Five Bay Area Artist-slash-curators working within residential spaces
Opening Reception: Saturday December 5th, 7 - 10pm
Show runs December 5th - December 24th
DOUBLE EXPOSURE (two): Balanced Roles is an exhibition with five bay area artist-slash-curators who work within their respective residential spaces. Participating artists are Chris McCaw of 31 Rausch, Brion Nuda Rosch of Hallway Projects, Lena Reynoso of The Compound, Kari Marboe of MG Gallery, and Naaman Rosen of WE Space. The criteria for selection of these artists incorporates the idea of the expanding role of the artist in the community, and the use of residential spaces as a place to make art more accessible. This second installment of the Double Exposure show is a further testament to this growing practice in the Bay Area.
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DOUBLE EXPOSURE (two) PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:
Chris McCaw is an established artist working in experimental photography, and owner of 31 Rausch in San Francisco. Since 2003, Chris McCaw has been experimenting with burning film and printing the burnt negative using the platinum palladium process for a body of work titled "Sunburn". This process involves a film negative becoming solarized into a positive, then made into a final print with the negative image, resulting in a one-generation loss of the burn. McCaw is widely recognized for his "Sunburn" technique and has an outstanding exhibition history, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. Among the rewards and public collections are The New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, Victoria and Albert Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. McCaw is locally represented by Stephen Wirtz Gallery. 31 Rausch is a non profit art space in San Francisco dedicated to showing work by local artists in an informal setting - a residential hallway. No work is priced over $200 and the artist takes 100% of any sales. This makes the art financially accessible to the artist's peers, encouraging them to start collecting real works of art. The pricing also motivates the artist to make new, and usually experimental work.
Brion Nuda Rosch is an artist and curator living and working in San Francisco. His interests involves blurring the lines between the two practices. Working in collage and assemblage his starting points for an artwork reflect curatorial tendencies, a selection of materials followed by a set of rules. For this exhibition, Rosch has selected several found book pages to be exhibited unaltered, leaving a vague impression of authorship, and posing as work by the artist himself. By doing so, the artist has disengaged with the act of art-making and reflects solely on his process of selecting compelling images. Brion Nuda Rosch directs Hallway Projects. Located in his home, the project often investigates the public and private roles of the art world. Often the public is not invited in, suggesting the very nature of the contemporary art world at large. Hallway Projects is continually under construction and in a state of flux, collaborating with both artists and participants in a series of exhibits, happenings, and exchanges. The ephemera of these happenings are displayed either within the physical space of the home gallery, on-line, or in printed matter. Brion Nuda Rosch was recently the recipient of the prestigious Artadia Award. His artwork is courtesy of Baer Ridgeway Exhibitions.
Lena Reynoso is an artist and Doctoral Candidate at the University of California Berkeley. Her artistic and academic work is centered around American sideshows and popular culture. Her art has been shown internationally and has been featured on E! Online, Gawker, the WB, TMZ, Wired Images, the Rumpus.com, Alameda Magazine, Oakland Magazine, and many other publications and newspapers. She has published articles on folklore and Early American amusements in Proverbium and the Early American Review. She is currently writing a book on sideshows and with her husband owns The Compound in Oakland. Located in the Golden Gate Gallery District in Oakland, CA, The Compound Gallery is home to ten artist studios and over 20 working artists. The main gallery hosts monthly rotating exhibitions which feature a variety of mediums, including but not limited to printmaking, painting, collage, sculpture, mixed media, installation, and digital prints. The gallery is a space where artists can take risks and intuitively create without limits. The Studios provide artists with opportunities to show their work, be involved in an art community, and gain exposure through open studios. The Compound Gallery is also the home of Art in a Box, a monthly art subscription service which features Bay Area artists.
Kari Marboe is an emerging artist working in sculpture and photography. She co-owns (along with Adam Green) MG Gallery in Oakland. The focal point of MG Gallery is to engage the Temescal community with nontraditional and accessible programming. Currently this is being done through the Window Display Project which exhibits artwork in the gallery's large storefront windows for around the clock viewing. Every two weeks a new artist creates a window installation by reinterpreting the traditional holiday storefront display. Marboe earned her BFA degree with honors from California College of the Arts.
Naaman Rosen is an artist working with photography and co-owner of WE Artspace in Oakland, which was established in July 2009. The mission of WE Artspace is a very basic concept on the need to help navigate primarily 2-D culture. By navigation, they mean, helping to bring art culture to an audience. Hopefully from an audience, connections amongst one another will form, creating dialog with in our culture, as well as being a part of, and creating a community of people. The WE in WE Artspace is an acronym for West-East. The title is a concept based on their lives. Naaman Rosen grew up in a small town in N. Idaho where Interstate 90 runs through. Tina grew up in a small town in upstate N.Y where Interstate 90 runs through. The concept is that Tina, and myself, have always been connected by a single line; I-90W and I-90E. Naaman Rosen earned his BFA in Photography from California College of the Arts in 2007. Rosen enjoys using photography because of its latitude for storytelling. It is such an ephemeral art form that it can be easily manipulated to fit the needs of the artist. The second thing that he appreciates about photography is the process and fundamental basis of photography, "Writing with Light". For this exhibition, Rosen has created a series of short stories with the use of old negatives which he has collected and combined with his own fictional stories, using humor and tragedy taken from his life and his imagination.
In 2008 Blankspace Gallery curated the first installment of Double Exposure. For information about the first installment visit http://blankspacegallery.com/doubleexposure/dex.html