Larger than Life: Exploring Scale in Contemporary Art June 2 – August 18, 2013

Larger than Life: Exploring Scale in Contemporary Art

Artists include: Chuck Close, Viola Frey, Tristin Lowe, Elisabeth Higgins O’Connor, Robb Putnam, Harry Siter, Michael Stutz, Clayton Thiel, and Tara Tucker

This exhibition brings together nine renowned national artists whose artwork

manipulates physical scale in innovative and extraordinary ways. Using a

broad range of media, they are playing with the limits of believability and are

investigating the oversized, overstuffed, and uncanny elements in art.

Left to right:

Viola Frey, Fallen Man, 1994, ceramic, 74" x 81" x 60" Courtesy of Rena Bransten Gallery

Clayton Thiel, Crescent Moon, 2012, ceramic, 13" x 17" x 13"

Michael Stutz, A Bell is a Cup Until it is Struck (detail at right), 2011, found cardboard, plywood, bronze, contact cement, staples, 120" x 78" x 92"

Harry Siter, Her, 2006, elm and bronze, 100" x 40" x 21"

Location: Bedford Gallery is located in the Lesher Center for the Arts at 1601 Civic Drive, Walnut Creek, four blocks south of the Walnut Creek BART station.

Telephone: 925/295-1417

Website: For more information visit www.bedfordgallery.org

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Reception: Sunday, June 2 3:00 – 5:00 pm

$5 admission. Free for Friends of the Bedford. Wine and hors d’oeuvres hosted by the Bedford Gallery Guild and Diablo Regional Arts Association (DRAA).

Admission: General $5; Youth (17 and under) $3; Children 12 and under, free. First Tuesdays of the month are free; Free for Friends of the Bedford, DRAA members, and ticket holders to events in the Lesher Center for the Arts (LCA) on ticketed date.

Hours: Tuesday–Sunday, Noon–5:00 pm; and 6:00–8:00 pm on evenings when there are theater productions in the LCA. The Gallery is closed on Mondays and July 4.

Bedford Gallery is a program of the City of Walnut Creek, and is supported with generous funding from the Lesher Foundation and the Diablo Regional Arts Association (DRAA).

Gallery Tours:Group tours for children grades K-12, each visit completed with an art project. Scout troops, school groups, and clubs are all invited to take a tour! Tours for Contra Costa County school groups K-12 are FREE, sponsored by a grant from DRAA. All other groups are $85.

Adult group tours are available by appointment.

For more information about our tours: visit www.bedfordgallery.org/programsemail gallerytours@bedfordgallery.org or call 925/295-1416

Elisabeth Higgins O’Connor, Dreadful Sorry Clementine, (installation view, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles), 2011, beading and mixed media. Photo credit: Carol Selter

Diablo Regional Arts Association 1601 Civic Drive, Walnut Creek, CA 94596

The Bedford Gallery receives generous funding from DRAA and the Lesher Foundation.Media Sponsor: Contra Costa Times

Larger than Life:Exploring Scale in Contemporary Art June 2 - August 18, 2013 Public Reception: Sunday, June 2, 3:00 – 5:00 pm, $5 admission.Wine and hors d’oeuvres hosted by the Bedford Gallery Guild.

Cover: Tristin Lowe, Dumbo (multiple views), 2001, vinyl, acrylic paint, fan. Courtesy of Fleishcher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia

Left: Michael Danoff, Chuck Close, Don Farnsworth, and Brad Pitt at the Chuck Close: Selected Paintings & Tapestries exhibit at Pace Wildenstein, New York in 2009. Right: Chuck Close, Brad, 2009, cotton jacquard tapestry, 104" x 78" Courtesy of Magnolia Editions