Expand<\/a><\/p>\nThe most beautiful art gallery you may ever visit opened with little fanfare this past September in Point Reyes Station: Continuum Fine Art, an enterprise owned and operated by painter-turned-photographer Charles Anselmo.<\/p>\n
Tucked away between Gallery Route One and Cafe Reyes, Continuum Fine Art is a multi-layered surprise, from its innocuous street exposure to its enormous interior space, with a high vaulted ceiling, soft padded floor, superb acoustics and ivory-colored walls that support artworks of unimaginable quality.<\/p>\n
The space was developed over many years by Russell Chatham, an artist and author who died in 2019 in West Marin before he could open it as a commercial gallery. Anselmo has extended Chatham\u2019s vision, now fully realized in a stunning exhibit of his own photography and bright monumental paintings by West Marin artist Toni Littlejohn.<\/p>\n
The two artists couldn\u2019t be more different or more compatible. Entering the gallery, along the right side and the back wall are Littlejohn\u2019s huge glorious paintings, a series she calls \u201cIn Earth\u2019s Embrace,\u201d for their evocation of the violent fecundity of our home planet. The opposite wall is festooned with \u201cMemoria Eid\u00e9tica,\u201d Anselmo\u2019s large-format photos of Cuba, the island nation he has visited 80 times. Multiple layers of peeling paint, crumbling structures, collapsing walls and abandoned offices all combine to present a heartbreaking image of a country in decay. You can almost feel the tropical heat and humidity. With Littlejohn\u2019s paintings, you can feel the beauteous upheaval of the earth.<\/p>\n
The juxtaposition of very unlike works is arresting: Littlejohn\u2019s celebratory depictions of the stormy Earth and the heavens above it, and Anselmo\u2019s homage to decay. They engage perfectly as an encompassing alpha-and-omega interpretation of life. The emotional range in this twin exhibit is astounding, as are the artists\u2019 aesthetic sensitivities and sheer mastery of their respective mediums.<\/p>\n
Separating the expanse in Continuum Fine Art are Anselmo\u2019s free-hanging diaphanous silk fabric panels, each printed with delicate patterns like the veins of flowering plants. These panels move slowly with slight air currents, echoing works such as Christo and Jeanne-Claude\u2019s \u201cThe Gates\u201d that delighted and amazed visitors to New York\u2019s Central Park several years ago.<\/p>\n
Continuum Fine Art has emerged as a world-class gallery. The website is still in development, but you can reach Littlejohn or Anselmo to arrange a tour. The current exhibit was slated to close in October but has been extended to Jan. 10.<\/p>\n
If you go<\/p>\n
What: Toni Littlejohn\u2019s \u201cIn Earth\u2019s Embrace\u201d and Charles Anselmo\u2019s \u201cMemoria Eid\u00e9tica\u201d<\/p>\n
Where: Continuum Fine Art, 11101 Highway 1, suite 109, Point Reyes Station<\/p>\n
When:\u00a0Through Jan. 10; noon to 5 p.m. Fridays through Sundays<\/p>\n
Contact: Email Littlejohn at littlejohn.art@gmail.com and Anselmo at continuumfineart@gmail.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Marin artist Toni Littlejohn’s \u201cIn Earth\u2019s Embrace\u201d runs through Jan. 10 at Continuum Fine Art in Point…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,5601,305,306,811,308,93,61,60,166,83623,7784,83625,60163,6490,107577],"class_list":{"0":"post-204419","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-arts-and-entertainment","11":"tag-artsanddesign","12":"tag-artsdesign","13":"tag-california","14":"tag-design","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-lifestyle","19":"tag-marin-county","20":"tag-newsletter","21":"tag-north-bay","22":"tag-northern-california","23":"tag-things-to-do","24":"tag-west-marin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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