hayes valley market
May 3 - 25, 2008
Opening reception: saturday, may 3, 5-8pm
Artists:
Andrew Benson,
Heather Brubaker,
Dave Hamill,
Vera Iliatova,
Gisela Insuaste,
Charlene Liu,
Nellie King Solomon,
Marc Williams,
Susan Ziegler
Curators: Heather Brubaker and Marie-Claire Meisels
Performance: Saturday, May 17, 7pm - David Buuck
Uncharted: Imaginary Landscapes is an exhibition featuring new work from artists Andrew Benson, Heather Brubaker, Dave Hamill, Vera Iliatova, Gisela Insuaste, Charlene Liu, Nellie King Solomon, Marc Williams and Susan Ziegler. In a temporary space, painting, drawing, video and site-specific installation question and re-interpret the space that surrounds us.
In Marc Williams' paintings, vivid, dense colors and surreal perspectives reveal explorations to wild, imaginary places. Chaotic architectural structures by David Hamill suggest futuristic universes with a logic of their own, while in Andrew Benson’s work, recognizable terrain is barely there. Moving between painting and digital media, meticulous, miniature markings are meditations on complex systems, real life and second life.
Gisela Insuaste plays with form and scale, stacking toy-like forms in candy colors to create beautiful yet precarious interpretations of urban environments. And where unnerving, psychological narratives are created in Vera Iliatova’s landscapes, Susan Ziegler's watercolors conjure utopian daydreams from natural phenomena.
Heather Brubaker and Nellie King Solomon make paintings where space is navigated in abstract terms – painting that describes movement and matter, and Charlene Liu composes watercolors that are topographic figments of the imagination. Lines linking wisps of color and fragments of familiar forms – a leaf, a blade of grass, a petal blown in the breeze, make us consider the distinction between nature and art, real and imaginary.
more artist info
hayes valley market gallery
580 Hayes Street (at Laguna)
San Francisco, CA 94102
info@imaginarylandscapes.net
Gallery hours: TBA
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Special thanks to:
agesong,
mason cabot,
claire chalfen,
pete gowdry,
brian gross fine art,
meghan mcdowell,
emily mintz,
monya rowe gallery,
ted sorom
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