New Exhibition Opening Thursday, March 10 at Fort Mason

Tom Bolles, Katherine Westerhout
March 10 - April 21, 2011
Opening reception:
Thursday, March 10, 2011
5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Chris Planas will be playing red hot jazz licks at the Opening Reception.

Tom Bolles, Mad Boy, 2011
Inkjet print and acrylic on canvas
52 x 52 inches

Katherine Westerhout, Kings Park Building 93-III, 2004
Archival pigment print , 30 x 40 inches, Edition of 10

The SFMOMA Artists Gallery presents Katherine Westerhout and Tom Bolles in a exhibition that highlights each artist’s ability to manipulate atmospheric and implicit light. Tom Bolles’s longstanding interest in luminosity is reflected in his recent body of mixed-media paintings. A concept he first explored through neon sculpture, Bolles has created a glow in this body of work - without the aid of electricity - through careful juxtaposition of color and layering of material. 

Katherine Westerhout’s photographs capture the psychological resonance of long-abandoned industrial, institutional, and ecclesiastical spaces. Westerhout works with the camera in four- to six-hour sessions to produce one or two carefully chosen color images. Using only available light, she creates large-scale works depicting uninhabited spaces that hold visual clues of past lives.

Though divergent in media and subject matter, when viewed together the two artist’s works hold a dialogue about the emotive quality of color and light and create sensory experiences that transcend established preconceptions of subject matter and media.