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2948 16th Street
@ Capp
San Francisco
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Gallery Hours:
Wed-Sat, 1-6pm
during exhibitions
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The LAB
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Yet To Be Determined |
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 Featuring Zachary Royer Scholz in the Main Gallery
August 13 - September 6, 2008
Closing reception: Friday, September 5, 6-9 PM
Gallery Hours: Wednesdays - Saturdays, 1-6 PM
Zachary Royer Scholz's site-specific installation directly engages the physicality of the Lab's main gallery space. Deviating from the typical installation-exhibition-deinstallation cycle, Scholz's show opens shortly after he arrives in the space and closes just as the work reaches completion. Allowing the site to act as a collaborator, the artist will produce objects and situations using the Lab's unique architecture and objects found there as a starting point. The audience can view the work in a static state when the artist is absent or come while he is there and witness the work in a state of flux. Viewers are encouraged to visit and revisit the space as this collaboration evolves. |
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Humanscape |
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Featuring Eunkang Koh in the Front Gallery
 August 13 - September 6, 2008
Opening reception:
Wednesday, August 13, 6-9 PM
Gallery Hours:
Wednesdays - Saturdays, 1-6 PM
Humanscape is an ongoing series of experimental prints, drawing, and book art, which presents Eunkang Koh’s social commentary on the human condition. Koh considers how we as humans view ourselves as dominant creatures, with little consciousness of how we are also a part of a larger ecological system. Koh’s work acknowledges that humans are also animals with many of the same instincts. Using satirical and metaphorical representations, she depicts humans as hybrid creatures existing in an imagined, illusionary world. These characters contain ironic gestures that simultaneously evoke humor and the grotesque. |
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Featuring Sean Lowry in the Ticket Booth
 August 13 - September 6, 2008
Opening reception: Wednesday, August 13, 6-9 PM
Gallery Hours: Wednesdays - Saturdays, 1-6 PM
In Lapdancer, Lowry alters existing or established connections between sound and vision to profoundly affect perception and interpretation. This video work consists of a composite of short and seemingly disparate audiovisual sequences that aim to elucidate the influence of sound on visually centered cultural formations. While some sequences employ production devices that might typically support narrative structures (which are subsequently stripped away), other sequences borrow from art history, conceptualism, advertising, or popular music to uncanny or comic affect. 'Musical' timing is substituted with visually determined cues. Lapdancer uses the language of reconstructive sampling to acknowledge a rejection of aspirations toward originality, and the conflicting desire to create. This work engages with the tension between the value of 'choosing' and the idea of 'making' as an unresolved issue, while attempting to find poetry that begins rather than ends in ironic estrangement. |
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2008 Bay Area Poetry Marathon |
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Curated by Donna de la Perriere & Joseph Lease
Saturday, May 17, 7-9 PM: Daphne Gottlieb, LaTasha Diggs, Hugh Behm-Steinberg, Matthew Shears, Israel Haros, and Richard Silberg
Saturday, June 28, 7-9 PM: Dodie Bellamy, Brian Teare, Truong Tran, Elliott Harmon, Elizabeth Sylva, Stanford Chen, and video footage of the late kari edwards
Saturday, July 19, 7-9 PM: David Blair, Claire Chafee, Maxine Chernoff, Gillian Conoley, Lorelei Lee, D.A. Powell, Bin Ramke, Chad Sweeney
Saturday, August 30, 7-9 PM: Edward Foster, Myron Hardy, sara m. larsen, Michael Nicoloff, Elizabeth Robinson, Cynthia Sailers, Jennifer Scappettone, Matthew Zapruder
$3-$15 sliding scale admission
"An ear and mind opener... this event delivers the real thing: edgy stuff, poetry with a real bite!" --SAN FRANCISCO magazine
For the fifth summer in a row, the Bay Area Poetry Marathon brings its exciting mix of innovative literary voices to The LAB. Since its 2001 inception in Boston, de la Perriere and Lease's Marathon has developed a national reputation among experimental poets.
* For KQED's 2007 review of the BAPM, go to http://www.kqed.org/arts/lit/index.jsp?id=17560
* For more information on the BAPM, go to http://www.myspace.com/bayareapoetrymarathon |
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