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5/12/2002

Two exhibitions

Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco

Black Cherry: Jil Weinstock and Exemplum: Angela Lim

Catharine Clark Gallery announces two solo exhibitions: Black Cherry, new work in rubber by Jil Weinstock, and Exemplum, new embroidered work by Angela Lim. The artists will be present for the exhibitions which open Thursday, December 6, 2002 and continue through January 11, 2003. Additionally, in our two project rooms, we will feature (reserve video/writing), 1996/2000 by Ann Hamilton (loaned to us by Lenore and Richard Niles) and Unveil, a two channel video installation by the collaborative team lenoradogillesfleur.

Jil Weinstock has been exhibiting with the gallery since 1998. She received her MFA from UC Berkeley and after several years of living and working in the Bay Area, moved to New York, where she exhibits with Caren Golden Fine Art. She has been included in numerous group exhibitions in galleries, museum and non-profit venues throughout the US. A grant in 2001 allowed her to create a catalogue of her work.

Black Cherry is comprised of multiple, single panel and multi-paneled works of amber colored rubber embedded with vertically positioned zippers suggesting paint strokes. The rectangular sections of rubber are translucent and the rows of colored zippers appear as if they are suspended in liquid. Jil is interested in a post-minimalist aesthetic and relies upon common sewing notions and household textiles to re-create sculpturally the language of minimalist painting. Ultimately subversive in content, the titles of her pieces, such as Ultra Aqua, ironically imply an all too comfortable connection between fashion and formal choices in art-making. For the show Black Cherry, Jil has assembled a large scale, sixteen-paneled, horizontal work by the same title, which stretches across more than 16' of gallery wall space. New to the show are works that are reverse illuminated with light-box technology, heightening the experience of translucency already inherent in the transparent medium she uses. With their radiant presence, these sculptural wall pieces seem to refer to the transcendent experience people often equate with looking at works by Rothko.

Angela Lim has been represented by the Catharine Clark Gallery since 1993. Her textile based work has been reviewed in Fiberarts, Artweek and Art Papers. Like Jil, Angela has been included in exhibitions throughout the US. She was a recipient of Bay Area Artist Award from New Langton Arts in 1995. Born and raised in Hong Kong and briefly enrolled in fashion school at FIDM in Los Angeles, she ultimately received her fine art education from the Academy in San Francisco.

Angela works with text and textile in combination, and her projects are composed of multiple works on the same theme. She begins her process by writing texts which are of her own invention and are painstakingly embroidered into soft fabrics and combined with embroidered images that interpret the texts. The current series is titled Exemplum. The title is derived from the Latin word meaning sampler or an example to follow. Embroidery work was popularized in the Victorian Era as a means for women to display the fancy and challenging sewing techniques for which they were schooled. The samplers then functioned as a kind of diploma or status symbol and were often displayed in gilded frames and 'exhibited' by parents to their daughter's suitors. Well crafted samplers indicated the eligibility of 'properly' educated daughters and showed that they were sufficiently equipped to run a household. Many of the stitches in sampling are so complex, obsessive and tiny, as to potentially cause blindness in the maker. Angela has long been interested in the tension between duty and desire and the way in which desire is often sublimated through 'work', in this case fanciful stitching. The works in Exemplum present themselves as diptychs: one side is the watercolor drawing that serves as the pattern for which the second side, the embroidery. After the sampler is completed, the silk threads used in that particular work are then mounted below the watercolor to show the number and varying color of threads used.

In Unveil, the collaborative team, leonardogillesfleur, presents a two channel video installation. In their project one monitor portrays a rotating woman's head, covered like a spool of thread in wide, orange ribbon. The human bust is mannequin-like in appearance and mechanical in movement. On the other screen, a mechanically turning spool appears to pull the ribbon from the mannequin-head and wind it around the turning instrument. The moving images are accompanied by the sound of a woman breathing and the more mechanical sound of the spinning spool.

For the other project space, Lenore and Richard Niles have loaned the Ann Hamilton 30 minute video and DVD sound work titled (reserve video/writing) from their collection to accompany the current exhibitions. Hamilton has worked in a variety of formats from installation and photography, to video and objects. She was trained in textile design at the University of Kansas and later received her MFA from Yale University. Ann Hamilton's works often exhibit her interest in language in combination with references to her background in textiles. She has been a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and represented the United States at the Venice Biennale is 1999.
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Exhibitions:

Solo
Black Cherry: New Work by Jil Weinstock (zippers embedded in rubber)

Exemplum: New Embroidered Works by Angela Lim (text and image-based embroidered wall sculpture)

Project Room Works:
Unveil by leonardogillesfleur, (a two channeled video installation) (reserve video/writing) by Ann Hamilton (a 30 minute video with sound on DVD disc) loaned by Lenore and Richard Niles

Image: Jil Weinstock Ultra Aqua, 2002 Rubber and zippers

Catharine Clark Gallery, located in the 49 Geary Building, Second Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108 (between Grant and Kearny Streets in downtown San Francisco)

Hours: Tuesday through Fridays from 10:30 to 5:30, Saturdays from 11:00 to 5:30.
PLEASE NOTE: The gallery is closed December 22 - January 1.

Catharine Clark Gallery
49 Geary Building
San Francisco
tel: 415 3991439
Fax: 415 3990675

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