Event Listing - Attractions, Galleries
Wed Jun 11, 2008 - Mon Jun 30, 2008

Solo Painting Exhibition

64 Angelic Studies on the Hayward Fault

An installation of 64 new abstract flow field paintings in an enormous grid.


Tel. 510.430.1443
Email 64 Angelic Studies on the Hayward Fault
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$100 - $1400

Location
Date and Time
Lanesplitter Berkely
2033 San Pablo Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94702
cross street: University Ave
district: Berkeley (Cal Campus)

Wed Jun 11, 2008 (11:00 am to Midnight)
Thu Jun 12, 2008 (11:00 am to Midnight)
Fri Jun 13, 2008 (11:00 am to Midnight)
Sat Jun 14, 2008 (11:00 am to Midnight)
Sun Jun 15, 2008 (11:00 am to Midnight)

Description
Location: 2033 San Pablo Ave (at University)
Textured color flow abstractions on canvas painted with tempra, acrylic, oil paint, metallic powder can be seen in a solo show of sixty-four new paintings during the month of June in Berkeley

"I live on the Hayward Fault in East Oakland.
A year ago, fearing the next big quake, I moved out of my house and prepared it for sale. Then the mortgage crisis hit."

"With great trepidation, I moved back into my house."

"It then occurred to me that painting on the fault line might actually help exorcise these fears. Using the colors and flow of paint on the canvas, I might also be able to create a dialog with the spirit angels that live in the fault."

"And so these paintings became energy dances in time, power grids of consciousness etched in the living universe. They have synthesized my search for meaning and pattern amid the churning waves of Chaos: individual, social, and temporal, and have exorcised many of my fears of living on the fault."
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Shelli Renee Joye began working as a lighting consultant to Andy Warhol at the Factory in New York in 1969 and began painting in her own loft on Greene Street in 1970. She has exhibited in Italy, Texas, Berkeley, Saudi Arabia, Emeryville and Kharkov in the Ukraine. Her style has been characterized as “color flow field” paintings with vibrant contrasting hues, textues, and value. She studied physics, mathematics and philosophy in college and has a B.S. and an M.A. She lived and painted for nineteen years in Saudi Arabia. She is a practicing contemplative attached to a monastery in Berkeley and currently has a studio in the east Oakland hills where she lives."

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 “64 Angelic Studies on the Hayward Fault”,Berkeley
2006 “Pictures of Warmth and Survival”,Kashmiri Earthquake Benefit, Berkeley
2000 “Eastern Desert Colors”,Faisal Gallery, Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia

GRANTS
Billups Scholarship
Superior Oil Scholarship
Rice University Scholarship