Lunds konsthall
12 March–8 May 2011

It is with particular joy that Lunds konsthall presents the exhibition I, the Undersigned. In these days of profound change and hopefulness in the Arab world we are very proud to be able to show the first-ever solo exhibition by the internationally renowned Lebanese theatre director, actor and artist Rabih Mroué.

In the lead up to this year’s Academy Awards, I found myself on a few occasions defending Joel and Ethan Coen’s True Grit as something other than simply a good remake of a classic western.  My argument in defense of their Oscar-nominated film more or less hinged on the basic point that True Grit can [...]

May you live in interesting times… This ambiguously Chinese curse implies that interesting (i.e. historically significant) times are usually not peaceful ones. They are times of change and therefore, times of uncertainty, insecurity, and sometimes violence. Shakespeare’s brooding Prince of Denmark, Hamlet, would have agreed completely, lamenting “that the time is out of joint.” For [...]

Are you looking to lose weight for the summer? How many pounds do you need to lose? Why do you need so badly to lose weight during the summer? Is it all about the sun and the shiny beaches? Or are you just dreaming about buying trendy swimwear? Oh, don…

Bear Study Diptych
Lola Isern
Self Portrait- Portrait of my father, Manuel Fernandez

After exhibiting at The Artist Project in 2008, Pamela Johnson’s American Still Life series began getting attention. Pepperdine University’s Weisman Museum of Art, Adler & Co. Gallery, and the San Francisco Fine Art Fair, all in Johnson’s native California, exhibited the junk food paintings, as well as Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati, the Susquehanna Art Museum [...]

Budd Hopkins is an American painter and sculptor born June 15, 1931 in Wheeling, West Virginia. His paintings, sculptures and prints are in the permanent collections of MoMA, the Whitney Museum and the Guggenheim Museum. He’s a pioneer in the field of UFO research (Intruders Foundation) and has written books on the UFO phenomena (Missing [...]

The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), North Miami presents the first major solo museum exhibition in the US for German artist Jonathan Meese. The show with the title Jonathan Meese: Sculpture focuses on Jonathan Meese’s three-dimensional work. It includes his first ceramic talisman that he created when he was 15. Also on display are small [...]

