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Charles Anselmo Photographs & Elizabeth Noerdlinger Paintings

The Main Gallery

March 22-April 23, 2006

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Stressing the importance of the personal sense of place within the visual landscape, two artists from The Main Gallery in Redwood City draw upon the familiar to discover a fabric of subtext below the surface of the apparent. By depicting psychological remnants through corollaries in the physical world, Charles Anselmo and Elizabeth Noerdlinger examine that which is left behind to uncover mysterious and provocative realms lingering in the wake of the emotions and memory. Physical artifacts such as bricks and chitinous shells coexist with the oil paintings and photographs in the exhibit to suggest continuities involving history and remembrance. In large-format color photographic prints, Charles Anselmo evaluates the strange dissonances of the forgotten urban landscape. Focusing on places that exist tenuously in a state of decay, he depicts the silent remnants that record the constructed emblems of an earlier time. The artifacts in these photographs can comprise a rich and compelling archaeology of loss and discreetly suggest a visual compression of time, memory and history. Charles’ images portray forgotten sites and architectural ghosts at sites in Cuba and several abandoned facilities in California, showing how insistently the human presence persists in these empty, yet somehow intimate places. The photographs are saturated with disquieting contradictions; peaceful, cavernous places of abandonment are graceful with the signs of human activity and grand design yet scarred by eventual deconstruction, leaving only historical fragments and the talismans of neglect. Elizabeth Noerdlinger’s landscapes start wth memories of place. The first marks and layers of paint unfold a scene imbued with a rich store of sense memories. Temperature, breezes, smells and sounds of a particular moment are memories of a golden time. In working towards this show Elizabeth also examined a recurring dream in which she finds herself exploring a hidden passageway in her childhood home, leading to the idea of the holes in the ground in the Mysterious Island” painting. In most of her paintings Elizabeth considered remnants in a literal sense: the wilderness coyote faces an increasingly modern and populated world, the old rose bush is a tenacious survivor in an unlikely spot, and the horseshoe crab is a true relic of prehistoric times.

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  March 22-April 23, 2006

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  Wed-Fri: 11am-4pm
  Sat & Sun: 10am-3pm

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  The Main Gallery

  1018 Main Street Redwood City, CA 94063

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