2 - Micaela Gallery, FELDMAN | OTTO | STEINER

For Immediate Release
Contact: info@micaela.com
415.551.8118
Micaela Gallery
49 Geary Street, No. 234
San Francisco, CA 94108

FELDMAN | OTTO | STEINER
Opening Reception September 2 | Exhibition through October 30

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA - 17 August 2010 (for immediate release): MICAËLA GALLERY presents the work of three talented artists; Bella Feldman, Nancy Otto, and Monika Steiner.

The gallery offers a brief survey of the remarkable career of Bella Feldman.

Since the early 70's, Feldman made extraordinary objects that continue to draw the viewer's attention by their appearance - their mass, material, and balance. The presence of her work immediately elicits a physical response. Her sculptures are beautiful, while they contain elements of threat and of irony, they are playful and provocative. They are what critic Harold Rosenberg aptly called "anxious objects."

Nancy Otto offers an intimate installation of sculpture and sound that presents the viewer with a contemporary window of her personal reality. Enthralled by her soft voice and pretty colors, we feel, at first, like welcomed friends, then voyeurs, and then friends again. Her use of glass and choices of color and form exploit structural boundaries, generating strength and quiet tension for her fragile work, providing a captivating structure for her ideas.

The rich oil paintings of Monika Steiner investigate subtle relationships between perception and material reality. Her paintings are hypnotically meditative by virtue of her use of color, shape, and multiple layers. Using ideas of surface and dissolving shapes, she creates a metaphor for the cycle of appearances arising from, then, returning to a state of pure potential.

You are cordially invited to meet the artists at the opening reception on Thursday, September 2 from 5 to 7.30 pm.

Image credits:
Above, left: Bella Feldman, Navigators, 1995, wood and steel, 72 x 108 x 24 inches.
Above, center: Nancy Otto, Influence, 2010, blown glass, installation, dimensions variable.
Above, right: Monika Steiner, Essence, 2010, oil on canvas, 48 x 68 inches.

About:
Micaëla Gallery is located at 49 Geary Street, No. 234, San Francisco, CA. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11 am to 6 pm, and by appointment. The closest BART|MUNI stop is at Montgomery Station. Public parking is available at the Sutter Stockton Garage and the Union Square Garage.