FEATURED ARTISTS TONY HUYNH DEIRDRE LEBER JOHN MUSGROVE JEANNE VADEBONCOEUR ELENA ZOLOTNITSKY
The way we relate to the world has shifted dramatically this past year. Our interactions with each other, objects, and our surroundings seem to be fundamentally changed. With that in mind, it feels important now more than ever before to take time to appreciate the beauty and simplicity of all the elements that make up our environment -- even as our relationship to those elements fluctuates. People • Places • Things invites viewers to contemplate those relationships through this collection. Tony Huynh grew up in the Bay Area and his personal connection to the area is palpable. “These paintings are to understand the interaction of shapes and color through observation, practice and experience. Part of my early memory was living and growing up in San Francisco and the imagery of the Bay Area reveals itself through shared memories, dreams, intuition or an immediate thought prior to the painting.” Huynh’s process plays off of the relationships between colors and shapes, he follows a natural- though often unpredictable- path to the finished work. John Musgrove also depicts the iconic San Francisco landscape. Musgrove’s approach is less abstracted than Huynh’s, but both possess a kindred appreciation and candor for San Francisco scenery. Musgrove’s paintings maintain a balance of simplicity and grandiosity that elevates his subject matter. Though The City has many postcard-friendly sights, it is the daily life and the ordinary elements that most frequently capture his attention. Jeanne Vadeboncoeur shares this perspective with her whimsically simple still life paintings. From gummy bears to toilet paper, she focuses on banal items from everyday life in such a way that they feel transformed into elegant and at times mysterious objects. With incisive titles and compositions, Vadeboncoeur’s subjects become humorous, comforting, cheeky -and everything in between. Elena Zolotnitsky and Deirdre Leber both bring a potency and specificity to portraiture. While both artists are naturally distinct in their own way, they share a special ability to articulate the emotional intimacy and nuance of certain interactions and spaces. Leber and Zolotnitsky manage to make their subjects feel personal and known to the viewer despite their removed vantage point. Leber’s paintings are a dialogue between the seen and the remembered, the planned and the surprised. Zolotnitsky’s are an amalgamation of contemporary line and structure overlaid with light and colors reminiscent of the Old Masters style. As we continue further in this new era, both individually and collectively, we hope that the familiar scenes offered in People • Places • Things provide visitors with both a comforting reflection of the past as well as a primer for an inviting and hopeful future, rooted in the things we recognize and cherish.
TONY HUYNH
Alamo Square (SF) oil on wood 16" x 20"
Outer Sunset Balcony oil on linen 16" x 20"
Judah Cafe oil on linen 14.5" x 20"
Sutter’s Fort oil on wood 16" x 20"
Ocean Beach 48 oil on wood 12" x 15.5"
Fort Mason Eleven c 12" x 15.5"
Tony Huynh – Detail Images
DEIRDRE LEBER
Bather with Leaves oil on canvas 20" x 30"
Treading Water oil on canvas 30" x 30"
Reverie oil on canvas 18" x 24"
Ablutions oil on canvas 30" x 40"
Cloud Dance oil on canvas 24" x 24"
Small Sun Hat oil on canvas 9" x 12"
Deirdre Leber – Detail Images
JOHN MUSGROVE
Mid Century Scene with Yellow Bug oil on board 18" x 24"
14th Avenue oil on board 18" x 24"
Funky Shrub at Dawn oil on board 12" x 12"
Noe Valley El Camino oil on board 18" x 24"
Sunset in the Inner Sunset oil on board 16" x 20"
Sunset on Pacheco Street oil on board 18" x 36"
John Musgrove – Detail Images
JEANNE VADEBONCOEUR
Jeanne Vadeboncoeur – Installation View
Jarlsberg oil on panel 5" x 5"
Cambozola - Black Label oil on panel 5" x 5"
Express Delivery oil on canvas 40" x 30"
Short Stack oil on panel 24" x 24"
Jeanne Vadeboncoeur Five or Ten
oil on panel 36" x 72"
ELENA ZOLOTNITSKY
Motorcycle Diaries 35" x 35" framed oil on paper
Red Couch oil on canvas 20" x 20"
La Menina oil & gold leaf on panel 12" x 12"
Waiting oil on paper 26" x 26.5"
Warm Blue oil on mylar mounted on wood 18" x 18"
In the Bathroom oil on linen 14" x 11"
Elena Zolotnitsky – Installation View