Serena Cole // Let Me Look At You
Serena Cole // Let Me Look At You May 13 - June 30, 2016
Gallery 16 is proud to announce our first solo exhibition with Bay Area artist Serena Cole. Cole has become well known for her work as a portraitist. As a painter, she utilizes the traditions of draftsmanship and portraiture to emphasize the idea of individual experience and alienation. She is interested in what the tropes of modern identity reveal about our collective psychology, the culture of consumption, escapism and the complexity of fantasy. Her skills as a portraitist put her in the vanguard of artists working in the medium today. She combines watercolor, gouache and gold leaf to render oppulent and disquieting portraits. “I’m fascinated by the idea that we all want to be someone else, but the person we want to be also wants to be someone else.” Coles work has been in a numerous private collections around the country and has been included in exhibitions at Phillips de Pury, New York, NY, Soo Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, Mark Moore Gallery, Culver City, CA
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Protect Me From Myself, watercolor, colored pencil, gouache, acrylic, gold leaf, and glitter on paper, 54� x 46�
Janus, watercolor, colored pencil, Flashe, and gold leaf on paper49� x 38�2016
All-Seeing Odalisque, watercolor, colored pencil, and gouache on paper, 30� x 22� 2016
To Have and to Hold, watercolor, colored pencil, acrylic, ink, gouache, spray paint, gold leaf, and glitter on paper, 46� x 36� 2016
Gimme, watercolor, colored pencil, and ink on paper, 30� x 22� 2014
Off My Chest, watercolor, colored pencil, and Flashe on paper28�x 22�2015
Better Than Real I, watercolor, colored pencil and gold leaf on paper mounted on panel, 24� x 18� 2015
Better Than Real II, watercolor, colored pencil and gold leaf on paper mounted on panel, 24� x 18� 2015
Serena Cole’s artwork is available through Gallery 16 Gallery 16 is located at 501 Third Street, San Francisco, CA 94107 Inquiries may contact Griff Williams at 415-626-7495 All images Š Serena Cole gallery16.com
Gallery 16 was founded by artist Griff Williams in 1994. Since then, Gallery 16 and its fine art imprint Gallery 16 Editions has produced exhibitions with over 250 artists and published over 800 prints, artist books, and multiples with artists including Michelle Grabner, Ari Marcopoulos, Jim Goldberg, Colter Jacobsen, Bill Berkson, Harrell Fletcher, Lynn Hershman, Amy Franceschini, William Kentridge, Tucker Nichols, Libby Black, Deborah Oropallo, Jim Isermann, Graham Gillmore, Mark Grotjahn, Rebeca Bollinger, Rex Ray, and Margaret Kilgallen.