Gallery 16 | January 2008 News
	Previous G16 exhibition: Deborah Oropallo Guise January 11 – February 15, 2008 Opening Reception for the Artist, Friday January 11, 6-9pm Live Music with Virgil Shaw Gallery 16 is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition Guise: Recent Prints by Deborah Oropallo. Over the past year, Gallery 16 Editions has worked with Oropallo to publish this critically acclaimed suite of thirty prints. Portions of this series were shown at the deYoung Museum in San Francisco in 2007. This is the first exhibition to present all of the available work from this collection, including six new compositions never seen by the public. Visit the exhibition page for more information.
	Previous G16 exhibition: Rex Ray New Work Gallery 16 is pleased to present its sixth solo exhibition with San Francisco luminary Rex Ray. The exhibition will present new paintings and collages. Ray's work has become a fixture on the national arts scene with its unmistakable graphic power and distinctively barbed beauty. The exhibition will coincide with the release of Chronicle Books' new publication Rex Ray: Art+Design, the first comprehensive monograph to survey the artist's multi-faceted work in various media. Visit the exhibition page for more information.
	New G16 book: Cliff Hengst and Scott Hewicker Good Times: Bad Trips To coincide with their show, Hengst and Hewicker are releasing their book Good Times: Bad Trips. This book is a collection of true accounts exploring an under-recognized rite of passage: The Bad Trip. Pairing individual stories with paintings, collages, and photographs by the artists, the book delves deeply into the romantic pathos of psychedelic crisis. Contributors include over fifty luminaries from the art, music and literary world including Devendra Banhart, Chris Johanson, Lars Bang Larsen, Shaun OÕDell, Keegan McHargue, Kevin Killian, Dodie Bellamy, Leslie Shows, Tony Labat, and Larry Rinder. Visit the book page for more information.
	Past G16 exhibition: Cliff Hengst and Scott Hewicker S.A.N.E. This new exhibition with Cliff Hengst and Scott Hewicker is titled S.A.N.E. which stands for Something, Anything, Nothing, Everything. The title provides the artists a loose working method for exploring the ambiguous grasps of consciousness through altered mental states. Taking cues from freak-outs and rituals in Sixties exploitation films, Scott Hewicker will exhibit a suite of new paintings and a new video while Cliff Hengst will use handmade signs and wall drawings to humorously investigate the unbridled super-ego of mental imbalance. Visit the exhibition page for more information.
	Past G16 exhibition: Jeff Kao be just because i said so Gallery 16 is pleased to announce our third exhibition with Jeff Kao. This new body of work features two films titled "Inside Out" and "Peter Panic" along with new paintings, drawings, and sculpture. The show runs through August 31, 2007 Visit the exhibition page for more information.
	New Gallery 16 book: James Miles with Harrell Fletcher The third book in the 1 Artist 1 Concept series is James F. Miles Is A Boyfrined And A Girlfriend with Harrell Fletcher, in which the work of Creativity Explored artist James Miles is presented by Harrell Fletcher. In conjuction with the publication of this book, Creativity Explored is presenting an exhibition of James Miles' work. There will be an opening reception and book release on Thursday, June 21 from 7-9pm at Creativity Explored, 3245 16th Street in San Francisco. The show runs from June 21 through August 9, 2007. More information on our website www.expandingcolorsystem.com or at the Creativity Explored website www.creativityexplored.org
	Gallery 16 publishing project: Darren Waterston and Tyrus Miller The Flowering Internationally heralded painter Darren Waterston in completing a project with Gallery 16 Editions this month. The Flowering portfolio culiminates over a year of work. The boxed portfolio contains thirteen original prints sized 13"x18" and thirteen letterpress broadsides written by Tyrus Miller. Waterston's compositions began by combining many sketches and watercolor studies together to create unique original compositions. Each print was realized through a number of digital and traditional print methods. The artist finishes each print with silver leaf, ink, and washes. For more information and images, visit our page for this portfolio here.
	Recent Gallery 16 editions: Deborah Oropallo Gallery 16 is pleased to announce a new series of prints published by Gallery 16 Editions, titled Guise. The work is currently on exhibition at the De Young Fine Art Museum in San Francisco through September 16, 2007. The images in her current body of work were initially borrowed from internet sites for sexy costuming. Women in revealing pirate, soldier, and other outfits are posed in photographs that recall, in Oropallo's words, "the formal portraiture male power stance with elaborate costume." The artist deconstructs and enhances the images to investigate the seduction and power that are evoked by gesture and pose. The nineteen prints in the Guise suite range from 40"x60" to 30"x40" each print is published in a limited edition of ten. Visit Oropallo's page for this edition here.
	Past Gallery 16 exhibition: Alice Shaw Group Show In her last show at Gallery 16 Alice Shaw exhibited a body of work wherein she photographed herself with people who had something in common with her. This time Shaw will display black and white photographs of herself and her physical opposite. In another body of work she will compare the photographs of Charles Dodgeson (a.k.a. Lewis Carroll) and E.J. Bellocq to question the use of the model as a source of inspiration and look at simultaneous invention in photography. A large color photograph will also be displayed. Visit the exhibition page for more information.
	Past Gallery 16 exhibition: Amy Franceschini and Phil Ross Spanners Gallery 16 is pleased to present Spanners, two independent but related bodies of work by SECA award winner Amy Franceschini and Phil Ross. It is the second exhibition at Gallery 16 for both artists. Franceschini, one of the five most recent SECA award recipients, is an artist who works with the boundaries between art, activism, community organizing, and in the case of the work currently on display at SFMOMA, gardening. Her project featured in the SECA exhibition re-imagines the Victory Gardens of World Wars I and II for the present political and ecological situation. Phil Ross' work as a sculptor has transformed a variety of living species into forms that are at once highly crafted and naturally developed, skillfully manipulated and sloppily organic. He has been an artist-in-residence at the Exploratorium's Life Science Department, the Johnson Oyster Farm in Tomales Bay, and was invited to the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Department of Plant Biology. Ross is currently a resident at SymbioticA in Australia, working on a video about microorganisms, collective bodies, and the history of the scientific method. Visit their exhibition page for more information.
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