Sarah Shepard Gallery is a hosting a “Breakfast with Artist” during SF Art Week (January 18-26, 2025). Hungarian-American, lens-based artist Dora Somosi will be at the Gallery to share remarks, provide an intimate gallery tour, and sign copies of her limited edition monograph, By Her Side, which features unique prints from her series of the same name, the focus of Sarah Shepard Gallery’s exhibition Understory, In Blue.
Understory, In Blue, is a solo exhibition of Somosi’s lens-based work, in collaboration with 3walls, a Brooklyn-based art advisory and pop-up gallery that seeks out local, emerging artists. The exhibition features a collection of cyanotypes produced from digital negatives captured at the homes and studios of influential female artists and thinkers, along with four unique hand-embroidered cyanotypes from Somosi’s Mending series. The prints present bewitching, blue trees, which act as surrogate subjects for the women who once reveled in their beauty. With the trees as witness to each respective woman’s greatness and creativity, Somosi’s cyanotypes transcribe, honor, and memorialize that fleeting and intimate testimony, becoming mnemonic devices of a great mind: a great woman. Somosi’s “photographic blueprints,” as she calls them—a literal and allegorical reference to color, ideology, and the technical trace of shape and space captured by a cyanotype—bear witness to the legacies of women such as Agnes Martin, Ana Mendieta, Anni Albers, Edith Heath, Emily Dickinson, Helen Frankenthaler, and Ruth Asawa. Through Somosi’s reverence for mark-making, careful seeing and thinking, and artistic process, Understory, In Blue offers a consequential veneration for the enormously important work and ideas pioneered by the women featured.
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