Anne Herbst: CURRENTS

NOVEMBER 5 - JANUARY 2, 2022

Birds Flying Together watercolor on paper, 14 x 20 in. 2021

This exhibition features my recent watercolors. I was inspired to try this medium by FOG's Watercolors show. I enjoy artistic challenges and this medium presented one. I spent the last four months working only with watercolor– a diversion from over forty years of oil painting. Gone was the control I relied on with oils. Watercolors run, the colors dry differently and there is minimum covering up. But this medium gives me qualities I love: transparency, luminosity, lightness. The white of the paper becomes a color and what’s left blank is activated. I enjoy seeing the brush strokes, pools of paint and layers of color. Now I welcome less control and allow the medium to direct the painting. Watercolor has opened a new world for me. - Anne Herbst

 

Equinox: Reception Highlights

At the door: Don’s son Cooper and Natalie

At the door: Don’s son Cooper and Natalie

Maya, Mike Acker, Peter

Maya, Mike Acker, Peter

Natalie Craig during her talk

Natalie Craig during her talk

 

To learn more about these artists, watch the short videos below of each talking about his/her practice in the studio. Many thanks to Starr Sutherland who made these profile videos:

Michael Acker

Natalie Craig

Don Williams

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Don Williams started his Artists’ Talk with his realistic alley and landscape paintings reminiscent of the midwest and Nebraska where he is from. An observation from the audience mentioned a pole in each landscape. Don responded that an early art instructor said the pole connects the ground to the sky, words he’s never forgotton.

 

Equinox

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Opening Reception

Saturday, September 18 1-4pm
Artists’ Talk at 2pm

Andy Forrest's Plein Air Demonstration

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Andy Forrest’s plein air demo was mesmerizing. In a brilliant arrangement, he did a south view from the Great Walkway, and another view looking north.

He started his work outside, including taking photos, then moved inside to show us his setup and how he worked. Often when he isn’t able to finish his work outside, he’ll continue it in his studio.

Below are the two pieces he started today––he considers them 85% finished.

 

Happy 4th!

Kit Cameron celebrating Independence Day with Anne

photo by Cheryl Cooper

photo by Cheryl Cooper

 

A "Beyond Capacity" Event

Thank you for supporting our artists and FOG as we resumed our celebratory receptions!

 
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Watercolors

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June 19 - September 5, 2021

Reception June 26, 1-4 pm

Artist’s Talk at 2pm

Welcome to Summer and the reopening of San Francisco. We are excited to be exhibiting these four established San Francisco watercolor artists through Labor Day. Come see the variety of painting styles and subjects including landscape, ocean, urban and figurative imagery.

Our block on Taraval Street and 40th Avenue looks fabulous and is ready for action. With new streetcar tracks, water and sewer pipes, palm trees and decorative rocks, this location has never looked so good. Parking is available and sidewalks are accessible. Come visit us on Saturdays and Sundays from 12-6 and always by appointment.

 

RISE SF – A Celebration of Resilience & Renewal

The last year has been tough. Here’s a tour of San Francisco that shows how we’re bouncing back–and that proves our hearts never left.

To visit Far Out Gallery, jump to 14:28!

 

from Anne Herbst's "Fresh Views"

My entire Figure Study series is based on my first wood carving at summer camp when I was 11 years old. I used a pocket knife on a birch branch. I traced this 1.5 inch figure and created a world for it in each painting.

 
Figure Study 4 oil on wood panel 8 x 8 in. 2020 $400

Figure Study 4 oil on wood panel 8 x 8 in. 2020 $400

 

May Day Alert: Fresh Views

Vases, oil on canvas, 24 x 30 in. 2021 $2500

Vases, oil on canvas, 24 x 30 in. 2021 $2500

This exhibition includes two new series of works (Anne Herbst’s Lapin series and Figure Study series), new paintings, as well as a further migration of the birds.

 

Two Moose

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Anne Herbst’s Moose (oil on canvas, 16 x 20 in. $800

 

Maya’s moose

 

Spring

Anne Marguerite Herbst Figure Study 11: Bird Tree oil on wood panel 8 x 8 in 2021 $400 (sold)

Anne Marguerite Herbst Figure Study 11: Bird Tree oil on wood panel 8 x 8 in 2021 $400 sold

 

Each morning on our way to the beach, we hear birds waking up in one tree. We can’t see the birds, but I imagine they look like this.

 

Slowly but Surely

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Taraval Street has been undergoing major construction on our block since January 25.

Streetcar rails are being replaced. Under these compromising conditions, we're continuing to show Anne's art until the road construction is finished. Thirty-one of her remaining Bird's Eye View pieces have been re-hung, along with a new series of Ocean Beach stone paintings.

 

Celebrating Lawrence Ferlinghetti's Life

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I arrived from NY to San Francisco in 1974, and one of my destinations was City Lights. Within months I had not only made it one of my favorite haunts, I was hired to wash their windows.

Last Tuesday I faithfully fulfilled my duties, making the windows sparkle and the tiles glisten, but this was the first time I did this labor of love without Lawrence. I would often see him striding down from his Francisco street home, and I was very proud to play a small part in his fascinating world of poetry and literature and politics and community.

His voice was so alluring, it was as if he was speaking to you over some wine at a North Beach cafe - he was just there with his “lyric escape” to savor, mull and chuckle over. He was a SF legend and a literary giant and City Lights was his citadel of decency, beauty, truth and life. LF was a Life Force, and still is. I’ll be back next month to make sure Lawrence’s windows are clean. -Peter