Anne Appleby / Miguel Branco April 3 - April 27, 2023 Anne Appleby Gallery Paule Anglim is pleased to exhibit an installation of new paintings by Anne Appleby. Anne Appleby will present a new suite of paintings inspired by temporal changes of light and atmosphere. These paintings draw from the experience of looking out or up, into or through varied conditions of the sky. The artist will show five horizontal, single-panel paintings. These works will address changes in the sky affected by the location of the viewer, the eye's direction and the positions of the sun (or moon). The scale and proportion of these atmospheric paintings will play off a single vertical painting that is intended to anchor the viewer's experience of the entire group. Appleby's encaustic paintings appear at first to be monochromatic panels. In fact, each panel consists of many layers of varied translucent colors. Her luminescent surfaces capture the fleeting changes that are part of passing time. Anne Appleby was a recipient of the SFMOMA SECA Art Award in 1996. A traveling exhibition of her paintings will be touring the Yellowstone Art Museum in Billings, Montana, the Boise Art Museum in Idaho and the Norah Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at Utah State University in Logan. She currently lives and works in Montana. Please join us for a reception for the artist at Gallery Paule Anglim on Thursday, April 4th from 5:30 to 7:30pm. Miguel Branco Gallery Paule Anglim is pleased to exhibit an installation of new works by the Portuguese painter Miguel Branco. Miguel Branco's recent works are very small paintings featuring a single figure placed in front of stage-like scenery. The rendering of each figure emerges from the artist's unique blend of history and innovation. Subtly recalling compositions or poses, even the palette or manner of classic forebears Goya, and French pre-Revolutionary painters Watteau, Boucher and Fragonard, his miniature paintings have a theatrical presence. The artist leaves out specific features, offering instead unexpected clues of time and setting, introducing us to a cast of characters imitating puppets, clowns, skeletons or creatures from outer space. Branco leaves the viewer with an evocation of the melancholy and dignity of portraiture. Miguel Branco has recently exhibited at Farideh Cadot, Paris and P.P.O.W. in New York. He participated in the 2001 exhibition, Situation Zero, Recent Art from Portugal, at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. The artist lives and works in Lisbon. Please join us for a reception for the artist at Gallery Paule Anglim on Thursday, April 4th from 5:30 to 7:30pm.