Wednesday, October 17, 2007

brendan monroe: insides

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@ richard heller gallery
2525 michigan ave, b-5a, santa monica, ca 90404
october, 13 2007 - november, 11 2007

set/slideshow

Tuesday, October 09, 2007

last chance: don't try this at home

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@ intersection for the arts
446 Valencia Street (btwn 15th and 16th), san francisco, ca
September 17 - October 13, 2007
featuring Lauren Davies, Tamara Albaitis, Krishna Khalsa, Stephani Martinez & Zachary Royer Scholz

tip: this show is closing soon. check it out if you can.

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Lauren Davies' sculptures are meticulous ("anatomically correct scaled versions of West Highland White Terriers"), down to the hair, which was shed by their real life counterparts, her dogs.

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she also has sculpted lintballs with lint collected from "family, friends, colleagues, and acquaintances." nice reuse.

the show is subtitled "A Group Exhibition Obsessively Reshaping The Ordinary"

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Tamara Albaitis produced a series of sound sculptures, including a laughing trash can

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and a group of coughing speaker balls

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Krishna Khalsa created biomorphic wood sculptures

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doily cakes (plaster & doilies) by Stephani Martinez

i have a few more photos in my set/slideshow