Event Listing - Galleries
Fri Jun 6 - Thu Jul 31

Gallery 16 is pleased to present:

Leigh Wells

New Drawings


Tel. 415.626.7495
Email Leigh Wells
Website

Location
Date and Time
Gallery 16 (Sixteen)
501 Third Street
San Francisco, CA 94107 map
cross street: Bryant
district: SoMa

Fri Jun 6 (Opening Reception for the artist) - 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Sat Jun 7 (11:00am - 5:00pm)
Mon Jun 9 (9:00am - 5:00pm)
Tue Jun 10 (9:00am - 5:00pm)
Wed Jun 11 (9:00am - 5:00pm)

Description
Gallery 16 is pleased to welcome San Francisco artist Leigh Wells for her first solo show with the gallery. Wells will show a series of drawings and collage that involve altering reproductions of historical artworks. For many years the artist has used existing images of famous artworks as source material for her collage or platforms for her own mark-making. Reproduction is the method through which most people view fine art, in art books, magazines, newspapers etc. These relatively valueless copies of masterworks become raw material for the artist. Wells interacts with these works and reinterprets their perceived meaning and value. One of the prominent collections in this show present the altered pages of a damaged book on the work of Thomas Gainsborough.