September 1 - 25, 2010

Reception: September 9th  from 5:30 – 7:30pm

Gallery Paule Anglim is pleased to present Simulations, an exhibition of new works by Brett Reichman.

Reichman’s oil on canvas paintings and gouache & watercolor works on paper are masterfully rendered images, each representing months of studio work. Born from activist concept through the precise hand of traditional painting technique, they provide a unique and complex experience of narrative figuration. 

For over twenty years, Reichman has produced canvases demonstrating painterly skill and themes of social interest.  A committed investigation of realism has led him to a revival of difficult techniques like cross-hatched shading (first used in Medieval drawings and prints—and in the 20th Century developed into a stylistic color technique by Paul Cadmus) and to research into critical realism, as a means to understand reality, both political and personal.

Identity and sexual politics are the subject of his imagery composed with deliberate theatricality and artifice. Folds of fabric imitate body parts, manipulating flat cloth into synthetic designs of nature. Like records of performance, his paintings offer a documentary or time-lapsed experience.

Brett Reichman is the former chair of and associate professor in the Painting department at the San Francisco Art Institute. His works are in many public collections, including SFMOMA, the Berkeley Art Museum and the Orange County Museum in Newport Beach where he had a solo exhibition. His work was featured in the publication Art—A Sex Book by John Waters and Bruce Hainley. Critical writing about his work has appeared in such journals as ArtForum, Art In America, Tema Celeste, and ArtPress. He received his BFA from Carnegie Mellon University and his MFA from UC Berkeley.