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Fri May 23

Aftermodern presents

Pink Worlds

An exhibition of recent work by Fawn Gehweiler and Dana Carlson

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Location	Date and Time
Aftermodern 445 Bryant Street San Francisco, CA 94107 cross street: 2nd Street district: South Beach	Fri May 23 (6 to8:30pm) - Artists' Opening Reception

Description

Aftermodern is pleased to present Pink Worlds, an exhibition of paintings by Fawn Gehweiler and mixed media paintings by Dana Carlson. Following the opening reception on Friday, May 23rd from 6 to 8:30pm, the show will be on view through June 28th.

Pink Worlds and White Icing, a collection of poems written by a twelve-year-old girl in late sixties, stands as the point of initiation for this collection of recent work by artists Carlson and Gehweiler. Awash in preteen nostalgia, strangely baroque as well as alternately naive, precocious, and deeply introspective, these tiny poems are about “color, the Beatles, bubblegum, nature and the universe”. They lend both a perfect title and a rich backdrop to this exhibition of candy-colored dreamscapes and imaginary narratives within the realm of head-in-the-clouds teenage psychedelia. The paintings engender a nuanced sensibility of the pastoral, pretty and pop while simultaneously embracing subtexts of dark comedy.

Fawn Gehweiler's signature-character based paintings have been exhibited in galleries around the world and appear in a number of prominent private collections. Originally from Hawaii and currently based in the Pacific Northwest, her work combines the influence of a bohemian upbringing, sartorial escapism, and her own family tree. Widely considered a major influence in the recent explosion of young feminine art in the United States, her aesthetic hinges on a delicate balance of past and present, building obsessive narratives through personal artifacts that reflect the imaginary worlds of little girls, treading the fine line between wide eyed innocence and dark fairy tales.

Dana Carlson enhances traditional painting techniques with embroidery, beadwork, and appliqué to create hybrid, handiworked dream worlds. Her intricate paintings conjure up a pretty, Romantic absurdity that is part down-home psychedelia, part angst-infused gesture painting, and part earnest teenager. Dana earned her MFA from Hunter College in New York in 2000 and continues to exhibit in the New York area and worldwide. Originally from Des Moines, Iowa, Dana currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.