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CURRENT
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March
21-April 25, 2008 HOW
FAST YOUR WORLD IS CHANGING UPCOMING EVENTS: Saturday, April
12th March 25 - April
25 ARTexts, including critical
essay by Jim Servin found here: ampersandsfwords.blogspot.com |
Markuz
Wernli-Saito
Shadow Followers,
Returning the Negatives
Photograph by K'Li Ang Va
2007
Harrell Fletcher is finding it hard to make art amidst all the troubling events happening in the world. He feels it would be better to offer viewers the chance to witness current events through the syndicated show Democracy Now. He makes an effort to watch this every day, and would like to offer the same alternative to gallery visitors.
Christine Hill presents a selection of catchphrase posters, pulled from the Volksboutique library of positive reinforcement quotations.
Hope Hilton wants to share the silence with you. By creating a journey through movement without sound, she trusts that her silent walks will provide an experience that is both contemplative and insightful. It is a journey that strangers and friends will take, following Hilton as she walks an uncharted path, ending the route where she begins.
Jessica James Lansdon is also working through some guilt. She is questioning why it is that artists still make objects today. Is anything worth saving, worth giving away? The glitz and clutter of a trashy collection lure us in and we see that Jessica has attached each object to a piece of string on the wall: she wants the viewer to sever these ties, to cut the threads, to set these things free, thereby freeing her as well.
Jennifer Delos Reyes is honoring those she loves and admires through song and music. Inspired by a funeral she attended, where the pastor led the service singing the deceased's favorite song, Jennifer doesn't want to wait that long. She doesn't want to wait until anyone is gone. By creating an impromptu choir on site, the gallery will be filled with the voices of those who have come together for a brief moment, to share a song.
Markuz Wernli-Saito
wants to return the photographs others took for him in an art residency
project in Vietnam. He invites the viewer to choose a roll of negatives
and mail them back on his behalf to the residents of Bao Loc, hoping
to make amends by returning something that was never his to begin with.
As an artist and independent
curator Lori Gordon investigates the structure and power
of belief, creating projects that attempt to decipher both humanity's
and her own connection with the universe. Through collaborative endeavors,
she explores the distance between coincidence and intention, with an emphasis
on setting up moments that deviate from the expected. In some cases, she
is more interested in providing the organized framework around which potential
interactions may occur. With all her work, she is more interested in the
journey than the destination.
Born 1975 Johannesburg, South Africa. Gordon received her MFA at the California
College of the Arts. She is a recipient of the SECA Award nomination and
the Murphy Cadogan Fellowship from the San Francisco Foundation. Exhibition
venues include Richmond Arts Center, San Jose Museum of Art, Mission17,
Southern Exposure, Temescal Amity Works, RockPaperScissors and The Kitchen
(NYC). Gordon is the co-founder of Little Red Hen Collective and
You Can Have It All. She recently chaired a panel at the University
of Regina conference, "Open Engagement", on emerging Social
Practices. This year she will be co-curating the Infinite Exchange
Gallery for the Zero1 Biennial, and she will participate
in the Talking Arts series at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary
Art, where she will provide portfolio reviews to artists.