Press
December 3, 2012 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PRESS CONTACT:
Katya Min, Director/Curator
Email: katya@ictusgallery.comTelephone: (510) 912-0792Web: http://ictusgallery.com
IcTus Gallery Presents Rituals of Water, a Solo Exhibit by Rodney Ewing
January 12 through March 1st, 2013
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 12th, 6pm- 10pm Closing Artist Talk: Friday, March 1st, 7pm- 9pm
1769 15th St. San Francisco, CA, 94103
Gallery hours: Thursday- Saturday, 12pm-5pm and by appt.
Images: http://www.rodneyewing.com/
IcTus Projects is pleased to announce the “Rituals of Water,” a solo exhibition of the works of Rodney Ewing, co-curated by Hanna Regev.
In “Rituals of Water”, Ewing examines the role of water as an allegorical agent of disruption and change in the history of people of African descent. Water as motif figures greatly in the African Diaspora, in the wake of experiences that include abductions, transport onto slave ships, and immersion into an alien culture via baptism that removes traces of past beliefs and traditions. Water has also served as a weapon to scatter activists during the Civil Rights Movement, and as a reckoning and catastrophe for the mostly poor and African American communities of New Orleans living on the banks of the mighty Mississippi River during Hurricane Katrina.
Ewing renders the centuries long sweep of this historical timeline of water and the African Diaspora. Large-scale drawing and installations are captured in four thematic sections: Transition (Middle Passage), Transformation (Baptism), Resistance (Civil Rights Movement), and Dispersal (Hurricane Katrina). With this construct, Ewing has produced a record of how even a basic, mundane element is transformed by a people’s history into a transcendent and at times malevolent force.
The people of the African diaspora share a common desire of all peoples to pass on traditions and values to the generations that follow. In this body of work, Ewing says, “With this project, I seek to contribute to an evolving body of history, because through each memory reclaimed, shared, and examined, our experience can become more nuanced, and perhaps even more meaningful. “
Rodney Ewing is an artist working out of San Francisco California. His drawings, installations, and mixed media works focus on his need to intersect body and place, memory and fact to re-examine human histories, cultural conditions, and events. With his work he is pursuing a narrative that requires us to be present and intimate.
Rodney Ewing’s work has been included in numerous exhibitions including “Tech Tools of the Trade: Contemporary Media Art” (de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, 2009) “Art Dubai”, (Frey Norris Gallery) “Public Safety, (Frey Norris Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2008) “Code Switching”,(Red House Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2007), “Who’s Afraid of San Francisco (FreyNorris Gallery 2006), Lisa Dent Gallery (San Francisco, CA 2005), and Cartography (Johnsonese Gallery, Chicago, IL 2005)
About icTus Projects:
icTus Projects features an emerging aesthetic of multi-dimensional realities and art forms occurring between and within places and people,the territories of artists, the revealing of things—the artists in transit, inside their work, and their worlds, bent on a subversive contemporary point of view.
Web: www.ictusgallery.com, katya@ictusgallery.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
IcTus Gallery, in collaboration with The Feminist Economics Department presents…
BEAUTY SALON
November 10th – December 28th 2012
Gallery hours: Thursday - Saturday 12pm- 5pm
Opening Reception: Saturday November 10th, 6 – 10pm
IcTus Gallery, 1769 15th Street. San Francisco CA 94103
This fall, the Mission’s IcTus Gallery will be converted into a salon where the public will be welcomed to receive conceptual beauty treatments that respond to the invisible suffering borne out of fiscal inequity and economic unfairness.
The Feminist Economics Department (FED) is the physical manifestation of the hope for a different, non-monetary value system for labor. Projects undertaken by the department endeavor to show deep support for workers who experiment with ways to provide mutual support without the exchange of money. BEAUTY SALON is an intervention into the industry that inflicts high priced violence on the body in pursuit of beauty and replaces this ‘service’ with rituals that honor truth as beautiful.
