'Remix' - Group Exhibition at Catharine Clark Gallery June 27, 2009

Catharine Clark Gallery announces a group exhibition titled "Remix" that includes the work of Thorsten Brinkmann, Nicole Cherubini, Amir H. Fallah, Carmen McLeod, Hilary Pecis, and Mickalene Thomas. The artists hale from Germany, New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, and for each artist the exhibit marks their first showing at Catharine Clark Gallery. The opening reception will be held on Saturday, June 27 from 5 to 8 pm and is the second anniversary of Catharine Clark Gallery in its 150 Minna Street location.

International artists' work stemmed from two conversations with the artists about their students' burgeoning interest in working with historical techniques. The first, with Josephine Taylor, focused on UC Berkeley students' preoccupation with collage; the second, with Carmen McLeod, on the preponderous use of collage and assemblage techniques among her fellow MFAs at Virginia Commonwealth University and her own use of such approaches in her splintered landscape wall works and installations.

The artists' collage-based works are made from materials and techniques associated with modernism; however, are conceptually more rooted in the realm of the composite, the computer, cut-and-paste functions, hybrids, music sampling, shuffles, mash-ups and re-mixes than in modernist strategies. The exhibit includes performance-like video, readymades that defy logic, clay sculpted into deformed baroque pots, paintings whose imagery refers to fantasy-like forts and tree houses, wall-mounted installations depicting landscapes and elaborate paintings, and photo-collages and assemblage.

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Free.

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