Rena Bransten Gallery
San Francisco
77 Geary Street
415 9823292 FAX 415 982807
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Two solo shows
dal 25/2/2009 al 3/4/2009
Tuesday - Friday 10:30AM-5:30PM and Saturday 11AM-5PM

Segnalato da

Jenny Baie


approfondimenti

Doug Hall
Tommy Stockel



 
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25/2/2009

Two solo shows

Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco

Doug Hall's exhibit, In Retrospect, displays images that he describes as "having a direct relationship to language and selected from earlier works". Tommy Stockel's exhibit, Simulation & Decoration, will consist of collages that refer to his main installation, an expanse of gridded boxes that appear to be cubby holes or miniature rooms.


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Doug Hall's exhibit, In Retrospect, displays images that he describes as "hav[ing] a direct relationship to language and, as the title implies, were selected from earlier works". Works from different series featuring newspapers, television, magazines clips, his own shooting excursions or fabrications, graphically describe this relationship. Terminal Landscape iterates Hall's response to our massive bombardment by media images which he feels we, in turn, appropriate for our own use in our imaginations, personal narratives and fantasies. Non-Places, feature black and white photographs, sometimes accompanied by separate images of text, of architectural spaces - corridors, transitional zones, transit pathways - that we traverse unconsciously but which Hall feels impact our psyches nonetheless. In Photographs of Books, a 2001 series of manipulated images, Hall says, "The idea was to photograph books opened to passages that were particularly meaningful to me and situate them in, or juxtaposed to, scenes that reflected my associations with them."

Hall's work has been collected by many museums and was recently included in California Video, an exhibition highlighting the span of the video medium in California over the past 50 years, held at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA Tommy Støckel's exhibit, Simulation & Decoration, will consist of collages that refer to his main installation, an expanse of gridded boxes that appear to be cubby holes or miniature rooms - some empty, others featuring a lone person. Each square in his grids has lines and shadings that give either a sense of depth or convexity. When figures appear, the boxes become deep observation modules with the inhabitants on stage, simulating representatives of a somewhat global population - athlete, maid, musician, policeman, sheikh. However, it is up to viewers to determine whether the figures are posing or actually observing us - their world simulating ours - or whether they are part of the room's decor. Empty boxes may fool the eye and push out into the space as a pure optical illusion, embellishing the texture of the grid's geometric appeal. Støckel has a knack for integrating tricks of perception with micro and macro principles to shrink or expand his forms, delighting and engaging viewers. Støckel studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art in Copenhagen, Denmark and has exhibited extensively around the world. This is his second exhibition at the Rena Bransten Gallery.

Image: Tommy Støckel

Reception: Thursday, February 26, 5:30-7:30PM

Rena Bransten Gallery
77 Geary Street - San Francisco
Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday 10:30AM to 5:30PM and Saturday 11:00AM to 5PM.
Free admission

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