A recent arrival to Temescal, the Slate Gallery brings a refined
sensibility to the uninhibited creative ferment of the Oakland art
scene, and no wonder: Owner Danielle Fox worked at Sotheby’s in London
and runs an interior design firm as well as the gallery, which exhibits
paintings, prints, photographs, mixed-media works, and sculpture by
emerging and mid-career artists. Fox seeks “elegant work that balances
beauty and sensuality with a strong formal interest, clear sense of
focus, and restraint.” Past shows have featured Caroline Seckinger’s
deconstructions of traditional feminine roles in drawings, photographs,
prints, and sculpture, and Michele Hofherr’s Flora and Frost series of
dramatically lighted black-and-white floral photographs. The current
show, entitled Imaginary Landscapes, features Jessica Martin’s
painterly/collagistic paintings and her organism/machine sculptures;
both 2-D and 3-D works are syntheses of real and imagined elements and
other polarities, according to Martin: “nature and industry, past and
present, microscopic details and vast landscapes.”
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