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NANCY TOOMEY - CASEMORE KIRKEBY - SMITH ANDERSEN NORTH

BASS & REINER - SF CENTER FOR THE BOOK

02.04.17

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Nancy Toomey Fine Art: Suzan Woodruff - Space Rain

Comment by AB: Pearlescent conceptions of what weather might look like in a galaxy far far away.

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Pearlescent paintings by Suzan Woodruff at Nancy Toomey Fine Art.

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Art by Suzan Woodruff closer.

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Suzan Woodruff and her art at Nancy Toomey Fine Art.

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Pinkie cam detail of art in above image.

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Shimmering art by Suzan Woodruff.

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Art in above image closer.

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Circumstance - Suzan Woodruff art show at Nancy Toomey Fine Art.

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Smith Andersen North at Casemore Kirkeby: The Golden Decade - Photography and the California School of Fine Arts 1945-55

Photographers: Ansel Adams, Minor White, Edward Weston, Dorothea Lange, Imogen Cunningham, Lisette Model, Nancy and Beaumont Newhall, Homer Page, Rose Mandel, William Heick, Pat Harris, Bob Hollingsworth, C. Cameron Macauley, Ira Latour, Benjamen Chinn, Gerald Ratto, Stan Zrnich, more.

Comment by AB: Survey show of work by photographers and their students of the California School of Fine Arts between 1945 and 1955. It also celebrates the release of the book by the same name, The Golden Decade by William Heick, Ira Latour and C. Macauley (Gerhard Steidl; G�ttingen, Germany; 2017).

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Photograph by Pat Harris at Casemore Kirkeby.

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Small photograph up close by Helen Howell c/o Smith Andersen North.

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Gerald Ratto photography.

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Photograph by William Heick.

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L-R, photographs by Bob Hollingsworth and Stan Zrnich.

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Bob Hollingsworth photograph in above image closer.

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Installation view - survey show c/o Smith Andersen North at Casemore Kirkeby.

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Bass & Reiner: Whitney Lynn - After The Fall

Comment by AB: According to the crib sheet, it's about power, politics, history and women. For me, it's more like late de Kooning meets Matisse line drawings.

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Art by Whitney Lynn at Bass & Reiner.

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Whitney Lynn art.

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Art by Whitney Lynn at Bass & Reiner.

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San Francisco Center for the Book: Open * Set

Artists: Mark Esse, Sofia Mendizabal, Zigor Anguiano Calzada, Monique Lallier, Ulrich Widmann, Jana Pullman, Elena S�nchez Miguel, Jan Camps, Coleen Curry, Sol R�bora, Sialia Rieke, Dominic Riley, Luke Hornus, Sol Rebora, Patricia Owen, Benjamin Elbel, Samuel Feinstein, Susan Hulme, Adelene Koh, more.

Comment by AB: One of my favorite art forms-- fine bindings on books. Each one is a unique entirely handmade work of art.

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Full leather binding by Monique Lallier at SF Center for the Book.

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Unusual textured binding by Elena S�nchez Miguel.

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Finely bound books at SF Center for the Book.

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Hand-tooled full leather binding by Jana Pullman.

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Paint and leather binding by Ulrich Widmann.

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Overview - fine bookbinding group show at SF Center for the Book.

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