Artist and former SF Contemporary Music Players board member Ward Schumaker has shown in San Francisco, Shanghai, UC Berkeley, Los Angeles, Charleston, and Nashville. Schumaker’s work is included in the collections of painter Eric Fischl; television commentator Rachel Maddow and photographer Susan Mikula; designer Woody Pirtle; fashion/costume designer Han Feng; landscape architect/sculptor Topher Delaney; composer Allen Anderson; illustrators Dan Page and Jean-Marc Lanusse; and poet Sean Finney; among others. As part of his association with SFCMP, he has designed our postcards for the past five years, and began creating artwork for our program covers last season.
You're invited to the opening of Composers, a show of Schumaker's recent paintings. Among the composers featured in the exhibition are Gavin Bryars, Igor Stravinsky, Philip Glass, and others. The show will hang February 6-March 12. For information and to see many more examples of his work click here. (pictured: Louis Andriessen)
Gallery Opening: Thursday, February 10
5:30-7:30
George Lawson Gallery
49 Geary St., San Francisco
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Composers as Inspiration
