ANNE APPLEBY / TOMAS NAKADA September 8 - October 2, 2023 Gallery Paule Anglim is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings by Anne Appleby. Painted in her Montana studio, this group of works focuses on a garden environment. In past bodies of work Appleby has consistently pursued her investigation of nature, deconstructing the condition of metamorphosis, using layers of color to speak for the gentle changes in the transition of time. This time her new paintings are a study on domesticated plants and the humanistic environment of a tended garden. Featuring both large-scale canvases and smaller multi-paneled paintings on wood, Appleby's show will recreate the seasonal evolution of an urban oasis. Appleby's multi-paneled encaustic paintings communicate first through the formal language of color-field abstraction. Taking the viewer beyond this initial reference, the artist transforms what at a glance appear to be monochromatic panels, revealing subtly enlivened surfaces with luminous layers of mutable color. Each panel has been built up through many patient applications of varied translucent tones. For her work Anne Appleby has received many honors, including the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Award, the SFMoMA SECA Art Award and an award from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Her works are represented in the collections of SFMOMA, the DeYoung Museum, the Berkeley Art Museum and the San Jose Museum of Art. She currently lives and works in Montana. Image above: Anne Appleby, Wisteria, 2004, 56" x 37" overall. Gallery Paule Anglim is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works on paper by Tomas Nakada. In Gallery II, Nakada will present paintings on paper created while at an artist residency program in New England. Pigmented oil and acrylic media are combined with rich black asphaltum in fluid painterly compositions. As the asphaltum does not dilute or combine with the paints, its black markings give the works a graphic strength. Earlier paintings and monotypes by the artist took inspiration and, in some cases, their subject matter from science and nature. Muted outlines and dark sepia shapes echoed images of body fluids, skin markings and chromosomes. The artists practice has since brought his work into a refined and purely abstract form; there is no longer a context of representation of known objects. His confidence and experience seems to have led his images to stand apart from natural references. Tomas Nakada has exhibited at Gallery Paule Anglim for over ten years and had solo exhibitions at the Newport Harbor Art Museum (now Orange County Museum) and at the Richmond Art Center, both in California. He has both a M.F.A. and a B.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute. Image above right: Tomas Nakada, Beneath the Surface , 2004. Oil, acrylic, asphaltum on paper, 30" x 22" The opening reception will be held on Thursday, September 9th from 5:30 to 7:30pm.