Marc Katano
Half-light
November 5 - December 19, 2009
Opening reception: Thursday, November 5, 2009, 5:30 - 7:30 PM
BIOGRAPHY
PRESS RELEASE
Exhibition review: Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, December 5
Exhibition Page 1 Exhibition Page 2 Exhibition Page 3 Installation images
The
fundamental basis of my work is the act of inscription itself, engaging
questions of texture and shape. Though my compositions are organic in form,
they are inspired not by the emulation of nature but by the physicality of
human expression, as made manifest in the precise motions of Japanese
calligraphy.
My visual vocabulary is made up of the simplest, most natural movements of
the hand and arm, reflecting this physical activity of mark making. It is a
self-referential language in which each line represents nothing more than
its own creation and each piece finds meaning in the harmony of its own
internal structure.
Marc Katano