Artists In Conversation: Emilia Burchiellaro
Emilia Burchiellaro shares the methods and inspirations behind her works created for the exhibition BONE BLACK at DZINE Gallery.
About this Event
Please join DZINE Gallery for the opening of Bone Black, a group exhibition featuring top San Francisco Bay Area artists with works of art in various media that explore the intersection between logic, geometry and instinct, and the direct engagement of the ineffable. Bone Black is a winter exhibition; the overarching theme is directly related to this season: long nights, bare branches viewed in thin light, things stripped to their elements.
The title of the exhibition, Bone Black, takes its name from a pigment produced over 30,000 years ago in the Franco-Cantabrian region which was used in Paleolithic cave paintings such as at Lascaux. This pigment has been used by artists in a lineage that encompasses the history of art in the Western tradition: artists such as Raphael, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Manet and Richard Serra have all used bone black in their works of art. Rich in contradictory meanings and associations, black is alternately associated with death, the clergy, revolutionaries and the subversive. And yet, for some artists, black is the ultimate neutral element, a “non-color” stripped of meaning to become a vehicle to "hold space." Bone black in this context becomes what is unspoken, and what is understood intuitively.
The exhibition looks back to prehistory to explore this Paleolithic mind; a pre-Aristotelian viewpoint in which things are experienced for the first time; a synthesis of the natural world and the esoteric; the transcendent moment in the totality of the eclipse; where dance communicates oral histories and a communion with the divine.
Exhibiting artists include: Emilia Burchiellaro, Diane DallasKidd, Kelly DeFayette, Paule Dubois Dupuis, Austin Forbord, Karyn Gabriel, Laura Hapka, Jeanne Hauser, Victoria Mara Heilweil, Howard Hersh, Scott Idleman, Ekaterina Izmestieva, Gina Jacupke, Michele King, Sasinun Kladpetch, Geneviève L'Heureux, Paige Loczi, Heidi McDowell, Catherine Mackey, Lian Ng, Jenny Phillips, Carrie Ann Plank, Silvia Poloto, Lucky Rapp, Georgina Reskala, Liza Riddle, Nikki Vismara & Victoria Welling. San Francisco's Margaret Jenkins Dance Company will perform excerpts from their current season throughout the evening.
The opening night party celebrating Bone Black is on Friday, November 8, 2019 from 6-9pm at DZINE Gallery and is free and open to the public. Prosecco and hors d'oeuvres will be served.
DZINE Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Cracking Nutshells, a group exhibition exploring themes of construction and deconstruction in various media. Curated by Philip Bewley, the exhibition features work by 32 San Francisco Bay Area artists, with a number of commissioned works created exclusively for the show, including large-scale installations and more intimate works. The works of art in Cracking Nutshells are concerned with form, geometry and information systems; the subversion of worlds turned upside-down; questioning where construction and deconstruction meet; and examining the process of creating art itself.
Combined with this group show is the solo exhibition Mimi Herbert: My Country. Acclaimed artist and sculptor Mimi Herbert presents a new series of silkscreened acrylic-formed flag sculptures created especially for this exhibition. Herbert has reinterpreted the imagery of the American flag and others by selectively changing colors and symbols and reforming them into shapes and folds that create new meaning, formal beauty and is a celebration of and a call to action for peace, inclusion and tolerance.
During the opening night reception, San Francisco’s award-winning Opera Parallèle will perform throughout the evening, inaugurating the company’s six-month residency at DZINE. Choreographer Amy Seiwert of the Sacramento Ballet will collaborate with Opera Parallèle to provide an accompanying dance to the musical performance. Pop-up dance performances by RAWdance and project agora & Shared Space will also take place throughout the gallery during the evening.
DZINE Gallery welcomes Dana Harel as our artisan “maker” in residence, who will be presenting a new series of unique plaster deconstructed vessels as well as porcelain vases.
Exhibiting artists in Cracking Nutshells: Emilia Burchiellaro, Ronald Chase, Diane Tate DallasKidd, Paule Dubois Dupuis, Austin Forbord, Laura Hapka, Dana Harel, Jeanne Hauser, Howard Hersh, Scott Idleman, Gina Jacupke, Nina Katz, Sasinun Kladpetch, Barbara Bryn Klare, Yoko Kubricky, Sharon Kyle Kuhn, Ellen Markoff, Adia Millett, Leslie Morgan, Sherry Parker, Lauren Parks, Jenny Phillips, Carrie Ann Plank, Silvia Poloto, Lucky Rapp, Rachelle Reichert, Georgina Reskala, Kenneth Sloan, Gioi Tran, Nikki Vismara, Victoria Welling and Quinn Wharton
BURNING BRIGHT: Opening Reception
DZINE Gallery is pleased to present the group exhibition, BURNING BRIGHT, with an opening night reception on April 28. Curated by Philip Bewley, the exhibition is a result of recent conversations with local artists who are refocusing their practice in a time of political upheaval. The work produced for this show reflects their process of looking inward and expressing their own personal, spiritual and political voices.
As part of the six-month exhibition, we will also feature a collection of new ceramic work by Emilia Burchiellaro of Kobu Design, specially commissioned for the show. During the opening night reception, the award winning San Francisco contemporary ballet company, Imagery, will premiere a site-specific performance by choreographer Amy Seiwert, inaugurating the company’s six-month residency at DZINE.
Combined with this show is a solo exhibition: Carrie Ann Plank: Vinculum. Master printmaker and multi-disciplinary artist Carrie Ann Plank presents new works in various media including monoprints, work on panel and resin, works on panel and encaustic, and glass casting. Plank investigates linkages between informational patterns and systems found in astronomical phenomena, wave patterns, and patterns in the body.
Participating artists: Renée DeCarlo, Austin Forbord, Stuart Gilchrist, Jeanne Hauser, Mimi Herbert, Gina Jacupke, Marta Johansen, Sharon Kyle Kuhn, Adia Millett, Lian Ng, Lauren Parks, Carrie Ann Plank, Lucky Rapp, David Reposar, Jane Shircliff, Christopher Stark, Candace Thatcher, Jessie Thatcher, Mado Todd-Morel, Gioi Tran, Matthew MacCaul Turner, Nikki Vismara and Victoria Welling.
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