Andy Goldsworthy: Stone Light Drawings 14 October – 26 November, 2005

San Francisco — Haines Gallery is honored to announce a new exhibition by British sculptor Andy Goldsworthy. This exhibition will consist of two associated site-specific installations of glass and stone which both investigate properties of line and light. In addition, the artist will display a very select number of photographs of ephemeral works.

Viewers will be surprised to see the walls of Haines Gallery opened up to reveal soot drawings on glass installed to transmit natural light from the outside. Similar to the antiquarian cliché verre process, these drawings are created using a blowtorch on glass — the soot allows signature forms related to natural phenomena to be etched on the glass using the stalk of a leaf. Translucent, splitting the backlight into sun and shadow, these glass plates reveal a cyclical renewal and revival.

Other works in the exhibition will echo Goldsworthy’s commissioned work at the new de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park, entitled Drawn Stone, where he has created a floor using pavers that have been broken and repositioned to form a cracked line. This drawn stone gracefully leads the viewer into the main entrance of the museum. Along its path, the crack bisects large rough-hewn stone boulders that serve as seating for museum visitors. Goldsworthy sees the permanent installation as a way to “encourage the social aspect of the site” and says of his process “cracks have always been a way of reaching below the surface of a material—a way of entering a stone and a release of the energy contained within.”

The sculptural installations at Haines Gallery will also be created using Appleton Greenmoor Sandstone from Britain. Utilizing a rather unexpected material for the medium of drawing Goldsworthy will create a number of sculptural cracked line drawings attached to the wall of the gallery.

CONTINUES ON BACK… Goldsworthy has produced over 70 commissions for institutions and collections throughout the world including the National Museum of Scotland, ; The Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Stanford University, California; Jewish Heritage Museum, , and, more recently, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City and the in Washington D.C.

Mountain and Coast Autumn into Winter, an exhibition of Goldsworthy photographs and organized by Haines Gallery, recently completed a highly successful four-year, eight- city tour of the US. The critically acclaimed and extraordinarily popular documentary Rivers and Tides is available on DVD as is Goldsworthy’s most recent monograph, Passage (Harry N. Abrams Inc.), both of which were released late last year.

Goldsworthy’s permanent commission at the new de Young Museum will be included in a special publication of the de Young newsletter in October when the museum opens to the public.

Images available upon request. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday 10.30 – 5.30 pm, Saturday 10.30 - 5.00 pm, and until 7.30 pm on the first Thursday of each month.

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