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Visual Aid Art Opening
Friday, July 8
5:30-7:30pm
free
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Visual Aid presents iconography & transformation, an exhibit at Space
743 Harrison Gallery from July 5th through August 13th, 2005. Please
join us at the opening reception on July 8th from 5:30-7:30. The
gallery is located at 743 Harrison Street between 1st and Fremont in
San Francisco.
This show features important work by five Visual Aid artists who are
either directly influenced by religious iconography that evolved into
a formal yet very personal language, or have stumbled upon a stylized
visual language which reads as personal iconography. The work
displays a process of progression and transformation. The exhibit was
curated by Termeh Yeghiazarian and Mape Andrews.
About the Artists:
Heavily inspired by Christian iconography, Gregg Cassin uses
traditional religious icons with a contemporary twist. His imagery
of the winged angel cake, topped with lit birthday candles, fills us
with promise of hope and possibility as it hovers above a child
prophet. As each icon repeats itself in the same painting or the
next, we recognize it as a fixed character in a different scenario.
Although far from Christian iconography, the same repetitive
reference appears in Richard Bolingbroke's paintings. As shells,
rocks, thorns and flowers are arranged and re-arranged, they begin to
read as a coded language, which clearly represent more than a still
life. Spirituality and physicality merge in Bolingbroke's imagery
like carefully composed music.
We negotiate between macrocosm and microcosm in David King's work.
There is a nostalgic focus as his iconography traverses between
figurative and the abstract as if zooming in and out of the same
frame. Time and Space overlap as we move back and forth between
layers of vintage imagery that turn into contemporary science.
Marcia Weisbrot's transfixed preoccupation on the empty dress
directly addresses the missing female figure. The play on words in
each of her work's title, and the writings which appear in the seams
of her delicately crafted paper dresses, read like a book of mystery.
Visual Aid helps produce, present, and preserve the work of
professional artists whose careers are challenged because of a life-
threatening illness. We serve professional artists from the nine-
county Bay Area, providing artists with direct services from art
supplies to exhibitions and career development. For more information,
email [EMAIL PROTECTED], visit www.visualaid.org or call
415-777-8242.
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743 Harrison Gallery
743 Harrison
San Francisco
415-777-9080
between 1st and Freemont Streets in San Francisco
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
415.777.8242
www.visualaid.org
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