Joan Brown /Jack Fulton August 3 - 27, 2005 Gallery Paule Anglim is pleased to announce an exhibition of works by the legendary artist Joan Brown. The gallery will present works on paper by Joan Brown completed in the 60's and 70's, featuring a series of drawings of her favored model Mary Julia. The artist costumed and posed Mary Julia and her models in staged settings implying a story line. These theatrical narratives treat her subjects as a female archetype cast in a puzzling, often comical play. In 1997 a retrospective exhibition, Transformation: The Art of Joan Brown was jointly assembled by the Berkeley Art Museum and the Oakland Museum, producing a comprehensive catalog of her work. Karen Tsujimoto, exhibition curator, wrote of Brown's use of models: "Dressing them up �and sometimes down- in jauntily patterned clothes and often situating them in fanciful scenarios with animals like aardvarks and rats, Brown created her own grown-up versions of paper dolls to suit her whimsical fantasies." Paintings by Joan Brown will be featured in the inaugural presentation of the new De Young Museum's permanent collection. Her works are represented in many public collections, including the MoMA and Whitney Museum in New York, The San Francisco MoMA and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Image above: Joan Brown, Mary Julia #37, 1976, Mixed media on paper, 36" x 24" Gallery Paule Anglim is pleased to announce an exhibition of photographic works by Jack Fulton. In Gallery II the artist will present a series of color digital prints entitled Homages. Printed on archival paper, these Giclee prints pay homage to events and principles that bridge Asian (Eastern) and European (Western) concepts. The colorful works were composed in the tradition of photomontage combining imagery from a Kabukiza theater calendar and Associated Press wire photos. The compositions, collaged and hand-colored in the 1970's, were completed and assembled as a suite of digital photos in the1990's. Jack Fulton has been an influential teacher, both through his innovative use of the medium and in his role as Chair of the Photography Department of the San Francisco Art Institute. As an artist and filmmaker, Fulton has received grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Paris Audiovisuel, Marin Arts Council, and is the recipient of the Belkin Wilderness Lectureship from the University of California, San Diego. His work has been exhibited internationally, including solo shows at the San Jose Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the M.H. de Young Museum of San Francisco; Encontros de Fotografia, Portugal; Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris; and the Institute of Contemporary Art, London. The opening reception will be held Thursday, August 4th from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Image above: Jack Fulton, Homage to Black Education 2004, inkjet print, 31 1/4" x 43 1/4"