GALLERY 411

Camille Norment‘s Lull

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Lull is a hypnotic, dream-like piece. The transformation of the viewer’s surroundings from a lit room to a dark, isolated space transports the viewer to to a world in which only himself and the sound exist. The single light source illuminating the speaker and microphone’s interaction focuses the viewer’s attention, furthering the hypnotic effect.

Norment’s work focuses mostly on acoustics and cultural phenomenon. She explores the relationships between sound and the self as well as what sounds and aspects of sounds we associate with what parts of life and the human experience

This piece in particular is currently on view at SFMOMA as part of their Sountracks exhibition.

SFMOMA website

Camille Norment’s Website

Angela Hennessey’s Blacklets (2007)

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Angela Hennessy’s work involves the dead, mourning, and textile practices while also incorporating those concepts’ relationship with blackness and femininity.

In Blacklets, Hennessy deconstructs black velvet fabric and displays it in a way similar to geological and archeological museum displays.

Hennessy is a professor at California College of the Arts and leads workshops relating to her work.

Angela’s Website

Michael Berens’ Hammocanopy Project

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Berens’ work stems largely from wordplay, humor, and causality.

In his Hammocanopies, an individual’s form becomes part of a larger body. 

They lay in a hammock and their form is cast, then reproduced. 

Though the participants help to create the forms, their role in the process is literally inactive, as they rest and sleep in its duration.

These works highlight the crucial role that inactivity plays in the creation of all things.

Michael’s Website

Michael’s Work

Scott Hewicker’s Golden Prisn Works

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San Francisco based painter Scott Hewicker colorfully combines abstraction and representation using both traditional and non-traditonal painting media.

In his works within the Golden Prisn, a group gallery show in 2016, Hewicker deals with the concept of creating something lovable and beautiful from the oppression one faces.

Though the original idea of a Golden Prison is that of a near Stockholm Syndrome, that the beauty of the situation is a harmful illusion to the individual, it can be an important stepping stone for freeing oneself, and even necessary for survival on a daily basis for oppressed peoples.

This necessary beauty is depicted by Hewicker.

Scott’s Tumblr

Scott’s Work on Artsy

Golden Prisn on Gallery 16

Danielle Andress’ Jacquard Weavings

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Weavings by Oakland based artist Danielle Andress combine words, phrases, and images to create vivid works that sit between resonance and messiness.

Her Jacquard weavings supply planning and execution in two very separate steps. The image file that the loom creates a weaving of is structured and exact, but the loom itself must be controlled by the weaver and the weft application leaves room for improvisation, allowing the weavings to have an organic quality.

Her works deal with the concepts of chaos, reflection, and weaving as a choice of great intention.

Danielle’s Website

Artist’s Work

Anne Wilson’s Hair/Clothworks

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This body of work by Chicago based Artist Anne Wilson takes fine linens in disrepair and gives them new life by mending them with both human and synthetic hair

Two of the groups within her Hair/Clothworks are the Disrepairs and the Mendings.

Both rely on the contrast between beautiful, but lifeless fabrics and the visceral human element: hair.

Within these, a conversation is created about death, mourning, renewal, and function.

Anne Wilson’s Website

Hair/Clothworks

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