KM Fine Arts to Participate in First Annual Art Silicon Valley / San Francisco (Art SV/SF), Booth SV60, 10/9-12

KM Fine Arts-with locations in Chicago and Los Angeles-will participate in the inaugural edition of Art Silicon Valley/San Francisco (Art SV/SF), Art Miami's first international, contemporary, and modern art fair on the West Coast, taking place over Columbus Day Weekend, October 9 -12, 2014.

KM Fine Arts-centrally placed at booth SV60-will present work by innovative modern and contemporary artists including Alexander Calder, John Chamberlain, Ramsey Dau, Carla Gannis, Kim Gottlieb-Walker, Keith Haring, Robert Indiana, Dana Louise Kirkpatrick, Gary Lang, Brendan Murphy, Victor Matthews, Retna, Marco Perego Saldana, Lucien Smith, Cole Sternberg, Bernie Taupin, and Andy Warhol.

The booth will feature a recent work by Gary Lang from his Circle Paintings-which he has explored since the early 1980's. From a distance, these works appear to be precisely painted-almost machine-made-but up-close, they are distinctly hand-made. In planning and executing the paintings, Lang first selects his palette, devising a chart to determine, or to use Lang's word "navigate" their sequence within the composition. "I do this preliminary work to eliminate the burden of mind while touching the surface with pigment." Using these charts, simple mathematical models, and logic at the preparatory stage thus frees Lang to be "hyper-present" when painting. The process introduces a degree of chance and the unexpected into his works, which Lang relates to both musical compositions (especially the works and writings of John Cage) and the ambient sounds we hear everyday. Lang's concepts relate most closely to marks and symbols that Paul Klee used in his paintings and drawings during the early 20th century, and the origins of trance works witnessed in the primal marks and geometry of Paleolithic sites in Europe and petroglyphs in California.

The paintings and drawings by Dana Louise Kirkpatrick reference elements of Modern art-in particular German and Neo-Expressionism. She grapples with the dichotomies and contradictions embedded in contemporary Western culture, religion, and humanity, using forceful iconography and a highly expressive technique. Classically trained, her large-scale works draw on the annals of art history. Picasso, De Kooning, and Basquiat live most fervently in Kirkpatrick's work-creating a vehicle for preserving their memories, and prompting a new dialogue about their visual language.

Cole Sternberg's visually striking pieces are produced by the artist's blending of watercolor, spray paint, and heavy oils. Paint often obscures text in his compositions-which at first glance may appear disordered-but are in fact, laid out to convey detailed narratives. Sternberg's questioning manifests engage the viewer in an existential dialogue addressing our state of being-in an age of content overload, government control, torture, consumption, and hope.

Victor Matthews, born in Brooklyn in 1963 and currently living and working in New York City and Los Angeles, began his career in New York alongside artists like Richard Hambleton and Keith Haring-who taught Matthews how to stretch canvas. The influence of the first real "street art" movement on his work is palpable-though he is in every aspect a studio painter, and brings the street into his canvases. For the last decade, he has created perfectly choreographed mosaic-like paintings of whitewashed and abstracted cityscapes. Additional new paintings and sculptures by Matthews are concurrently on view through October 30, 2014 at KM Fine Arts' Los Angeles location in his solo exhibitionbright... brighter... brightest.

Located between Silicon Valley and San Francisco, Art SV/SF will feature a curated list of 75 of the world's most respected galleries and art institutions, representing 750 artists from 42 countries, including Italy, France, Germany, England, The Netherlands, South Korea, Switzerland, and Venezuela, among others. The fair will present a diverse collection of art along with works by emerging, mid-career, and new media artists-offering innovative cultural programming, on-site installation projects, interactive art, artist talks, fair tours, and partnerships with several noteworthy philanthropic organizations. Art SV/SF will open with a Platinum VIP Preview on Thursday, October 9th at 6pm-to benefit the Shipyard Trust for the Arts and the Djerassi Foundations, sponsored by Maserati-followed by the VIP Preview from 7:30-10pm.

LOCATION
San Mateo County Event Center
Expo Hall
1346 Saratoga Drive
San Mateo, CA 94403

DATES + TIMES

Platinum VIP Preview | Thursday, October 9: 6-7:30pm
[Access for Art SV/SF Platinum VIP Cardholders]
VIP Preview | Thursday, October 9: 7:30-10pm
[Access for Art SV/SF VIP Cardholders and Accredited Press]

GENERAL ADMISSION

Friday, October 10: 11am-9pm

Saturday, October 11: 11am-8pm

Sunday, October 12: 11am-6pm

TICKETS

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Photo Credit: Gary Lang, SUSMASTWO, 2013, Acrylic on canvas, 72 in. diameter