RenĂŠe Bott & Deloss Webber In Harmony
RenĂŠe Bott & Deloss Webber In Harmony
Renée Bott & Deloss Webber: In Harmony September 3 - September 29, 2019 Reception for the artists: Sunday, September 8, 3 to 5 pm Front Cover: Renée Bott, The Trust Trees, (detail), book pages on canvas with ink and acrylic paint , 2019, 40 x 30 in Deloss Webber, Old Soldiers 1 & 2, (detail), granite, rattan and pigment, 20 x 16 x 5, 16 x 15 x 4 Back Cover: Renee Bott, Ghost Ship (detail), book pages on canvas with ink and acrylic paint , 2019, 60 x 40 in Photo Credits: Deloss Webber: Mya Kerner, Art Capture and Patricia Rovzar Gallery Renée Bott: Renée Bott
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.”
Paul Cezanne
Seager Gray Gallery is pleased to present Renée Bott & Deloss Webber: In Harmony. In earlier installations which featured both artists, we were struck by an uncanny relationship between these two diverse bodies of works. In Bott’s, the horizontal redacting of some of the book text along with the overlay of the image creates a textile, almost tapestry-like sensation even though no actual thread or fabric is involved. When installed near Webber’s sculpture, where weaving in fiber is actually present, there is a resonant harmonic sensation that we were excited to explore in this 2- person exhibition. Book pages provide the underlying armature for the works of Renée Bott. Her work is based on the minute and detailed lines found in etchings and engravings from the 17th century. She collects her source materials from museums, antique print dealers, and private collections. She photographs the prints and uses photoshop to digitally modify the images, which serve as general outlines for her compositions which she renders with paint and ink upon the surface of the book pages. At the heart of everything for Deloss Webber is stone. He collects rocks of varying sizes and types, choosing each one for its individual color, texture and markings. He then adds to the stone’s character by manipulating its surface and enhances it further by intricately weaving it in fibers such as cane, bamboo and reed. Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, Renée Bott has always made and worked in art. She worked in fine art print publishing for over 30 years. For the past twenty years, she was a founding partner and Master Printer of Paulson Bott Press, a fine print atelier located in Berkeley, California. Here she worked with luminary artists such as Martin Puryear, Kerry James Marshall and Tauba Auerbach. Renée specialized in facilitating the creation of complex and colorful intaglio prints within a traditionally black and white medium. Paulson Bott Press has published over 500 editions, working with many artists. In 2016, the archive of Paulson Bott Press was acquired by the deYoung Museum in San Francisco. Deloss Webber has a broad reach when it comes to combining art and traditional craft in his unique works having grown up in Morocco, Spain and Bermuda. He is intent on capturing a quality inherent in the natural world. The fiber fits so seamlessly onto the body of the stone that it seems to have always been there. Webber has an ongoing interest in Japanese basketry and a deep connection to the environment. He learned rattan weaving from his mother while growing up in northern Africa and Spain. He finds constant nourishment in cultures and places beyond his own boundaries. —
Deloss Webber Brio
stone, rattan, bamboo, pigment 38 x 13 x 5 in 2019
RenĂŠe Bott Wisdom Tree
book pages with ink and acrylic on canva 60 x 40 in 2018
RenĂŠe Bott Ghost Ship
book pages with ink and acrylic on canvas 60 x 40 in 2019
Deloss Webber Corpus
stone, fiber, pigment 20 x 11 x 8 in 2019
RenĂŠe Bott Letters Home: Farewell
book pages with ink and acrylic on canvas 60 x 40 in 2019
Deloss Webber Willows
granite, rattan, driftwood, pigment 17 x 44 x 6 in 2018
Deloss Webber Contemplation
stone, rattan, pigment 15 x 10 x 10 in 2019
RenĂŠe Bott Letters Home: Marriage
book pages with ink and acrylic on canva 60 x 40 in 2019
RenĂŠe Bott The Trust Trees I
book pages with ink and acrylic on canva 40 x 30 2019
Deloss Webber Old Soldiers, 1 & 2
granite, rattan, pigment 20 x 16 x 5 in, 16 x 15 x 4 in 2017
Deloss Webber Contemplation
stone, rattan, pigment 15 x 10 x 10 in 2019
RenĂŠe Bott Letters Home: Goodbye
book pages with ink and acrylic on canvas 60 x 40 in 2019
RenĂŠe Bott The Trust Trees II
book pages with ink and acrylic on canvas 40 x 30 2019
Deloss Webber Oporto
granite, rattan, pigment 19 x 12 x 10 in 2016
RenĂŠe Bott Study: Trees II
book pages with ink & acrylic on Japanese paper 24.5 x 19 in 2019
RenĂŠe Bott Study: Trees I
book pages with ink & acrylic on Japanese paper 24.5 x 19 in 2019
Renée Bott Nature’s Justice
book pages with ink and acrylic on canvas 50 x 30 2018
Deloss Webber Kimono Series, 1, 2 & 3
travertine, rattan, pigment 10 x 7 x 2 in, 19 x 6 x 2 in, 14 x 8 x 2 in 2018
Deloss Webber The Moon in a Basket stone, rattan, pigment 19 x 16 x 15 in 2016
Deloss Webber Blessings
stone, fiber 3.5 x 2.5 x 1.5 (size variee) 2019