Anelecia Hannah in Professional Artist Magazine

A wonderful article on Anelecia Hannah and her mentor Bo Bartlett:

Richard Ambrose at Hespe Gallery, Nov 3- 26!

Ambrose’s drawings of disparate images are interwoven as if reconstructing memories. He looks at the world with detached disengagement, seeing the details and sometimes getting trapped within the image. The black and white drawings are a reflection of his childhood in an industrial Pennsylvania town, looking out his bedroom window at the colorless scene before him. He looks on color as too decorative and therefore stays away from it. This allows the viewer to focus on the scene and the minute details. The construct of the panoramic images are also meant to enhance the viewers periphery; the scroll like quality allows Ambrose to depict multiple elements within a rhythmic spatial context, also allowing the viewer to experience the environment as if they were engrossed in it.

Ric Ambrose has spent twenty years in the museum world as a curator and director. He was an accomplished artist at the start of his career and after retiring from the museum world decided to pick up where he left off. Ambrose has shown extensively around the US, including museum exhibitions in Oregon, Montana, Colorado, Wyoming, North Dakota, Illinois, Georgia and North Carolina. His work is in many public collections, including AT & T, Beta West, Central Bank and Sohio Gas and Oil Company.

Melissa Hutton in Artbeat!

Check out this article on our current show by Melissa Hutton,
 http://sanfranciscoartbeat.com/2011/10/artist-melissa-hutton-you-can-never-go-back-at-hespe-gallery/

Melissa Hutton, October 4-29!

Hespe Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new mixed media works by Melissa Hutton. A reception for the artist will be held Thursday, October 6, 2011 from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. The exhibition will continue through October 29.

Melissa Hutton will have her second solo exhibition at the Hespe Gallery in October. Hutton’s work explores the complexity of the American landscape and psyche. Thematically her work touches on isolation, fear, destruction and ultimately resilience. Greed and waste are subjects that are also explored, the beauty of the long stretch of farmland, cut in half by desolate roads and ramshackle barns. Hutton’s use of resin is a deliberate choice; the glossy surface serves as a metaphor for the American cultural obsession with excess and opulence.

Cityscapes; featuring Patricia Chidlaw, Kim Cogan and Gus Heinze

Hespe Gallery will have a group exhibition featuring works that draw their inspiration from cities. The exhibition will run from September 1 through October 1, 2011.

Italian storyteller Italo Calvino once suggested that it was possible to build the perfect city piece by piece with “a brief glimpse, an opening in the midst of an incongruous landscape, a glint of light in the fog, and the dialogue of two passersby meeting in the crowd.” This September Hespe Gallery pieces together its own perfect city, constructed with works by Kim Cogan, Gus Heinze and Patricia Chidlaw. Each artist with their own vision of the myriad of shapes and forms a city can take; from Chidlaw’s colorful urban murals to Heinze’s crisp clean buildings and storefronts. What this collection hopes to achieve is the realization that sometimes it’s not the physical features of a city that are most important, but the impression that it imparts upon its visitors.

Summer Selection through the month of August at Hespe!

Please join us during the month of August for wonderful new works from Erin Cone, Glenn Ness, Kevin Moore, Eric Zener and Pablo D'Antoni.

You can view the work on our website by following this link: http://www.hespe.com/dynamic/exhibit_artist.asp?ExhibitID=166.

For further information and pricing please contact the gallery at 415-776-5918 or info@hespe.com. 

Lawrence Gipe in Art Ltd Magazine

Lawrence Gipe is featured in Art Ltd Magazine. Follow this link to view the article online!

http://www.artltdmag.com/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1309996974&archive&start_from&ucat=18&page=show