby’s movement, theatrically suggesting underwater plant life or creatures from mythology and science fiction. Their large, human sized scale and luxuriant, quivering surface treatment testify to Kantmann’s talent to transform a morphed, microbe shape into a believably personified being.
Vicky by Hillary Kantmann. Feathers and mixed media.
Horn by Hillary Kantmann. Feathers and mixed media. Hillary Kantmann has exhibited her work in Detroit; New York, NY, Oakland and San Francisco, CA. Artists on exhibition at the Esteban Sabar Gallery include Julie Alvarado, Sue Averell, Bethany Ayres, Rocky Baird, Nancy Ballard, Trish Booth, Mario Chiodo, Guy Colwell, Scott Courtenay-Smith, Patricia Gillespie, Liz Amini-Holmes, Mark Holmes, Albert Hwang, Wendell Jones, Feng Jin, Ben Johnston, Zack Jones, John Kinstler, Douglas Light, Donna Mendes, Marty McCorkle, Marvin McMillian, Kenney Mencher, Carol Paquet, Tim Phelan, Erik Rogers & Dana Porteos, Fernando Reyes, Diego Rios, Bernadette Sale, Kevin Slagle, and Daniel Wooddell. See examples of each artist's work. |
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