New Delhi: Galleria presents New York based visual artist Uday K Dhar’s first solo show in Delhi titled “The Exquisite Corpse” at Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi from December 6 to December 14, 2010. Part of the proceeds from the exhibition will go to Pratham, an NGO working for under-privileged children.<br />
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Born in London and having studied art at Columbia University in New York and then in Berlin, Dhar has previously exhibited at various highly respected forums. In 2007, for instance, Dhar’s painting – in acrylic, sand, pigment, wax and oil titled Purva Akash – was part of a show that was displayed during a UNESCO conference in Bali. His works have also been exhibited in places like New York, Los Angeles (US), Berlin (Germany), Budapest (Hungary), Bali (Indonesia), and Mumbai (India). He is also the recipient of the prestigious Jackson Pollock- Lee Krasner Foundation Grant in 2005, and is a 2006 fellow of both the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo.<br />
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Says Dhar, who is also a member of the Asian American Arts Alliance: “My art focuses on the common ground between diverse cultural experiences and backgrounds. As an American artist of South Asian descent, I am interested in introducing non-western ideas into the current discourse about art in the US, particularly for an audience unfamiliar with foreign concepts and ideas. The works are the result of research into various things, Indian and American magazines, survey of fashion ads, research and reading of newspaper article, art history books etc. My work changed dramatically in 2005 after my father passed away one month after I received the Pollock-Krasner Grant. But as you will see looking at the older works, one theme links all my works – a deep conviction about translating my Indian heritage and reinterpreting that for a new context with new feeling.”<br />
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According to Dr Alka Pande, curator of the show: “Uday Dhar is an artist of Indian origin, and like many global citizens, is at home any where in the world. In this age of a cosmopolitan internationalism, he too is engaged with the fluidity of identities. His work is complex, deeply layered with a painterly, poetic quality to it.”<br />
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The title of the current show in New Delhi, “The Exquisite Corpse”, according to Dhar, is derived from a game played by Surrealists in Paris in the 1930’s. The parlor game involved passing a piece of paper between different people who did not know what the previous image, which was covered, contained. At the end of the game, there was a curious but shocking juxtaposition of strange images that formed an enigmatic diagram. The meaning of the final image was for the viewer to determine.<br />
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Dhar connects his own multi-cultural upbringing which he calls a “life full of collages” to the multi-layered dimensions in his work. As a son of Bengali father and a Maharashtrian mother and raised in Patna, Bihar, and then his upbringing as an Arya Samaji influenced by Rabindranath Tagore, Dhar’s heterogeneous life experience have found resonance at a personal level too. He studied architecture, chucked a career as an architect to pursue art and came out as a gay artist in 1979 when there were no South Asian openly gay men in NY! <br />
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Says Dhar: “All of these layers and fragments have led me to express my work as a layered object. I am fascinated how different elements, images, concepts, cultures and materials are combined, processed, reworked juxtaposed to create a new synthesis of form and feeling. With this as inspiration, I have created works that are a commentary of how we now live life in the age of globalization. As we are constantly bombarded by images through advertising, marketing, social sites, flashy web content, a sensory overload is created. How we create meaning in our lives as consumers of this flood of visual stimulation is the subject of these paintings.” <br />
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The selected images create juxtapositions that are transgressive and defy easy resolution. They refer to ways we define what is considered Eastern and Western cultures. But in an age dominated by a global economy and international pop culture, boundaries are breached and differences become irrelevant. In this context, the challenge lies in the task of creating a new synthesis. Specific cultural definitions of gender, art history, and mythology become ambiguous; marketing, branding, and self promotion become paramount – and contradictions are irresolvable. That is the new identity.<br />
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The paintings for the series titled “Mirror, Mirror on the Wall” include identically sized works. Each painting starts with a rough human outline representing the “Purusha”, or “man as the representation of mankind”. In each of fourteen works in this series, the profile remains the same but different material is used inside the profile to express the transformation of the elemental man into a multiplicity of avatars because of the dynamics of a trans-national global society. Each painting in this series employs a different strategy to make a similar point about the fluid nature of identity. They are made with materials that are unique for each work; at the same time, all the paintings are inter-linked by the repetition of a human silhouette. The sequence of the images is presented more or less in the order they were made. It is intended to create a narrative of self-containment, implosion, fragmentation, and reconstitution. Says Dhar: “Hence the idea of an avatar, the spirit reappearing in different forms through time, and locations.”<br />
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The “Exquisite Corpse series” is a different take on this notion of a fluid identity. The paintings for this series are created through a process that combines various strategies. Magazine ads, cell phone downloads, art history books, entertainment magazine pictures, comics etc. are used to create unique collages. These are scanned and reworked digitally and are laser printed on canvas. The works are then enhanced with hand painted sections of oil color; lastly, they are collaged with graphics.<br />
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Says Dhar about this series: “One might call them ‘self- portraiture’ without the portrait. It comments on how identity is forged through the consumption of specific images, products that define who we are, and what we are engaged with. It is the nature in the age of globalization and information access, that where one is located does not restrict the exploration of other experiences at other locations. i.e geography is not a restriction as it was before air travel, internet etc.”<br />
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In a work titled Bad Boy/Good Boy (48" x 54", Chalkboard spray paint, Crayon, chalk on blackboard), Dhar refers to his childhood experience at St Xavier’s in Patna while in Celebrity (48" x 54", Cellphone pictures digitally printed on canvas, layered with sprayed stencil), he refers to the celebrity culture of the Facebook phenomenon. In Twinkle Twinkle (54"x 54", Unique collage digitally printed on canvas, enhanced with paint, glitter and spray painted text), he refers to the condition of the hijra; symbol of the in-betweenness of gender, cultures and media transformation in the age of Facebook and Twitter. It also refers to media creations like Lady Gaga, while Sweetie Darling (54"x 54", Unique collage digitally printed on canvas, enhanced with paint, glitter and spray painted text) refers to Andy Warhol’s Marilyn pictures transformed to the new age of transgendered people as celebrities and porn stars.<br />
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Since Dhar’s show is about a fluid human identity in the age of global consumerism, Dhar places himself as a truly global citizen through these works. He says: “I believe that all societies are participating in this sort of global consumerism. Perhaps not in remotest Amazon forests, but certainly in all places where the markets and IT operates. It is called aspirational consumption and exchange. It does not have to be products, but can be cultural experiences, religious aspects, charity work etc.”<img src="http://rhizome.org/syndicate/nothing.gif?f=announce" border="0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rhizome-announce/~4/35sTLa6duBg" height="1" width="1"/>

