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Photo credit: Lori Nix: "untitled" from the series Accidental
Kansas, 1998; c-print.
Photo credit:Melanie Willhide:"untitled", 2000; c-print.
Photo credit: Greg Bruce:"Crime Scene", 1999; c-print.
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untitled (conjecture)
Greg Bruce • Anthony Goicolea • Lori Nix • Melanie Willhide
Curated by Marnie Gillett, Alicia Miller and Frank Yamrus
San Francisco Camerawork presents untitled (conjecture) an exhibition of constructed imagery which explores in both playful
and edgy ways the territory of fear, anxiety and psychological
disturbance.
untitled (conjecture) brings together the work of artists, Greg Bruce, Anthony Goicolea, Lori Nix and Melanie Willhide.
Greg Bruce’s lighthearted scenes of "tortured" flowers are undercut by the
violence done to the sunny Gerbera Daisies and other flowers.
He chops, ties and butchers these innocent participants in his
mayhem with results that are at once funny and vicious. Similar
in tone are Anthony Goicolea’s tableaux of adolescence school boy pranks in which he plays
all the characters. Running through the images is a latent sexual
energy which clearly fuels the manic antics that ensue in his
photographs. What boys will be can be amusing and also deeply
disturbing. Lori Nix makes her anxieties manifest in her artful recreations of disaster
scenes. Filled with the looming drama of simple terror, the fear
evoked in her images is overwrought and neurotic, reminiscent
of 70s disaster flicks. Planes careen into farm fields, nuclear
reactors melt down, trains derail–it is a world awry and out of
control. Moving into darker realms, Melanie Willhide’s mysterious images hint at hidden obsessions and sexual deviance
without ever revealing any explicit evidence of such things. The
"action" of her images is lost in ambiguity, suggesting an anonymous
hermetic realm of unleashed fantasies one can only imagine.
As conjecture fills the mind, the effect of these collected works
is unsettling and uncomfortable.
Gallery Admission is F R E E
Gallery Talks are available for classes and community groups. Please call to
schedule: 415-764-1001 or e-mail us.
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