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"REFLECTIONS OF THE BAY" - Abstract and figurative art of all media

San Francisco - California Modern Gallery and Mesart are proud to introduce "Reflections of the Bay" first annual jurried competition and art show to benefit "Boys and Girls Club".

This exhibition will be hosted both virtually on the MesArt website at www.mesart.com/reflectionsof.bay and the actual artwork will be exhibited at California Modern Art Gallery, 1035 Market St. in San Francisco from September 25th through the December 2nd with the opening reception to be held on Thursday, September 25th from 6 pm to 8.30 pm.'

"Absence - Present." RECEPTION: Thursday June 5th,
5:30-7:30pm

EXHIBITION: June 5-July 31, 2008

Gallery 415: 49 Geary St., 4th floor,
San Francisco, CA, 94108

Gallery 415 is pleased to present the recent work by the Brazilian-born painter, photographer, and mixed-media artist Silvia Poloto. A prolific artist who has shown in an impressive list of venues during her career. She will be showing not only the lyrical abstractions on canvas for which she is best known, but also a series of recent multimedia works on wood entitled Absence - Presence ; these pieces combine painting with digital imagery, both found and manufactured, in order to reflect on the psychology of illness and mortality. While the new works take on the serious themes of classical art, they retain Poloto's masterly command of color, gesture and texture; they are sumptuously beautiful improvisations that have come together from the disparate elements filling the artist's studio through the agency of Poloto's intuition - her perfect visual pitch. More Info