''Portraits'' Times Two
Rorschach Italians: Mixed Media By Paula Metallo & San Francisco Bay Views: Paintings By Richard L. Perri
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- Event has passed (Wed Feb 7, 2007 - Sun Apr 22, 2007)
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Richard L. Perri paints portraits. You might not think of them as portraits. In fact most people walking into his showing at the Museo ItaloAmericano would call his work landscapes. But they are portraits nonetheless. For Perri paints what could be called an “endangered species” — the non-glamorous, pre-yuppie, everyday restaurants that populate San Francisco’s waterfront and industrial areas. Places that still have bacon and eggs on the menu — or cheeseburgers with American — without a latte in sight.Perri’s portraiture does extend to the more traditional type, i.e. the kind with people in them. In the far gallery of the Museo are portraits of some of San Francisco’s more colorful or just plain well-known personalities: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Terry St. John, Matt Gonzalez, Aaron Peskin — even the mayor, Gavin Newsom.
Paula Metallo, a New York-born artist now living in Italy, deals with what, to her American eyes, makes Italians Italian: food, nurturing, gesturing.
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