NewMediaFest’2010<br />
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program – week 49 –> 29 November – 5 December 2010<br />
http://2010.newmediafest.org/?p=1175<br />
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Feature of the Week 49<br />
http://2010.newmediafest.org/?p=1173<br />
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JavaMuseum’s netart journal<br />
“Celebrate!” – celebrating 10 years netart<br />
is proudly presenting this week<br />
10 new exciting netart pieces by<br />
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Ana Carvalho (Portugal)<br />
Ximena Alarcón (Colombia)<br />
Mark Beasley (USA)<br />
James B. Pollack (USA)<br />
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VideoChannel Cologne’s<br />
Feature of the Month November 2010 – part 2<br />
http://2010.newmediafest.org/?p=1163<br />
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Family Affair 2 – Mother, father, brothers & sisters<br />
featuring videos by following 12 artists<br />
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Helga Bothe (D) – Sara Bremen (USA) – Janet Cook-Rutnik (VI)<br />
Ren Cummings (USA) – Michael Doocey (USA) – Gratuitous Art Films (USA) –<br />
Richard Jochum (A) – Tina Jokitalo (FI) – Radhamohini Prasad (IN)<br />
Robby Rackleff (USA) – Sivan Sebbag (Israel) – Péter Vadócz (HU)<br />
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NewMediaFest’2010<br />
10 Years :||cologne<br />
global heritage of digital culture<br />
1 January – 31 December 2010<br />
http://2010.newmediafest.org<br />
<br />
director and chief curator:<br />
Wilfried Agricola de Cologne<br />
<br />
2010 newmediafest.org<br />
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VideoChannel Cologne -<br />
the international platform for videoart<br />
proudly presents<br />
–><br />
Feature of the Month November 2010<br />
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Family Affairs 2 – realised in two parts<br />
"Father" & "Mother, father. brothers & sisters"<br />
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"Father" includes videos by following 12 artists<br />
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Antonio Alvarado (Spain) – Zack Bent (USA)– Yin-Ling Chen (Taiwan)<br />
Virginia Colwell (USA) – Lindsay Foster (USA) – Constantin Hartenstein (Germany)<br />
Shahar Marcus (Israel)– Antti Savela (Sweden) – Chris Stockbridge (UK)<br />
Marc Thele (Germany) – Anders Weberg (Sweden) – Zellner Bros. (USA)<br />
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"Mother, father, brothers and sisters" includes videos by following 12 artists<br />
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Helga Bothe (D) – Sara Bremen (USA) – Janet Cook-Rutnik (VI)<br />
Ren Cummings (USA) – Michael Doocey (USA) – Gratuitous Art Films (USA)<br />
– Richard Jochum (A) – Tina Jokitalo (FI) – Radhamohini Prasad (IN)<br />
Robby Rackleff (USA) – Sivan Sebbag (Israel) – Péter Vadócz (HU)<br />
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Two years ago, "Family Affairs" started with "Mother" as the fundamental part of a family. The current selections spotlight the position and role of the father within the family, how the artists experience, perceive and value the family as an integral structure.<br />
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Here is direct access online<br />
http://videochannel.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=1209<br />
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VideoChannel Cologne<br />
international platform for videoart<br />
http://videochannel.newmediafest.org<br />
/// partner of<br />
NewMediaFest’2010<br />
http://2010.newmediafest.org<br />
/// powered by<br />
artvideoKOELN ~<br />
the initiative "art & moving images" ~<br />
http://video.mediaartcologne.org<br />
<br />
