“Roland petersen: a bridge between generations”
CITY HALL GALLERY: This exhibition pulls together more than seventy years of the career of Danish-American painter Roland Petersen, beginning with Hoffman-influenced abstraction, through his breakthrough “Picnic” series inspired by UC Davis’ Picnic Day. Petersen played a prominent role in the mid-20th Century Bay Area Figurative Movement as one of the “Bridge Generation” artists and synthesized gestural abstract expressionism, painterly realism, and advanced color theory to create vivid and imaginative renditions of California’s land and cityscapes and its people.
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