Events Calendar · January 2020
Art Works Downtown - Jan 11 - Feb 27, Phyllis Thelen: Coming Full Circle
Date: Saturday, January 11, 2020
Time: 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Phone: (415) 451-8119
Available for viewing through Feb 27th: Opening Reception: January 11 through Closing Reception February 14.
Art Works Downtown is pleased to honor Phyllis Thelen, Founder of AWD, with a retrospective of her work. Now 93, Thelen has been making and exhibiting her art for the past 70 years.
The exhibition will fill four galleries at AWD, and include her painting, sculpture, printmaking, and scrolls. An entire gallery will feature her political and environmental art, including the series Planet Earth Screwed and Take Shelter from the News.
Thelen is an award-winning artist whose work has been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout California and in Japan. Her fiber sculptures were featured in two solo museum shows: Spirit Vessels at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art and Journeys of the Imagination at the Morris Graves Museum of Art. This is the first retrospective of her work.
The exhibition will also showcase a video about Thelen’s life and work by award-winning documentary filmmaker Harris Cohen.
Exhibition Curated by Carol Durham, Mary Edwards, and Max Thelen
Phyllis! video by Harris Cohen
The Voice of Mother Earth, audio installation by Natalie Mendes and Max Rehkopf, in the Underground Gallery
Installation by Chris West
Additional Location or Other Information
Art Works Downtown, 1337 4th St, San Rafael, CA 94901