Squeeze/Brush/Poke/Caress
A Group Show about Touch
Featuring: Alyssa Lempesis, Matthew Goldberg, Ryan Rudie, Alise Anderson, Tana Quincy Arcega, Kerri Conlon
Squeeze/Brush/Poke/Caress features six Bay Area artists whose inventive use of material invites or resists physical engagement. Working predominantly in sculpture, these artists interrogate touch as a rich idiom for sense-making and reaffirm the rewards of viewing as a full-bodied experience.
Alyssa Lempesis' animations and sculptures conjure creatures of the sea and hidden landscapes of the human body, while Matthew Goldberg's ceramic busts form a lovable cast of mutants and oddities. Alise Anderson turns columns into something huggable and Ryan Rudie's exquisitely crafted wooden sculptures seem held together by a kind of magical logic. Tana Quincy Arcega’s extrusion paintings and Kerri Conlon's hairpiece sculpture lend delicacy to this pulsing, vibrant show.
******* Opening Reception *******
October 20th
6-9 pm
302 Folsom St San Francisco
* Musical entertainment *
La Fortune - soundcloud.com/fortunefavors
Smokes -
https://www.mixcloud.com/LipsRhythm/lr056-feat-smokes/
Yoann Resmond -
https://soundcloud.com/yoann-resmond
******* Curated by *******
Ben Stark, Will Lockwood and Bre Arder
Exhibition will be open for limited viewing hours for the last week of October, with all works for sale.
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Image credits (clockwise)
Alyssa Lempesis, lumpy, 2014
Tana Quincy Arcega, pond, 2015
Matthew Goldberg, Afroghost