Jane Hambleton "Above, Below & What Falls Between" at Michael Rosenthal Gallery

365 Valencia street, San Francisco (View Map), 415.552.1010
Sep 12 - Oct 24, 2009

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San Francisco, CA - Opening this upcoming September 12, 2009 Michael Rosenthal Gallery will present the work of Berkeley-based artist Jane Hambleton.  Showcasing a new series of subtly rendered aquatic paintings, Hambleton's meticulous graphite, acrylic and oil work, combined with subject matter culled from collage studies, old photographs and vintage Red Cross water safety manuals, harkens back to another era's bygone 'dog days' of summer.

Notes gallery owner Michael Rosenthal, "Jane has an amazing ability to create work that resonates with a broad scope of people in a very significant way. There's a humanity to her work that people are drawn to, a shared consciousness in a Jungian sense, that she taps into."  Featuring seven large-scale works and a multi-panel installation, Above, Below & What Falls Between is Hambleton's first solo exhibit since her debut solo show at Rosenthal's Silicon Valley-based gallery in 2007. 

Working in a converted garage that can easily be described as an urban zen studio, and surrounded by a palpable poetic energy, Hambleton's creative focus centers on concepts of life and life-saving by juxtaposing polarities within her artistic tools and techniques, as well as her visual narratives, resulting in a meditative state that is readily apparent within the works. Reflecting on her new series, Hambleton comments, "I've shifted formal and narrative focus using water - and its physical qualities of depth, fluidity, and transparency - as a metaphor for existential states. The surface of water is a liminal plane, a threshold between the known and unknown world, and the mystery lying unseen in the depths below."