Upcoming
IcTus Gallery Presents
Rituals of Water - 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
IcTus Gallery is pleased to announce the “Rituals of Water,” a solo exhibition of the drawing and installation works of Rodney Ewing.
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. His 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.
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IcTus Gallery in collaboration with The Feminist Economics Department (FED) presents…
BEAUTY SALON
November 10th – December 28th, 2012
Gallery hours: Thursday - Saturday 12pm- 5pm
Opening Saturday November 10th, 6 – 10pm
IcTus Gallery, 1769 15th Street. San Francisco CA 94103
September 15th - October 25th, 2012
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 15, 2012 6pm-10pm
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 a number of the interview-style videos, plus more atmospheric video works based on the theme of industrial landscapes (depicting rivers of silvery iron ore and majestic smoke stacks), plus a number of photography works which feature the fantastical forms and otherworldly colors of the factory interiors.
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 works have been widely shown, most recently at SFMOMA.
Co-coordinated by Justin Hoover, Katya Min and Julio Cesar Morales
