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Opening Reception Saturday, April 20, 6-9PM
Showing April 20 through May 27, 2013

A married couple of artists, Fine Line brings together the work they have created individually yet side by side. While their medium and styles differ, Martinez and Ording share in common many other things: their use of vivid color and bold lines, an art studio, and two young children.

Jet Martinez’s paintings reinterpret the Mexican folk art of Amate paintings, which depict birds and other animals surrounded by bright botanical scenery. Stylized in a flat, graphic manner, the use and application of color create vibrance and dimension – static imagery celebrating life at its most ecstatic. Martinez begins with a traditional rendering, then integrates his own visual language.

Kelly Ording’s works on hand-dyed paper blend organic and geometric shapes with exact lines, pairing intuitive and mathematical mark-making. She questions the singular object and its amplification through massive repetition, resulting in vivid ethereal landscapes. The pieces are as much about their creation process as the resulting imagery.

Martinez and Ording are both graduates of the San Francisco Art Institute, show their work internationally, and have shared an art studio for longer than they’ve been a couple. They have painted several public murals together, as well as individually. Martinez was the first artist-in-residence at Facebook Headquarters and serves as art director for the Clarion Alley Mural Project. Ording was recently awarded a commission to create a large-scale mosaic mural at the Pelaga Recreation Center in San Francisco.

May 11 to June 9, 2013 at ArtZone 461 Gallery

Around Us: New Paintings by Jeong Im Yi

ArtZone 461 Gallery is pleased to announce two new concurrent solo shows for Jeong Im Yi and Eileen Starr Moderbacher. These are only the second solo shows with each of these artists at ArtZone 461 Gallery, now approaching its fifth anniversary.

Jeong Im Yi’s new paintings parallel her recent and new travel and life experiences. They are more colorful and include the introduction of landscape painting. The consistent element in her body of work remains her faithfulness to demonstrating technical skills and capturing, not merely documenting, moments at – or of – the intersection of time and memory.

The artist comments on her increased concern with the picture plane: “The brush marks on my paintings record points of mindfulness, and points of contact; they record my presence.” She projects viewers will experience firsthand these points of mindfulness that, in turn, refresh the works for a new audience.

Jeong Im Yi earned two Masters Degrees in Painting, one in 1995 from Hong Ik University in Seoul, South Korea and the second in 2004 from the San Francisco Art Institute. She has exhibited internationally in Seoul, Tokyo, Tel Aviv, Vienna, Paris, Chicago and San Francisco.

Opening Reception Saturday May 11, 5:00 – 8:00 pm

Gallery Hours: 12-6 pm Wednesday-Sunday, occasional evenings and anytime by appointment

Image: Jeong Im Yi, “Maui (Dec 2011)”, 2012, oil on canvas, 72 x 72″

May 11 to June 9, 2013 at ArtZone 461 Gallery

Panta rhei: everything flows – New Paintings by Eileen Starr Moderbacher

ArtZone 461 Gallery is pleased to announce two new concurrent solo shows for Jeong Im Yi and Eileen Starr Moderbacher. These are only the second solo shows with each of these artists at ArtZone 461 Gallery, now approaching its fifth anniversary.

Eileen Starr Moderbacher’s new series uses the Pony Express as a metaphor to comment on how we’ve arrived at our civilization’s current condition. The Pony Express was a 19th century horseback mail delivery and relay system. It lasted only 18 months but is considered to have furthered European, Puritan and Manifest Destiny philosophies. It set in motion an emphasis on ‘faster, bigger, better, never stop’, concepts that remain constants in our postmodern cultural landscape.

Moderbacher explains, “My work has shifted to a concern about the environment, global climate change, extinction of species – palm trees growing on icebergs; these become natural and logical to my way of thinking.” Subject matter is not the only new element in these works: The artist is “Consciously choosing to combine patterns I create and take the work one step closer to abstraction. There is a flattening of the picture plane and a letting-go of the horizon line; I am free to move in a direction that allows me to experience what the paint can do – letting it guide me out of preconceived notions and approaches.”

The artist received a Bachelor in Fine Arts, Printmaking, from the Art Institute of Chicago and her Masters in Painting from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco in 2004.

Opening Reception Saturday May 11, 5:00 – 8:00 pm

Image: Eileen Starr Moderbacher, “Unstoppable”, 2013, oil on canvas, 40 x 50″

May 11 to June 9, 2013 at ArtZone 461 Gallery

Around Us: New Paintings by Jeong Im Yi

ArtZone 461 Gallery is pleased to announce two new concurrent solo shows for Jeong Im Yi and Eileen Starr Moderbacher. These are only the second solo shows with each of these artists at ArtZone 461 Gallery, now approaching its fifth anniversary.

