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URBANICA: The city of the present, today

art opening: thursday april 4. show's  thru'  april233

6-9pm

free

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URBANICA: The city of the present, today
April 4th ­ 23rd

Opening Reception: Thursday April 4, 2002   6-9 pm
Curated by: Chris Benfield

Crucible Steel Gallery is located in CELLspace at 2050 Bryant St. @ 18thSt.
Tel.# (415) 648-7562
www.cellspace.org
Gallery hours are 10am - 10pm daily.

Using the theme of “urban development” as inspiration, Chris Benfield,
curates the work of three local artists who have created "URBANICA", an
imaginary urban landscape.

Petrina Cooper and Mark Nakamura each present a series of black and white
photographs.
Cooper's work reflects on nature's reclamation of urban decay, while
Nakamura’s series documents the transformation of farmland to make room for
residential housing in the changing landscape near San Jose.

Ellen Singletary installs a wall piece based around office supplies
and "office" poetry, aswell as presenting, in collaboration with Dave Dudek
and Patrick O’Hearn, a video which documents the strange phenomenon of some
houses being relocated in the middle of the night.

The show is intended to illuminate the transformative processes that we,
and the environment, experience when an urban setting is being created,
inhabited, and eventually decaying. Two of the artists show pieces that
specifically refer to the San Jose area of California, where Silicon Valley
epitomizes hyper-urbanity.
Grab your map at the door…..




Petrina Cooper’s series, titled “Coevolution” documents Man vs. Nature.
Evocative images depict anonymous battlegrounds where humans have changed/
created an environment, and nature is silently taking back the landscape.
The locations range from Chicago to New Orleans, and it should be noted
that they have a universal flavor that is intrinsic to the organic
processes of every urban environment.

Cooper has a Bachelor of Fine Art in photography from Massachusetts College
of Art in Boston.  She has been living in San Francisco for 4 1/2 years.
This is her third San Francisco show.


Mark Allen Nakamura documents the rising sprawl of new housing projects and
their impact on the natural environment in "Developments". These photos
show the start of housing developments overtaking the natural land at the
beginning of the suburban housing boom in 1996. Rolling hills have been
bulldozed for pastel cookie-cutter housing tracts.  Fences and streets now
divide the land into parcels separated by man-made homes. These photos make
it clear that no attempt was made to integrate these new housing
developments with the natural environment.

Nakamura is a photographer interested in documenting natural and man-made
environments.  He has a B.A. in art with an emphasis on photography from
the University of California, Santa Cruz, and recently relocated to New
York.


Ellen Singletary’s aggressively scaled site-specific installation,
titled “Look what I did with your office supplies”, is a panoramic view of
downtown office buildings. Made using common office supplies: post-it
notes, labels, staples, tape, standard sized copy paper, and file folders,
to create a visual reflection on office life.  A first-time release of
Singletary’s chapbook "Office Poems" will accompany her work.

  “Moving Stinky: A San Jose Historical home” is a video piece Singletary
made in collaboration with Dave Dudek and Patrick O’Hearn.  To make way for
the construction of a new San Jose City Hall, two blocks of downtown
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properties, including eleven historic structures, were to be demolished.
The Redevelopment Agency of San Jose gave in to pressure from the community
and agreed to move the homes.  This video documents the nighttime
transportation of a 117-year old house affectionately nicknamed Stinky (it
was boarded-up for a year without taking out the trash first), as well as
several other historical homes in San Jose, in December 2001.

Singletary has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting and drawing and a minor
in poetry from the University of North Texas. She was Joseph Chowning
Gallery’s INTRODUCTIONS 2001 artist, and is currently represented by the SF
Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery.

----> Venue Info <------------------------------------------------------

Crucible Steel Gallery at CELLspace
2050 Bryant st. bet. 18th & 19th st's
san francisco
415-648-7562
www.cellspace.org

BART to 16th st. Bus 22 to bryant st. walk 2 1/2 blocks south.
hwy 101 to cesar chavez exit, west on cesar chavez st., right on bryant,
and 1/2 mile north...CELL is on left side of street

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415-285-5628
www.cellspace.org : click on gallery

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