OPENING : Albert Reyes - WONDERLAND/ Megan Wilson -SPRING

Fri, Jan 13
6:00pm - 8:30pm
free

exhibition dates:
January 13 - February 17, 2006

artist: Albert Reyes
title: Wonderland
medium: mixed media

artist: Megan Wilson
title: Spring
medium: drawings, installation


ALBERT REYES
BIO
Los Angeles based , and San Francisco Art Institute educated , artist
Albert Reyes has a profound passion and respect for conceptual as
well as graffiti art . Renowned for his ubiquitous "GIVE" tag,
Albert Reyes has a distinctive artistic approach inspired not only by
street art, comic books, and contemporary American pop culture but
also by contemporary and classical "high art".
Icons of corporate America and Hollywood , mass media, politics, and
consumerism are often drawn into his work with an insolent and even
subversive verve ; a deliberate and secure hand guides the exquisite
execution of his drawings.
Reyes has exhibited successfully at the Tree House Gallery, JUNC
Gallery, Giant Robot, New Image Art Gallery , and Black Market in Los
Angeles; at the Upper Playground, Low , Balazo , and Ampersand
galleries in San Francisco as well as the
StayGold Gallery in NYC, and ampersand:paris in Paris, France.

MEGAN WILSON
BIO
Megan Wilson grew up in Montana. She received her BFA from the
University of Oregon in 1992 and an MFA from the San Francisco Art
Institute in 1997.Her work has been exhibited in San Francisco at
Southern Exposure, the San Francisco Art Commission, Clarion Alley,
ampersand international arts, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, gallery 3, ATA,
The Lab, and in public spaces throughout San Francisco; in Los
Angeles at the Richard Heller Gallery; and internationally in Tokyo,
Japan;Yogyakarta, Indonesia; and Jaipur, India and Paris, France.
Wilson is a recipient of a 2000 grant award from the Gunk Foundation
and a 2001 grant award from the Art Council/Artadia. In 2002, she was
selected to design posters for the San Francisco Art Commission's
Market Street Art in Transitposter series. She is also a freelance
writer and art critic. In 2000-2001 she was a weekly contributing
arts writer for the SF BayGuardian. She co-founded the San Francisco
based arts website www.stretcher.org. Her writings have appeared in
afterimage, Digitalcity,and Public Art Review. From 2000 - 2004, she
was the co-director of the Clarion Alley Mural Project. In 2002-03
she curated, co-directed and participated in Sama-sama/Together, an
international exchange project between artists from San Francisco and
Apotik Komik of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. In spring 2006 her site-
specific installation Forever Summer will be on view in San
Francisco. Additionally, the Sama-sama/Together catalogue will be
published in March 2006.

Venue:

ampersand intl arts
1001 Tennessee street
San Francisco
415-285-0170
http://www.ampersandintlarts.com

Potrero Hill / DogPatch
between 20th and 22nd st.
parallel to 3rd st

Additional Info:

415-285-0170
http://www.ampersandintlarts.com