BEAUTY SALON will use the physical and discursive connection of a ‘makeover’ as a way to deal with the buried shame experienced by those who feel abandoned or abused by contemporary economics. In the intimate environment of the salon, the Feminist Economics Department will host local artists in short-term residencies as ‘Beauticians,’ offering the public beauty treatments, which will offer new ways to ‘confront inequity’.
The experimental and subversive range of beauty services offered by the FED have been developed to expose, discuss, and communally exorcise inner damage caused by the financialization of everything. Resident Beauticians will help clients conceptualize, vocalize, externalize ‘how they feel” in a free market, offering the opportunity for clients to unbury suffering that is physical, mental, or emotional. The treatments will make invisible traces of economic oppression visible, so that they can be seen and discussed, rather than ignored and repressed.
Appointments are welcome but not required. To make an appointment, or if you are interested in becoming a FED beautician, letters of inquiry may be sent to FeministEconomicsDepartment@gmail.com
BEAUTY SALON’s Senior Beautician, Cassie Thornton, graduated from California College of the Arts with an MFA in Social Practice. Her long-term interest in economics and the unconscious is once again coupled with her unrivalled manicure skills. She has recently returned to the Bay Area from New York City, where her recent practices have included vocal orchestration of financial graphs, collective bank touching, and personal debt visualization services. Over the years, her work has been widely presented in both cities; including at The Flux Factory, Elizabeth Foundation Project Space, The Kitchen, and MoMA in the East, and SoEX, Wattis Institute, Small Press Traffic, and SF MoMA in the West. She is a proud member of Strike-Debt in NYC, and is Artist in Residence at the Labor Archives at San Francisco State University beginning this fall. www.cassiethornton.com, www.debt-visualizations.tumblr.com, www.physical-debt.tumblr.com www.physical-audit.tumblr.com.
For more information, please contact IcTus curator, Katya Min at katya@ictusgallery.com
August 15, 2012 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PRESS CONTACT:
Katya Min, Curator
Email: katya@ictusgallery.com
Telephone: (510) 912-0792
Web: http://ictusgallery.com
September 15th - October 25th, 2012
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 15, 2012 6pm-10pm
IcTus Gallery
1769 15th Street. San Francisco CA 94103
Gallery hours: Thursday - Saturday 12pm- 5pm
The product of several years of work and over 50 factory visits Li Xiaofei’s “Assembly Line” series presents a multifaceted exploration of life in the land of manufacturing. The work combines interview-style videos with workers and factory foremen intercut with luscious scenes of factory interiors, spinning wheels, turning cranks and flashing lights.
The show will feature interview-style videos, plus more atmospheric video works based on the theme of industrial landscapes.
This body of work explores a number of interlocking themes including the relationship between labor and management, between man and machine, between the factory and the individual and the relationship between the individual and society. At the same time it offers us a privileged view into spaces which we would rarely visit, opening a window into the lives of China’s 100 million strong manufacturing labour force.
Li Xiaofei is a multimedia artist living and working in Shanghai whose art works have been widely shown and most recently at SFMOMA. Li Xiaofei is also the director of Fei Contemporary Art Center (FCAC) a world-class experimental art space that serves as a platform for Chinese and international artists, organizations, projects that are inquisitive, creative and undetermined.
Co-curated by Justin Hoover, Katya Min and Julio Cesar Morales
June 6, 2012 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PRESS CONTACT:
Katya Min, Curator
Email: katya@ictusgallery.com
Telephone: (510) 912-0792
Web: http://ictusgallery.com
Show Images: http://www.bluecanvas.com/pakhan
ICTUS GALLERY PRESENTS:
Transfiguration : Uncovering the Hidden
A photo installation by Bay Area photographer Pak Han
Exhibition runs:
July 7th, 2012 - August 17th, 2012
Opening Reception:
Saturday, July 7th, 2012 6PM -10PM
1769 15th St. (between Valencia & Guerrero)
San Francisco, CA, 94103
Gallery hours: Wednesday-Saturday
12pm-5pm and by appt.
icTus Gallery presents Transfiguration: Uncovering the Hidden, a metaphorical and introspective exploration of our contradictory relationship with nature through dreamscapes and visual concepts.
