ATA Gallery Reception
Thursday, January 1, 1970, 12:00 am
BAY AREA 8
Paintings by:
Adam Cahoon, Heather Gates, Donna Han, Reiko Kubota, Melissa McLean, Josh Pavlick, Sean Spellmeyer, and Michael Yen.
New materials and methods make this ever-challenged discipline fresh.
Adam Cahoons sensuously portrayed figures belie their diffident postures. Richly painted and strikingly psychological, these portraits cut to the heart.
Donna Han works in fabric. This unexpected comment on canvas and color is fresh and conceptually rich.
Josh Pavlick plays complicated games. We learn from Pavlicks system-based work that to break or bend a rule is inherently political, and therefore always already anticipated.