videochannel (at) newmediafest.org<br />
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NewMediaFest’2010<br />
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program- week 48 –> 22-28 November 2010<br />
http://2010.newmediafest.org/?p=1169<br />
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1.<br />
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VideoChannel Cologne – proudly presents<br />
Feature of the Month November 2010 – part 2<br />
http://2010.newmediafest.org/?p=1163<br />
<br />
Family Affair 2 – Mother, father, brothers & sisters<br />
featuring videos by following 12 artists<br />
<br />
Helga Bothe (D) – Sara Bremen (USA) – Janet Cook-Rutnik (VI)<br />
Ren Cummings (USA) – Michael Doocey (USA) – Gratuitous Art Films (USA)<br />
– Richard Jochum (A) – Tina Jokitalo (FI) – Radhamohini Prasad (IN)<br />
Robby Rackleff (USA) – Sivan Sebbag (Israel) – Péter Vadócz (HU)<br />
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2.<br />
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Feature of the Week 48<br />
http://2010.newmediafest.org/?p=1167<br />
<br />
JavaMuseum’s netart journal<br />
“Celebrate!” – presents four fine new netart pieces<br />
<br />
–><br />
–> We Are Friends by Hyeseung Yoo (South Korea)<br />
–> 60×365 by David Morneau (USA).<br />
–> A Witch Trial by e.w.walters (Poland).<br />
–> Digital Sculptures for Analog Sounds by P.J. Moskal (Poland)<br />
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NewMediaFest’2010<br />
10 Years :||cologne<br />
global heritage of digital culture<br />
1 January – 31 December 2010<br />
http://2010.newmediafest.org<br />
<br />
director and chief curator: Wilfried Agricola de Cologne<br />
<br />
2010 newmediafest.org<br />
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NewMediaFest’2010<br />
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program- week 47 –> 15-21 November 2010<br />
http://2010.newmediafest.org/?p=1145<br />
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1.<br />
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Feature of the Week 47<br />
http://2010.newmediafest.org/?p=1142<br />
<br />
JavaMuseum’s netart journal<br />
“Celebrate!” – proudly presents five new netart pieces<br />
around “virtual travelling”<br />
~<br />
–> Gaza Airport by Ayman Alazraq (Palestine)<br />
–> Julia by Doron Golan (Israel/USA)<br />
–> Afterbirth Spectacular by Jessica Westbrook/Adam Trowbridge (USA)<br />
–> Network of Thoughts by Michiel Koelink (NL)<br />
–> Artplanktos by Dida Papalexandrou (Greece)<br />
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2.<br />
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VideoChannel Cologne – proudly presents<br />
–><br />
Feature of the Month November 2010<br />
http://2010.newmediafest.org/?p=1129<br />
<br />
Family Affairs 2 – Father<br />
curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne (artvideoKOELN)<br />
featuring videos by following artists<br />
reflecting the role and position of "father"<br />
<br />
Antonio Alvarado (Spain) – Zack Bent (USA)– Yin-Ling Chen (Tainwan)<br />
Virginia Colwell (USA) – Lindsay Foster (USA) – Constantin Hartenstein (Germany)<br />
Shahar Marcus (Israel)– Antti Savela (Sweden) – Chris Stockbridge (UK)<br />
Marc Thele (Germany) – Anders Weberg (Sweden) – Zellner Bros. (USA)<br />
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NewMediaFest’2010<br />
10 Years :||cologne<br />
global heritage of digital culture<br />
1 January – 31 December 2010<br />
http://2010.newmediafest.org<br />
<br />
director and chief curator: Wilfried Agricola de Cologne<br />
<br />
2010 newmediafest.org<br />
—————————————<img src="http://rhizome.org/syndicate/nothing.gif?f=announce" border="0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rhizome-announce/~4/e92l1CBB0fo" height="1" width="1"/>

