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Surface Tension

an exhibition of work by Francis Barth and Hiroshi Senju

September 16 – 30, 2006

Installation Shot, Barth

Installation Shot, Barth

Frances Barth Plateau, 1999

Frances Barth
Plateau, 1999
Acrylic on canvas
96 x 52"

Frances Barth v-g, 2003

Frances Barth
v-g, 2003
Acrylic on board
14 x 15"

Frances Barth wt-g, 2006

Frances Barth
wt-g, 2006
Acrylic on board
14 x 15"

Frances Barth U fault, 2001

Frances Barth
U fault, 2001
Acrylic on board
14 x 15"

Frances Barth bl-v, 2005

Frances Barth
bl-v, 2005
Acrylic on board
14 x 15"

Frances Barth Arizona pink, 2005

Frances Barth
Arizona pink, 2005
Acrylic on board
14 x 15"

Frances Barth Della pink, 2004

Frances Barth
Della pink, 2004
Acrylic on board
14 x 15"

Frances Barth Views, 2005

Frances Barth
Views, 2005
Acrylic on canvas
52 x 96"

Installation Shot, Senju

Installation Shot, Senju

Hiroshi Senju Falling Green, 2006

Hiroshi Senju
Falling Green, 2006
Mineral pigment in acryllic base on rice paper mounted on board
48 x 48"

Hiroshi Senju Falling Red, 2006

Hiroshi Senju
Falling Red, 2006
Mineral pigment in acrylic base on rice paper mounted on board
48 x 48"

Hiroshi Senju Falling Blue, 2006

Hiroshi Senju
Falling Blue, 2006
Mineral pigment in crylic base on rice paper mounted on board
36 x 36"

Hiroshi Senju Falling Yeallow Ochre, 2006

Hiroshi Senju
Falling Yeallow Ochre, 2006
Pure pigment on raice paper mounted on board

Hiroshi Senju Falling Green, 2006

Hiroshi Senju
Falling Green, 2006
Mineral pigment in acrylic base on rice paper mounted on board
21 x 21"

Hiroshi Senju Falling White, 2006

Hiroshi Senju
Falling White, 2006
Mineral pigment in acrylic base on rice paper mounted on board
36 x 64"

Hiroshi Senju Falling Red, 2006

Hiroshi Senju
Falling Red, 2006
Mineral pigment in acrylic base on rice paper mounted on board
21 x 21"

Hiroshi Senju Falling Gray, 2006

Hiroshi Senju
Falling Gray, 2006
Mineral pigment in acrylic base on rice paper mounted on board
21 x 21"

Hiroshi Senju Falling White, 2006

Hiroshi Senju
Falling White, 2006
Mineral pigment in acrylic base on rice paper mounted on board
21 x 21"

Hiroshi Senju Falling Blue, 2006

Hiroshi Senju
Falling Blue, 2006
Mineral pigment in acrylic base on rice paper mounted on board
21 x 21"

Frances Barth Salmn, 1996

Frances Barth
Salmn, 1996
Acrylic on panel
14 x 15"

Frances Barth wt-corner, 2004

Frances Barth
wt-corner, 2004
Acrylic on panel
14 x 15"

Frances Barth w-g, 2000

Frances Barth
w-g, 2000
Acrylic on panel
14 x 15"

France Barth Putnam, 2003

France Barth
Putnam, 2003
Acrylic on canvas
17 x 84"

Frances Barth  I'm in a dangerous mood, 2003

Frances Barth
I'm in a dangerous mood, 2003
Acrylic on canvas
52 x 96"

Frances Barth conversion, 1996

Frances Barth
conversion, 1996
Acrylic on canvas
32 x 34"

Frances Barth Araki, 2004

Frances Barth
Araki, 2004
Acrylic on panel
14 x 15"

Frances Barth Orangem, 2006

Frances Barth
Orangem, 2006
Acrylic on canvas
18 x 96"

Frances Barth mdarkm, 1996

Frances Barth
mdarkm, 1996
Acrylic on canvas
32 x 34"

Frances Barth  Didn't it rain, 1997

Frances Barth
Didn't it rain, 1997
Acrylic on canvas
29 x 30"

Frances Barth N-rift, 2001

Frances Barth
N-rift, 2001
Acrylic on canvas
10 x 120"

Hiroshi Senju Falling Red, 2006

Hiroshi Senju
Falling Red, 2006
Mineral pigment in acrylic base on rice paper mounted on board
36 x 36"

Hiroshi Senju Falling Pink, 2006

Hiroshi Senju
Falling Pink, 2006
Mineral pigment in acrylic base on rice paper mounted on board
36 x 36"

Hiroshi Senju Falling Yellow Ochre, 2006

Hiroshi Senju
Falling Yellow Ochre, 2006
Mineral pigment in acrylic base rice paper mounted on board
36 x 36"

Hiroshi Senju Falling Purple, 2006

Hiroshi Senju
Falling Purple, 2006
Mineral pigment in acrylic base on rice paper mounted on board
36 x 36"

Hiroshi Senju Falling Yellow, 2006

Hiroshi Senju
Falling Yellow, 2006
Mineral pigment in acrylic base on rice paper mounted on board
36 x 36"

Installation Shot, Senju

Installation Shot, Senju

Press Release

September 16th, 2006-Sundaram Tagore Gallery is pleased to present surface tension, a show of work by Frances Barth and Hiroshi Senju. These two artists are the newest additions to the gallery's international roster of artists, and they both explore painting as panorama versus entity in their monumental works. Frances Barth paints landscapes of shifting perspectives, creating a space where the viewer is an active participant. Her paintings are a window into a world at once familiar and disquieting. Senju's Falling Color series uses bursts of flowing saturated color to highlight the rushing power of water. His ancient technique of grinding natural pigments and applying them to handmade rice paper is combined with a very modern sensibility- he objectifies the landscape through abstraction and makes it a totemic object in and of itself. surface tension will open Saturday, September 16th, and will continue through the 30th of the month.

Hiroshi Senju is a painter who expresses contemporary modernity through ancient painting techniques that are unique to Japan. Hiroshi Senju's art can be understood in its simple immediacy–bold, glowing lines flow down against a deep blue-black expanse in his Waterfall series. A sense of powerful, timeless calm, the monumental force and presence of nature, is perceived. He combines finely ground pigments derived from natural materials in a medium of animal-hide glue, and then applies this "paint" to handmade rice paper mounted on board. This results in a matte surface that glows with the richness of the applied colors. Senju is the first Asian artist to receive an individual fine arts award at the Venice Biennale for his acclaimed Waterfall paintings in 1995. Museums that collect his work include the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, California; the University of California, Los Angeles, California; the Kushiro Art Museum, Hokkaido, Japan; and The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan.

Frances Barth's paintings combine the topographic and the tectonic with an ethereal lightness of space and color. Using references that allude to multiple times and histories, Barth creates seductive narratives that have no beginning or end. One sees many influences including both the panorama of the American landscape and the compositional rigor of the Japanese woodblocks of Hiroshige in her deftly colored and intelligent works. Barth is the Director of the Mt. Royal School of Art, Maryland Institute. Her paintings are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, among others.

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