Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi- Featuring the Photography of Amy Auerbach and Ethel Mays

What: Art Opening Featuring the Photography of Amy Auerbach and Ethel Mays
When: Friday, October 20, 2006, 5-8 p.m. (Exhibit runs through November 15, 2006)
Where: San Francisco City Hall, 1 Carlton B Goodlett Place, Room 282
Cost: Free

On Friday, October 20, 2006, Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi hosts the Monthly Third Friday’s Art Reception in his City Hall office, Room 282. This month’s featured artists are Amy Auerbach and Ethel Mays.
Amy Auerbach is showing photographs from the series Vanishing Waterfront and Other Destinations, a collection of dreamlike-toned gelatin silver prints. The series features dilapidated areas of San Francisco’s China Basin and Hunters Point which, when seen through the veil of water and light, become fading souvenirs—landscapes upon which the shutter silently tells time like the tick of a clock.

Amy’s photographs have been exhibited locally at SF Camerawork, SFMOMA Artists Gallery, and nationally in commercial and non-profit venues such as the Society for Contemporary Photography in Kansas City where she received a Fellowship award, Seattle’s Photographic Center Northwest and at Galerie bmg in Woodstock, NY

Ethel Mays will exhibit Waterwork, a series of photographic images which address the idea of public water compositions as abstract art. Her images have been shown by the San Francisco Public Library, the San Francisco Photography Center, and are privately owned by residents of the U.S., Canada, and Europe. Ethel Mays is a California native from Eastern Tulare County. She currently resides in San Francisco.