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15/1/2004

Great indoors

San Francisco Art Institute - SFAI, San Francisco

ARTISTS INVESTIGATE THE DAY TO DAY

Reception: Jan 16, 5:30-7:30 pm

The San Francisco Art Institute is proud to announce the concurrent presentation at the Walter and McBean Galleries of Great Indoors a group exhibition of works by six artists; and an exhibition of photogravures by the collaborative team of Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison, including the premiere of five new images. Together, these two exhibitions consider the results of human habitation from two very different points of view: the interior and the exterior, the domestic and the worldly. Both are on view January 17 through March 7, with a special preview reception on Friday, January 16, 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm, followed that same evening by a Photo Alliance lecture by Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison at 7:30 pm. Click here for the full Great Indoors press release)

Great Indoors: Artists Investigate the Day to Day features work in photography, video and installation by artists Ken Fandell, Reuben Lorch-Miller, Chris Miller, Martin Parr, Mariah Robertson, and Tonya Solley Thorton that examines particular day to day details of the life we live indoors. The history of vernacular interior representations dates to ancient times, when depictions of everyday life – painted and sculpted – were used to decorate the interiors of palaces and tombs. Working in contemporary artist media, and materials more commonly associated with craft and do-it-yourself projects, the artists in this exhibition take a dynamic and sometimes sentimental approach to the use of the domestic. In doing so they reaffirm the consolation to which we aspire through taming and decorating the spaces we inhabit.

Opens Friday, January 16 with a 5:30-7:30 pm reception preview

Image:
Ken Fandell, stills from No Idea, 1 minute digital video loop w/sound, 2003, courtesy Traywick Gallery

Walter and McBean Galleries
800 Chestnut Street
San Francisco, CA

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