I Like Long Walks and Sci-Fi Movies: New Work by Eliot K. Daughtry and Francesca Berrini

I Like Long Walks and Sci-Fi Movies: New Work by Eliot K. Daughtry & Francesca Berrini Opening Reception: Saturday, August 18th, 7-10 pm Gallery Hours: Thursday-Sunday, Noon-6 pm Femina Potens Gallery & Performance Space (New location!) 2199 Market Street @ Sanchez, San Francisco (415) 217-9340 feminapotens@gmail.com www.feminapotens.com Femina Potens, a San Francisco gallery and performance space featuring visual and performance art, film and video, literary arts, and spoken word by women and transgendered artists, presents the first visual arts exhibition in its new home, a prominent gallery space in the vibrant Castro district. On Saturday, August 18th from 7 to 10 pm, we will host an opening reception for I Like Long Walks and Sci-Fi Movies: New Work by Eliot Daughtry and Francesca Berrini. In I Like Long Walks, the artists explore playful compositions of visual language across time, place, and gendered space, employing familiar and idealized images of past, present, and future through various combinations of dated and contemporary styles, physical materials, and bodies. Daughtry's work includes large-scale installations and illustrations of robots and their eerie urban landscapes. Drawn to the non-gendered bodies and embodiments robots can represent, Daughtry explores androgynous and non-binary manifestations of robotic gender in youthful, sinister scenarios using papercuts, ink drawings, and laser print transfer on panel and paper. Berrini's collages of found illustration pair pin-up girls with dinosaurs, space monsters with colonial sea-side villages, and 1950s winter catalogue models spearing fish beneath a giant spaceship. In Berrini's surreal storybook worlds, blonde bombshells and brunette vixens romp, roam, and rebel amidst fantastical lands full of space and sea creatures, Leave It to Beaver family dinners, Jurassic lagoons, and old-style travel and leisure.