Summer 2011
SEASON is proud to announce the opening of I WAS TALKING WITH A GHOST featuring drawings by Rachel Kaye and oil paintings by Peter Scherrer.
Rachel Kaye creates environments that overwhelm. She layers Givenchy’s 2010 wedge high heel patterns and Missioni’s electric color combinations on top of casually posed snapshots in order to push pattern and optical effects beyond what the subject can withstand. Similar to Édouard Vuillard’s interiors of the 1890’s, Rachel’s drawings break down the image, disrupt the identity and fill the picture plane with information. Rachel Kaye received her BFA from California College of the Arts in San Francisco California; her work has been shown at numerous venues including Triple Base gallery in San Francisco and Gavlak Projects in Palm Beach, Florida. Rachel Kaye was born in San Jose, California and lives in San Francisco, California and SEASON is honored to present her first show in the Pacific Northwest.
Rachel Kaye, Untitled (Number 6) 2011, colored pencil on paper, 12 x 9 inches.
Peter Scherrer’s world is equally over-filled with information. Peter’s dark, cold paintings of “The North” present locations that are familiar but mysterious. A landscape painting of his backyard becomes an entanglement of objects and grasses, all seemingly lit by an omnipresent moon. The jaggy brushwork intersects our ability to enter the image while creating a net that comfortably holds us while we view. Peter Scherrer received his BFA from California College of the Arts in San Francisco, California. Peter was born in Mount Vernon, Washington and lives in Bellingham, Washington; his work has been shown at numerous galleries in California and SEASON is honored to present his first show in the Pacific Northwest.
Peter Scherrer, The Glow, 2010, oil on canvas, 10 x 12 inches