Rena Bransten Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of Diane Andrews Hall’s exquisite seascapes. Installed in our small gallery, these ocean paintings are both grandiose and intimate, offering peaceful respite and quiet grandeur.
A fascination with time and movement is present in Hall’s work. She arrests moments, preserving them with a meticulous hand, adding layer upon layer or paint with careful smoothing in between. She has a keen ability to find shape in light, and a clear captivation with the complex nature of being.
Proximity to the coast is a source of comfort and pride for many Northern Californians, even as the very real threat of rising water levels looms. Through Hall’s work we are reminded of our smallness in the world, but also our potential for harm and our responsibility to preserve the natural world.
“Going to the ocean always has been a powerful experience for me. Its formidable vastness is humbling and it releases me from my self and lifts me into the present. The wind, the air, the smells, the water, the light are all exhilarating. The paintings represent that memory.” -Diane Andrews Hall
Diane Andrews Hall received her MFA in 1969 from the Hoffberger School of Painting at the Maryland Institute in Baltimore where she studied with Grace Hartigan. She was a founding member, along with husband Doug Hall and Jody Procter, of the San Francisco based multi-media art collective T.R. Uthco, active during the 1970s. In the late 1970s a desire to reconnect with the materiality of art making urged her back to painting and drawing, which she has continued ever since. Her work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions both nationally and internationally over the last several decades at institutions including the Berkeley Art Museum, CA; de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA; Capp Street Project, San Francisco, CA; Russian Museum, Leningrad, U.S.S.R; MOCA, Los Angeles, CA; J Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA. Her work is held in numerous private and public collections. She currently lives and works in San Francisco.
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