Bernice Bing: BINGO

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Bernice Bing: BINGO offers a view into the artist’s life and work from the beginnings of her career around 1961 through to her final years. Key works include Velázquez Family, 1961 , exhibited in Bing’s first ever solo show at the Batman Gallery in San Francisco in the same year, a painting that has been praised as a feminist challenge to the male gaze. Mayacamas, 1963, which has not been shown for decades, reflects Bing’s first period spent in the countryside where she studied the Buddhist contemplation of nature as a way of releasing the ego. Bing’s Mayacamas landscapes are among her rarest works and depict the light and rhythm in the multi-colored rolling hills. A focal point of the exhibition is the monumental painting Burney Falls, 1980, which notably hung above her desk at the South of Market Cultural Center. The exhibition also features Bing’s Quantum 2, an installation comprising twenty-five abstract panels systematically organized in a grid formation. Bing’s Quantum series synthesizes Eastern and Western ideologies, drawing on Bing’s connection to both Abstract Expressionism and the Chinese calligraphic tradition, while exploring the relationship and balance between the individual works and the larger composition of the installation. Show more