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Thursday, November 17, 1983, 8:00 pm

Charles Woodman/Vickie Z. Peterson

SAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE

800 Chestnut Street

San Francisco, CA, 94133

Woodman: Six Childhood Memories, 1982, 25 min., color, silent; Remnants, 1982, 16 min., color, silent.

Charles Woodman’s work in film is distinguished by a gifted color sense developed in conjunction with other visual art forms (esp. printmaking). His films possess a strong graphic and materialist sensibility and lately, narrative, language and anthropological content have surfaced in his work. He currently lives in Santa Fe NM.

Peterson: Parallels, 1978, 30 min., color, silent; Scrolls, 1978, 15 min., color, silent.

Vickie Peterson is one of film’s most powerful landscape artists. “The recurring motif… is the meeting of sea and sky. But this Maine-based former painter shoots the horizon the way you might view it as thrown from a speeding convertible during a display of Northern Lights at dawn, and her films are a feast of incandescent blues and ambers. Through a carefully controlled pixilation …these lush colors are slammed on the screen with a rhythmic violence.” —J. Hoberman