As layers of ritualistic modernity are stripped away - our complacency, comfort and power - what is really left behind? Through sound, performance and a series of visually striking photographs, photographer Pak Han incites an awareness in the viewer of a profound contradiction buried beneath our forged environment. This multi-sensory experience highlights the contrasts between what we are and what we assure ourselves we can be. By depicting the interplay between the Body and the Natural and/or Man-made, Han knudges the viewer towards contemplating his own relationship to his environments.
In July of 2011, Pak Han began his photo project Transfiguration. With the support and collaboration of celebrated choreographer Anna Halprin, dancer/musician Dohee Lee and properties and garment designer, Keriann Egeland, Han brings the project to reality. This series of black & white conceptual photographs will be exhibited for the first time in July 2012 at the Ictus Gallery in San Francisco.
After more than a decade of painting expressionistic abstract works in mixed media, artist Pak Han seriously began exploring photography in 2008 while traveling in Japan. He was entranced by the vast potential for creative expression through this wondrous medium and immediately focused his energy documenting everyday people in candid situations at public locales, such as the urban streets of Tokyo. The dynamic cultural life of Tokyo and its fascinating people became the primary interest for his personal work during his frequent trips to Japan in 2009. One of the Tokyo photos subsequently earned Pak Han a silver award from the juried 2010 international photography competition sponsored by The Japan Times and Fujifilm. A selection, including the award-winning photo was showcased at a group exhibition in Tokyo that same year.The distinctive style of Pak Han is characterized by artful and cinematic perspective. When photo documenting theatre performance pieces, Pak Han takes on a role much like a cinematographer, meticulously framing and setting up shots to capture dramatic images with depth, and colour that complement the mood of a story or theme. For Pak Han’s other photography work, he prefers to work outside the studio setting, using natural light and without the use of a tripod. Many have described Pak Han’s photos as gritty, intimate and even sentimental.
His unique visual aesthetics and approach to photo documentation attracts some of the top talents in theatre and dance communities to Pak Han’s work. Since 2009, Pak Han has actively collaborated with both the established and small performance companies that produce some the finest experimental, avant-garde, works in the country.
Pak Han’s photographs have been printed in numerous publications, including the cover of American Theatre Magazine and national newspapers such as The New York Times. From the portrait of a legendary movie concept artist Ralph McQuarrie, to the gravity defying imagery of the Korean American hip-hop artist/producer Kero One, to the street photo of a schoolgirl walking home with her father in Tokyo, Pak Han’s wide range of photography work has reached different parts of the world.
About icTus Gallery:
icTus Gallery features an emerging aesthetic of multi-dimensional realities and art forms occurring between and within places and people,the territories of artists, the revealing of things—the artists in transit, inside their work, and their worlds, bent on a subversive contemporary point of view. www.ictusgallery.com
April 6, 2012 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PRESS CONTACT: Katya Min, Curator
Email: katya@ictusgallery.com
Telephone: (510) 912-0792
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Images:
ICTUS GALLERY PRESENTS ANCIENT-FUTURE-SUPER-NATURAL
Exhibition runs:
May 5th, 2012 - June 15th, 2012
Opening Reception:
Saturday, May 5th, 2012 6PM -10PM
1769 15th St. (between Valencia & Guerrero)
San Francisco, CA, 94103
Gallery hours: Thursday- Saturday,
12pm-5pm and by appt.
