![]() ![]() Poet communities have thrived in the coastal towns of western Marin since the ’60s countless acclaimed novelists, from Anne Lamott to Dave Eggers, have called it home. The Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir still lives (and sometimes gigs) in Marin. When not ensconced at Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s City Lights Bookstore, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and other Beat luminaries would roam or write on Mount Tam’s slopes. The county’s progressive liberalism has always played a role in its allure, as has the legacy of the 20th-century counterculture that proliferated across the Bay Area. The show, and a lot of the talent in it, is testimony to how a landscape can really take on a life in someone’s consciousness.”Ĭonnection with the land loosens all the bolts that society and formal training tightenedĪrtists of all stripes are still trading urban life for Marin’s wide vistas and locals-only beaches. “It’s really beautiful here life is really good. While it offers more than twice the square footage of his former space, the move “was a quality-of-life issue, pure and simple”, he tells me over coffee at The Depot Café & Bookstore on Throckmorton Avenue, the city’s high street. The president of the Art Dealers Association of America and a regular on the international fair circuit, Meier saw an opportunity to decamp to Mill Valley’s old Studebaker showroom when it came up for lease. The show is Meier’s first in his new gallery space, him recently having relocated to Marin from San Francisco’s Pacific Heights after nearly three decades. Untitled, 1999, by Etel Adnan © Anthony Meier Gallery ![]() They’re the kind of words locals readily throw out when they describe it, which probably says as much about the locals as it does the land. To the indigenous Coast Miwok people, from whose language the name támal pájis derives, it was sacred. But no one seems to contest Mount Tam’s status as Marin’s spiritual centre. ![]() Its 2,600ft peak is too far south to be the actual geographical centre of the county, which stretches up to Sonoma. Coyotes, mountain lions and the endangered California condor are encountered in its remoter reaches. Hiking paths weave across its flanks, leading over to the wind-bullied sands of Stinson Beach or down through the cool primeval silence of Muir Woods. The show takes its name from nearby Mount Tamalpais, called Mount Tam by locals. Point Reyes National Seashore © Rich Stapleton Anthony Meier at his gallery in Mill Valley © Rich Stapleton Meier’s show considers their work and that of 11 others in a specific context – a kinetic period in 20th-century American culture, against a unique natural landscape that embedded itself in their way of creating. Gordon Onslow Ford, the English surrealist the Beirut-born painter Etel Adnan Bruce Nauman Jay DeFeo, who achieved renown in the seminal 1959 MoMA show Sixteen Americans. Some are dead, some living all are eminent art-world names. It showcases a group of international artists who all, for one reason or another, chose to live in Marin County between the ’40s and the ’70s. On 31 January, an exhibition called In the Shadow of Mt Tam opened at Anthony Meier gallery in Mill Valley, just across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco. Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. ![]()
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