Tammam Azzam, Untitled, 2019, Paper collage on canvas, 99 x 78.7 cm
Walk into the Haines Gallery and you’ll first encounter white walls, light hardwood floors and unframed canvases filled with paper collage as part of contemporary Syrian artist Tammam Azzam’s “Forgotten Cities.”
Walk a little further into the space, to a room tucked into its corner, and behind heavy black curtains is a different atmosphere — black walls, soft lighting and photographs encased in dark frames from Bay Area artist Binh Danh’s exhibit, “After the Gold Rush.”
These two exhibits, on view through Nov. 2, weren’t created in conversation with each other, but they juxtapose each other’s methods while echoing each other’s content, alluding to the transformation of landscapes in startlingly different ways.
