DARRYL POTTORF: A PERSPECTIVE
Dates: July 8 – August 26, 2000
Opening Reception: Saturday July 8, 5–7 pm

Marcel Sitcoske is proud to present new work by Florida based artist Darryl Pottorf. This is the first time his work has been exhibited in San Francisco, having been shown in New York, Florida, Los Angeles and abroad in Zurich, Basel and Venice.
Darryl Pottorf has been creating complex, inspiring work for over thirty years, constantly pushing the boundaries of his medium and his subject matter. In A Perspective he presents two distinct bodies of work: black and silver toner on lexan and acrylic on aluminum, and UV coated watercolor on polylaminate. With both of these mediums, Pottorf uses the photo transfer process that he began using in the late eighties, first in black and white and then in color, which has come to characterize his artistic output of the last decade.

Pottorf combines photographic images, often from disparate sources, to create compositions that have greater resonance than their individual parts. Using images that he has collected from his years of travel as well as from art history, which he has studied extensively, Pottorf produces works that begin to tell a story, one whose end is left open to be completed by the viewer. In his paintings, “the elements subtly combine, like half-recalled moments in a fondly remembered day.”* His canvases have an air of mystery to them and do not yield their secrets easily.
For almost twenty years, Pottorf has also assisted and collaborated with Robert Rauschenberg, one of the world's foremost living artists. In 1981, Pottorf began as Rauschenberg's studio assistant, subsequently working on numerous projects with him including R.O.C.I. (Rauschenberg Overseas Cultural Interchange) and Quarter Mile. In 1995, Pottorf and Rauschenberg collaborated on the first of five projects together called Quattro Mani (Four Hands) in Venice, Italy.

In addition to his artistic production, Pottorf is also a practicing architect, having designed both Robert Rauschenberg's home and studio as well as his own, and continues to design both residential and commercial buildings to present. As part of an accomplished and varied career, his work is featured in some of the world’s most prominent collections