Sat September 9, 2017
Opening Reception for "Daniel Melo: Making Out Who's Seeing You"
SEE EVENT DETAILS
Over the past several months, Daniel Melo has been creating arrangements and photographs in the publicly inaccessible spaces of St. Ignatius Church: the choir practice room, the sacristy, the hallways that weave together the exterior walls of the building, and sacred spaces within. These spaces are used by community staff, volunteers, and contractors for rehearsals and daily parish business. Also, much of the space is given over to storage and preparation areas, where commonplace and spiritually significant objects are kept. The images included in the exhibition are playful, showing various arrangements of the materials he encountered.
Making Out Who’s Seeing You is quiet, but not static—a hint at the unknowable to invite the curious. The photographs are mounted on plexiglass, floated on the walls, stacked, layered, and set within four domed alcoves. The installation is specific to St. Ignatius Church’s Manresa Gallery, provoked by an interest in the unassuming, yet charged spaces that exist behind the altar, architecturally set apart from the holy practice of the Mass.
Daniel Melo is an artist and musician whose practice engages photographs, sound recordings, and site-responsive arrangements guided by the unfamiliar and improvisation. Melo earned an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and a BA in English Literature from Kenyon College. Upon completion of the MFA, he received the 2015 New Genres Outstanding Graduate Student Award at the San Francisco Art Institute returning shortly thereafter to Buenos Aires to participate in a residency and two exhibitions. Melo has shown in New York, San Francisco’s SF Camerawork, and Buenos Aires spaces Mite, Big Sur, and La Ira de Díos. Melo has curated exhibitions for the Paul Sack Gallery as well as his San Francisco apartment. He’s currently in his second year as an Affiliate Artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Marin County, California.
https://www.danielmelo.com
show less
Making Out Who’s Seeing You is quiet, but not static—a hint at the unknowable to invite the curious. The photographs are mounted on plexiglass, floated on the walls, stacked, layered, and set within four domed alcoves. The installation is specific to St. Ignatius Church’s Manresa Gallery, provoked by an interest in the unassuming, yet charged spaces that exist behind the altar, architecturally set apart from the holy practice of the Mass.
Daniel Melo is an artist and musician whose practice engages photographs, sound recordings, and site-responsive arrangements guided by the unfamiliar and improvisation. Melo earned an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and a BA in English Literature from Kenyon College. Upon completion of the MFA, he received the 2015 New Genres Outstanding Graduate Student Award at the San Francisco Art Institute returning shortly thereafter to Buenos Aires to participate in a residency and two exhibitions. Melo has shown in New York, San Francisco’s SF Camerawork, and Buenos Aires spaces Mite, Big Sur, and La Ira de Díos. Melo has curated exhibitions for the Paul Sack Gallery as well as his San Francisco apartment. He’s currently in his second year as an Affiliate Artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Marin County, California.
https://www.danielmelo.com
Over the past several months, Daniel Melo has been creating arrangements and photographs in the publicly inaccessible spaces of St. Ignatius Church: the choir practice room, the sacristy, the hallways that weave together the exterior walls of the building, and sacred spaces within. These spaces are used by community staff, volunteers, and contractors for rehearsals and daily parish business. Also, much of the space is given over to storage and preparation areas, where commonplace and spiritually significant objects are kept. The images included in the exhibition are playful, showing various arrangements of the materials he encountered.
Making Out Who’s Seeing You is quiet, but not static—a hint at the unknowable to invite the curious. The photographs are mounted on plexiglass, floated on the walls, stacked, layered, and set within four domed alcoves. The installation is specific to St. Ignatius Church’s Manresa Gallery, provoked by an interest in the unassuming, yet charged spaces that exist behind the altar, architecturally set apart from the holy practice of the Mass.
Daniel Melo is an artist and musician whose practice engages photographs, sound recordings, and site-responsive arrangements guided by the unfamiliar and improvisation. Melo earned an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and a BA in English Literature from Kenyon College. Upon completion of the MFA, he received the 2015 New Genres Outstanding Graduate Student Award at the San Francisco Art Institute returning shortly thereafter to Buenos Aires to participate in a residency and two exhibitions. Melo has shown in New York, San Francisco’s SF Camerawork, and Buenos Aires spaces Mite, Big Sur, and La Ira de Díos. Melo has curated exhibitions for the Paul Sack Gallery as well as his San Francisco apartment. He’s currently in his second year as an Affiliate Artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Marin County, California.
https://www.danielmelo.com
read more
Making Out Who’s Seeing You is quiet, but not static—a hint at the unknowable to invite the curious. The photographs are mounted on plexiglass, floated on the walls, stacked, layered, and set within four domed alcoves. The installation is specific to St. Ignatius Church’s Manresa Gallery, provoked by an interest in the unassuming, yet charged spaces that exist behind the altar, architecturally set apart from the holy practice of the Mass.
Daniel Melo is an artist and musician whose practice engages photographs, sound recordings, and site-responsive arrangements guided by the unfamiliar and improvisation. Melo earned an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and a BA in English Literature from Kenyon College. Upon completion of the MFA, he received the 2015 New Genres Outstanding Graduate Student Award at the San Francisco Art Institute returning shortly thereafter to Buenos Aires to participate in a residency and two exhibitions. Melo has shown in New York, San Francisco’s SF Camerawork, and Buenos Aires spaces Mite, Big Sur, and La Ira de Díos. Melo has curated exhibitions for the Paul Sack Gallery as well as his San Francisco apartment. He’s currently in his second year as an Affiliate Artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Marin County, California.
https://www.danielmelo.com
show less
Date/Times:
650 Parker Street, San Francisco, CA 94118
The Best Events
Every Week in Your Inbox
From Our Sponsors
UPCOMING EVENTS
Great suggestion! We'll be in touch.
Event reviewed successfully.