VideoChannel Cologne -<br />
the international platform for videoart<br />
proudly presents<br />
–><br />
Feature of the Month November 2010<br />
~ also featured on NewMediaFest’2010<br />
http://2010.newmediafest.org/?p=1129<br />
<br />
Family Affair 2 – Father<br />
curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne (artvideoKOELN)<br />
featuring videos by following 12 artists<br />
<br />
Antonio Alvarado (Spain) – Zack Bent (USA)– Yin-Ling Chen (Taiwan)<br />
Virginia Colwell (USA) – Lindsay Foster (USA) – Constantin Hartenstein (Germany)<br />
Shahar Marcus (Israel)– Antti Savela (Sweden) – Chris Stockbridge (UK)<br />
Marc Thele (Germany) – Anders Weberg (Sweden) – Zellner Bros. (USA)<br />
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Two years ago, "Family Affairs" started with "Mother" as the fundamental part of a family. The selection of videos dealing with "father" as the complementary part to "mother", shows the difference of their roles and positions within in the family and how the artists experience, perceive and value this difference.<br />
<br />
Here is direct access<br />
http://videochannel.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=1209<br />
<br />
——————————————-<br />
VideoChannel Cologne<br />
international platform for videoart<br />
http://videochannel.newmediafest.org<br />
is partner of<br />
NewMediaFest’2010<br />
http://2010.newmediafest.org<br />
and powered by<br />
artvideoKOELN ~<br />
the initiative "art & moving images" ~<br />
http://video.mediaartcologne.org<br />
<br />
videochannel (at) newmediafest.org<br />
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Our series sponsor is Fleisher Art Memorial. Locks Gallery is our episode sponsor. Man Bartlett traded in performing in front of a live audience for reaching his audience via social media. In our interview, he ponders the archiving of Twitter tweets, shopping for 24 hours straight at Best Buy, and how to connect ordinary city [...]

