Two Favorites at The Lab Tomorrow

Artist: Eunkang Koh
Gallery: The Lab
Opening Reception: Wednesday, August 13, 6-9 PM
Exhibition Dates: August 13 - September 6, 2008
Address: 2948 16th Street


Eunkang Koh, who recently showed at Varnish Fine Art is opening a show at The Lab tomorrow. I first saw these pieces at Varnish Fine Art and loved them! It was a fantastic find.

"Humanscape is an ongoing series of experimental prints, drawing, and book art, which presents Eunkang Koh’s social commentary on the human condition. Koh considers how we as humans view ourselves as dominant creatures, with little consciousness of how we are also a part of a larger ecological system. Koh’s work acknowledges that humans are also animals with many of the same instincts. Using satirical and metaphorical representations, she depicts humans as hybrid creatures existing in an imagined, illusionary world. These characters contain ironic gestures that simultaneously evoke humor and the grotesque."






Artist: Zachary Royer Scholz
Gallery: The Lab
Closing Reception: Friday, September 5, 6-9 PM
Exhibition Dates: August 13 - September 6, 2008
Address: 2948 16th Street

Zachary's work was part of one the first shows I went to in San Francisco, a group exhibit at Southern Exposure. I was there for the closing reception, where each artist talked about the origin of their work. The exhibit was pretty complex, so the explanations were helpful and often lightened the intellectualism.


"Zachary Royer Scholz's site-specific installation directly engages the physicality of the Lab's main gallery space. Deviating from the typical installation-exhibition-deinstallation cycle, Scholz's show opens shortly after he arrives in the space and closes just as the work reaches completion. Allowing the site to act as a collaborator, the artist will produce objects and situations using the Lab's unique architecture and objects found there as a starting point. The audience can view the work in a static state when the artist is absent or come while he is there and witness the work in a state of flux. Viewers are encouraged to visit and revisit the space as this collaboration evolves."

Friday at The Lab

Alterations
Featuring Francesca Pastine in the Front Gallery
Exhibition Dates: May 28 – June 14, 2008
Opening Reception: Friday, May 30, from 6-9 PM


"Content is reconfigured as a result of Pastine’s physical interventions with these print mediums. The sensory process of taking in information is made visceral. In this manner, she draws attention to the physicality of objects that are mentally consumed, and then discarded. Through these alterations, Pastine not only subtly shifts cultural output, she also prompts viewers to engage in an embodied experience of disembodied information."








Don’t You Know There’s A War Going On?
Featuring Erika Anderson in the Ticket Booth
Exhibition Dates: May 28 – June 14, 2008
Opening Reception: Friday, May 30, 6-9 PM


"Don’t You Know There’s A War Going On? is a video installation of a cat playing with, dismembering, and eating a bird, paired to a soundtrack of current BBC news radio. The actual event borders on the banal, but the footage is jolting. This piece explores the prosaic nature of violence, its prevalent and consistent presence in our lives, and our obligation, if any, to do something about it."