Frey Norris Gallery / Surrealist Paintings

The Frey Norris Gallery is featuring Leonora Carrington: The Talismanic Lens. An exhibition of more than twenty paintings
and unique works on paper and ephemera. The exhibibition continues through March 30th.

Leonora Carrington
Quería ser pájaro, 1960
Oil on canvas
46 3/4 x 35 1/2 in / 119 x 90 cm

This comprehensive look at the career of Leonora Carrington includes small and large works on canvas and paper, as well as photos and ephemera, covering four and a half decades of her extraordinary life and career. Beginning with her explorations of alchemical catharsis through art making and her recovery from a traumatic series of events during World War II, the exhibition follows a sophisticated journey through the world’s various religious, literary and philosophical iconographies.

True throughout her life to her own artistic ambitions, Leonora Carrington is the consummate polymath, forever curious, a mind forever exploring, skeptical and keenly aware and one capable of unique synthetic images that will likely forever defy dialectical thinking.

This is an exhibition well worth seeing.


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Also a number of wonderful Surrealist images are at The Frey Norris Gallery Annex. Not all of the artworks are on display, but ask about them and the gallery will show them.

Remedios Varo
Papilla Estelar, 1958
Oil on board
36 x 24 in. / 91 x 61 cm.




André Masson
Sorciers, 1961
Oil on canvas
51 1/8 x 38 1/8 in / 130 x 97 cm




Stella Snead
Ritual, 1992
Oil on canvas
19 1/4 x 29 1/2 in / 49 x 75 cm




Victor Brauner
Hypergenesse de la Reapparition, 1932
Oil on canvas
75 1/4 x 50 1/2 in / 191 x 128 cm

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Leonora Carrington
The Talismanic Lens
Paintings, works on paper and ephemera
February 7 — March 30, 2008


Frey Norris Gallery
456 Geary Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
(415) 346-7812


Gallery and Annex Hours:
Tuesday — Saturday 11:00 am to 7:00 pm
Sunday 11:00 am to 5:00 pm
Closed on Monday.


For additional information contact the gallery
or visit their website Frey Norris Gallery


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Toomey Tourell Fine ArtKim Schoenstadt and Matty Byloos

For the month of March, Toomey Tourell is featuring a two person exhibition of artworks by Kim Schoenstadt and Matty Byloos. The exhibition will continue through March 29th.

Kim Schoenstadt (Installation view)
© and courtesy Toomey Tourell Fine Art




Kim Schoenstadt
Resequencing Series: A, 2008
Enamel paint in Sintra on panel
45" x 47"
© Kim Schoenstadt, courtesy Toomey Tourell Fine Art




Kim Schoenstadt (Installation view)
© and courtesy Toomey Tourell Fine Art





Kim Schoenstadt
Resequencing Series: B, 2008
Enamel paint on Sintra on panel
45" x 47"
© Kim Schoenstadt, courtesy Toomey Tourell Fine Art

This series of paintings by Kim Schoenstadt are from her Can Control series, made in conjunction with work for New Langton, University of La Verne and the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven. The pieces are made beginning with a drawing that evokes a myriad of architectural forms. A vinyl cut is then made of the drawing and applied to a wood panel. Using spray enamel paint, she then coats the panel at the instruction of others. The vinyl undercut drawings are then removed, exposing the untouched, unpainted mark of the original drawing. The background splatter of paint and color is juxtaposed with the more precise under drawing done in the artist's own hand. The process is continued by then making drawings from the removed vinyl pieces in a stark black and white format. The concepts of authorship, process, shifting scale and perception are all investigated in her work.

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Matty Byloos
For Bacon, 2006
Acrylic and Prismacolor pencil on mahogany panel
44" x 38" x 3 1/2"
© Matty Byloos, courtesy Toomey Tourell Fine Art




Matty Byloos
By the Way in the Month of May, 2006
Acrylic, Prismacolor on mahogany panel
38" x 44" x 3 1/2"
© Matty Byloos, courtesy Toomey Tourell Fine Art

This series of paintings by Matty Byloos combines several recurring points of interest for the artist - drawing, photography and the function of memory to mention a few. Byloos starts with a photograph, sometimes taken by him and often not, as the beginning document of an existing representation. This immediately creates a foundation on which he can build or take apart, add or subtract. In the act of drawing from this existing composition, the artist can use this as a jumping off point to explore the initial image, or get lost in other layers of meaning not necessarily implied by the represented image.


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Kim Schoenstadt
March 1 - 29, 2008

Matty Byloos
March 1 - 29, 2008


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Toomey Tourell Fine Art
49 Geary Street, 4th Floor
San Francisco, CA 90401
415.989.6444


Gallery Hours:
Tuesday - Friday: 11:00 to 5:30 pm
Saturday: 11:00 to 5:00 pm


For additional information contact the gallery
or visit their website Toomey Tourell Fine Art


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Rena Bransten Gallery / Candida Höfer Exhibit

Rena Bransten Gallery in San Francisco, is presenting an exhibition of recent photographs by Candida Höfer. The exhibition will continue through April 5th.

Candida Höfer's exhibition takes viewers on an international tour of rooms, both public and private, in schools, palaces, operas, libraries and villas – empty of humans but full of dazzling design and decorative detail. Even without people, the spaces have both a presence and energy – rooms await and anticipate – furniture stands-in for human expression and emotions.

Candida Höfer
Palacio Peredo-Barreda de Caja Cantabria Santillana del Mar I
2004, C-print, Edition of 6, 73" x 89"
Installation photo courtesy of Rena Bransten Gallery




Candida Höfer
Palacio Nacional da Ajuda Lisboa II (left)
2005, C-print, Edition of 6, 65 3/4" x 61 3/4"

Palacio Rio Branco Salvador Bahia I (right)
2005, C-print, Edition of 6, 58 1/8" x 48 1/4"
Installation photo courtesy of Rena Bransten Gallery




Candida Höfer
Biblioteca do Palacio dos Marquese de Fronteira Lisboa I
2006, C-print, Edition of 6, 100 3/4" x 81"
Installation photo courtesy of Rena Bransten Gallery

Höfer’s solo exhibitions in the past two years include Kunsthaus Hamburg in Germany, Le Louvre in France, Henie Onstad Art Center in Norway, Museum Pescheria in Italy, and the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, Ireland, among many others.

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Candida Höfer
Recent Photographs
February 28 - April 5, 2008


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Rena Bransten Gallery
77 Geary Street
San Francisco, CA 94108
415.982.3292

Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Friday: 10:30 to 5:30pm
Saturday: 11:00 to 5:00pm


For additional information contact the gallery
or visit their website, Rena Bransten Gallery.


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