Bruce McGaw, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco - Early Paintings, 1957-1966

Bruce McGaw: Early Paintings, 1957-1966
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
May 4 - July 1, 2000

John Berggruen Gallery presents an exhibition of paintings by Bruce McGaw.

The exhibition features paintings by Bay Area native, Bruce McGaw, that range in date from 1957-1966. Bruce McGaw was a student of Richard Diebenkorn's at the California College of Arts and Crafts where he became very close to Diebenkorn and with whom he developed a very strong rapport which continued after he left CCAC. Referred to as one of the second-generation Bay Area Figurative artists along with Joan Brown and Manuel Neri, Bruce was the youngest artist and only member of the "second-generation" to be included in the pivotal 1957 exhibition, Contemporary Bay Area Figurative Painting, at the Oakland Art Museum of Art. 

The collection of paintings in this exhibition display Bruce McGaw's skill of juxtaposing intense patches of color and playing with the perspective in his early still lifes, portraits and landscapes. Bruce McGaw began teaching at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1957 and continues to teach painting and drawing there today.

JOHN BERGGRUEN GALLERY
228 Grant Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94108
www.berggruen.com

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