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GALLERY PAULE ANGLIM SHOWS WORKS BY MITCHELL-DAYTON & CAJA

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SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. — Gallery Paule Anglim announces its first exhibition of paintings by Caitlin Mitchell-Dayton, which will open June 7 at the gallery, 14 Geary Street. Mitchell-Dayton will present a group of portrait paintings, rendering her subjects in a frontal-posed signature style. Often using friends and students as models, the artist captures them in an attitude that is part snapshot, part cartoon character.

A reception for the artist will be held Thursday, June 7, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm.

Mitchell-Dayton received her undergraduate degree and MFA from UC Berkeley in 1983, studying under Joan Brown and Elmer Bischoff . She is currently a visiting lecturer in painting at the San Francisco Art Institute and has been included in exhibitions at The Drawing Center, New York; The Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles; The De Young Museum, San Francisco; SFMoMA, San Francisco; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; and Pierogi, Brooklyn.

Mitchell-Dayton received a SECA Purchase Award from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1997 and an Eisner Award for Fine Art at the University of California at Berkeley in 1982.

Running concurrently is an exhibition of works from the estate of Jerome Caja (1960–1995). This is the gallery’s third exhibition of the San Francisco artist and drag queen legend, featuring his extraordinary mixed media paintings. Reinterpretations of thrift store artifacts, modified into nail polish and makeup assemblages, his artworks are narratives blending Catholicism and lurid gay sexuality in equal parts.

Caja’s work has been exhibited at SFMoMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art and the Berkeley Art Museum. After receiving his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute he showed his work in small alternative San Francisco galleries until it was featured in the 1991 exhibition “Facing the Finish” at SFMoMA. Both exhibits will run till June 30.

For general information, www.gallerypauleanglim.com or 415-433-2710