Mixed Messages: Materials insouciant in their first life to become extroverted through int

Mixed Messages: Materials insouciant in their first life to become extroverted through intentional reinterpretation.
April 3-21, 2007,
RECEPTION: April 5 @ 5:30-7:30pm
ARTworkSF Gallery, 49 Geary, suite 215.
Tue-Sat, 12-5:30pm

Featuring Steven Haas, Simon Dye, Karen Gutfreund, Shawna Scarpitti, Taiko Fujimura, Alan Mazzetti, Ann Simms, Rosalie Anelli Yerby, Michael Azgour, Les Phillips, AnneKarin Glass, James Walsh and Scott Wyman.

Creating new relationships between previously unrelated materials and objects allows materials insouciant in their first life to become extroverted through intentional reinterpretation. The visual texture found in mixed media, assemblage and collage creations becomes a metaphor for the conversation between component parts of a work. We process three dimensional objects as part of our environment we can potentially interact with, mixed media works that incorporate physical versus rendered objects manipulate the association of volume with physical presence in order to focus one's attention on particular details. By skillfully directing our gaze around highlighted details, mixed media artists ask open-ended questions about an object's raison d'etre by creating new realities. Curated by Matt McKinley