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The creative instincts of Northern California artist John Accurso are being showcased in San Ramon’s Lindsay Dirkx Brown Art Gallery this month.
The solo exhibition, entitled “The Intuitive Trace”, features Accurso’s sculptures using repurposed hardcover books, assemblages of recycled wood and his own drawings carefully arranged throughout the space to represent the range of reinterpretation reflected in his work.
“One major thread includes the deliberate choice of very humble, common (often free) materials, even items such as discarded library books, junk lumber, and mass-produced jigsaw puzzles,” Accurso told the Pleasanton Weekly after installing the exhibition Feb. 2.
“Another thread that connects a lot of this work is my modular thinking; the ‘bookcurls’, for example, a set of 200 units are all unique but meant to be arranged, rearranged and built up in uncountable configurations,” he added. “The charcoal drawings are built in modules of line segments and radiuses, probably less obviously.
“If color is used in my work, it must help to convey structure, however cubistic it may be as in the 2 large pastels, or it must be an inherent part of the material, such as the book sculptures, the mounted wall reliefs,” Accurso said. “The black and white paintings, which are done exclusively with paint rollers and paper masking devices (no brushes!) are meant to equivocate visually.”
The Sonora-based artist, who grew up in Albany and Orinda, said he was particularly drawn to the “modernity and complexity and the natural light” of the city-owned gallery.
“It is a very beautiful space and was quite a challenge to arrange all my different modes of art making, as it is not simply a 4-walled gallery space,” Accurso said. “Part of the fun in the installation was incorporating those long, narrow vertical pieces in this unique gallery.”
“The Intuitive Trace” runs through Feb. 22 at the Lindsay Dirkx Brown Art Gallery inside the San Ramon Community Center at 12501 Alcosta Blvd. A special reception with the artist, including a poetry reading, is set for Feb. 22 from 2-4 p.m. Learn more at sanramon.ca.gov.
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