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Mariette Pathy Allen, "Marilyn," at the Red Parrot Nightclub, 1982, digital c-print, 21 x 30 inches

THE OTHER: Photographs by Tria Giovan, Cig Harvey, Mariette Pathy Allen, and Rebecca Soderholm

Released: January 31, 2013

In 511’s study space, The Other is an exhibition of color photographs by four contemporary artists who examine the human subject – sometimes in portraiture genre; sometimes as figure in a landscape – as the other. Tria Giovan, Cig Harvey, Mariette Pathy Allen, and Rebecca Soderholm come from differing backgrounds, landscapes, social and cultural contexts, but each uses her practice to find out about relationships between herself and another, herself and her self, and herself and the camera. Mariette Pathy Allen is a noted photographer of (among other subjects) the transg...

Alex Schuchard, Untitled No. 1 (from the Surrounding series), 2013, oil and wax on canvas over panel, 48 x 48 inches

SURROUNDING: New Paintings by Alex Schuchard

Released: January 31, 2013

SURROUNDING: New Paintings by Alex Schuchard 14 February - 5 April 2013 511 Gallery is pleased to present Surrounding, thirteen new paintings by Alex Schuchard that explore the duality of abstraction and abstract art. Informed by landscape and the visible reality of the physical world, these works move away swiftly from that mode of representation, positioning themselves as transient moments (in the artist’s visual present or in his memories of such moments) and simultaneously as objective ideas about color, forms, and composition—that is, about painting itself. The paintings in...

Nicole Strasburg, Chroma, September 2011, oil on brich panel, 12 x 12 inches

Nicole Strasburg: islands valleys home

Released: October 15, 2011

Sullivan Goss – An American Gallery is pleased to announce their newest solo show for local artist Nicole Strasburg. NICOLE STRASBURG: islands valleys home, features contemporary Tonalist paintings that depict views of islands--the Santa Barbara Channel Islands, in particular Santa Cruz Island, valleys--both on the islands and the mainland, and home--the California coast. The archipelagos, rolling hillsides, deep valleys, and the vast expanse of the Pacific comprise the artist’s vocabulary of forms. It is through these forms that Strasburg speaks about how she communes with nature. S...