Robert Bechtle / John Meyer October 2 - November 2, 2022 Robert Bechtle Gallery Paule Anglim is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Robert Bechtle. Completed over the last few years, these drawings demonstrate Bechtle's masterful preoccupation with the effects of light. His representation of the Bay Area Urban and suburban landscape plays with the light, shadows and surfaces of ordinary streets, cars and houses. In this series the artist features night scenes drawn on dark paper with both light and dark pencils. The images are painstakingly controlled by the artist with a quiet psychology. One of the pioneers of photo-realism, Robert Bechtle's work will soon be presented in a retrospective exhibition organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Robert Bechtle's work has been exhibited internationally and is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney and the Guggenheim Museums in New York, as well as the Walker Art Center, the Smithsonian Institution and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. A reception for the artist will be held Thursday, October 3rd from 5:30- 7:30 p.m. at Gallery Paule Anglim. John Meyer Gallery Paule Anglim is pleased to announce an exhibition commemorating the painter John Meyer. (1943-2002). The gallery will present paintings completed by the artist before his unexpected death earlier this summer. Three paintings representing ancient formulae for the primary colors, red, yellow and blue are the focus of this show. Meyer's paintings are pure experiences of surface and light. His favorite technique became a mixture of tempera and oil, a formula developed from his own experience and exacting research into practices of centuries of painting. " The basic idea that I am putting forward is that painting is a color experience and that it's a primary process with no literary equivalent." Meyer made this statement on the occasion of his San Francisco Museum of Modern Art SECA Art Award show in 1990. His work continued in this spirit and with dedication, emphasizing the history of the craft of painting through his use of tempera and through his choice and preparation of the finest quality wood supports. Like their ancestors, harkening back through the Renaissance to the earliest records of painting, Meyer's paintings are beautiful objects meant to breathe, respond to and endure the changes of time. A reception for the opening of this exhibition will be held Tuesday, October 3, 5:30-7:30 p.m. at Gallery Paule Anglim.