IcTus Gallery is pleased to present Ancient-Future-Super-Natural, a multimedia group show that will prove to us that anything is possible in 2012! Please join us on Saturday May 5th, from 6-10pm for the exhibition opening. This new show features work by Takehito Etani, Ben Herndon, Alice Könitz, Mei-ling Humphrey, Gregory Ito, Kyoung-ah Kang, Edmundo de Marchena, Chris Novak, Melony Wofford Bravmann and a garden installation show by Korean artist Choi Jeong Hwa.
In a similar spirit to the creation of the Antikythera mechanism, the world’s oldest known mechanical computer, these artists employ their far-sighted lenses to envision our future. Their inventions are that much more unique, because they utilize everyday objects such as yarn, plywood, Tupperware, and other utilitarian items to realize their visions. Takehito Etani masterminds the Third-Eye Project, inventing wearable devices that allow us to observe our own selves sensing the world (spiritual prosthetics). Alice Konitz reinvents the utopian vision of design’s ability to facilitate social change by constructing geometric forms out of cardboard and plastic. Mei-ling Humphrey’s embroidered hangings explore the continual passage of time and the practice of handiwork: she sees the physical stitch as an index of her body’s movement through time. Gregory Ito’s 2-dimensional paintings not only play with our visual perceptions, but they also integrate organic and celestial themes with a hypnotic use of iridescent color. Finally, Choi Jeong Hwa crafts entire environments out of simple household items, demonstrating his belief that ‘art’ itself will one day disappear and just be a common place occurrence that we all live within.
About the Artists:
Choi Jeong Hwa is an internationally renowned Seoul-based artist who works across many disciplines – art, industrial design and architecture. http://choijeonghwa.com/
Takehito Etani creates work in such various media as electronics, wearable technology, installations, sculpture, performance, and video. He grew up in Japan, and attended art school in Pennsylvania. http://www.takehitoetani.com/
Alice Könitzis a multi-media artist whose sculptures riff on midtwentieth- century modernist furniture and public art. Born in Germany, she now resides in Los Angeles. Her work was featured in the 2008 Whitney Biennial.http://alicekoenitz.blogspot.com/
Ben Herndon: is a multi-media installation and performance artist based in San Francisco, CA
Mei-ling Humphrey reinterprets the language of contemporary science through the decorative arts. She studied interdisciplinary fine art at CCA. http://www.meilinghumphrey.com/
Gregory Ito is trained as a painter at the San Francisco Art Institute, Ito works in painting, photography, sculpture, and installation. He currently works and lives in San Francisco. http://www.gregoryito.com/
Kyoung-ah Kang is an established Korean national contemporary muti-media visual artist who currently resides in San Francisco. MFA, San Francisco Art Institute.
Edmundo de Marchena earned his MFA from San Francisco State University, and has exhibited in Venezuela, Colombia, New York, Berlin, Los Angeles and San Francisco. http://edmundodemarchena.com/
Chris Novak is an internationally renowned multi-media artist and filmmaker based in San Francisco.
Melony Wofford Bravmanncollages employ a modernist abstract aesthetic, often referencing reproductions of pivotal modernist images as the basis for restrained destructive actions. She lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area, and earned her MFA from CCA.
About icTus Gallery:
icTus Gallery features an emerging aesthetic of multi-dimensional realities and art forms occurring between and within places and people,the territories of artists, the revealing of things—the artists in transit, inside their work, and their worlds, bent on a subversive contemporary point of view.
Web: www.ictusgallery.com
katya@ictusgallery.com
January 30, 2011
PRESS CONTACT:
Katya Min, Curator
Email: katya@ictusgallery.com Telephone: (510) 912-0792 Web: http://ictusgallery.com
IcTus Gallery 1769 15th Street San Francisco CA 94110 Email: katya@ictusgallery.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ICTUS GALLERY PRESENTS JAFFA MANGOES: History, Memory and Myth Video Still, Barakeh + Gavish, 2012 Exhibition runs: March 2nd, 2012 – April 20th, 2012
Opening Reception:
Friday March 2nd, 2012 6PM -10PM
Closing Reception:
Friday April 20th, 2012 6PM-9PM Images of art works:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ictusgallery/sets/72157629056541299/
Public Program/ Panel discussion TBA
1769 15th St., San Francisco, CA, 94110 Gallery hours: Wednesday- Saturday, 12:00pm-5:00pm and by appt.
