The Shadow Views Several Landscapes

The Shadow is now back to full-time blogging again after taking some time off to take care of personal matters during the holidays. This blog will now go full speed through the end of the year.

For starters, let's begin with another artists reception.

On November 17, 2006, The Shadow was in attendance at the office of San Francisco Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi as he hosted yet another Third Friday Art Reception. Last Friday's reception was special because it marked the 2-year anniversary of Supervisor Mirkarimi's Third Friday Receptions.

Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi addresses the audience at Reception

This month's reception featured the art of Gail Camhi, Jacqueline Ruben, Heike Seefeldt, and Sue Vaughan. Each artist showed a different landscape genre using various media.

Examples of some of the artwork on display

Gail Camhi is showing Landscape of the Imagination. In watercolor, Ms. Camhi uses wet on wet technique to activate responsive dialogues with color, and allows her subjects to present themselves as part of the explorative process.

Jacqueline Ruben is presenting Landscapes of Distance and Approach. Her paintings emerge from the spark of all the impressions and sensations swirling around us in the phenomenal world. This mixed media series of four paintings explores the intersection of interior space with the peripheral world.

Heike Seefeldt will exhibit Landscape of Manipulation. By arranging and manipulating diverse materials in a collage overlay technique, Ms. Seefeldt questions the extent to which raw information is manipulated and channeled by media, politics and religious messages.

Sue Vaughan will exhibit Landscape of the Human Body. Many of the portrait and figure drawings included in this show were created at the San Francisco Art Institute or the Mission Cultural enter and are based on black and white photographs from the book, The Body: Photographs of the Human Body, by William Ewing. Ms. Vaughan began to explore portrait drawing in high school.

An example of artist Sue Vaughan's work

All four of these women have mastered the art of landscape in their chosen genre. This was a very exciting exhibit. The Shadow has included the web sites of both Jacqueline Ruben and Heike Seefeldt under the Artists and Gallery Links on the left side of this blog if you wish to view more of their work.

Artist Heike Seefeldt poses in front of some of her work

You can view this exhibit in the offices of Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi in Room 282, San Francisco City Hall, during regular business hours. The exhibit will run through December 13, 2006.

Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi (center) with the four artists

For more pictures from the exhibit, click here.