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During the month of May, Rena Bransten Gallery will present new cutout drawings by Irene Pijoan.
Pijoan will delay a group of new cutouts done in media that ranges from aluminum to paper to vinyl. The aluminum panels have been cut out with the same botanical patterns as a series of larger panels commissioned for a public hospital in Oakland. Unlike the realistic painting of those panels, the new smaller works are rendered in geometic patterns that reference Pijoan's past abstract works. The works on paper range from cutouts of intricate curving lines and swirling shapes to cutouts of written text describing experiences of memory and loss. In Gallery III, Pijoan has mounted a special installation commemorating the victims of the World Trade Center terrorist attack. Two tall rectangular columns made of vinyl sheeting will be suspended from the center of the gallery; each panel will contain the names of the people who died in the assault.
Irene Pijoan received her MFA from the University of California at Davis and currently teaches at the San Francisco Art Institute.
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