WaterWorks July 7, 2012

Opening reception July 7th, 7-9PM, exhibit July 7-28, 2012

Few subjects in art history have been portrayed more frequently than water. From primitive cave drawings to the water wall in Bill Viola's "Ocean Without a Shore" video, water has captured the artistic imagination.

"WaterWorks," a Bay Area Photographers Collective exhibition represents water in multiple forms (fountains, oceans, rivers, puddles, pools) and many moods (from abstract, elusive, moody, mesmerizing, and transcendent, to literal and quotidian.)

It is not difficult to understand the artist's attraction. Water is beautiful, awe-inspiring, universal, mesmerizing, mutable, life giving and life sustaining, a source of recreation and pleasure, a luxury and a scarce and sacred resource. Our affinity to water is visual, sensual and tactile. And it is also essential. Our blood is chemically similar to seawater. Our bodies, like the surface of the planet, are both about sixty-five percent water. And our life form originated in water. We wonder how the meanings we find in these water images resonate with our eternal longing to return to our original habitat - the sea.

FEATURED ARTISTS: Jack Androvich, Henry Bowles, Adrienne Defendi, Anthony Delgado, Malcolm Easton, Linda Fitch, Ingeborg Gerdes, Steve Goldband, Ralf Hillebrand, Irene Imfeld, Ellen Konar , Barbara Kyne, Eric Larson, Thomas Lavin, Erin Malone, John Martin, Charlotte Niel , Heather Polley, Ari Salomon, Kirk Thompson, & Gary Weiner

JUROR: Ed Carey

Arc supports the making of quality art in all media, provides a nurturing environment for artists to create their work, builds a community of artists to encourage exploration of art, provides resources for the professional development of visual artists, and promotes appreciation of the visual arts in the city of San Francisco.

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