Maya Hayuk "Feeling Space" and Lowell Darling "Full Disclosure"
Venue: Gallery 16501 Third Street,
San Francisco,
United States
Start Date:2010-02-08 22:00:00
Description: Gallery 16 is pleased to announce upcoming solo exhibitions with artists Maya Hayuk "Feeling Space" and Lowell Darling "Full Disclosure." Both solo exhibitions will open concurrently.
Opening Reception Friday, FEBRUARY 5, 6-9PM
Live Music with Pale Hoarse
MAYA HAYUK: "FEELING SPACE"
Gallery 16 is pleased to welcome Brooklyn based artist Maya Hayuk to her first solo show with the gallery. Hayuk is a prolific muralist, photographer, printmaker, painter, illustrator, and documentarian. Her fearless attraction to wild color, a genre-bending mix of graphic design, graffiti, illustration, and abstraction has earned her a wide international audience. Hayuks work overflows with a uniquely cultivated handmade aesthetic . Part punk, part psychedelic explosion, her paintings, prints and murals display unbridled enthusiasm. Her monograph Just Good Vibes describes the work Multicolored diamonds morph into rainbows on public walls, day glow birds and flowers sprout extra appendages appearing both beautiful and menacing, and everything eschews logic while making perfect aesthetic sense. Hayuks bold images of colorful beauty are at once visceral, ethereal, humorous and political.
Hayuks work has been shown internationally at Rocket Gallery, Tokyo; Holala Gallery, Barcelona; Irvine Contemporary, Washington DC; Seminal Projects, San Diego, CA and Alice Gallery, Brussels, Belgium.
LOWELL DARLING: "FULL DISCLOSURE"
Gallery 16 is pleased to present its third solo exhibition with the legendary California conceptual artist Lowell Darling. Darlings career has spanned over thirty years and has earned him an international following. His work in the public sphere over the past three decades has included a colorful campaign to unseat California Governor Jerry Brown, Urban Acupuncture performances to relieve pressing city problems, and stitching together the San Andreas fault to contain earthquakes. A onetime employee of Buckminster Fuller, Darlings media savvy public performances provided endless media coverage in the 70s and 80s. He founded the Fat City School of Find Arts which, in 1971, Art in America deemed the worlds largest degree granting institution.
Darling, who has spent years living in Europe, has returned to California to announce his candidacy for yet another run for California Governor, once again facing Jerry Brown. This exhibition entitled Full Disclosure will contain all of Darlings personal possessions in the United States. Boxes of personal items, artwork, and ephemera were removed from storage and brought to Gallery 16. Everything he owns. Some material, artwork and rare items will be present on the walls, others will remain in boxes. Included in the show are items ranging from his first drawing as a child to documents from Darlings original bid for Governor, mail art collaborations with Ray Johnson, and IRS documents proving Darling is NOT an artist. Lowell will conduct weekly performances at the gallery where he will inventory the items from the boxes, discuss his art, life and candidacy with visitors.
Lowell Darling has had approximately 126 exhibitions, along with 85 public performances. He has given 80 lectures, 45 television appearances, has been awarded four NEA fellowships, two honorary PhDs, and published two books.
For additional information, please contact Griff Williams at 415.626.7495 or email griff@gallery16.com.