OPENING : Albert Reyes - WONDERLAND/ Megan Wilson -SPRING January 13, 2006

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, apan; 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.