Art-Agenda

Ana Teixeira Pinto takes a tour of the brief history of Dahn Vo, ending up at a grave marker for his father (via a 19th century English poet’s headstone and a 17th century play), only to discover “the man without qualities.”

2575 Bancroft Way
Berkeley, CA 94720

Tickets:
$5.50 for BAM/PFA members and UC Berkeley students
$9.50 for adults (18-64)
$6.50 for UC Berkeley faculty and staff; non-UC Berkeley students, senior citizens (65 & over), disabled persons, and youth (17 …

Pop Subversion contains a healthy dose of both established and emerging artists from the realms of street art, pop surrealism, lowbrow, illustration, print making, tattoo and so much more. Through this group exhibition, promising young artists will ha…

01.07.2008 – 02.08.2008

Garage Fuzz, Most, of street art, toyart, children, etc.. Finally, Alexandre Cruz is a maniac. It is difficult to say what is the specialty of this inhabitant of megalopolis Sao Paulo, as it does 300 things at once and he con…

Reception-Friday, September 17, 5-9pm<br />
Reception-Saturday, September 18, 1-5pm <br />
Open by appointment September 20-24<br />
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Art Studio at 503 Tunnel Ave.<br />
Environmental Learning Center Gallery at 401 Tunnel Ave.<br />
San Francisco, CA 94134 <br />
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Admission is free and open to the public, all ages welcome, wheelchair accessible. <br />
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San Francisco, CA. The Artist in Residence Program at Recology San Francisco will host an exhibition and reception for current artists-in-residence Val Britton and Zachary Royer Scholz on Friday, September 17th, from 5-9pm and Saturday, September 18th, from 1-5pm. This exhibition will be the culmination of four months of work by Britton and Scholz who have scavenged materials from the dump to make art and promote recycling and reuse. An exhibition of paintings and drawings by student artist Tanner Griepentrog-Wenzel will be held concurrently at 401 Tunnel Avenue. Work by all artists will be viewable by appointment the week of September 20th.<br />
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Val Britton: Index to Selected Stars<br />
Val Britton’s collages have the quality of planning a trip in a dream. Clearly these are maps of some sort, but nothing is truly recognizable. Continents look oddly familiar, but aren’t where they should be, and possible routes are dizzying arrays of lines. Britton’s pieces are often large-scale, and blend cut paper, drawing, and pours and absorptions of color resulting in elegantly rich and textured abstractions. The work comes out of Britton’s meditations on her father’s travels as a long haul truck driver, so are deeply personal for the artist whose father died over ten years ago. Yet, they speak more broadly to the potential and complicated nature of journeys of many forms—physical, emotional, and psychological. While at Recology Britton has worked with scavenged materials that inform her collages in new ways. Routes now shimmer with lines made from foil tape normally used in heating ductwork, and washes of saturated color are courtesy of printer cartridge inks. Britton has made thick textured paper using recycled books, stationery, and reclaimed window screens, and has subtly incorporated antique domestic items—wallpaper, blinds, paper ephemera—which bring along their own secret histories as part of these journeys.<br />
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Zachary Royer Scholz: Replay<br />
Scavenging materials affects each artist differently. While gathering materials in the Public Disposal and Recycling Area, Zachary Royer Scholz, was struck by the large amount of reusable wood and the multitude of cheap plastic toys being discarded. Inspired in part by the wooden blocks of his own childhood, Scholz has combined these dual aspects of the waste stream to create sculptural objects with broad and playful potential. Scholz, whose sculptural and installation work is informed by minimalism, has carefully cleaned and cut pieces of wood reclaimed from construction and demolition sites into forms akin to abstract building blocks for adults. Materials that were once something else have been deconstructed and cleverly reconstructed in ways that allow for multiple interpretations or configurations. The source of these materials, the Public Disposal and Recycling Area, is a giant metaphorical toy box filled with the broken—or even brand new—playthings of our daily lives. Scholz’s constructions illuminate the ingenuity and imagination lost when products for children and adults are designed for a single purpose or for rapid obsolescence. Ultimately, these are the items that are thrown away, instead of creatively re-invented.<br />
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Tanner Griepentrog-Wenzel: Cogitated Pile<br />
Student artist-in-residence Tanner Griepentrog-Wenzel has spent the last four months working out of a shipping container studio making graphite drawings and skillfully rendered paintings in acrylics and oils. Paints were recovered from the Household Hazardous Waste Facility and found materials such as cabinet doors serve as canvases. Griepentrog-Wenzel’s figurative and still life compositions incorporate images of items scavenged in the Public Disposal and Recycling Area—such as a mysterious, wrapped package mailed in the 1960s—into urban scenes tinged with the fantastic. His work will be on view in the Environmental Learning Center Gallery at 401 Tunnel Ave.<br />
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The Artist in Residence Program at Recology San Francisco is a one-of-a-kind program started in 1990 to encourage people to conserve natural resources and instill a greater appreciation for the environment and art in children and adults. Artists work for four months in studio space on site, use materials recovered from the Public Disposal and Recycling Area, and speak to students and the general public. Over eighty professional Bay Area artists have completed residencies, and applications are accepted annually in August.<img src="http://rhizome.org/syndicate/nothing.gif?f=announce" border="0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rhizome-announce/~4/HIA5_gQ47_M" height="1" width="1"/>