Sculptor Peter Boiger, woodcut artist Fernando Reyes and oil and pastel painter Otto Aguilar approach the human form not only through different media, but in widely disparate styles. Each of these artists expresses his own life experiences and backgrounds in ways that are sometimes erotic, sometimes mysterious and sometimes playful.

Otto Aguilar’s lush imagery plays on the duality between religious oppression and the sensuality of the body. Aguilar was born in Managua, Nicaragua and graduated from the Fine Art School in Managua in 1977. In 1984 he received a fellowship to study art in Moscow. He later returned to Nicaragua, and from 1990-1993 he was a teacher and director of the Fine Arts School in Managua. Since 1994 he has resided in the United States and had numerous individual and collective exhibitions.

Fernando Reyes has been exhibiting in solo and group shows in the United States and Europe since 1993, shortly after completing his studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Fernando Reyes’ woodcuts bring a patterning and flattened overlapping imagery that expresses a dynamic of dance and interaction between bodies. His works celebrate the body with a much more playful sensibility. Sensuality, humor and a electric energy of line and color create a dance that often blurs the line between figurative and abstract work.

Peter Boiger’s pre-classical protean forms express a mythical sensibility that resonates with the seven years he spent living in Israel. For Peter Boiger, the figure is only a starting point from which he begins to dig into his material, creating recesses and raised areas – so that the figures become elongated totems. Boiger’s art in not rooted in any one culture or time. Born in Germany in 1941, he immigrated to the United States in 1964, and also lived and worked in Israel from 1979 to 1986. It was there that he created his largest work, The Valley of the Destroyed Communities: A six-acre maze of carved stone, commemorating the Jewish victims of the Holocaust. He now lives in the Marin County countryside where he continues his work in stone, wood and metal.

Opening reception on Tuesday, 16 August, from 6pm to 8pm.

Open Tuesday through Saturday, from 11am to 5:30pm.

Warnock Fine Arts
49 Geary St. Suite 211
San Francisco, CA 94108

Tel.: (415) 677-4001