Event Listing - Arts, Galleries
Sat Nov 7 - Sat Dec 12

Mary Conrad

Lapidary Terrarium


Tel. 415.552.1010
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Location
Date and Time
Michael Rosenthal Gallery
365 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
cross street: 15th
district: Mission

Sat Nov 7 (4:00 pm - 9:00 pm)
Sun Nov 8 (12:00pm - 5:00pm)
Tue Nov 10 (11:00am - 6:00pm)
Wed Nov 11 (11:00am - 6:00pm)
Thu Nov 12 (11:00am - 6:00pm)

Description
Michael Rosenthal is pleased to present Lapidary Terrarium, Mary Conrad’s San Francisco debut exhibition of installation works, paintings, and drawings. In this show, Conrad explores the concept of Lapidary Terrarium as the specialized and expertly crafted social and environmental spaces in which we enclose ourselves. Acting as an anthropologist, Conrad mediates a banal and strange world to examine the historical and social impacts on our shared consciousness of language, signs, currency and packaging. Sharing the same title as the exhibition, the large installation in the center of the gallery looms gallantly over and illuminates everyday objects and materials to suggest that there are other uses and meanings behind the mundane. Conrad takes a truly interdisciplinary approach to her art making that mirrors her academic background in literature and architecture, yielding results of poetic prowess.