‘Sailors and Sparkles’ Painting Exhibit | SF

Submitted by the Event Organizer

Lifelong friends Matt Pipes and Tracy Fetter explore similar paths with their artwork. Although their subject matter and techniques differ, each seeks an emotional connection to their subjects that fuels further creative explorations in color and technique.

Matt Pipes’ ‘Friday Harbor’ series, named so because all but two pieces were created on a Friday afternoon, is a celebration of sailors’ contribution to forming a vibrant thread in the diverse tapestry of the Bay Area’s gay culture. This series in an homage to the ‘Blue Discharges’, the 9000 gay and lesbian service people discharged in SF between 1941 – 1945 who paved the way for gay migration in the 50’s, 60’s, and 70’s.

Tracy Fetter’s ongoing series of semi-abstract floral motif paintings serve dual purposes, one aesthetic and one personal. As an object to be viewed for pleasure, each piece offers saturated jewel tones combined with metallic glimmer in order to catch light as well as your attention. As the names suggest, however, the works also play a functional role for the artist. Each piece is given the name of a person the artist has recently met. Through this naming convention the work becomes a memory device for the artist. Also a benefit for each piece is the personalization that a proper name provides – associations to color and composition within a painting to the personality traits of similarly named people familiar to the viewer are a natural consequence of considering what’s in a name absent of suggestive figurative cues.

6/10 – 8/19/15
Reception: Thurs Jun 18 6 – 8pm

Hotel Triton
342 Grant Ave, SF

Presented by McKinley Art Solutions

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