New Work by Trish Grantham at Rare Device December 11, 2008 through January 27, 2009

San Francisco design store and gallery, Rare Device, is proud to present Small Details: New Work by Trish Grantham (www.trishgrantham.com). Her work will occupy the Rare Device gallery December 11, 2008 - January 27, 2009. A reception for the artist will be held Thursday, December 11 from 7 - 9 pm.

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) November 21, 2008 --

Small Details: New Work by Trish Grantham

Exhibition dates: December 11, 2008 - January 27, 2009; reception date: December 11, 7 - 9 pm

San Francisco design store and gallery, Rare Device, is proud to present Small Details: New Work by Trish Grantham (www.trishgrantham.com). Her work will occupy the Rare Device gallery December 11, 2008 - January 27, 2009. A reception for the artist will be held Thursday, December 11 from 7 - 9 pm.

Trish Grantham, a self-taught painter and emerging Northwest artist, has captured the imagination of thousands with her playful works. Using a variety of paper media and acrylic paint and resin on wood panels, Grantham paints a cast of doe-eyed, cartoon-like characters: Bunny, Robot-Panda, Girl, Carl the Squirrel, Think-Monster, Toast, Birds, and more populate her surfaces. The simple lines and stylized characters parallel Japanese anime, and the fantasy world they inhabit is wholly original. Appearing alternately wistful, pensive, punch-drunk, in love or troubled, these characters play out classic themes of good versus evil and romantic love. Surrounded by cartoonish action-lines, scrawled text or schoolgirlish hearts, they engage in mysterious antics over complex, mixed-media backgrounds. Cumulous clouds in washes of pale blues, greens, or pinks drift behind the characters which create a dreamy, pensive backdrop to the works. Like a Japanese manga series, these works pull the viewer into their quirky world. The plotlines, however, are left to the viewer's own imagination. Small Details will include a collection of Grantham's latest original works.

Rare Device is a store and gallery that features functional experiments and original ideas in art, design, craft and fabrication. Owners Rena Tom and Lisa Congdon constantly seek out objects that are beautiful, evocative, well constructed and thoughtful. We are pleased to bring to our San Francisco store an ever-growing roster of local, national and international artists and designers for a truly "rare" experience.

Rare Device (raredevice.net) is located at 1845 Market Street between Valencia and Guerrero Streets. Store/gallery hours are Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, noon to 7pm, Thursday noon to 9 pm and Sunday noon to 6 pm.

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