On the Road Again
dal 18/10/2006 al 24/11/2006
Segnalato da
18/10/2006
On the Road Again
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
Beat Culture Bush Era. The show looks at contemporary artists who are inspired by some aspect of Beat Culture-whether art, literature, the life style, or the practitioners themselves. Although the varied creative processes on display share some overlap with Beat ideologies, concerns, media and process.
Beat Culture Bush Era
On the Road Again: Beat Culture, Bush Era looks at contemporary artists
who are inspired by some aspect of Beat Culture-whether art, literature,
the life style, or the practitioners themselves. Although the varied
creative processes on display share some overlap with Beat ideologies,
concerns, media and process, the show is more about a spirit than a
"look," more about an attitude or sensibility than a defined aesthetic.
Devendra Banhart's ink sketches of imagined things or creatures focus on
ways in which drawings can depict what is less easily articulated. Erik
Frydenborg's collaged drawings take their inspiration directly from
popular culture and are rendered with a rhythmic dynamism that is almost
musical. Oliver Halsman Rosenberg's hexagonal mandalas explore sacred
geometry and the interconnectedness and mutual dependency of the
universe and reality. Colter Jacobsen's delicately rendered memory
drawings incorporate remembered fragments of a previous series of works
by the artist to create surreal vignettes. Ian McDonald's hand thrown
ceramic "breathers" are beautiful objects in their own right but double
also as drug culture accessories containing heated political messages at
odds with their cool appearances. Jay Nelson's drawings invoke the
sublime in nature testifying to the artist's intense communion with his
surrounds. Presenting a reenactment of a scene between Dustin Hoffman
and Meryl Streep from the 1979 movie Kramer vs. Kramer, Geof
Oppenheimer's Versus is both an exercise in experimental film-making and
cultural analysis.
For her exhibition at Rena Bransten Gallery, Bay Area artist Rebeca
Bollinger has created There to Here, a new DVD projection. An
open-ended exploration of the sculptural possibilities of the
photographic medium, the work features a series of repeated images of
urban details-from store fronts to neighborhood gardens-which are partly
forced into 3-dimensionality by being projected onto a screen studded
with elevated panels. As the sequence of images progresses, singular
images become layered with additional information as new juxtapositions,
relationships, and contextualizations are formed between one image and
another, opening up different possibilities of viewing the same subject.
Allowing a moment to reflect on the nature of perception, the work's
ultimate effect is perhaps to remind us of how much remains unseen at
the normal speed of observation. In another DVD work, Bollinger
examines the nature of mass through filming the flow of pedestrians
along a sidewalk, highlighting people at random to explore the
relationship of particles to the whole, a theme which is continued in
the photographs also included in the exhibition.
Bollinger was born in 1960, in Los Angeles, California and obtained her
BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1993. She has exhibited
widely at venues including the Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany ,
the Sonia Henie Onstad Museum in Oslo, Norway , the Orange County
Museum (California Biennial, 2003), the San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art, and the Pacific Film Archive. Bollinger's work is included
in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the
M.H. de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco.
Reception, October 19, 5:30-7:30pm
Rena Bransten Gallery
77 Geary Street - San Francisco