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Laurie Reid is an established artist based in Berkeley with works in the SFMoMA permanent collection and recently on view at the Berkeley Museum of Fine Art. Her recent collaborative works with artist, Ben Echeverria, are a take off in sculptural forms that are balanced, surprising and delicate matters.
Kyoung Kim is currently earning her PhD at Goldsmith's University. She handwove this rope ladder while in Seoul, Korea before the exhibition with tattered towels, sheets and a suicide note left behind in her apartment by past residents. An homage to their escape, she hung the ladder out her window and climbed out as a performance piece. The work comes with a 13' long x 6' wide rope ladder of impeccable craftswomanship and an inkjet print of the letter before it was shredded into the piece. It was in Italian and signed.
Abdi Taslimi is from Los Angeles and based in Mexico City. He owns the entire Bret Easton Ellis book collection signed when he met the author at a bookstore in LA. This work is the image of the deposed Shah of Iran, with an odd donut around his head with a ghostly impression of the empress on the interior upon close inspection, only one of his lovers who was named officially with this title. The text along the bottoms of the Digital C-print reads, "He was like marzipan, more than almonds to me."
Jacinto Astiazaran is a videographer who collaborated with Fritz Haeg in Los Angeles and edited the Girls video "Laura". His work drops the pin "Nameless" in America and he maps all the "Nameless" roads, ranches, and towns without identity according to Google Maps. My favorite destination on the map is a gray square called "T-Shirtin".
Callahan's new stencil motif of sea anenome adds depth to this window collage made from found newspapers underneath the artist's 1920's converted chicken coop in Petaluma. With clippings of Devendra Banhart tabloids when he was dating Natalie Portman and photos of the artist nude crossing the Financial District wearing a huge seaweed mass over obscuring his head, Callahan's performance history and personal life swarm in this weathered and true diorama.
Vintage cloth bound hard cover book signed by artist with every cat collaged with different sized googley eyes in various profiles and poses.
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