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PINE FOREST
NEW WORK FROM MARTIN FACEY 2014

Coming Next Spring:
Paul Mahder Gallery
Presidio Heights, San Francisco

APRIL - MAY 2014

3378 Sacramento St.
San Francisco, California
(415) 474-7707

Martin Facey debuts new work 2014 : Textured paintings.

Paul Mahder--noted Bay Area photographer and owner of Paul Madder Gallery in the Presidio Heights neighborhood of San Francisco-- encouraged me to reclaim a dormant interest in textures and pictorial surfaces. Two years later, in April /May of 2014, I will unveil the results of this new quest: THE TREES . Almost sculptural in their sensuous tactility, THE TREES advance my interest in painting ‘backwards: front first, then backgrounds built in successive layers, on fabrics laminated to wooden panels. Thematically linked by endless variations on a seminal “Y” configuration, THE TREES are innovative, unique, and physical. I use rust and decaying plant materials as my primary drafting devices, thus promoting real physical change as both the ‘content’ of these large images, as well as their process of discovery. Unlike anything you have ever seen, coming in the Spring of 2014.