Jeong Im Yi’s new paintings parallel her recent and new travel and life experiences. They are more colorful and include the introduction of landscape painting. The consistent element in her body of work remains her faithfulness to demonstrating technical skills and capturing, not merely documenting, moments at – or of – the intersection of time and memory.

The artist comments on her increased concern with the picture plane: “The brush marks on my paintings record points of mindfulness, and points of contact; they record my presence.” She projects viewers will experience firsthand these points of mindfulness that, in turn, refresh the works for a new audience.

Jeong Im Yi earned two Masters Degrees in Painting, one in 1995 from Hong Ik University in Seoul, South Korea and the second in 2004 from the San Francisco Art Institute. She has exhibited internationally in Seoul, Tokyo, Tel Aviv, Vienna, Paris, Chicago and San Francisco.

Opening Reception Saturday May 11, 5:00 – 8:00 pm

Gallery Hours: 12-6 pm Wednesday-Sunday, occasional evenings and anytime by appointment

Image: Jeong Im Yi, “Maui (Dec 2011)”, 2012, oil on canvas, 72 x 72″

May 11 to June 9, 2013 at ArtZone 461 Gallery

Panta rhei: everything flows – New Paintings by Eileen Starr Moderbacher

ArtZone 461 Gallery is pleased to announce two new concurrent solo shows for Jeong Im Yi and Eileen Starr Moderbacher. These are only the second solo shows with each of these artists at ArtZone 461 Gallery, now approaching its fifth anniversary.

Eileen Starr Moderbacher’s new series uses the Pony Express as a metaphor to comment on how we’ve arrived at our civilization’s current condition. The Pony Express was a 19th century horseback mail delivery and relay system. It lasted only 18 months but is considered to have furthered European, Puritan and Manifest Destiny philosophies. It set in motion an emphasis on ‘faster, bigger, better, never stop’, concepts that remain constants in our postmodern cultural landscape.

Moderbacher explains, “My work has shifted to a concern about the environment, global climate change, extinction of species – palm trees growing on icebergs; these become natural and logical to my way of thinking.” Subject matter is not the only new element in these works: The artist is “Consciously choosing to combine patterns I create and take the work one step closer to abstraction. There is a flattening of the picture plane and a letting-go of the horizon line; I am free to move in a direction that allows me to experience what the paint can do – letting it guide me out of preconceived notions and approaches.”

The artist received a Bachelor in Fine Arts, Printmaking, from the Art Institute of Chicago and her Masters in Painting from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco in 2004.

Opening Reception Saturday May 11, 5:00 – 8:00 pm

Image: Eileen Starr Moderbacher, “Unstoppable”, 2013, oil on canvas, 40 x 50″

Project One Walls is happy to announce the addition of two new artists who will be contributing work to an ongoing mural exhibition: Brett Amory and Chad Hasegawa are both San Francisco-based and internationally renowned artists who have two very distinct styles; each will create a mural that will be on display for three months with an opening on May 23, 2013.

Chad Hasegawa describes his style as “excessive” and “patient.” Hasegawa was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, studied advertising at San Francisco’s Academy of Art University, and worked for some of the top agencies in the business before turning away from the advertising industry in order to focus on painting. His murals depict abstracted interpretations of grizzly bears, which he appreciates for their powerful size and shape, beautiful coloring, and for their symbolic resonance as protectors. He employs a vividly pungent color palate to shape his subject so that it is clearly visible from a distance, and when viewed up close, the work resembles an elaborate mosaic.

Brett Amory, also an Academy of Art graduate, uses photographs of seemingly banal street scenes as a basis for his moody and evocative oil paintings. Drawn to the lost, the lonely, and the socially awkward, Amory’s work portrays individuals who appear detached from their surroundings, shifting the context from the mundane daily commute to something fraught with implied meaning. These images serve as a visual representation of the transient temporality that so often distracts and disconnects us from fully experiencing the present moment. Amory uses a stark and minimalist color palate of primarily black, white, and gray, with simplified compositional elements and a heavy emphasis on negative space.
Project One Walls, which launched in February 2013, is an ongoing series of rotating murals curated by Project One gallery director Brooke Waterhouse and Justin Giarla, founder of San Francisco’s White Walls Gallery. In addition to new pieces by Brett Amory and Chad Hasegawa, Project One Walls features murals by Ben Eine, Ricardo Richey (otherwise known as Apex), Jet Martinez, and Rene Garcia Jr.