Pamela Driscol Gallery


	Edward Ruscha Powders, Pressures and Other Drawings March 16 - April 29, 2000 Pamela Driscol Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of drawings by Los Angeles artist, Edward Ruscha. This exhibition opens Thursday, March 16th, and will run through Saturday, April 29th. The exhibition will include over thirty early drawings by Edward Ruscha. The works in the show range in date from 1965 to 1981 and will display his unique juxtaposition of words and usual images as well as his superb draftsmanship. These works will include pastel, watercolor, graphite and, the unconventional, gunpowder on paper. Edward Ruscha has been referred to as one of the most internationally renowned American artists. Ruscha's work is included in numerous public collections including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Tate Gallery, London, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. An illustrated catalogue will be available. For further information and photographs, please contact Pamela Driscol at (970) 781.4629 or pamela@pamdriscolgallery.com. Gallery hours here. ----------------- MARIA PORGES Acts of Deception: Art + Magic + Science March 16 - April 29, 2000 Pamela Driscol Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of recent work by Maria Porges. This exhibition opens Thursday, March 16th, and will run through Saturday, April 29th. In her third one person show at John Berggruen Gallery, Maria Porges explores the place where art, science and magic overlap or collide - magic meaning sleight of hand and science referring to the fundamentals such as chemistry and physics. Porges, who thinks of herself primarily as a sculptor will be exhibiting cabinet and shelf pieces as well as several free-standing works. Many of her works continue to include cast bottles made of tinted beeswax with elements of image and text on their surfaces. Maria Porges lives and works in the Bay Area and was a recipient of the SECA award from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1992. Her work has been widely exhibited in galleries, museums and alternative spaces in the Bay Area and around the country. An illustrated brochure will be available. For further information and photographs, please contact Pamela Driscol at (970) 925.3881 or pamdriscolgallery.com. Gallery hours here. --------------- *Nathan Oliveira* Portuguese Honor and Upcoming Retrospective Exhibition and Monograph Pam Driscol Gallery wishes to announce that Nathan Oliveira has received a high honor from the Portuguese government. The President of Portugal and the Portuguese government have awarded Oliveira with the distinguished degree of "Commander" in "The Order of the Infante D. Henrique". This high honor is conferred upon a person who has performed relevant services for the expansion of Portuguese culture and its history, either in Portugal or abroad. Pamela Driscol Gallery also announces a major monograph on Nathan Oliveira's work and life is now in process and will be completed by the year 2001. The monograph will be published by the University of California Press, in Berkeley, and authored by Peter Selz. This monograph will include essay's by Susan Landauer, Principal Curator of the San Jose Museum of Art, and Jo Ann Moser, Curator of Prints and Drawings at the National Museum of American Art, Washington DC. This book will be accompanied by a major retrospective of Oliveira's work at the San Jose Museum of Art that will also travel to a number of other institutions. An exhibition of Nathan Oliveira's figurative watercolors dating from 1965 - 2000 and a selection of recent Site monotypes will be exhibited at Pamela Driscol Gallery from Thursday, February 3 though Saturday, March 11, 2000. For further information and photographs, please contact Pamela Driscol at (970) 925.3881 or pamdriscolgallery.com. Gallery hours here.