Monday, April 24, 2017

Opening Party | Priapus and Rain Fall | Jack Fischer Gallery

Max George Watrous-Schumaker

Cecilia Brunazzi and spouse

Craig Upson

David Rathod and Gaylord Burke

Amanda Jones

Dik Wilmes and Sally

Augusta Talbot

Gaylord Burke

Henrik Kam, Donna Anderson, Marc d'Estout

Raya Foreman and Isabel Allende

Michael Bartalos, Thorina Rose, Ward Schumaker

J Trautwein and friend

Delia and Agelio Batle, Julie Trachtenburg

Kate and Geir Jordhal

Kevin Causey

Lisa Goldschmid

Judith Gordon and Jack Fischer

Milton Moskowitz, Mary Etta Moose, Liz Moskowitz

Nina Katz and Lori Barra

Manny Schoengut

Peter Lewis and Matthew Schumaker

Nancy Russell

Nico Frias

Nina Katz, Ward Schumaker, Liz Moskowitz

Nora Pauwels

Peter Lewis, Matthew Schumaker, Isabel Allende

Kathryn Reasoner and Rene Yung

Rene Yung

Rob Heugel, Patricia Bruning, Lisa Goldschmid

Robert Morgan

Roger Cukras and Ward Schumaker

Rudy VanderLans

Zuzana Licko and John Parman

Sandra McHenry

Stephen Woodhall

Thèrese

Timothy Wicks

Ward Schumaker and Mary Etta Moose

Ward Schumaker, Ricardo Pinto, Vivienne Flesher

Dorothy Hunt Yule and Sandra McHenry

Rob Heugel and Vivienne Flesher

Thursday, April 20, 2017

Priapus and Rain Fall | Ward Schumaker at Jack Fischer Gallery

Ward Schumaker
priapus and rainfall

recent paintings
opening reception: Saturday, April 22, 4 - 6 p.m.
311 Potrero, San Francisco, CA.
April 22 - June 10, 2017

priapus and rainfall

I am brother and sister,
hunter and hunted,
always hard, forever soft,
rising steel, escaping breath:
one-two-three, one-two-three.

Outside it is raining.
I rise from my pillow, smash my head through the wall:
I will be one-hundred more people before I die!
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Other events: In July my work will appear in Luminous Animals, a group show curated by Nashville's Zeitgeist Gallery at Atlanta's Whitespace Gallery; opening party, 30 June. My hand-painted book, Respite | Markandeya, is on view at San Francisco's Legion of Honor thru 02 July. The show, entitled Letter and Image: Inspired Alphabets, includes work by Le Corbusier, Léger, Oldenburg, Goncharova, Kurt Schwitters and Russell Maret.

Thursday, March 23, 2017

Barbara Morris | art ltd.

Critic’s Picks:

San Francisco

By Barbara Morris

February 28, 2017

From “Throat Singing in Droghobycz,” 2016
A hand-painted book, Ward Schumaker
Page size 181⁄2″ x 121⁄2″, 56 pages + cover
Photo: courtesy Jack Fischer gallery

San Francisco-based Ward Schumaker—originally well-known for his illustration work for high-profile clients like The Washington Post and Hermès—quickly achieved notoriety for his unique mixed-media works combining acrylic paint and bookbinding paste. His well-received 2013 inaugural show at Jack Fischer’s Potrero street gallery featured remarkable artist’s books, providing an excuse for his passionate yet disciplined investigations in the properties and potentials of paint. For his upcoming show at Jack Fischer, Schumaker will include new books such as Throat Singing in Drohobycz (2016), inspired by Polish author Bruno Schulz’ The Street of Crocodiles. Other new works to be shown, on Stonehenge paper mounted on canvas, reveal an underpinning geometric structure: some comprised of sets of stacked circles, muscular whorls of paint, taking their inspiration from Brancusi’s Endless Column (1938), others using a grid or pyramid format comprised of squares, or circles, as well as occasional blocks of text. With a limited palette of black, white and red, augmented by glimpses of blue or green, the quality of intentionality of each brushstroke—and the care with which his seemingly random text blocks and blobs of paint are organized—assumes a primacy that is riveting. Ward Schumaker “Priapus and Rain Fall” at Jack Fischer Gallery, runs April 22 – June 10, 2017.

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