There is a new show opening  at the Inclusions Gallery (627 Cortland) on Saturday evening, with work from four Bernal artists: Rachel Leibman, Richard Nyhagen, Carrie Ann Plank and Jenny M. Phillips..

Per usual, Inclusions proprietor Lisa Moro has put together a thoughtful show, and the opening reception is Saturday, October 24 from 5 to 7pm:

Inclusions Gallery
October 24 – November 29
Artist reception: October 24 / 5-7 pm

We are pleased to present new works by four San Francisco artists Rachel Leibman, Richard Nyhagen, Carrie Ann Plank and Jenny M. Phillips. Each artist is accomplished in their own right, having successfully shown previous work at Inclusions Gallery, throughout the Bay Area, and far beyond.

Rachel Leibman creates meticulously constructed, labor-intensive collage from small bits of paper composed of images of ancient illuminated manuscripts, urban graffiti and hand-designed papers. Her elaborate compositions range from abstract to pictoric, reflecting her fascination with the world’s cultural and natural diversity.

Richard Nyhagen employs the use of original photographic imagery in multi layered screen-prints on hard aluminum surfaces. His work revolves around the vast transitory urban landscape, perception, and the construction of stories we tell ourselves and others; in order to define and know our experience.

Carrie Ann Plank works primarily in the medium of printmaking. In her newest body of work, she combines traditional and new printmaking techniques with painting and collage. The “Strata Series” investigates the use of a one by one inch grid as an underlying information system and is printed, distorted, scaled, and disrupted. Many of the fields are torn, recombined, and collaged with special attention paid to the spaces in-between and the distressed edge.These new forms produce their own unique information system portrayed in a shiny new form.

Jenny Phillips uses paper, wax, watercolor, oil, graphite and other media to explore the interplay between linework, surface, and texture. Influenced by shapes and patterns found in nature, she creates subtle and meditative artworks, focusing on the evocation of mood rather than the depiction of form. She strives for an austere beauty, achieved through the use of a restrained vocabulary.