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DESCRIPTION:Join Visual Aid on September 4th for a free workshop with Joel Hoyer; 
 followed by an artists reception. "Celestial Vaulting" will be on display 
 through the month of September. \n\nBy combining sensual surfaces and 
 amorphous shapes with a restrained, formal approach, Hoyer achieves a 
 gorgeous, organic tension in his work. The resulting mixed-media paintings 
 reference landscape and primordial, emergent geological formations. 
 \n						\nThe artist's first memories are from Hawaii and the Pacific 
 coast. Since childhood he has been making paintings and sculptures of 
 mountains, islands and volcanoes. In his recent "Pacific Rim Series," Hoyer 
 has been focusing primarily on the gilded surface, experimenting with water 
 and oil gilding techniques, and abstracting these historic mediums. He has 
 also developed a unique process, painting on Masi, a special paper from the 
 Island of Vatulele in Fiji. This precious material is made by hand, using a 
 native arts process which involves scraping and pounding the inner bark of 
 the paper mulberry tree. \n\nTo prepare his gilded paintings, Hoyer first 
 sizes the wood with traditional rabbit skin glue, then covers the panels in 
 glue-soaked linen. He brushes on 9 or more coats of specially-formulated 
 gesso and then coats the panels with a mixture of gilder's clay and glue. 
 He then applies gold with a liquor of water and alcohol, and after this 
 dries he burnishes the surface with a gilder's agate. \n\nThe "Contour" 
 series are made from egg tempera over burnished gold on gessoed wood. 
 Because they are uniquely constructed with tempera layered over gold, the 
 paintings appear to change color, based on the direction of light and the 
 viewer's position in relation to the work. These works inspired the 
 exhibition title, "Celestial vaulting," a term that describes the effect 
 created by framing the sky so that it appears close enough to 
 touch.\n\nThis exhibition was curated by Maysoun Wazwaz and Nicole Best, of 
 Visual Aid's X-Team.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/09/03/18445433.php
SUMMARY:Celestial Vaulting, a Visual Aid exhibition of work by Joel Hoyer
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library: James C. Hormel Gay Lesbian Center\n100 
 Larkin Street / 3rd Floor\nSan Francisco, CA 
 94102\n415-557-4400\nhttp://sfpl.lib.ca.us/librarylocations/branches/branchmap.htm
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/09/03/18445433.php
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