IcTus Gallery is pleased to present Jaffa Mangoes: History, Memory and Myth, an exhibition unraveling two orthogonal personal histories that intersected in Jaffa, one of the oldest port-cities in the world. Please join us on Friday, March 2nd from 6-10pm for the exhibition opening.
The two artists ––Palestinian artist Zeina Barakeh and Israeli artist Michal Gavish–– transform Ictus Gallery into an arena of investigation and dialogue about two very personal, loaded, yet antagonistic stories of exile. The exhibition is a product of a long,
difficult, and multilayered journey of communication and work between Gavish and Barakeh, and is co-curated by Hanna Regev and Katya Min.
Gavish and Barakeh met in San Francisco and began conversations about Jaffa, where Zeina’s family originated before the establishment of the Israeli State in 1948, and near which Michal grew up. They began exploring the possibilities of bringing together two personal yet political narratives about Jaffa, narratives that kept colliding because of the larger unresolved and ongoing Palestinian-Israeli conflict. While their personal family histories run parallel in some aspects, their present situations are still adversarial. Their ambition to accomplish an art piece together, not necessarily to produce solutions, is a closer examination into the process of conflict-resolution.
Curator Hanna Regev states, “these two histories spring from the pre-founding of the State of Israel in 1948 and the ongoing conflict that ensued. The passing of six decades has contributed to shifts in the geographical, political and cultural landscape, echoed in the shifting sandy beaches around Jaffa-Tel Aviv. Even the well-branded Jaffa orange has been supplanted by the Mango, a plant non-native to the region and giving its name to a newly globalizedfashionindustryunderthelabel,“MangoDesign.” Thedramatic
tales described by the artists reminds us of the long march of time, faulty memories, nationalistic myths and a yearning for identities and a place to call home. ”
About the Artists:
Zeina Barakeh was born and raised in Beirut, Lebanon. She obtained a BA in Interior Design from the Lebanese American University, Beirut, and earned an MFA from the San Francisco Arts Institute in May 2008, where she currently works as Director of Graduate Administration. Her past exhibitions include: Facets, at Espace SD, Beirut in 2005; Internal Exile: From Palestine to the USA to Mexico, at SomArts Bay Gallery, San Francisco in 2007; and Third-Half Passport Collection, at The Public theater, New York City in 2011. Artist’s website: http://www.zeinabarakeh.com/
Michal Gavish is a San Francisco-based multi-media artist. Her paintings, installations and video works examine her personal history. Born in Israel to a family of Holocaust survivors, her work is inescapably touching on the political. Her previous career as a scientist is another major aspect of her work. Gavish has a PhD in Physical chemistry and was working as a professional scientist till she decided to concentrate on her art about ten years ago. She received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2008. Her work was shown in many venues in San Francisco, New York, Europe and South America and is represented by the Sandra Lee Gallery in San Francisco. Artist’s website: http://michalgavish.com
Co-curated by Hanna Regev
Hanna Regev earned an M.A. in Museum Studies and M.A. in Modern European History from San Francisco State University. She currently serves on the board of the First Amendment Project and lectures at the University California Berkeley Extension
teaching a course on museum and museum careers. In addition, Regev has authored a number of articles and organized highly successful symposia, panel discussions and special events. Curator’s website: http://hannaregev.com/
About icTus Gallery:
icTus Gallery features an emerging aesthetic of multi-dimensional realities and art forms occurring between and within places and people, the territories of artists, the revealing of things—the artists in transit, inside their work, and their worlds, bent on a subversive contemporary point of view.
