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- 10 - 19
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- $50k - $60k
The gallery will celebrate its first opening in our new space at 39 Grant Avenue, at 5p on Th 23 Jan, with the opening of Tree Fort: The Enduring Memory of Safe Space, an exhibition of abstract paintings by San Francisco artist Ronnie Genotti.
Where we hid and played as children, our adult psyches still take shelter.
In this exhibition, Ronnie Genotti continues his exploration of the early memories that inform who we become as adults, as well as the safe spaces – the makeshift forts, treehouses, and clubs – that we constructed as children, and to which we sometimes return in our imagination.
This is Genotti’s second solo exhibition at Wessling Contemporary, and showcases his signature energetic brushwork and explorative palette. The swirling, near-Pointillist style of the paintings dovetails with the fragmented composition of our recollections, evoking that sense of safety and wonder we experienced in our childhood safe spaces while also capturing the mourning we sometimes feel for the loss of those spaces, at least in the physical sense, to the passage of time.
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With an energetic application of paint, I try to capture raw expressions of what I have seen and felt, experiences that are stones in our souls and have come to shape our lives. Experiences that are confused by memory yet still glue us to points in our past. My hope is to get them out into the world, pin them like butterflies to a board, so that we can examine them on our own terms and no longer on theirs.
My goal is not for the viewer to understand the references behind a particular piece (what it’s “about”) but rather I hope they’ll grok, wholly and deeply, the emotional landscape of the images to apply to their own imperfect existences.
Although the subject matter may be based on internal reference points, experience is secondary to the decisions I make when constructing the image: choices of color, line, volume, and application. That is to say, the relationship among artist, subject, and image is my predominant concern.
Education
California College of the Arts
San Francisco Art Institute
UC Berkeley Art Extension Program
University of Michigan BA, MBA
Publications
Dwell, private residence in Woodside, May 2020
LUXE, private residence in Woodside, November 2019
Interiors, private residence in San Francisco, November 2019
Interiors, private residence in San Francisco, July 2019
PALM magazine, private residence in Honolulu, December 2018
LUXE, private residence in Hillsborough, December 2017
40 Years of Fabulous, The Kips Bay Decorator Show House, by Steven Stolman, April 2015
C Magazine, Hotel Paradox, Santa Cruz, April 2013
Interiors magazine, private residence in San Francisco, August-September 2010
Shows
Radian Gallery, San Francisco, May 2024
Radian Gallery, San Francisco, May, Dec 2023 Group Show
Agora Gallery, New York, Dec 2022 Group Show
Radian Gallery, San Francisco Dec 2022 Group Show
San Francisco Art Institute, Juried Exhibition 2016
San Francisco Open Studios
Collections
Various private collections
ODADA, San Francisco
Paradox Hotel, Santa Cruz
Park Lane, Honolulu
39 Grant Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94108
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