February 19 - March 23, 2002

Lucinda Devlin
Deborah Luster
Corrie McCluskey
Andrea Modica
Celia A. Shapiro
Margaret Stratton
Stephen Tourlentes
Harun Farocki

No Exit explores imprisonment and the social issues pertaining to detainment and capital punishment, examining the psychological implications of imprisonment as well as the more literal aspects of the prison structure. The artists address the complexities of the subject from multiple perspectives, from the recreated last suppers of executed prisoners to the haunting interiors of abandoned prisons.

May 14 - June 15, 2002

An Anonymous Artist of the 21st Century
John Dugdale
Robert Flynt
Bill Jacobson
Bohnchang Koo
Oscar Munoz
John O’Reilly
Dan Ragland
Hugh Shurley
Gerald Slota

Everyman features the work of ten male photographers who push the boundaries of gender representation, exploring conventional concepts of the male body through distressed and ambiguous imagery. In so doing, these artists defy the traditional roles that the male gender has played in art, be it in classical male nudes or eroticized images.

Camerawork: A Journal of Photographic Arts
Spring/Summer 2003, Vol. 30, No. 1
Everyman: A Search for the Male Form

August 6 - September 7, 2002

Peter Brown
Janet Delaney
Sarah Malakoff
Kim Manchester
Abner Nolan
Kelli Yon

"A wardrobe," writes Czeslaw Milosz, is "filled with the mute tumult of memories," and by extension, the house too might be interpreted as a container of encoded messages and layers of family history. The five photographers featured here find the basis for their intimate narratives in everyday surroundings, evincing ordinary household objects and simple rituals as exquisite evidence of a larger family drama. Through the photograph, the highly personal space of home becomes emblematic, uncovering the broad notion of domestic space as a repository of memory, history, and emotional artifacts.

Peter Brown and Janet Delaney turn the camera on their own domestic spaces in a way that exposes the narratives of daily life as universal in meaning. Abner Nolan explores the hidden narratives within the domestic environment and how the photograph itself - very much like the interior of rooms - serves to archive and incite memory. Kelli Yon turns her camera on found domestic environments, photographing estate sales and the belongings that are offered for public sale following the death or permanent leave of the owner. Sarah Malakoff explores the psychologically-charged spaces and objects of the home, deliberately drawing out the tension between absence and presence in her formally-appointed, empty rooms.

August 8 - September 7, 2002

Tommy Becker
Thomas Chang
Heather Johnson
Jeff Karolski
Sam Kraus
Laura Larson
Geof Oppenheimer
Graham Parker

Same / Difference calls attention to the unique, subjective experiences that animate hotel rooms in contrast with the stark sameness of these pseudo-domestic zones. The artists unravel the uniformity of the hotel space and explore the ambiguous relationships between current and former inhabitants by projecting narrative fantasies onto the viewer’s reading of a vacant room. Visitors to the hotel can check out a key and view work ranging from video and photography to site-specific audio and textile installations.

September 17 - November 2, 2002
at the Oakland Art Gallery

Luis Delgado
Andy Diaz Hope
Joyce Hsu
Robin Lasser
Reuben Lorch-Miller & Frank Haines
Bull.Miletic
Pauline Shapiro
Shirley Shor & Aviv Eyal
Matt Volla

¿WYSIWYG? features twelve Bay Area artists whose work is influenced by current technological systems that access, process, and compile information. They reconstruct events and scenarios that piece together a new view of place, life, objects, or events, thereby reordering the viewer’s experience. Using this as a springboard to address the building of narratives in our data-driven world, the artists impart new meaning to information found in objects, online media, and personal experience.

Starting September 19, 2002

Mark Amerika
Natalie Bookchin
Sara Diamond/Code Zebra
Golan Levin
Jason Lewis
Jennifer & Kevin McCoy
Radical Software Group (RSG)

net.narrative is an online exhibition highlighting eight Internet-based projects that challenge traditional conceptions of narrativity.

October 29 - November 30, 2002

“Many of us suffer tremendous pain, and we have numbed ourselves to such a degree that we don’t know how to feel anymore. We’ve lost touch with our own selves, our own bodies, our own souls. There are many different ways to uncover those things that have been numb for so long. Sometimes the nerve endings need to be laid bare. They need to be raw again. In order to heal a wound, sometimes you have to open it up to let the disease out. And sometimes you need to do that without anesthesia.”
Daniel Joseph Martinez

Over his extensive career, Daniel Joseph Martinez has embraced the role of a catalyst through installation, visual arts, performance, public art, writing, and curating. Without Anesthesia presents selections from his photographic series More Human Than Human (1999-2000) and animatronic sculptures that Martinez created for the Lima Bienale in April 2002. Though visually disparate, each piece in the exhibition uses the body as the locus for a dialogue on the psycho-social dynamics of identity within public and private space, while examining the role of photography in representations of reality. Each photograph remains as residue of both public and private actions, thoughts, beliefs, desires, and fears.

Camerawork: A Journal of Photographic Arts
Fall/Winter 2002, Vol. 29, No. 2
Daniel J. Martinez; Without Anesthesia OR This Isn’t a Nice Neighborhood