Web: www.ictusgallery.com. For more information, please contact: katya@ictusgallery.com
December 3, 2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PRESS CONTACT:
Katya Min, Curator
Email: katya@ictusgallery.com
Telephone: (510) 912-0792
ICTUS GALLERY PRESENTS DISRUPTURE, A MULTIMEDIA DISPLAY OF THE UNRAVELING OF SOCIETY’S SYSTEMS
Exhibition runs:
January 7th, 2012 - February 17th, 2012
Opening Reception:
Saturday January 7th, 2012 6PM -10PM
Closing Reception:
February 17th, 2012 6PM-9PM
1769 15th St. (between Valencia & Guerrero)
San Francisco, CA, 94110
Gallery hours: Wednesday- Saturday,
12pm-5pm and by appt.
icTus Gallery is pleased to present Disrupture, a collection of multimedia installations by C. Ree, Heather Sparks and Jenifer Wofford. Please join us on Saturday January 7th, from 6-10pm for the exhibition opening.
In the wake of Arab Spring and its waves of revolt, and Occupy movements in every corner of the country, the topic of political disruption has hopefully entered our daily dialogue. The artists in Disrupture take the conversation further, disfiguring the very spaces in which we live, upsetting the cherished ritual of shopping and depicting the greatest ruptures of all: the explosive volcano.
By inflecting everyday spaces with both specters of past trauma and a presence which resists the rational, C. Ree’s new installation work Overhead explores the monstrous underbelly of the heroic, and troubles the real into a space that is unexplainably urgent. She uses suspended ceiling components often found in mass produced spaces – both commercial and domestic – and incorporates dripping leaks from horror movies, fibrous tiles which sag over time, or mirrors which confuse vision and location. C. Ree filmed an accompanying video, Aimless Bullet, which documents a large-scale ceiling’s complete destruction, single-handedly sabotaged by an unknown figure.
As a meditation on consumption and desire, Heather Sparks developed the Big Return Project, a collective performance with participants across the US and parts of Europe. Inspired by her experience within the fashion industry, which she says “de-mystified the lure of luxury brands”, Heather invited participants to shop and then return their purchases as performative actions, a binging and purging of a desire to consume. Documentation of actions, including a collective ‘workshop’ shopping experience, were uploaded and shared through social media, and were included in the performance series Capitalism is Over. The project continues, attracting new contributions and dialog.
Moving from the disrupture of the material realm to one of the natural realm, Jenifer K Wofford focuses her sights on rendering volcano plumes in ink and acrylic works on paper. Part of a very new body of work begun this year, Wofford has been constructing a global history of volcanic eruption columns—or rather, the depiction of eruption columns, and the ways in which these have been documented or retold in centuries of media ranging from imagined paintings and etchings of the AD 79 Mount Vesuvius catastrophe to hyper-contemporary photography and video of the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption. In part a formal challenge to render the ephemerality of smoke and ash in a line-based drawing, Wofford’s Volcano project is also an enquiry into pressure, change, cataclysm and consequence, and a study of natural phenomena on a global scale, focusing on historic and recent eruptions in the Philippines, Iceland, Indonesia, Japan and Italy.
About the Artists:
C. Ree is an artist based in Los Angeles, San Diego and the Bay Area. Recent shows include group shows Nothing Comes from Nothing, Las Cienegas Project, Los Angeles, Breathed Unsaid, SomARTs Gallery, San Francisco, Ground Control, University Art Gallery, UC Irvine. She received her MFA in Studio Art from University of California, Irvine.
