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11/4/2007

Two exhibitions

Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco

Martin Mull: Works on Paper + Tara Tucker: Friend and Foe

Martin Mull's new works on paper continue his visual and conceptual engagement with deconstructing modern American culture. Mining images from the 1940s to 1960s and using his distinctive photorealistic style, Mull creates narrative pastiches which often resemble old family photos or images drawn from a huge, collective image bank. At times outright amusing, the slightly noire and often surreal compositions render the works unsettling and enquiring rather than nostalgic or sentimental.

Mull was raised on a farm in Western Ohio and attended the Rhode Island School of Design for both his BFA and MFA. Mull has had numerous solo shows and is currently the subject of a traveling retrospective organized by the Las Vegas Museum of Art, Nevada. His work has been acquired by many museum collections, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. He currently lives and has a studio in Los Angeles, California.

Tara Tucker's meticulously rendered drawings portray bizarre yet realistic hybrid creatures from a future animal kingdom, free from the fetters of human intervention. Imagining the evolution of various species to survive climactic and environmental changes, Tucker documents the survival of the fittest through cross-species breeding and even imaginative flora-fauna mergers. Often displaying convincingly anthropomorphic emotions, such as anger or fear, the creatures' zoological accuracy is due to Tucker's familiarity with animal skeletons acquired in her youth by assisting her mother, a taxidermist at the local Natural History Museum.

Tucker was born in 1970, in Santa Barbara, California. She received her BFA (1992) and her MFA (1994) from CCA (formerly California College of the Arts). Tucker has had solo exhibitions at the Musée d'Honeur Miniscule, New Langton Arts, San Francisco (2003) and XerXes Gallery, Oakland (1994). Her work has also been featured in group exhibitions such as Virus, Lobot Gallery Oakland (2006); Fabulandia: Fauna, The LAB, San Francisco (2006) and Inner Workings, Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland (2004).

Reception: Thursday, April 12, 5:30-7:30PM

Rena Bransten Gallery
77 Geary Street - San Francisco

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