Lori Gordon & Rebecca Szeto : art opening

Fri, Nov 4
6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
free

2 solo shows

ARTIST : Lori Gordon
title : There Is No Failure Here
medium: watercolor and gouache on paper

ARTIST : Rebecca Szeto
title : Creature Comfort
medium: mixed media

LOCATION : ampersand international arts
1001 Tennessee st. (@ 20th)
San Francisco, Ca 94107 U.S.A.
website: www.ampersandintlarts.com
tel: 415-285-0170

dates of EXHIBITION :
Nov 4 - Dec 16 2005


artists RECEPTION : Friday Nov 4 _ 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm

gallery hours :
Fridays 11am-5pm & always by appointment

Lori Gordon Bio:

Lori Gordon is a San Francisco-based South African artist; she creates
cross-disciplinary works that combine aspects of the paranormal,
belief systems and
social sculpture. Much of her work attempts to make the ineffable
visible.
Through collaborative endeavors, Gordon explores the gap between
coincidence and
intention, with an emphasis on setting up moments that deviate from the
expected conversation. In some cases, she is moreinterested in providing
the organized framework around which potential interactions may occur ,
both between herself and the viewer or participants.

Gordon completed a BFA in painting at the University of Massachusetts,
Amherst, and received an MFA at the California College of the Arts.
An SF
Foundation 2004 Murphy Cadogan Fellowship Award recipient, Gordon has
recently shown her work in the 'Dress: Clothing As Art' exhibition at
the
Richmond Arts Center as well as participating in events at other Bay
Area
locations including New Langton Arts, Playspace Gallery, Temescal Amity
Works and Juice Design.

Lori Gordon Statement:
Through my work I investigate the structure and power of belief. With
simple
acts of human connection, I am creating artwork that questions the
reductive
notion that a person can exist in the world without faith,
demonstrating in the
process that art itself cannot function without the willing
participation of
a faithful audience. The reality with all my work is that I am most
often more
interested in the journey than the destination. I am interested in
choreographing intimacy. My public works give me a chance to redirect
people, and
compose situations. I find people to be fascinating, and the tactics
I use to
persuade and entice them to respond to my work are done with great
respect. Through
learning about others I learn about myself.
With this strong desire to communicate with other people I translate
those
processes into something else: objects, performative acts and
documentation of
public interactions.

Rebecca Szeto Bio:
Rebecca Szeto is an artist living and working in San Francisco,
California.
Through her work, she searches for the connections between the simple
objects
and activities of the everyday and her ongoing fascination for themes of
beauty, order and the sublime.
Szeto received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of
California at
Berkeley in 1992 and has continued her artistic training to date with
independent studies under Rose Shakinovsky and Clare Gavronsky in
Montagnana, Italy.
She has been a recent fellow at CanSerrat in El Bruc, Spain; Banff
Centre for
the Arts in Alberta, Canada; and Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass
Village, Colorado, and was awarded a Pamela Joseph Merit Fellowship.
She has also
attended other residencies in Italy and South Africa.

Rebecca Szeto Statement:
I am fascinated by everyday life: collecting and using ordinary,
unwanted and
post-consumer products like scouring pads, rose thorns, rust, and
used-up
sandpaper. My process develops as an exploration of the qualities
inherent in the
materials (found or reclaimed from my immediate environment) and
evolves into
a deeper look at their implications and meanings. In my works, seemingly
disparate elements of entropic decay, dysfunctional family units, art
history, pop
culture, recycling and impermanence come together in ways that
questions our
assumed value systems and ponders the underlying pattern that
connects them
all.

I play with subtle shifts of perception, fluctuating between truth and
fiction, destruction and construction, hinting at a tenuous stability
whose
strength relies on its flexibility and resilience. It is often a
humorous experience
of confounded expectations, where the viewer recognizes one thing,
but upon
closer inspection, realizes something strange and not quite right is
going on.
Whether I am combining latex with lace, replacing oil paint with
rust, or
pulling steel wool apart to draw, my works all point to the real
material of
creativity: a quality of mark, a motivation, a concept.

Venue:

ampersand international arts
1001 Tennessee street
San Francisco
415 285-0456
www.ampersandintlarts.com

cross street 20th / parallel to 3rd st. .
DogPatch neighborhood_east Potrero Hill

Additional Info:

415-285-0456
www.ampersandintlarts.com