some recent work

 

 

Ink and gouache on wood.  20" x 16"

9" x 12" Gouache and ink on paper.

Dreams come from the land. Land rises from your dreams. 18" x 24" gouache, ink and glitter on paper.

13" x 10," gouache, pen and glitter on paper.

9" x12, ink, gouache and glitter on paper.

16" x 20" gouache and pen on wood.

20" x 16," gouache and pen on canvas.

14" x 11" gouache and pen on paper.

For the Winter Solstice. Pen and pencil on paper. 8.5 x 11." The palindromic text reads: "in girum imus nocte et consumimur igni."

detail:

16" x 20" gouache and pen on wood. "everything is nothing is everything"

8" x 10," gouache and pen on paper.

20" x 16" gouache, pen and pencil on canvas. Photo is not wonderful, but you get the idea.

8" x10" pen and gouache on paper.

20" x 20" gouache and pen on canvas.

20" x 20" gouache and pen on canvas. Goodbye to the last decade. Best wishes for a happy new year.

Gouache and Pen on Paper. 9" x 12."

20" x 20" gouache and pen on canvas.

14" x 18" Gouache and pen on canvas.

12" x 12" gouache and ink on canvas.


And check out my poem at

Alice Blue

Plastic Age diptych. Gouache and pen on wood. 20" x16," 20" x 16."


detail

detail

12" x 15" gouache and pen on paper.

"A self, every moment it exists, is in a process of becoming."
Søren Kierkegaard


11" x 14" Pen and gouache on paper.

11" x 14" Pen and gouache on paper.

14" x 11" Gouache and ink on paper.

Thanks to everyone who came to the opening at Lanesplitter.


After Magritte. 11" x 14," gouache and pen on paper.

17 PAINTINGS, some old some new, up now at

LANESPLITTER
4799 Telegraph Ave., Oakland, CA

RECEPTION MARCH 23RD, 7-10 PM





Statement for the show:

Brian Strang lives in East Oakland and teaches English composition at San Francisco State University and Merritt College. He is the author of INCRETION (Sputyen Duyvil) and MACHINATIONS (a free Duration ebook) and several chapbooks. His poems, reviews, essays and translations have appeared in many journals including New American Writing, Five Fingers Review, The Denver Quarterly and Ur-Vox. Recently, his poetry appeared in translation in the Portuguese journal DiVersos.

His paintings represent “an attempt to be guided visually and artistically by the imagination’s interaction with natural forms and nature itself: the perilous context, the most permeating materiality, the system of interrelated forces so complex, so enormous and so minute, so internal and external, that it extends far beyond the limitations of imagination and is, therefore, marvelous. Poetry is encoded within the forms of the world, within Whitman’s “spear of summer grass”—one only has to look closely to see it.”

This is his third solo show.

“Strang’s work... suggests a more romantic pleasure in and response to visual phenomena. [It] betrays a rhythmic sensibility not unlike that found in a sketch by Matisse.”
Garrett Caples
SF Bay Guardian 6/13/07

NEW SHOW UP AT LANESPLITTER BEGINNING NEXT WEEK!

Lanesplitter is a wonderful and hip pizza place (with good beer) at 4799 Telegraph in Oakland. This is actually the March show, but will be up beginning Feb 21st, and there will be a reception on March 23rd.

(detail)


(detail)

Sierra Triptych, Gouache and pen on paper, 11" x 14".

Less than a week left to see the show at Canessa. It ends on the 29th. Check it out if you haven't already:

Canessa Gallery
708 Montgomery (@Columbus)
SF, CA

M-F, 10-4


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A warm thank you to all who attended the opening! And to the musicians for filling the space with mysterious sounds!

The exhibit runs through 1/29. Stop by and check it out if you haven't yet.

Canessa Gallery
M-F, 10-4
708 Montgomery (at Columbus)

Gouache and pen on canvas (detail).

Sorry Nature
Current Poem/Paintings by Brian Strang

Jan. 4th through 29th

OPENING RECEPTION
Sunday January 4th
3pm-6pm

Canessa Gallery
708 Montgomery (@ Columbus)
San Francisco, CA 94111

Sorry Nature
Current Poem/Paintings by Brian Strang

Jan. 4th through 29th

OPENING RECEPTION
Sunday January 4th
3pm-6pm

Canessa Park Gallery
708 Montgomery (@ Columbus)
San Francisco, CA 94111