ampersand: 2 solo shows: Jennifer Kaufman & Andy Vogt

Fri, Mar 3
6:00pm-8:30pm
free

DATES of EXHIBITION : March 3rd - March 26th 2006
Gallery Hours : Fridays 11am -5pm and by appointment

ARTIST: Jennifer Kaufman
title: "no way of knowing when this song began"
medium: drawing on paper

ARTIST: Andy Vogt
title: "redensified"
medium: salvaged wood

Jennifer Kaufman - STATEMENT
Notes on Line and Drawing
With no established site of origin, or, origin in time, a line will
continue forever. A piece of sturdy paper provides a place to
encounter a line and engage its rhythm and its impulse towards
fragmentation, as well as its inclination to gather itself and keep
moving.
Pencils in both hands, and drawing at different speeds, I draw lines
that meet coherent forms (trapezoids, ovals, other lines, and
ellipses) and encounter uncertain marks. And marking goes like this:
a hard mark, fast mark, reasoned and backwards mark, marks that are
doubtful, interrupted, erased or dismantled. Many of my drawings are
wall-sized which allow me to put my body into a drawing process with
room for intention, chance and recklessness. Smaller work allows for
a different relationship between mind and hand. Both approaches are
intimate.

Andy Vogt - STATEMENT
All objects have a beginning and an end, at least when it comes to
our economic value system. Objects allude to reference points in the
built landscape, our own reality, and we reinforce this structural
vernacular on many levels. Our burning need to make order out of
chaos subsides only briefly before our true entropic nature overrides
us and trashes it all. Mining dumpsters citywide I salvage wood
strips of plaster lath discarded during home renovation projects and
re-assemble them into geometric drawings. They are the re-
crystallized skeletal incarnations of a system that has been frozen
in suspended animation. Their shapes have a hazy connection to
literal structures that subscribe to alternate formal hierarchies.
The materials are what have driven this body of work. Their history,
both natural and as a building material, form the basis of their re-use.

Venue:

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

@ 20th street; parallel to 3rd street; in Dog Patch (east Potrero Hill)

Additional Info:

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