In her book,"Old Painted Doors and Gates," Asha Carolyn Young shows a vibrant selection of old wooden doors and gates she has painted over a period of several decades. This is a playful, welcoming, fun, elegant, colorful, texture-rich presentation of the old doors and gates. Some doors are majestic and very large (old Berkeley front doors over 100 years old). Other doors and gates are cute and smaller. Young's palette is bright, cheerful, with emphasis on pinks (bright pink, bubble gum pink, salmon pink), orange, yellow, turquoise, sky blue, teal blue, grass green, lilac and deep purple. Highlights are gold and silver on the doors, creating a bright, sparkly mood. Some doors are like spiritual entranceways, with soft, featherlike brush forms over the wood. Young writes about her experience finding the first old gate when she was first arrived in San Francisco and lacked funds for canvas or paper. She writes, "Perhaps there is poetry in poverty, if one looks for it. I found poetry when dire circumstances led me to painting on old wooden doors--objects people had thrown out." Young also shares thoughts on the symbolic aspect of doors and gates, which have enchanted her as she sanded, varnished and painted them. The book includes 25 photographic reproductions of selected doors and gates, painted between 1995 and 2018. Young is author of two other books related to art: "Carry Your Own Joy: The Abstract Paintings and Life of Hari E. Thomas, A San Francisco Artist" (2015), and "Journey to the Tracks: Industrial Landscape Paintings and Sketches of Oakland, California" (2017).
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