SOMArts Main Gallery presents
Night Light: Multimedia Garden Party
- When
- Sat Jul 17, 2010
- Where
- SOMArts Cultural Center (Gallery)
- Time
- 9pm - 1am
- Tags
- Arts, Galleries
Description
SOMARTS CULTURAL CENTER’S MAIN GALLERY PRESENTSNight Light - Multimedia Garden Party
July Exhibitions Program
Night Light - Multimedia Garden Party
Curated by Justin Hoover
One-night only: Saturday, July 17, 2010, 9:00 PM – 1:00 AM
In conjunction with SOMArts July exhibition Totally Unrealistic: the art of abstraction
Cost: Recommended $5 donation, but no one turned away for lack of funds
Advanced registration suggested at: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/714226270
Food and drink will be available
SOMArts Main Gallery presents Night Light - multimedia garden party exploring temporary multimedia, abstract sound, video, and film installations set in the garden of SOMArts Cultural Center. This exhibition features artwork and performances by the populist yet amorphous group The Something arranged by Justin Hurty, a special series of film installations from the Oddball Films archivist and director Steven Parr, a collection of locally produced ambient sound and video installations, site-specific film installations, and a special not to be missed 3-D film screening by Kerry Laitala. Featured artists include Mauricio and Christine Ancalmo, Elaine Buckholtz, Paul Clipson, Jon Grover, Justin Hurtey, David O. Johnson, Scott Kildall, Kerri Laitalia, Peter Max Lawrence, Conrad Meyers II, Steven Parr, Skye Thorensen, and Bryan Van Reuter.
Night Light investigates a strong local subgenre of sound and installation art in San Francisco that explores visual, light and sound installation art from a place of true abstraction, unhinging the confines of their art from conventions such as painterly formalism, sculptural composition, and time-based editing formalism.
Current gallery director and curator Justin Hoover commented that the artwork featured in the Night Light Garden Party, “investigates the continuing need for exploring abstraction through film, sound, installation and video art. These works build off a legacy of film makers such as Stan Brakhage and painters such as Clifford Still and Rothko, yet move through to a contemporary place where the structure of the visuals and the auditory equally reject conventional cinematic narrative, iconographic, and time structures. It’s a very exciting bunch of creative new media installations set in a recently renovated industrial garden, a unique and stand-alone grouping.”
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