Fwd: Social Construction opening at Southern Exposure Friday, May 13 7-9pm

May 9, 2005

Type: discussion

This is sure to be an interesting show.

— Scott Snibbe <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Social Construction
>
> Featuring:
>
> Barbara Bartos
> c a l c (tOmi Scheiderbauer, Teresa Alonso Novo,
> Luks Brunner and Malex
> Spiegel) in close collaboration with Johannes Gees
> John Knuth
> Vitaly Komar (former Komar & Melamid Art Studio)
> Leah Modigliani
> Philip Ross
> Lee Walton
>
> Curated by Abner Nolan and Scott Snibbe
>
> Exhibition Dates: May 13 - June 18, 2005
>
> Southern Exposure
> 401 Alabama Street
> San Francisco, CA 94110
> 415-863-2141
> w <http://www.soex.org> ww.soex.org
>
> Curators Walk -through: Friday, May 13, 6:30pm
>
> Opening Reception: Friday, May 13, 7pm - 9pm
>
> Southern Exposure presents Social Construction
> curated by Abner Nolan and
> Scott Snibbe as part of our May/June 2005
> programming. This exhibition runs
> from Friday, May 13 thru Saturday, June 18, 2005. A
> curators walk-through
> will be held on Friday, May 13th at 6:30pm with an
> opening reception from 7
> PM - 9 PM.
>
> Social Construction features works in which the
> finished piece is
> substantially or entirely created by other
> organisms, highlighting the
> interdependence of artist, medium and society. These
> works show that human
> creation has its roots in an unconscious connection
> to our environment that
> expands beyond the boundaries of our history, our
> culture, and our senses of
> originality and self. Curated by Abner Nolan and
> Scott Snibbe, the
> exhibition features work by Barbara Bartos, c a l c
> (tOmi Scheiderbauer,
> Teresa Alonso Novo, Luks Brunner and Malex Spiegel)
> in close collaboration
> with Johannes Gees, John Knuth, Vitaly Komar (former
> Komar & Melamid Art
> Studio), Leah Modigliani, Philip Ross, and Lee
> Walton.
>
>
> <http://soex.org/images/bartosweb.jpg>
> Barbara Bartos, Philospher's Stone
>
> San Francisco-based Barbara Bartos will exhibit
> Philosopher's Stone, a
> sculptural installation dependent upon a community
> of bees. The
> installation consists of two hollow polyurethane
> forms in the shape of human
> brains that become the home for two beehives. Bartos
> draws a comparison
> between a beehive and the human brain, suggesting
> that individual bees
> function relative to the hive as individual cells in
> a brain.
>
>
> c a l c (tOmi Scheiderbauer, Teresa Alonso Novo,
> Luks Brunner and Malex
> Spiegel) in close collaboration with Johannes Gees
> present Communimage, a
> virtual collective artwork that is composed of
> 24,000 images contributed by
> approximately 2,000 individuals from 84 countries.
> The individual images
> are quilted together to form a visual global
> "polylogue" that is rooted in
> the utopian ideals of Internet art.
>
>
> <http://soex.org/images/communimage%20web.jpg>
> c a l c with Johannes Gees, Communimage
>
>
>
> <http://soex.org/images/knuthweb.jpg>
> John Knuth, Paintings
>
>
> Los Angeles-based artist John Knuth relies on an
> army of flies to produce
> his series of watercolor paintings. Knuth creates
> built environments for
> thousands of flies that digest watercolor paint and
> deposit small spots of
> color on white canvases. The resulting compositions
> are strikingly
> beautiful, and reflect a futile attempt to control a
> biological entity.
>
>
>
> Russian artist Vitaly Komar (former Komar & Melamid
> Art Studio) presents
> sculptures and drawings from the Eco-labor-ation
> project, in which the
> artist collaborated with beavers and termites. Komar
> placed 2 x 4 ready-made
> pieces of wood in natural habitats, allowing them to
> be transformed into
> beaver dams and termite towers. Komar intends the
> resulting works to
> symbolize the ecological co-existence of different
> forms of life and
> creativity.
>
>
> <http://soex.org/images/komarweb.jpg>
> Vitaly Komar (former Komar & Melamid Art Studio),
> Eco-labor-ation with
> beavers
>
>
> <http://soex.org/images/modiglianiweb.jpg>
>
> Leah Modigliani, Acquisition
>
> Leah Modigliani is an Oakland based artist whose
> project Acquisition
> explores issues of authorship and the art economy.
> She has photographed the
> exterior of Bay Area contemporary art collectors'
> homes and then
> commissioned artists in China to create new
> paintings based on these
> photographic images. By outsourcing her labor,
> Modigliani is able to produce
> artwork with a greater profit margin. The artist
> will use the profit
> generated by this project to secure the down payment
> for a home in the Bay
> Area, making herself complicit in the operations of
> our global economy.
>
>
> San Francisco-based sculptor Phil Ross presents
> three artworks that explore
> the relationship between measuring time and the life
> of plants. This project
> is inspired by the practice of studying growth rings
> on trees as a means of
> telling time. Ross reconfigures this relationship in
> his sculpture, Junior
> Return, a hydroponic plant whose existence is
> regulated by a clock. Every
> sixty seconds, a pump injects a pulse of air into
> the plant's environment.
> Ross creates a scenario in which human time engulfs
> and replaces a plant's
> natural growth processes.
>
> <http://soex.org/images/rossweb.jpg>
> Phil Ross, Junior Return
>
>
> <http://soex.org/images/waltonweb.jpg>
> Lee Walton, Red Ball: Manhattan
>
> Lee Walton is New York based conceptual artist whose
> projects and
> performances involve human interaction, humor, and
> an intermingling of rules
> and chance. In his online project, Red Ball:
> Manhattan, Walton will place a
> little red ball in successively specific locations
> in New York City based on
> the votes of visitors to his website. The work will
> culminate in the final
> precise placement of the ball at a location
> collectively determined by the
> community. The project will be accessible from the
> artist's website:
> www.leewalton.com.
>
>
>
> For more information and images, contact Courtney
> Fink or Kristen
> Evangelista at 415/863-2141 or email
> [email protected] or [email protected].
> Southern Exposure is located at 401 Alabama at 17th
> Street in San Francisco.
> Gallery hours are 11 AM to 5 PM, Tuesday through
> Saturday. Gallery
> admission is FREE.
>
>
>

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