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Rena Bransten Gallery is pleased to present, Fake Flowers, our first solo exhibition with New York based multi-media artists Derek Weisberg. This exhibition brings together two distinct but related bodies of work in the mediums of collage and ceramic. Weisberg’s work is imbued with a sense of play and a generous amount of humor, while paying homage to art historical movements, from Northern European Still Life painting to Arte Povera, from Dadism to early Cubist collage. A limited-edition catalogue accompanies the exhibition.
Weisberg’s relationship with the medium of clay was influenced heavily by having grown up in Northern California (where he also attended art school) under the ethos of Robert Arneson, Peter Voulkos, Viola Frey, and Stephen De Staebler. It was not until a move to the East Coast that the notion of clay as a material for making functional objects ever occurred to him, and the collection of vases on display in this exhibition, from the series Tell me About...More
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Rena Bransten Gallery is pleased to present, Fake Flowers, our first solo exhibition with New York based multi-media artists Derek Weisberg. This exhibition brings together two distinct but related bodies of work in the mediums of collage and ceramic. Weisberg’s work is imbued with a sense of play and a generous amount of humor, while paying homage to art historical movements, from Northern European Still Life painting to Arte Povera, from Dadism to early Cubist collage. A limited-edition catalogue accompanies the exhibition.
Weisberg’s relationship with the medium of clay was influenced heavily by having grown up in Northern California (where he also attended art school) under the ethos of Robert Arneson, Peter Voulkos, Viola Frey, and Stephen De Staebler. It was not until a move to the East Coast that the notion of clay as a material for making functional objects ever occurred to him, and the collection of vases on display in this exhibition, from the series Tell me About...More
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