Where: White Walls
Event Date: January 11, 2014
Event Time: 6:00 pm
Location: 886 Geary Street · San Francisco, CA
Exhibit Dates: January 11 - February 1
For more details: http://www.whitewallssf.com/events/
White Walls gallery is pleased to announce I Was Just Thinking, the first solo exhibition in San Francisco by American painter and stencilist Amanda Marie. The opening reception will be Saturday, January 11, from 7-11 pm, and the exhibition is free and open to the public for viewing through February 1, 2014.
Amanda has a deeply rich visual language, with 100’s of stencils creating a massive vocabulary of imagery that is both comforting and spooky at the same time. Never heavy-handed, but with subtle hints and nostalgic vision she pulls viewers into her work with imagery dominated by children and totemic animals reminiscent of golden book era illustration. Upon deeper inspection, Amanda’s character placement invokes powerful feelings on sophisticated themes like sexuality and the loss of innocence, greed, happiness, envy and elation.
Amanda’s graphic imagery is primarily aerosol and stencil based. As stencil is a popular form in the ‘now’ it is refreshing to see her unique and expanding language. A language that is distinct from the overtly sexual or violent and punchline oriented imagery that initially drew audiences to the genre. As stencilism matures, Amanda’s visual language is keeping pace with a more developed and discerning eye.
For more information on Amanda, visit her site seeyouthroughit.com. You can follow her passion on Instagram @seeyouthroughit.