Opening Reception, Frances McCormack: Rooted in Wonder
di Rosa hosts an opening reception celebrating Frances McCormack: Rooted in Wonder, a 40-year survey exhibition of painting and collage by the distinguished Bay Area artist.
Originally from Boston, Massachusetts, McCormack relocated to the Bay Area in the late 1970s, completing her fine arts education at San Francisco State University and the University of California, Berkeley. Her abstract compositions, featuring tube or tendril like forms, fields and bands of color, and painterly layering and effects, quickly earned her praise, with art critic Kenneth Baker writing: “her paintings strive for a kind of material poetic statement possible only in painting.”
In her lush paintings, McCormack explores personal themes with the garden as a guiding metaphor. Drawing on the concept of the garden as an enclosure, she populates the field of the painting with botanical references and images in earthly and vegetative hues. Pushing against compositional limits, these forms and color fields describe the nature of growth, energy, and even human struggle.