Biome

Description

Johanna St. Clair and Jay Nelson's paths first converged in 2005 while
helping to create Mollusk Surf shop, a now San Francisco hot spot for
art and surfing. They are again collaborating here at Lincart as
co-curators of an exhibition that explores their shared fascination with
landscape and mindscape. Their title, "Biome", implies an ecological
environment with boundaries which expand beyond traditional landscape.
The artists included in this show reinterpret their surroundings through
their work to create emotionally charged and symbolic new spaces.

BIOME ARTISTS:

Peter Barrickman is a Milwaukee based artist. While he is more known
for his paintings, the work included in this show is a video made from
him recording an auditory landscape, then creating animations inspired
by the sounds. By reinterpreting his environment, Peter allows us to see
language in an original light.

Charlie Callahan uses recycled materials to create large scale
explorations of nature. His interest in the ocean is apparent - a common
motif is sea urchin shells. He paints with a loose pointillistic
technique that becomes photo realistic with distance. He also creates
beautiful nature scape installations with detritus found along the
beach.

Kyle Field's watercolor drawings depict landscapes, mindscapes and
dreamscapes which spring forth stream-of-consciousness-style from his
omnipresent imagination. They are populated by a strange array of
characters and landmarks culled from his daily life as
surfer/artist/transient musician (he is the front man for the band
little wings) and from his subconscious mythology. The resulting
drawings are lyrical, humorous and possess an ad hoc creative
virtuosity.

Stefan Kurten primarily paints gardens, backyards and patios. This
painting, "Grey Days", illustrates a door to a garden, and reveals an
emotionally ambivalent look at suburban culture. Each leaf and detail is
lovingly realized with a decorative pointillism and creates a
psychologically rich image of both the tranquility and loneliness of
suburbia.


Eleanor Harwood uses oil, collaged paper and polymer to create
landscapes embedded with charged narratives.

Suzanne Husky utilizes found and recycled materials such as textiles,
paper cutouts, and cardboard to construct crude fabrications which
celebrate the human hand behind them. Her sculptures depict a botanical
world so fantastical that real elements would be completely intrusive.


Sean McFarland is a photographer who uses collage to rearrange elements
in his pictures and then rephotographs them with film. The places they
allude to do not actually exist, however, the components in them do. He
teaches at CCA.

Jay Nelson makes oil paintings, watercolors and graphite drawings that
explore imagination the way an outdoorsman would explore a forest. Each
work is built from a combination of elements that signify an emotional
relationship.

Oliver Halsman Rosenberg is a San Francisco and New York based artist.
His work spans from very intimate gouache paintings to large scale
collaborative internet drawings. Oliver's "Sphereism Manifesto"
announces his relationship to his environment and informs us why these
paintings absolutely have to be made.

Johanna St. Clair has been creating botanical landscapes which have
been geometrically rearranged. New patterns emerge amidst the reordered
foliage. The work rises out of an interest in gardens and parks, and the
visual relationship between chaos and complexity.

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