----/ The Squid List /-------------------------------------------------- Lori Gordon & Rebecca Szeto : art opening
Friday, November 4th 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm free ----/ Event Description /----------------------------------------------- 2 solo shows ARTIST : Lori Gordon title : There Is No Failure Here medium: watercolor and gouache on paper ARTIST : Rebecca Szeto title : Creature Comfort medium: mixed media LOCATION : ampersand international arts 1001 Tennessee st. (@ 20th) San Francisco, Ca 94107 U.S.A. website: www.ampersandintlarts.com tel: 415-285-0170 dates of EXHIBITION : Nov 4 - Dec 16 2005 artists RECEPTION : Friday Nov 4 _ 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm gallery hours : Fridays 11am-5pm & always by appointment Lori Gordon Bio: Lori Gordon is a San Francisco-based South African artist; she creates cross-disciplinary works that combine aspects of the paranormal, belief systems and social sculpture. Much of her work attempts to make the ineffable visible. Through collaborative endeavors, Gordon explores the gap between coincidence and intention, with an emphasis on setting up moments that deviate from the expected conversation. In some cases, she is moreinterested in providing the organized framework around which potential interactions may occur , both between herself and the viewer or participants. Gordon completed a BFA in painting at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and received an MFA at the California College of the Arts. An SF Foundation 2004 Murphy Cadogan Fellowship Award recipient, Gordon has recently shown her work in the 'Dress: Clothing As Art' exhibition at the Richmond Arts Center as well as participating in events at other Bay Area locations including New Langton Arts, Playspace Gallery, Temescal Amity Works and Juice Design. Lori Gordon Statement: Through my work I investigate the structure and power of belief. With simple acts of human connection, I am creating artwork that questions the reductive notion that a person can exist in the world without faith, demonstrating in the process that art itself cannot function without the willing participation of a faithful audience. The reality with all my work is that I am most often more interested in the journey than the destination. I am interested in choreographing intimacy. My public works give me a chance to redirect people, and compose situations. I find people to be fascinating, and the tactics I use to persuade and entice them to respond to my work are done with great respect. Through learning about others I learn about myself. With this strong desire to communicate with other people I translate those processes into something else: objects, performative acts and documentation of public interactions. Rebecca Szeto Bio: Rebecca Szeto is an artist living and working in San Francisco, California. Through her work, she searches for the connections between the simple objects and activities of the everyday and her ongoing fascination for themes of beauty, order and the sublime. Szeto received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of California at Berkeley in 1992 and has continued her artistic training to date with independent studies under Rose Shakinovsky and Clare Gavronsky in Montagnana, Italy. She has been a recent fellow at CanSerrat in El Bruc, Spain; Banff Centre for the Arts in Alberta, Canada; and Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village, Colorado, and was awarded a Pamela Joseph Merit Fellowship. She has also attended other residencies in Italy and South Africa. Rebecca Szeto Statement: I am fascinated by everyday life: collecting and using ordinary, unwanted and post-consumer products like scouring pads, rose thorns, rust, and used-up sandpaper. My process develops as an exploration of the qualities inherent in the materials (found or reclaimed from my immediate environment) and evolves into a deeper look at their implications and meanings. In my works, seemingly disparate elements of entropic decay, dysfunctional family units, art history, pop culture, recycling and impermanence come together in ways that questions our assumed value systems and ponders the underlying pattern that connects them all. I play with subtle shifts of perception, fluctuating between truth and fiction, destruction and construction, hinting at a tenuous stability whose strength relies on its flexibility and resilience. It is often a humorous experience of confounded expectations, where the viewer recognizes one thing, but upon closer inspection, realizes something strange and not quite right is going on. Whether I am combining latex with lace, replacing oil paint with rust, or pulling steel wool apart to draw, my works all point to the real material of creativity: a quality of mark, a motivation, a concept. ----/ Venue Info /------------------------------------------------------ ampersand international arts 1001 Tennessee street San Francisco 415 285-0456 www.ampersandintlarts.com cross street 20th / parallel to 3rd st. . 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