Eleanor Harwood Gallery is going to present “Pre-Fall” by San Francisco based artist Jenny Sharaf, displaying a series of brand new paintings on fabric.Jenny Sharaf explores the intersection of fashion and art as they relate to the fast-paced seasons, international calendars and global trends. Choosing tweeds, tartans and ginghams as the surface backdrop to loud splashes of color, there is a tension between homogenization and expression, femininity and materiality.Sharaf is a multidisciplinary artist and her paintings, installations, murals, videos, and happenings celebrate process, while reflecting on art history, counterculture, feminism and abstraction. She explores the mythology of California, Hollywood vernacular and the quintessential “California girl” in the work, partly because of her family’s legacy in the film and television industry and growing up in Los Angeles. Sharaf’s process is very intuitive and goes back and forth between digital and analog, connecting in formal and conceptual ways. Sharaf's work aims to make art and art environments that are simultaneously nuanced, accessible and transcendent.She also has a strong curatorial practice, focusing around community engagement and promoting the arts in San Francisco. In 2014, Jenny founded The Lab’s 24-Hour Telethon, raising funds to save the avant-garde art program. Most recently, she developed an exhibition for Creativity Explored that explores abstraction and collaboration. She is the founder and director of Parking Lot Art Fair, San Francisco’s rogue art happening and continues to produce art events in the Bay Area and beyond. This exhibition opens on September 9 and runs through October 21, 2017 at Eleanor Harwood Gallery 1275 Minnesota Street, Suite 206
San Francisco, CA 94107.For details, visit: www.eleanorharwood.comClick on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the exhibition.
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