WHITE RIVER JUNCTION For the past few years, Ben Finer and Bevan Dunbar have been mulling over what they would want an art gallery to look like.At first, they considered opening a gallery in a room of their Hartford Village apartment, which would.
Andover teen wins scholarship
Yashvi Gosalia, a senior at Andover High School, received a prestigious scholarship only given to eight Massachusetts students a year in honor of 19th century naturalist and author, Henry David Thoreau.
The Henry David Thoreau Scholarship is a $20,000, four-year scholarship awarded to eight students graduating from public or private high schools in Massachusetts. High school seniors awarded the scholarship can enroll in any college or university in the world while they major or minor in an environmentally related field. Thoreau Scholars are encouraged to enroll in internships or study abroad to broaden their awareness and understanding of environmental issues.
Chronicle Staff March 15, 2021Updated: March 20, 2021, 8:09 am
‘Thrill Seekers III’ by Gwen Manfrin, watercolor, collage and encaustic on panel. Photo: Gwen Manfrin
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Ferdinanda Florence and Gwen Manfrin come to Andrea Schwartz Gallery with ‘Threshold’
Andrea Schwartz Gallery is currently presenting a new two-person exhibition, titled “Threshold,” featuring artists Ferdinanda Florence and Gwen Manfrin.
Florence’s work has frequently focused on unfixed, liminal spaces like ambiguous exterior structures. Her new series of paintings departs from that with an emphasis on interior views, specifically doorways, unclaimed spaces and rooms that communicate a sense of loss. Doesn’t that feel like a fitting meditation for art-goers housebound for much of the past year?
San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) Turns 150
SFAI 150 | A Spirit of Disruption
The San Francisco Art Institute celebrates its 150th anniversary with an exhibition and podcast series reflecting on the school s extraordinary and diverse legacy
Exhibition on view: March 19 July 3, 2021
Are you listening? Podcast and web series begins March 19, 2021
Curated by Margaret Tedesco and Leila Weefur
The San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) celebrates its 150th anniversary in 2021 with A Spirit of Disruption, an exhibition that reflects on the school s profound and sustained influence on contemporary art and highlights the contributions of generations of diverse artists and individuals often overlooked in the historical narrative of SFAI. A Spirit of Disruption includes the work of more than thirty alumni and faculty from the 1960s to the present; a dynamic media installation drawn from SFAI s vast archive; and a section dedicated to artist model Florence Flo Wysinger Allen, the subject o
Sam Whiting January 25, 2021Updated: January 26, 2021, 7:10 am
Dimitri Grachis in the doorway of Spatsa Gallery. Photo: John Natsoulas Press
Spatsa Gallery lasted only four years in San Francisco, but they were four crucial years, 1957-1961, as the assemblage art associated with the Beats bridged into the abstract expressionism and cubism of the 1960s. Never a commercial gallery, Spatsa was artist-run by its owner, Dimitri Grachis, who lived in the office behind the storefront on Filbert Street at Fillmore.
Grachis, who closed Spatsa to concentrate on his own career as a minimal geometric abstract painter, died Jan. 9 at the VA hospital in Palo Alto. He was 88. Cause of death was deteriorating lung disease, according to his nephew, George Metropulos of Belmont. Grachis had been living in an apartment in downtown San Mateo for the past 25 years.