current
exhibitionS
Featuring the works of:
Edith Hillinger
Double Take – Watercolor Paintings and Photography
Charles Schucker
Four Decades of Color Field Paintings, Solo Exhibition
Exhibition
April 17, 2008 to May 24, 2008
Opening Reception
April 19, 2008, 2:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Gallery Hours
Tuesday-Saturday, 11-5:30 p.m.
Open until 8:00 p.m. on first Thursday of the month
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art in exhibition)
Edith Hillinger
Double Take – Watercolor Paintings and Photography
Togonon Gallery is pleased to present “Double Take”,
Edith Hillinger’s second solo exhibition at Togonon Gallery.
In 2000, Hillinger painted large watercolors of pressed petals.
Eight years later, she photographed the same specimens. In the monograph
that accompanies the show, Rei Masuda, Curator of Photography at
The National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, Japan, comments: “This
body of work simply records the two different stages of each petal.
When juxtaposed one sees the process of eternal transition between
minimal and maximum, life and death, individual and universal.”
In the artist’s own words, “By themselves the watercolors
are seen as abstractions, but when placed next to the photographs
their deep roots in representation become visible…wherein
the power of the photograph lies.”
Born in Berlin, Hillinger escaped Nazi Germany with her family in
1937 and resettled in Turkey. She studied art at Cooper Union and
New York University. Hillinger has exhibited across the U.S. and
internationally. Her awards include, 2005 Artist in Residence in
New Zealand, the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation Grant & the Women
Artists Historical Archives, New York. She is also in the Minnesota
Museum of Art in St. Paul. Hillinger currently lives and works in
Berkeley, California.
 
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Charles Schucker: A Color Field
Pioneer (1908-1998)
Four Decades of Color Field Paintings, Solo Exhibition
This exhibition features American color field painter Charles Schucker,
showing work from the Fifties to the Nineties including a painting
from his solo exhibition at the Whitney in 1971. During the 1950’s,
Schucker was known for his “poured-paintings.” He applied
thinned paint with a controlled, mechanized pouring system resulting
in fields of raw canvas punctuated by bold colors. Schucker’s
brightly hued canvases, unique shaped paintings and psychological
use of color exemplified his artistic development.
Charles Schucker has exhibited widely with noted Abstract Expressionist
painters in prestigious national museums including New York’s
Metropolitan Museum & Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney, The
Brooklyn Museum, The Art Institute of Chicago, The San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles Museum and the Walker Art Center.
His art was often aligned with his friend and Maryland Art Institute
classmate Morris Louis. He was awarded the Childe Hassam Prize by
the American Academy of Arts & Letters (1952) and a Guggenheim
Fellowship (1953).
Schucker’s paintings are included in the collections of The
Whitney Museum of American Art, The Brooklyn Museum, The Newark
Museum, The New Britain Museum, among others. He was Professor Emeritus
at the Pratt Institute, where he taught from 1957-1985.
For more information, please contact Rafael C. Musni, Associate
gallery Director at 415.398.5572, rafael@togonongallery.com, artnet.com
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