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Photo credit:
Jenny Rosenberg: Meat Baby, 1999, c-print. Courtesy of the artist.
Photo credits:
TinaWolfe: "Tadasana", and "Savasana", 2001, digital images on acrylic polmer. Courtesy of the artist.
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FLESH
Jeanne Friscia • Jenny Rosenberg •
Heather Sparks • Tina Wolfe
Curated by Joanne Chan
SF Camerawork presents FLESH, an exhibition of work by Jeanne Friscia, Jenny Rosenberg, Heather Sparks and Tina Wolfe,
FLESH brings together the work of four remarkable emerging bay area artists: Jeanne Friscia, Jenny Rosenberg, Heather Sparks and Tina Wolfe, all exploring the corporeality of the body - both animal and human - in new and startling ways. The fetishistic potential of skin; the attraction of our cosmetic exterior versus the repulsive textures of the flesh and bone that lay just underneath, the material qualties of bodily substance - all of these issues and more are examined in FLESH.
These four artists contemplate the structures, textures and tonalities of the body’s substantial matter, reconstructing it as material space. Jeanne Friscia’s lavish color photographs begin with a close-up of mammalian flesh - meat, fish or poultry. Working digitally she creates kalidescopic patterns of this repeated image to make elegant and disturbing textiles of our favorite fleshy fare. Jenny Rosenberg molds meat into familiar compositions of childhood, adolescence and milestone moments in human life - and death. Her work appropriates pre-existing models of photography such as the double take portrait and the baby portrait, and takes them to a deeply macbre level. Heather Sparks peers into the textures of skin and hair, transforming these explorations through magnification into visions of the planetary skies. By forging a new cosmology from her own body, she collapses the boundary between interior self and outside world. Tina Wolfe also considers skin as boundary of our psychological space, demarcating the distinction between subject/self and object/other. Wolfe physicalizes this separation by transfering images of skin onto polyurethane "curtains" which hang in the gallery space, creating a liminal zone where public and private realms overlap.
These artists reflect on the body as architecture, vessel, barrier and cover heightening our awarenes of places both inside and out of the body’s boundaries.
Gallery Hours: 12-5 pm, Tuesday-Saturday
Gallery Admission is F R E E
Gallery Talks are available for classes and community groups. Please call to schedule: 415-863-1001 or e-mail us.
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