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Mirus Gallery is pleased to present RADIANT ORB by painter Kate Shaw. The exhibit opens with a reception on Saturday, February 27 from 7p to 10p, is free and open to the public, and will be on view through March 18, 2016.
Kate Shaw is a Melbourne-based artist who creates landscapes that are simultaneously sublime and toxic. Formed out of ‘paint pours’ and collage techniques, her landscapes capture the transcendent beauty of nature; the swirls of acrylic paint, ink, glitters and powders mimic the flow of natural processes. But underlying these psychedelic scenes are hints of pollution and artificiality, inducing anything from wonder to discomfort. This intersection of creation and corruption in Shaw’s alchemical creations teases out our conflicted relationship with nature – a relationship fraught with awe and fear, closeness and distance.
"My practice re-interprets notions of what constitutes landscape painting, both within an art historical context and a contemporary social context. The paintings deal with the tensions and dichotomies in both the depiction of the natural world and our relationship to it. I am concurrently exploring the sublime in nature whilst imbuing a sense of toxicity and artificiality in this depiction. The intention is to reflect upon the contradiction between our inherent connection to the natural world and continual distancing from it. My paintings aim to convey ideas of nature, alchemy and creation by operating on one level as a landscape another as abstraction." - Kate Shaw
Mirus Gallery is a dynamic exhibition space that features a program of contemporary artwork by emerging and mid-career artists in solo and group shows. The gallery highlights work that emphasizes skill and process and aims to engage viewers on a sentient, emotional and evocative level. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and on Saturday by appointment only, and located at 540 Howard Street in San Francisco’s SOMA District atop Paul Hemming’s eclectic building, which also houses Temple Nightclub and co-working space, ECO-SYSTM.
