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Rena Bransten Gallery
Rena Bransten Gallery is pleased to present reverberations, an exhibition of new work by San Francisco based artist Diane Andrews Hall.
The paintings and works on paper included here are inspired by the artist’s immediate surroundings and are the culmination of countless hours spent lingering in the garden outside her studio. With light, movement, time, and natural phenomena as subjects, Andrews Hall pays homage to the beautiful complexity of the natural world, rendering birds and plant-life in exquisite detail, with an acute sense of wonderment.
These new works, like the rest of Andrews Hall’s oeuvre, are defined by a high level of attentiveness which has always been at the core of her practice – a combination of meditative level focus, and dedication to her craft. Andrews Hall is driven by an infatuation with the constant evolution of nature – at once moving in cycles, yet always morphing. Her interest in marking the passage of time in her work is informed by her relationship to playing music; the layering of tempos and notes in musical compositions mirrors the layering of color and forms as they accumulate to form a painting. In this exhibition, the viewer is invited to marvel at the wonder of the natural world with ample time for rest and revery.