past
exhibition
GROUP EXHIBITION
1958 East West Abstractions
Exhibition
Saturday, January 10— February 21, 2009
Reception
Saturday, January 10, 2009; 3:00-5pm
Gallery Hours
Tuesday-Saturday, 11-5:30 p.m.
Open until 8:00 p.m. on first Thursday of the month
The exhibition focuses on the year 1958 as a pivotal year in the San Francisco Bay area with the blossoming of numerous commercial galleries in the Union/Fillmore street corridor.
Many of the artists exhibiting at these venues had served in the Korean War or WWII. Supported in part as students by the G.I. Bill they were looking for the interchange of ideas coming from outside of their culture, specifically from the Asia Pacific region.
The selection of works presented at this current East/West Abstraction exhibit at the Togonon highlight works by artists from the John Bolles Gallery, the Spatsa, the Dilexi, the Rose Rabow Gallery and the David Cole Gallery. The works of these artists evidence a true counter-culture attitude highlighted by fresh ideas and the spiritual essence of the 50s.
Artists exhibiting include:
Deborah Remington
Dimitri Grachis
Fred Reichman
Fritz Rauh
Gary Woo
Gordon Onslow Ford,
Jerrold Davis
John Baxter
Jomes Boyton
Julius Wasserstein,
Leo Valledor,
Peter Shoemaker
Ralph M. Johnson
Ramon Lerma
Richard Faralla
Sabro Hasegawa,
Sung Woo Chun
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