Donna Seager Gallery opens the fall season with Jylian Gustlin : rara avis in an exhibition of new paintings.   The exhibition runs from September 2  through October 13.  There will be a public reception for the artist on Saturday, September 18 from 6 to 8pm.  

Jylian Gustlin is a rare artist.   Thus the title of her one person exhibition at Donna Seager Gallery, rara avis: a rare bird, an unusual person.  Her complex and layered paintings give glimpses into a process that moves with great facility between right brain and left brain.  The works draw us in with their rich patterns of shape and color and lead us to an ambiguous landscape where figures stand, sit or dance within the charged atmosphere created by the artist. Jylian is a true bay area painter in a contemporary redefining of what that means.  Raised in the San Francisco area and shaped by the technology explosion of Silicon Valley, Gustlin brings a new sensibility to Bay Area figuration.  With her background in computer science and mathematics, she has a heightened understanding of how studying patterns and layers on the computer screen helps her to lay down the bones of a painting while remaining loose enough to maintain an organic and painterly presence.