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Beyond

Presented by Art Works Downtown and 2nd Friday Art Walk at Art Works Downtown, San Rafael CA

Aug 04 2023

Sep 16 2023

Beyond Tree of Life by Clark Heist, digital pigment print, 60" x 40" x 2"

Take viewers beyond their present state of mind or offer visions of realities beyond day-to-day life

Receptions & 2nd Friday Art Walk
* Friday, August 11, 5:00 – 8:00pm
* Friday, September 8, 5:00 – 8:00pm

Exhibition Dates:
* August 4 – September 16

Gallery 1337

Beyond

What conscious experience might exist beyond our common reality? Art Works Downtown presents a visual art exhibit exploring, answering, and enjoying this question. Beyond showcases work by Bay Area artists, which take the viewer beyond their present state of mind or offer visions of realities beyond our day-to-day life.

Exhibiting Artists
Heather Austin-Weir, Marijean Brush, Gail Caulfield, Yuan Chen, Laura Corallo-Titus, Ian Day, Joeann Edmonds-Matthew, Virginia Fauvre, Sam Fleeger, Alex Friedman, Janey Fritsche, Wendy Goldberg, Josie Grant, Douglas Heine, Clark Heist, Cynthia Jensen, Eric Kelly, Marie Krajan, Patricia Leeds, Carol Levy, Dottie Lo Bue, Sanda Manuila, Gloria Matuszewski, Gail Morrison, Kathy Pallie, Roz Ritter, Maryann Steinert-Foley, Mira White, Kathryn Wills, Arlene Wohl

Juror
Donna Seager, owner, director, Seager Gray Gallery, www.seagergray.com

Juror Statement:
“Seeing Beyond is a broad topic as artists explore both external and internal realities. Cosmic landscapes, Illuminated memories, endangered species, blurred faces and biomorphic shapes are just some of the entries – seemingly disparate but all reaching somewhere beyond common experience.

“With a mind toward works that reach beyond simple depiction of everyday life, I endeavored to choose works that showed some mastery of media in addition to engaging content for the viewer to consider.”
– Donna Seager

Juror Statement:
“In my selections for this exhibit I used the following guidelines: The artist’s ambition, that they made a serious attempt to create a work of substance. That the artist exhibited a suitable rigor of craftmanship.

I was also looking for examples that began with a creative idea to express the theme of this show and was more than a simple depiction. I also was mindful of selecting as much diversity of media as the limits of selection and works submitted would allow.” – Kim Eagles-Smith