Heather Sparks is a conceptual artist whose work spans installation, sculpture, and video as well as drawing, painting, performance, and collective actions. Heather’s work has been exhibited internationally. Her work has been included in the Lyon Biennial, the Observatori Festival in Valencia Spain, and was recently screened at the Sotheby’s Institute, NY as well as featured on the Big Screen Project on 6th Avenue, New York, and in The Atomic Testing Museum, Las Vegas, in conjunction with Creative Time. Heather received her MFA from Stanford University in 2007. She received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, received a Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Fellowship in 1994, and was a Kala artist in residence in 2000. In the Bay Area, her work has been exhibited at Southern Exposure, New Langton, Camerawork, the Walter Mcbean Gallery, the Richmond Arts Center, the MacPherson Museum, Kala, Cummings Gallery at Stanford University, The Berkeley Museum, and Catherine Clark Gallery.Web: www.heathersparks.net
Jenifer K Wofford is a Filipina-American artist and educator based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She was born in San Francisco and raised in Hong Kong, the United Arab Emirates, and Malaysia. She received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, and her MFA from UC Berkeley. Her work has been exhibited in the Bay Area at the Berkeley Art Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Southern Exposure, Richmond Art Center, and Kearny Street Workshop, nationally at New Image Art (Los Angeles), Nora Eccles Harrison Museum (Salt Lake City), thirtynine hotel (Honolulu), and internationally at Future Prospects (Philippines), Galerie Blanche (France), and Osage Gallery Kwun Tong (Hong Kong).
Web: www.wofflehouse.com
About icTus Gallery:
icTus Gallery features an emerging aesthetic of multi-dimensional realities and art forms occurring between and within places and people,the territories of artists, the revealing of things—the artists in transit, inside their work, and their worlds, bent on a subversive contemporary point of view.
Web: www.ictusgallery.com
katya@ictusgallery.com
September 7, 2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
PRESS CONTACT:
Katya Min: katya@ictusgallery.com
IcTus Gallery 1769 15th St.
San Francisco, CA, 94013
(510) 912-0792
Images here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ictusgallery/sets/72157627631587852/
IMMATERIAL
Solo Project
Mary Fernando Conrad
October 6th - November 18th, 2011
Opening Reception: Thursday October 6th, 6pm - 10pm
Closing Reception: Friday November 18th, 6pm - 10pm
1769 15th St. (between Valencia and Guerrero)
San Francisco, CA, 94013
Gallery hours: Tuesday- Saturday 12pm-5pm and by appt.
icTus Gallery is pleased to present Immaterial, a solo exhibition of new work by Mary Fernando Conrad. Please join us on Thursday October 6th, from 6-10pm for the exhibition opening and to meet the artist.
The exhibition comprises a series of large-scale mixed media installations, including acrylic-covered boxes, drawings, and sewn plastic sheeting. Mary Fernando Conrad’s work investigates social infrastructure through the use of vernacular materials such as neon signage, packaging and construction materials.
Through her work, Conrad provokes the viewer to take a closer, more inquisitive look at the social edifices surrounding us. Conrad suggests that an understanding of a world of pre-packaged alarm and debris can only come from an inquiry into that which is so familiar as to be ignored.
In doing so, Conrad reconnoiters the spaces between making and seeing, in the context of this tension between the signifiers of our systems and we who populate them. She focuses our attention on the levels of meaning carried within even the everyday objects surrounding us — mundane, glorious, shifting points of civilization.
About the artist:
Mary Fernando Conrad’s recent shows include the solo show, Lapidary Terrarium at Michael Rosenthal Gallery and the group show In The Fullness of Time: 20th Anniversary Show at the Luggage Store Gallery. She also recently installed a sculpture as part of the Tenderloin National Forest/Luggage Store Annex where she had completed a residency in 2006. She received her Bachelors of Arts, from Cornell University and a Masters of Architecture from Columbia University after attending the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. Born in the United States, Conrad lived abroad for many years in France and Indonesia, as well as childhood in Sri Lanka.
Web: www.maryconrad.org
About icTus Gallery:
icTus Gallery features an emerging aesthetic of multi-dimensional realities and art forms occurring between and within places and people,the territories of artists, the revealing of things—the artists in transit, inside their work, and their worlds, bent on a subversive contemporary point of view.
Web: www.ictusgallery.com
katya@ictusgallery.com
