Event Listing - Galleries
Sat Mar 15 - Sat Apr 19

Chester Arnold

The Road to Paradise


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Location
Date and Time
Catharine Clark Gallery
150 Minna Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
cross street: between 3rd & New Montgomery (Ground Floor )
district: Downtown/Financial District

Sat Mar 15 (2pm - 4pm) - opening reception
Mon Mar 17 (10:30am - 5:30pm)
Tue Mar 18 (10:30am - 5:30pm)
Wed Mar 19 (10:30am - 5:30pm)
Thu Mar 20 (10:30am - 5:30pm)

Description
Catharine Clark Gallery
Chester Arnold
The Road to Paradise March 15 - April 19, 2008
Chester Arnold

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-Chester Arnold-
American by birth, but raised in post-war Germany during the formative years of his childhood, painter Chester Arnold regularly delves into the complexities of the human psyche. His compositions present skewed linear perspectives that place the viewer at a remove, above and beyond the unfolding narratives. These visually loaded scenes reveal an extraordinary ability to examine minute details within larger dioramas. Natural landscapes are subverted by his preoccupation with the detritus of human accumulation—cast off tires co-mingle with riverbeds while a rainbow springs up from the filth of a hog pit. Recently selected by Donald Kuspit for New Old Masters at the National Museum in Gdañsk, Poland, Arnold’s work is also included in the public collections of many institutions, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Pasadena Museum of California Art, and the San Jose Museum of Art. His work has been critically reviewed in Artforum, Artweek, Art + Conversation, and the San Francisco Chronicle. He lives and works in Sonoma, California and had his first exhibition at Catharine Clark Gallery in 2003.