stARTup Art Fair SF

DATES
April 29th – May 1st 2016

LOCATION
Hotel Del Sol Room #314
3100 Webster Street
San Francisco, CA 94123

Exhibiting with ArtSpan

#portrait

DZINE Gallery is pleased to present the opening of #portrait, our third group exhibition. The portrait has long been used as a vehicle for allegory, an expression of power and propaganda, and as advancing cultural aesthetic ideals and gender norms. How do people present themselves to the world? How does the artist or photographer approach the portrait to reveal the essence or inner psychology of a subject, or their own political, social, spiritual or aesthetic concerns? The nine artists in this exhibition confront these questions, exploring the contemporary portrait in various media, including painting, tintypes, photography, staged narrative and video.

DZINE welcomes San Francisco based designer Chris Baisa as our featured designer for the exhibition, inaugurating our representation of Delinear, his line of modern, handcrafted textiles, in our showroom.

DZINE Gallery: Opening Reception Party
‘#portrait’

RECEPTION DATE + TIME
Friday, March 25, 6pm

EXHIBITION
March 25th – September 25th, 2016

LOCATION
DZINE Gallery
128 Utah Street
San Francisco, CA 94103

DZINE Gallery
128 Utah Street
San Francisco, CA 94103

EXHIBITION
September 18, 2015 – March 18, 2016

DZINE Gallery’s second exhibition, curated by Philip Bewley, features the work of 15 women artists from the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles and London employing a variety of media including paper cut process drawings, aquatints, hand blocked textiles, mixed media, painting, letterpress monotype, gilded glass, wool relief sculpture, photography, art couture
and video art.

The title of the exhibition, “Pattern Language,” is a term that has multiple definitions found in both design practice and in theoretical computer science. The artists in this exhibition incorporate and expand on these ideas in work that encompasses patterns found in nature and human behavior; with shape, media, text and even individual letters deconstructed to create
new patterns and meanings.

“Love patterns, hate repetition,” says artist Elvira M. Dayel, whose intricate and exacting panels, which she describes as “hand-cut paper process drawings,” are specially commissioned for this exhibition. “Commissioning new works from artists is an important part of our program,” shares DZINE curator Philip Bewley. “There are a number of artists in this exhibition who were already exploring original ideas in the incorporation of patterns and text in their work. The expansive spaces of the DZINE Gallery allow these artists to experiment and create new works that fulfill their own personal artistic vision.”