Untitled (23.07), 2003
Watercolor, olive branch on paper
50” x 38”
In her second exhibition at Gallery Paule Anglim, Eleanor Coppola presented wall sculptures that bring viewers into a new experience of drawing, where perceived lines could be drawn lines, the lines of 3-dimensional wood branches, or the shadows of the attached branches. The complete “drawing” is a composition of the three experiences, a delicate disorientation that floats between the wall and one’s eye.
Coppola has used natural images and materials in sculpture, photography and drawings in earlier works. Wool, felt, straw, sticks and paper have been the basis for artworks that eloquently refer to cycles and movement in nature. The artist pares down elements of landscape into compositions that increase our awareness and sensory perception of nature beyond the expectations of landscape genre.
EDUCATION
1960 Bachelor of Arts, University of California, Los Angeles
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Walter McBEan Gallery, San Francisoc Art Institute
Hank Baum Gallery An Francisco
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
Walnut Creek Art Center, Walnut Creek, CA
University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
SITE SPECIFIC: Collaborative events with Lynn Hershman
Dante Hotel , San Francisco, CA
2307 Broadway, San Francisco,CA
Edinburgh Arts Festival
AWARDS
1992
Emmy, Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, for Outstanding Individual Acheivemnet- Directing, Hearts of Darkness; A Director’s Apocolypse
PUBLICATIONS
Notes on the Making of Apocolypse Now, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1976. Reissued by Limelight Editions 1991; Faber and Faber 1995.
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