Tue January 24, 2017
Recology San Francisco Artist in Residence Exhibitions: Work by Ramekon O’Arwisters, Anja Ulfeldt and Jinmei Chi
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Exhibition and reception for current artists-in-residence Ramekon O’Arwisters, Anja Ulfeldt, and student artist Jinmei Chi on Friday, January 20, from 5-8pm and Saturday, January 21, from 11am-1pm. Additional viewing hours will be held on Tuesday, January 24, from 5-7pm, with a gallery walk-through with the artists at 6pm. This exhibition will be the culmination of four months of work by the artists who have scavenged materials from the dump to make art and promote recycling and reuse.
Ramekon O’Arwisters: Smooth the Edges
Ramekon O’Arwisters is a social-practice artist who creates collaborative art projects infused with folk-art traditions that foster a culture of community building. During his residency he has continued this work, but has also created a collection of sculptures that connect to the core tenets that underlie his practice. Working with hundreds of shards—broken pieces of dishware and pottery—he has made powerful visual representations of disconnection, damage and fracture. Shards fill cabinets, spill out of picture frames, and are amassed in found objects, becoming overwhelming in their magnitude. While O’Arwisters’s work acts as a metaphor for personal and societal rupture, it also serves as a strategy for repair. He has taken great care to sand the sharp edges on many of the broken pieces, likening the process to other calming or healing acts such as meditating or hiking. During the exhibition, he will provide sanded shards that the public can take away as tangible reminders of the importance of smoothing our sharp edges as we travel through the world and interact with one another.
O’Arwisters has also continued his Crochet Jam events during his residency, facilitating free-form craft exploration with the children who attend tours of the Recology facility. During the Saturday, January 21 reception, O’Arwisters will host a Crochet Jam for visitors of all ages in the gallery.
Anja Ulfeldt: Beyond Repair
With the title Beyond Repair as her central theme, Anja Ulfeldt resurrects objects that have been cast into obsolescence. Her intention is not to merely reinstate them, but move past repair to imbue them with an afterlife as a way to mourn, accept and ultimately embrace change.
Simultaneously enhancing and subverting a sense of place, Ulfeldt has used these objects to create an interconnected body of work that is inherently site-specific and geared toward an exhibition that is itself one large installation. She renders uncanny the most basic infrastructure such as flooring, windows and vents to create a questionable and changeable psychological space. By upending expectations, Ulfeldt constructs an environment that is seemingly free of authority and open to doubt. But alongside this uncertainty, she also provides opportunities for viewers to escape into the poetics of small moments. Objects move by forces unseen, what we think we are watching is not quite as it appears, and our perceptions are given free rein to shift from the real to the fantastic.
Jinmei Chi: Dizz Mall
Dizz Mall is a fictional store created by Jinmei Chi who plays with the tropes of marketing and sales to illustrate the absurdity of our culture of consumption. Chi has packaged found materials, combining items to create nonsensical products, and presents them in a store-like setting. Promotional brochures proclaim the values to be had at Dizz Mall and the necessity of the store’s offerings in our lives. Ironically using items scavenged from the trash that once stocked the shelves of similar retail establishments, Chi points out how quickly objects can shift from valued commodities to worthless discards.
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Ramekon O’Arwisters: Smooth the Edges
Ramekon O’Arwisters is a social-practice artist who creates collaborative art projects infused with folk-art traditions that foster a culture of community building. During his residency he has continued this work, but has also created a collection of sculptures that connect to the core tenets that underlie his practice. Working with hundreds of shards—broken pieces of dishware and pottery—he has made powerful visual representations of disconnection, damage and fracture. Shards fill cabinets, spill out of picture frames, and are amassed in found objects, becoming overwhelming in their magnitude. While O’Arwisters’s work acts as a metaphor for personal and societal rupture, it also serves as a strategy for repair. He has taken great care to sand the sharp edges on many of the broken pieces, likening the process to other calming or healing acts such as meditating or hiking. During the exhibition, he will provide sanded shards that the public can take away as tangible reminders of the importance of smoothing our sharp edges as we travel through the world and interact with one another.
O’Arwisters has also continued his Crochet Jam events during his residency, facilitating free-form craft exploration with the children who attend tours of the Recology facility. During the Saturday, January 21 reception, O’Arwisters will host a Crochet Jam for visitors of all ages in the gallery.
Anja Ulfeldt: Beyond Repair
With the title Beyond Repair as her central theme, Anja Ulfeldt resurrects objects that have been cast into obsolescence. Her intention is not to merely reinstate them, but move past repair to imbue them with an afterlife as a way to mourn, accept and ultimately embrace change.
Simultaneously enhancing and subverting a sense of place, Ulfeldt has used these objects to create an interconnected body of work that is inherently site-specific and geared toward an exhibition that is itself one large installation. She renders uncanny the most basic infrastructure such as flooring, windows and vents to create a questionable and changeable psychological space. By upending expectations, Ulfeldt constructs an environment that is seemingly free of authority and open to doubt. But alongside this uncertainty, she also provides opportunities for viewers to escape into the poetics of small moments. Objects move by forces unseen, what we think we are watching is not quite as it appears, and our perceptions are given free rein to shift from the real to the fantastic.
Jinmei Chi: Dizz Mall
Dizz Mall is a fictional store created by Jinmei Chi who plays with the tropes of marketing and sales to illustrate the absurdity of our culture of consumption. Chi has packaged found materials, combining items to create nonsensical products, and presents them in a store-like setting. Promotional brochures proclaim the values to be had at Dizz Mall and the necessity of the store’s offerings in our lives. Ironically using items scavenged from the trash that once stocked the shelves of similar retail establishments, Chi points out how quickly objects can shift from valued commodities to worthless discards.
