Practice Makes Perfect: manufactured art
Saturday, September 10, 2005, 07:50 PM - Robots
Southern Exposure presents Practice Makes Perfect: Bay Area Conceptual Craft, an exhibition that investigates the intersection between craft and conceptual art in diverse media by local emerging and established artists. This exhibition will be on view from September 9 to October 15, 2005; and an opening reception will be held on Friday, September 9th from 7 to 9pm. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public.
Organized by members of Southern Exposure’s Curatorial Committee, this exhibition establishes the significance of conceptually oriented craft practices as a local and national movement. Practice Makes Perfect explores the work of a group of emerging and established Bay Area artists who utilize highly refined skills to produce conceptually based work. The exhibiting artists undertake labor-intensive actions that are deliberate, elaborate, and verge on the obsessive. Employing materials ranging from the traditional paper, fabric, and wood to unconventional found and damaged objects, they produce work that is rooted in conceptual art, moving beyond well-honed techniques to convey a complex set of ideas. In essence, their craft exists in the service of content.
Featured artists include Ann Chamberlain, Amy Franceschini/ Michael Swaine, David Ireland, Bernie Lubell, Christian Maychack, Jim Melchert, Scott Oliver, Stephanie Syjuco, Mark Thompson, Tony Tredway, and Anna Von Mertens.
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