June 4 – September 3, 2024
Summer Choices: A Group Exhibition
Crown Point Press
In Person Viewing:
20 Hawthorne Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
Online Viewing:
https://crownpoint.com/exhibition/summer-choices-a-group-exhibition-4/
Every year, Crown Point presents a Summer Choices exhibition to inaugurate the summer season. It also presents the wide range of possibilities in etching, the time-honored medium in which the Press has specialized for more than half a century.
This year’s exhibition showcases an array of lively and bold images such as Al Held’s intricate brightly colored Japanese woodblock print “Pachinko” and Darren Almond’s color photogravure of a tropical landscape, “Fullmoon@Kitandara: Mountains of the Moon.” Alex Katz’s aquatint, “Black Shoes” depicts socked feet in sandals and Robert Bechtle’s etching “Mississippi Street Intersection” captures an iconic San Francisco street scene with a VW bug poised atop a hill. Ed Ruscha’s “Lonely Highway” offers a humorous and thought-provoking roadside billboard proclaiming, “Gal chews same piece of gum since 1970.”
Included within the gallery exhibition is a wall of etchings printed in various shades of blue, a color that epitomizes summer by its reference to sky and water. John Zurier’s predominantly blue etching “Drifting” evokes the depth and beauty of the ocean at evening. In “Summer Pond”, by Pat Steir, her richly gestural print blurs the line between reality and abstraction while the use of the grid adds structure against the kinetic drawing.
Other artists included in the exhibition are William Bailey, John Chiara, Richard Diebenkorn, Leonardo Drew, Mary Heilmann, Jacqueline Humphries, Bryan Hunt, Markus Lupertz, David Nash, Wayne Thiebaud, Catherine Wagner, and William T. Wiley.
