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Ursula O'Farrell's Pursuit of Beauty

Opening August 9, 2007 and running through October 13 is “Pursuit of Beauty: New Figurative Abstractions by Ursula O’Farrell” at the Art Museum of Los Gatos. On view are 29 recent oil paintings by O’Farrell that incorporate the female figure and explore variations of color, distinctive brushwork, textured surfaces and gestural marks. Her provocative work evokes the California Bay Area figurative art movement that emerged in the early 1950s with visionaries such as Elmer Bischoff, David Park and Richard Diebenkorn. O’Farrell’s unique style builds upon this rich heritage. Primarily an abstract figure painter based in Aptos, California, O’Farrell combines the emotional content of Expressionism with a contemporary palette infused with the light and shadows found within her seaside surroundings.

Concurrent with the museum exhibit, are 20 recent works by Ursula O'Farrell at the Linda Durnell Gallery.

Working from life, Ursula O’Farrell’s pursuit of beauty begins with an open heart, ready to explore the inner workings of what lies within the human figure posed before her. “I do not try to render with my eye, but instead, I seek to interpret and express what is felt from within me — from a place of soul.”