CANAN TOLON / ELEANOR COPPOLA December 10, 2022 - January 3, 2023 Canan Tolon Gallery Paule Anglim is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent paintings by Canan Tolon. In her Berkeley studio, Tolon's unique technique has developed: on canvas, oxidizing metal is trapped within the medium of paint. A selection of the resulting colorful, multi-paneled abstract paintings will serve to demonstrate the artist's visceral process. Tolon is known for inventive work in a variety of media, including sculptural installations. (She is also an architect with degrees from Germany, England and UC Berkeley, and has designed furniture.) Her approach with each material and discipline involves scrutinizing her materials and subjugating the raw elements to a test or metamorphosis. For example, to make drawings she uses a knife, manipulating oil paint over mylar sheets. Her sculpture, which can be kinetic, has employed rusting metal, sprouting grass seeds and mirrors. In her paintings she develops and shapes rust cultures, and transfers the patterns onto canvas. With regard to this process she explains: "Reactions initiate my work. These are discrete, almost visible reactions which could easily be overlooked if they were not provoked and created on the canvas. I use materials which react with each other, and as they do so, they leave the marks of their transformation" Aside from many presentations in this country, Canan Tolon's work has been exhibited in France and Turkey with frequent exhibitions at Galerie Nev in Istanbul and Ankara. The publication, Limbo, published in 1998 by Galerie Nev and available during the Gallery Paule Anglim show, features a fascinating interview by curator Constance Lewallen of the Berkeley Art Museum. Eleanor Coppola In this, her second exhibition at Gallery Paule Anglim, the artist will present 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. A reception for the artists will be held on Wednesday, December 10th from 5:30 to 7:30pm. PLEASE NOTE OUR HOLIDAY HOURS: Tuesday 12/23 - 11-4 Christmas Eve - Closed Christmas - Closed Friday 12/26 - Closed Saturday, 12/27 - 11-4 Closed Sunday, Monday Tuesday, 12/30- 11-4 New Years Eve - Closed New Years Day- Closed Friday, 1/2 - 11-4 Saturday, 1/3 - 10-5 Closed Sunday, Monday