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Oracle of DelphiAnna Von Mertens: Anna Von Mertens at Jack Hanley Gallery
August 7th 2006 23:46
I'm not into hororscopes and all that superstitious crap by any stretch of the imagination but I've come across Anna Von Mertens a San Fransisco artist who incorporates stellar constellations into her work in order to create some intriguing pieces. Here's some info about this original project which is exhibiting now.
Currently, the Jack Hanley Gallery in San Francisco is presenting a solo exhibition, titled 'As the Stars Go By', of the work of Anna Von Mertens who lives and works in the Bay Area. This body of work takes violent moments in Americaís history that have had a deep psychological impact and shows the star rotation pattern above these moments in time. The works have the proportions of a movie screen, representing historical events through the removed lens of observation, but in this format also revealing a literal vista, a window into a world. Events depicted include the Civil War Battle of Antietam, the single day in history in which the most Americans have died; the hour between the shot that killed him and the time Martin Luther King Jr. was pronounced dead on April 4, 1968; and the first sighting of land by Christopher Columbus off the coast of the Bahamas.
Absolutearts.com describes the exhibition as follows: "The work is intended to act on many levels: as a memorial, as actual celestial landscapes viewed from specific moments in history, as a study of astrological forces. But ultimately these works simply document a natural cycle that is oblivious and impassive to the violence below."
In 2005, Von Mertens's work was included in the Bay Area Now 4 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. She has also shown work at Bard College in New York, the Pasadena Museum of California Art, the Berkeley Art Museum, Mills College Art Museum, Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery in Los Angeles, and Gallery Paule Anglim and Southern Exposure both in San Francisco. She has also participated in numerous residencies including those at the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire, the San Francisco Arts Education Project and at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California. Von Mertens received an MFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts, in 2000.
Visit the exhibition page here at Jack Hanley Gallery San Fransisco.
Currently, the Jack Hanley Gallery in San Francisco is presenting a solo exhibition, titled 'As the Stars Go By', of the work of Anna Von Mertens who lives and works in the Bay Area. This body of work takes violent moments in Americaís history that have had a deep psychological impact and shows the star rotation pattern above these moments in time. The works have the proportions of a movie screen, representing historical events through the removed lens of observation, but in this format also revealing a literal vista, a window into a world. Events depicted include the Civil War Battle of Antietam, the single day in history in which the most Americans have died; the hour between the shot that killed him and the time Martin Luther King Jr. was pronounced dead on April 4, 1968; and the first sighting of land by Christopher Columbus off the coast of the Bahamas.
Absolutearts.com describes the exhibition as follows: "The work is intended to act on many levels: as a memorial, as actual celestial landscapes viewed from specific moments in history, as a study of astrological forces. But ultimately these works simply document a natural cycle that is oblivious and impassive to the violence below."
In 2005, Von Mertens's work was included in the Bay Area Now 4 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. She has also shown work at Bard College in New York, the Pasadena Museum of California Art, the Berkeley Art Museum, Mills College Art Museum, Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery in Los Angeles, and Gallery Paule Anglim and Southern Exposure both in San Francisco. She has also participated in numerous residencies including those at the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire, the San Francisco Arts Education Project and at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California. Von Mertens received an MFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts, in 2000.
Visit the exhibition page here at Jack Hanley Gallery San Fransisco.
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