October 1 to October 27, 2016
Reception Thursday October 13, 2016 at 5:30 pm; Artist Talk at 6:30 pm
Alyssa Lempesis works from imaginative speculation on uncanny ecologies. Her work merges the natural and the fantastic to create animated scenes of a world that exists somewhere between the unknown and the familiar, the present and the future.
Lempesis received an MFA from University of California at Davis (2014) and a BA at University of California at Berkeley (2012). She is an artist and educator living and working in the East Bay. Recent solo exhibitions include Aggregate Space (Oakland), Diablo Valley College (Pleasant Hill), and Alter Space Gallery (San Francisco) as part of the Jail Cell Residency Program.
Towards the Very Close Future
October 31 to November 26, 2016
Reception Tuesday, November 1, 2016 at 5:30pm; Artist Talk at 6:30 pm
Matthew Gottschalk is a multi-disciplinary artist who’s practice involves puppetry, sculpture, painting, video/sound and photography. He has shown throughout the Bay Area and internationally. His awards and honors include the Jay DeFeo Prize in 2012 from Mills College, a 2009/2010 Fellowship for New Media from the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany, and the Yale-Norfolk 2007 Summer Arts Fellowship. Matthew is currently based between the Bay Area and the Foothills of Northern California.
December 3, 2016 – January 14, 2017
Reception Thursday December 8, 2016 at 5:30 pm; Artist Talk at 6:30 pm
Paul Taylor is a multimedia artist based in the San Francisco Bay area. His work explores the effects of increased digital immersion on our perceptions of and interactions with our surroundings and each other, and has been included in group exhibitions and screenings throughout the United States and abroad.
Come and see the newest project under development – Genocron!