VENN
Barbara Stauffacher Solomon – Jonathan Runcio
Opening Friday, March 4, 4 - 6 pm
Sat March 5 – Sun March 6, 2 - 5 pm
1599fdT is super excited to announce the opening of VENN, an exhibition of works by Barbara Stauffacher Solomon and Jonathan Runcio.
Venn diagrams are, at a basic level, simple pictorial representations of the relationship that exists between sets of singularities. VENN focuses on the conjunctive force on the diagram–– the artists. Singularities (disciplines) change and blur when they conjoin. Conjunction is becoming other. As love changes the lovers, the artists at VENN transform the very disciplines that informed their practices, giving rise, with their work, to the emergence of a previously inexistent meaning.
About the artists
Barbara Stauffacher Solomon is a legendary San Francisco-based artist, graphic and landscape designer, and writer best known for pioneering Supergraphics in 1966 at The Sea Ranch in Northern California. Solomon's iconic style of mixing Swiss Modernism with the radical spring of groovy California spearheaded a fresh, new look that came to be called California Cool–– an important moment in the history of graphic design, architecture, and the arts.
Now in her 90s and More than 60 years after starting her career, Solomon is still producing work and writing books, turning her attention to smaller works, and creating pieces that tell not just one story but many.
Her upcoming solo exhibition EXITS EXIST at The Graham Foundation in Chicago, opens February 25 through July 09, 2022.
Jonathan Runcio is a Bay Area-based artist, curator, and founder of CAPITAL gallery in San Francisco. Solo exhibitions include SQUARE BIZ, Brittany, Vallejo; GLASS IN THE GARDEN, Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Blue Turns To Grey, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA. His work has been included in group exhibitions at Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA; Romer Young Gallery. San Francisco, CA; XYZ Collective, Tokyo, Japan; Saint Mary's College Museum Of Art. Moraga, CA; Walter and McBean Galleries, SFAI, San Francisco, CA; Cue Arts Foundation, New York City, NY; Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, California. In 2011 he was the recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation M.F.A. Grant.
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