Panamax: The Industrial Image March 19, 2011

MKSF Gallery in conjunction with 3 Fish Studios present Panamax: The Industrial Image - new paintings by San Francisco artists Mike Kimball and Eric Rewitzer.

Kimball and Rewitzer share an interest in the depiction of the urban and industrial landscape. Their new, large-scale works merge to create Panamax - a show named for the size limits for ships traveling through the Panama Canal. The works presented evoke for the viewer exotic, faraway ports of call and the gritty workaday environments of roustabouts and longshoremen.

Mike Kimball is best known for his paintings and prints of urban landscapes that seem to inhabit the worlds of both representation and abstraction simultaneously.
The subjects of his artwork have been the urban environments of San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Tokyo, and Osaka. His artwork focuses on the underlying geometric abstraction of architecture and design, as well as the curious effect that time and chaos has on that geometric order as it moves towards disorder and entropy.

Eric Rewitzer was born and raised on the industrial shores of Lake Michigan. He studied at the Cleveland Institute of Art, and moved to the west coast in 1987. Eric finds constant inspiration in the scale and diversity of the California culture and landscape. Since 1997, he has been painting the streets, skies, and waters of San Francisco, drawn by the City's vital mix of natural beauty and urban grit.
While being a prolific painter, Eric also takes great satisfaction in hand carving relief prints based on the iconic images of modern culture, and manually printing them on his Conrad Machine etching press in his light-filled studio.

Official Website: http://www.arc-sf.com