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Thu Nov 6, 2008 - Sat Nov 29, 2008

Freak of Nature

Conceptualized by Lisa Ostapinski / Co-Curated by Lisa Ostapinski and Gabe Scott


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Location
Date and Time
111 Minna Gallery
111 Minna Street
San Francisco, CA 94105 map
cross street: between New Montgomery & 2nd
district: Downtown/Financial District

Thu Nov 6, 2008 (6pm - late) - opening reception
Fri Nov 7, 2008 (noon - 7pm)
Sat Nov 8, 2008 (noon - 7pm)
Tue Nov 11, 2008 (noon - 7pm)
Wed Nov 12, 2008 (noon - 7pm)

Description
The artists of “Freak of Nature” adopt natural imagery as a central point of inquiry in their work. Expressions of human, plant, animal, insect life and landscape range from the realistic, mutated, beautiful, cliché, surreal, psychedelic, romantic and kitsch. This reflects a range of responses to the current sentiment of ecological disaster and genetic modification; including appreciation of the elegance of natural forms as well as disenchantment with environmentalist ideals. The use of visual references to science textbooks and commercial illustration are utilized to comment on the commoditization of natural life as an abstract entity to be manipulated.

Artists included in exhibition:

Alison Kendall
Amanda Smith
Alexis Mackenzie
Henry Gunderson
Colleen Sanders
Casey Jex Smith
Christopher Russell
Matthew Hart
Andrew Schoultz
Hilary Pecis
Lisa Ostapinski
Hannah Stouffer
Scott Hewicker
Josh Keyes
Jacob Tillman