Show Opening: Paintings Depict Shipping Containers | SoMa

Submitted by the Event Organizer

Have you ever romanticized those large shipping containers, coming in to the bay from months out across the Pacific Ocean or through the Panama Canal? This is an art show inspired by those ships.

Arc Studios & Gallery is hosting a reception for Panamax: The Industrial Image – new paintings by San Francisco artists Mike Kimball and Eric Rewitzer. As usual with these things, wine will be served.

Kimball and Rewitzer share an interest in the depiction of the urban and industrial landscape. Their new, large-scale works merge to create Panamax – a show named for the size limits for ships traveling through the Panama Canal. The works presented evoke for the viewer exotic, faraway ports of call and the gritty workaday environments of roustabouts and longshoremen.

Mike Kimball: Best known for his paintings and prints of urban landscapes that seem to inhabit the worlds of both representation and abstraction simultaneously. The subjects of his artwork have been the urban environments of San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Tokyo, and Osaka.

Eric Rewitzer: He finds constant inspiration in the scale and diversity of the California culture and landscape. Since 1997, he has been painting the streets, skies, and waters of San Francisco, drawn by the City’s vital mix of natural beauty and urban grit.

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