Sarah Newton Art Show Held at Cañada College
Mon, 26 February, 2018 at 2:26 pm
SARAH NEWTON – FORESHORE DRAWINGS
The Cañada
College Art Gallery is proud to present and exhibition of drawings by the San
Francisco artist, Sarah Newton. The show runs through April 5. The College Art
Gallery is located in Building 9, Room 152. The gallery will be closed during
Spring Break.
This exhibition
consists of 12 works on paper, using ink wash and gouache, or opaque
watercolor. These are primarily skillfully composed and executed landscapes
depicting scenes that Sarah has encountered in her walks on the Bay Trail.
“It is a marginal
zone here, where industries and people are pushed out to the edges of the
populated areas to face away from the cities and suburbs. On the land power
plants, airports, trailer parks, jails, concrete yards and other urban outliers
stand near the water’s edge. Below them are salt ponds and canals, houseboats
in hidden marinas, power lines running through the marshes. It is also a
marginal zone of course in that it is the very edge of the ocean; fragile,
constantly changing, holding a mixed slurry of garbage and abundant life, and
it will be the shifting margin where people soon will see the drastic
longer-term effects of our hand on the environment. In the naming of coastal
zones, the foreshore is the area between the high and low water lines, most
influenced by the changing tides. It is also less specifically the area between
the water and developed land. To me the name has an echo of apprehension or
expectancy: forecast, foresight, foreshadow.”
The gallery is
open Mondays and Wednesdays, 9:30 a.m. – 2 p.m., and Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9
a.m. – 3 p.m.