Spirituality and Health Magazine

Post Card for our Presidio show- a 3 artist collaboration

I have another show in the Presidio's China Brotsky Gallery. At the closing of my "Healing Spirit Boats" back in Feb 2014, I was invited by the Tides to exhibit my work with an environmental theme.
http://www.tides.org/tidings/the-tides-insider-may-2015/
This gave me a chance to work in conjunction with my husband, photographer Leo Germano and glass artist, Reddy Lieb. This is the blog post I submitted that describes our intentions for our show "Currents".
RECEPTION- Oct 15th from 5-7 pm - 1012 Tourney Ave. off of Lincoln Blvd.

THREE SF ARTISTS EXPLORE CURRENTS AND THE FORCE OF WATER AROUND US
Three long time San Francisco artists, Jennifer Ewing, Reddy Lieb and Leo Germano were invited to create work with an environmental theme and chose“Currents- visible and invisible forces that move us” to guide their vision. The gallery, being so close to the Golden Gate and the long corridor informed the way they used the space to tell their stories in various media. Walking down the gallery one can find a story unfolding about our relationship to water and its influence on our lives.
A reception and artist talk will be held on October 15th from 5 - 7 pm. The exhibit continues till November 6th in the China Brotsky Gallery.
Jennifer Ewing’s latest installations are statements made of paint, paper bag handles and cut up plastic pieces. She has built an 18’ long paper ark that holds the idea of saving what we have for the future and respecting our resources. Her mural on canvas is about the feeling of water, rain and walking along the rocky shore. It also invites the viewer to chose how they might imagine entering the water from two different painted realities. Ewing has used cut up plastic water bottles to form a “Sea of Plastic” that has caught some strange creatures in its web. Her tribute to the original fresh water sources in the SF Presidio is a painted map that tells a bit of the story of El Polin Spring, Lobos Creek and Mountain Lake. Thanks to John Bertland of the Presidio Trust providing some historic material, she has distilled the story of water use here before 1900.
Reddy Lieb uses text, collage, shredded currency, plastic bottles with messages and sound to express what is current for her. She is known for her work in glass but for this show, has turned her attention to plastic and text. Lieb has carefully placed her notes and calls for help inside plastic water bottles that hang an arch that spans the gallery so one walks under and around and can reflect on her messages.
Different ways that we feel or know “currents” are also stated in colorful multi-media collages hung in the windows with messages that can be understood or leave room for the mystery. Money, also known as currency needs to be in constant flow or it can end up in a vitrine, as Lieb shows in her sculpture, as a worthless display of misplaced values.
Leo Germano’s photos reference what can be seen from the windows of the gallery, the constant flow of ladened container ships that are a symbol of consumption and economics. Germano’s digital photography enhances the feeling of these forms that can be very ark like in appearance. He shoots from Fort Point, Marin Headlands, Crissy Field and the periphery of the Bay to capture ships in transit or at the dock. He has been photographing these ships for many years and a selection of these are hung above Ewing’s work as a kind of frieze. The patterns and repetition move the viewer along the gallery bringing an awareness of the continual supply of goods being delivered upon the currents of our Bay.