Baer Ridgway Exhibitions will be in Seattle at Seattle, WA 98107 January 21th – February 5th, 2011 |
| San Francisco-based gallery, Baer Ridgway Exhibitions is pleased to announce an upcoming group show of gallery artists titled “Beneath The Picture” in Seattle, Washington. This satellite exhibition has been made possible by the generous collaboration of Ambach & Rice, who have offered their exhibition space to Baer Ridgway Exhibitions while they simultaneously exhibit a solo show of new work by Eric Yahnker in Los Angeles.
“Beneath The Picture” addresses the varied practice of appropriation as seen among the artists of Baer Ridgway Exhibitions. Whether culling images from disparate online sources and situating them in new contextual archives, imbuing photographs with alternative significance by transposing them across mediums, or troubling the physicality of the image surface by marking, obscuring and manipulating, the works included in this exhibition highlight the mutability of the viewer’s experience of a picture and present opportunities for reinterpretation and re-inscription of pictures that have already lived. “We are not in search of sources or origins, but of structures of signification: beneath the picture there is always another picture.” We now take this condition to be the rule rather than the exception. Each image encountered today is projected into a spiraling frenzy of multiplication and (re)presentation across the collective global screen. Images are summoned and dismissed, they float before us and disappear. They are divorced from place and time, leaving only the chain of signifiers composed by these viewings. This exhibition presents works from a group of artists engaged in the “stratigraphic activity” of plying the links and connections that lie beneath the surface of the appropriated image. List of exhibiting artists: Curated by Kent Baer and Winston Morris Images & Information: www.baerridgway.com
Very best, Kent Baer & Eli Ridgway Baer Ridgway Exhibitions 172 Minna Street, San Francisco, CA 94105 www.baerridgway.com, info@baerridgway.com 415.777.1366 Aboveimage:
Brion Nuda Rosch A Valley Where Round Rolling Hills Found book page on found book page 10.5 x 8.25 inches 2010 |
