Taylor/Gilmore Exhibition Extended Through Jan 24 January 24, 2009

Solo exhibitions of new large-scale drawings and prints by Josephine Taylor, titled "Bomb Landscape," and six video works by Kate Gilmore in the Video Room, have been extended through January 24, 2009. A new catalogue with an essay by Timothy Anglin Burgard accompanies the exhibit.

Taylor's scenes of survival unfold in a post-apocalyptic environment where ghostly white figures are caught, as if by a flash from a nuclear explosion, in dark, black, cavernous spaces populated by wild animals, marking a departure from her past work in approach to color and content. Taylor studied religion and East Indian languages at the University of Colorado before earning her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She is a recipient of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 2003 SECA Award and in 2004 her work was included in the California Biennial at the Orange Country Museum of Art, followed by inclusion in Bay Area Now IV at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in 2005. Her work is in the permanent collections of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Taylor lives and works in San Francisco and has shown with Catharine Clark Gallery since 2003.

Gilmore's protagonists act out nearly impossible and somewhat absurd physical challenges, exhibiting a persistent desire to succeed in the face of challenging obstacles and an ability to cope with self-imposed high expectations. Gilmore received a BFA from Bates College and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in 2002. She has had solo exhibitions in San Antonio, Madrid, an New York. She was recently awarded the Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome, Italy (2007). This is her first exhibit at Catharine Clark Gallery.

Free.

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