“For many years now, I have found old family photos, from my family, as well as found photos, to be poignant and moving source material for a body of paintings I call ‘Garland of Hours’” says Gage Opdenbrouw. “The paintings are often torn apart and rebuilt, destroyed, and reconstructed again and again, in the course, of their development—a process analogous to both the passing of time and our experience of memory.”

Ultimately the paintings are intended as meditations on themes like time, remembrance, forgetting, love, loss, impermanence, attachment, and letting go—a reflection on mortality and the passing of days, distilled into paint.

This demo will provide an overview of the work and an opportunity to look over the artist’s shoulder as he works on a canvas or two from this body of work.

About Gage Opdenbrouw

Born and raised in Northern California, Gage Opdenbrouw is an award-winning painter, who, until recent times, traveled frequently to paint and teach.  He now teaches online courses at Washington Studio School, in Washington DC, and Winslow Art Center.

Opdenbrouw’s two person exhibition, “The Underside of Flowers” is on view now at SHOH Gallery in Berkeley, CA, as well as his solo show “West County Light” at Horse and Plow Taproom, in Sonoma county, where the artist currently resides.

Other recent exhibitions include Black Spring, also at Horse and Plow,  a solo show at B Sakata Garo Gallery in Sacramento,  Midsummer Sun in an Empty Room at SHOH Gallery in Berkeley, and Silent Music at Washington Studio Schoo in Washington DC.

His work was included in John Seed’s 2019 book “Disrupted Realism”, and will be represented in a set of forthcoming prints from “Disrupted Realism” artists, published by Sebastian Foster this fall.  He was the recipient, in 2019, of the Avigdor Arikha Fellowship for a residency in Civita Castellana Italy with the Jerusalem Studio School.

When he is not teaching, painting, or playing music, he is out on the fire roads and dirt trails of the coastal mountains with his partner, writer and naturalist, Kelly Gray, their dogs, and a wonderful small human, watching the sun illuminate the fog as it touches the redwoods, taking it all in.

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Time: Oct 13, 2022 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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