Exhibits at the Townsend Center

Letters from Emptiness: Paintings by Eva Bovenzi

January 17 – May 4, 2012
Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

With their iridescent shapes emerging from blue or red backgrounds, Eva Bovenzi’s paintings at one moment suggest outer space, at another the sea. The forms described are similarly ambiguous: they could be tiny or enormous. Like apparitions from a world that is both familiar and unfamiliar, these forms seem caught in the ephemeral moment between appearing and disappearing. They are mysterious messages: letters from emptiness.

Eva Bovenzi has an MFA from the California College of the Arts. She has exhibited her work extensively in museums, galleries, and non-profit spaces, and her art is included in both public and private collections. She has received residency grants from the Djerassi Foundation and the Ucross Foundation in the United States, and Casa Manilva and Fundacion Valparaiso in Spain. Ms. Bovenzi is represented by Toomey Tourell Fine Arts in San Francisco and teaches painting at the University of California Berkeley Extension Program. For more details, visit the artist’s website.

Luminous: Watercolor Paintings by Darril Tighe

On Exhibit: August 22, 2011 – May 4, 2012
Townsend Center Offices, 220 Stephens Hall

Darril Tighe’s watercolors explore abstraction as a means for expressing a range of emotions through color, layering of washes and choices about composition. Tighe’s complex color combinations suggest a quality of translucence and evoke a state of reverie and reflection, through which the viewer is momentarily transported, and then returns, enriched.

Darril Tighe is recently retired after 20 years of service at the University of California, most recently with the Department of History at UC Berkeley. She has an MFA from Claremont University and is now pursuing her career as a visual artist full time. For more information, visit the artist’s website.