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URBANICA: The city of the present, today art opening: thursday april 4. show's thru' april233 6-9pm free ----> Event Description <----------------------------------------------- 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 Cont'd from previous page: 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. 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