Exhibition and reception for current artists-in-residence Ramekon O’Arwisters, Anja Ulfeldt, and student artist Jinmei Chi on Friday, January 20, from 5-8pm and Saturday, January 21, from 11am-1pm. Additional viewing hours will be held on Tuesday, January 24, from 5-7pm, with a gallery walk-through with the artists at 6pm. This exhibition will be the culmination of four months of work by the artists who have scavenged materials from the dump to make art and promote recycling and reuse.
Ramekon O’Arwisters: Smooth the Edges
Ramekon O’Arwisters is a social-practice artist who creates collaborative art projects infused with folk-art traditions that foster a culture of community building. During his residency he has continued this work, but has also created a collection of sculptures that connect to the core tenets that underlie his practice. Working with hundreds of shards—broken pieces of dishware and pottery—he has made powerful visual representations of disconnection, damage and fracture. Shards fill cabinets, spill out of picture frames, and are amassed in found objects, becoming overwhelming in their magnitude. While O’Arwisters’s work acts as a metaphor for personal and societal rupture, it also serves as a strategy for repair. He has taken great care to sand the sharp edges on many of the broken pieces, likening the process to other calming or healing acts such as meditating or hiking. During the exhibition, he will provide sanded shards that the public can take away as tangible reminders of the importance of smoothing our sharp edges as we travel through the world and interact with one another.
O’Arwisters has also continued his Crochet Jam events during his residency, facilitating free-form craft exploration with the children who attend tours of the Recology facility. During the Saturday, January 21 reception, O’Arwisters will host a Crochet Jam for visitors of all ages in the gallery.
Anja Ulfeldt: Beyond Repair
With the title Beyond Repair as her central theme, Anja Ulfeldt resurrects objects that have been cast into obsolescence. Her intention is not to merely reinstate them, but move past repair to imbue them with an afterlife as a way to mourn, accept and ultimately embrace change.
Simultaneously enhancing and subverting a sense of place, Ulfeldt has used these objects to create an interconnected body of work that is inherently site-specific and geared toward an exhibition that is itself one large installation. She renders uncanny the most basic infrastructure such as flooring, windows and vents to create a questionable and changeable psychological space. By upending expectations, Ulfeldt constructs an environment that is seemingly free of authority and open to doubt. But alongside this uncertainty, she also provides opportunities for viewers to escape into the poetics of small moments. Objects move by forces unseen, what we think we are watching is not quite as it appears, and our perceptions are given free rein to shift from the real to the fantastic.
Jinmei Chi: Dizz Mall
Dizz Mall is a fictional store created by Jinmei Chi who plays with the tropes of marketing and sales to illustrate the absurdity of our culture of consumption. Chi has packaged found materials, combining items to create nonsensical products, and presents them in a store-like setting. Promotional brochures proclaim the values to be had at Dizz Mall and the necessity of the store’s offerings in our lives. Ironically using items scavenged from the trash that once stocked the shelves of similar retail establishments, Chi points out how quickly objects can shift from valued commodities to worthless discards.
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Ramekon O’Arwisters: Smooth the Edges
Ramekon O’Arwisters is a social-practice artist who creates collaborative art projects infused with folk-art traditions that foster a culture of community building. During his residency he has continued this work, but has also created a collection of sculptures that connect to the core tenets that underlie his practice. Working with hundreds of shards—broken pieces of dishware and pottery—he has made powerful visual representations of disconnection, damage and fracture. Shards fill cabinets, spill out of picture frames, and are amassed in found objects, becoming overwhelming in their magnitude. While O’Arwisters’s work acts as a metaphor for personal and societal rupture, it also serves as a strategy for repair. He has taken great care to sand the sharp edges on many of the broken pieces, likening the process to other calming or healing acts such as meditating or hiking. During the exhibition, he will provide sanded shards that the public can take away as tangible reminders of the importance of smoothing our sharp edges as we travel through the world and interact with one another.
O’Arwisters has also continued his Crochet Jam events during his residency, facilitating free-form craft exploration with the children who attend tours of the Recology facility. During the Saturday, January 21 reception, O’Arwisters will host a Crochet Jam for visitors of all ages in the gallery.
Anja Ulfeldt: Beyond Repair
With the title Beyond Repair as her central theme, Anja Ulfeldt resurrects objects that have been cast into obsolescence. Her intention is not to merely reinstate them, but move past repair to imbue them with an afterlife as a way to mourn, accept and ultimately embrace change.
Simultaneously enhancing and subverting a sense of place, Ulfeldt has used these objects to create an interconnected body of work that is inherently site-specific and geared toward an exhibition that is itself one large installation. She renders uncanny the most basic infrastructure such as flooring, windows and vents to create a questionable and changeable psychological space. By upending expectations, Ulfeldt constructs an environment that is seemingly free of authority and open to doubt. But alongside this uncertainty, she also provides opportunities for viewers to escape into the poetics of small moments. Objects move by forces unseen, what we think we are watching is not quite as it appears, and our perceptions are given free rein to shift from the real to the fantastic.
Jinmei Chi: Dizz Mall
Dizz Mall is a fictional store created by Jinmei Chi who plays with the tropes of marketing and sales to illustrate the absurdity of our culture of consumption. Chi has packaged found materials, combining items to create nonsensical products, and presents them in a store-like setting. Promotional brochures proclaim the values to be had at Dizz Mall and the necessity of the store’s offerings in our lives. Ironically using items scavenged from the trash that once stocked the shelves of similar retail establishments, Chi points out how quickly objects can shift from valued commodities to worthless discards.
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