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Matthew F Fisher’s stylized landscapes evoke comparison to the Chicago Imagists while occupying a position in the space between the universal and the subjective. Fisher’s motifs, surreal, and almost exclusively by the sea, evoke an existential impulse. On his super flat canvases, waves rise up, playfully suspended at their most animated state, just before they crash into oblivion. The sun and the moon hang low in Fisher’s skies, rising, setting and reflecting off the water in shimmering detail. There is a subtle humor in these paintings, rendered in his free yet deliberate visual vocabulary, but there is also a quietude and a spiritual depth. This dynamic reminds us of the balance between our realities and our ideals, and that it is not always easy to tell which is which. . . These works are part of a group exhibition at Johansson Projects now open for viewing . . Act and Pass 2020 Acrylic on canvas 8" x 10" . . The Small Hours 2020 Acrylic on canvas 8" x 10" . . #MatthewFFisher #JohanssonProjects #SFArtsweek #8bridges #sfartdealers (at Johansson Projects) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKbWL_fl0Ih/?igshid=pezx5agp2u23

Meticulous and often monumental, Blaise Rosenthal’s paintings command a formal vernacular in the service of gesture and expressivity. This vocabulary is derived from invention and a sensitivity to landscape and the emotional experience of isolation and yearning. Given time, the subtleties redolent in Rosenthal’s monochromatic works provide similar discoveries to those realized when viewing majestic environments, such as the perspective from the artist’s childhood home at the foot of the Sierra Nevada. Also on view are several very recent works that stray, delightfully, into an approach that is at the same time playful and refined. Using sewing, and disparate aesthetic sections, this series, titled composites, employs contrast to achieve a whole that is truly greater than the sum of its parts. . . These works are part of a group exhibition @johanssonprojects that opens this Sat from 12-5pm with safe and staggered entry . . #blaiserosenthal #johanssonprojects #sfartsweek #8bridges (at Johansson Projects) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKSEIcvF7i5/?igshid=1is9pww7h9c16