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Matthew Picton: Fictional Perspectives
Closing July 13th - Read Exhibition Reviews

"Ambitious artists in every discipline face the difficulty of working something of the world into what they make. Some years ago, London-born Oregonian Matthew Picton resorted to maps as a solution." KENNETH BAKER

London 1940 - Clerkenwell (2012)

Matthew Picton's "London 1940-Clerkenwell" (2012) is an aerial view relief of cut and singed pages from a book by Graham Greene, "The Ministry of Fear," particularly appropriate for this piece at Toomey Tourell in San Francisco." Read Review

"He calls the works on viewFictional Perspectives. Yet each is packed with
historical facts."

DAVID M. ROTH

St. Petersburg, 1703-1964, 2013, texts, music score based on map of the great flood,

"...Picton's representations are at once cartographic, topographical and cultural. Incorporating period-specific texts and musical scores, sometimes from different eras in a single work, they present multi-layered views of urban history at cataclysmic junctures: wars, political upheavals and natural disasters. They represent the urban experience as a physical place and a state of mind whose contours, physical and mental, shift according to circumstance..." Read Review

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

The gallery will be closed August 20th-31st, reopening September 3rd, 2013

Jul 16 - Aug 31    Lisa Bartleson
Sep 3 - Sep 30      Gregg Renfrow
Oct 1 - Nov 2    Monica Lundy
Nov 5 - Dec 14    Nathaniel Price
Dec 17 - Jan 31 Maria Park

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