Yedda Morrison, Scott Hewicker, Rebeca Bollinger, Wayne Smith: The Nearby Faraway

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Opening Reception:  Wednesday, November 7, 2018 at 6-8pm

Four San Francisco artists explore shifting thresholds of perception and the precarity of interior physical space.  Touching on the mundane and the transcendent, the show takes up the collective implications of domestic space in a city of extreme economic disparity and a serious housing crisis. Whether borrowing exterior landscape as ritual (a distant palm seen daily from the shower), re-imagining the edenic promise of interior design, enacting the obsessive, repetitive labours of the domestic or subverting the beauty, logic or efficacy of household objects, the show takes up residence in the liminal point between escaping to and escaping from.

The Nearby Faraway - Works by Yedda Morrison, Scott Hewicker, Rebeca Bollinger, Wayne Smith

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Yedda Morrison is a San Francisco-based writer and visual artist. She is a founding member of the artist/writer’s collaborative The Collective Task and a founding editor of Tripwire, A journal of Art & Poetics. Her books include Darkness (Make Now Press, 2012), Girl Scout Nation (Displaced Press, 2008) and Crop (Kelsey Street Press, 2003). Her work has been anthologised in Against Expression (Northwestern University Press), Kindergarde (Black Radish Press), I’ll Drown My Book (Les Figues Press) and most recently in Reprint Appropriation (&) Literature (LUXBOOKS). She is currently represented by Republic Gallery in Vancouver, BC. Morrison lives and works in San Francisco’s Bay Area.

Scott Hewicker is an artist, writer and musician whose work explores the poetic connections of painting, color perception and collective memory. He has an MFA from Stanford University and has exhibited his work at [2nd floor projects], NIAD, Ratio 3, Jack Hanley Gallery, Deitch Projects NY, Galleri Christina Wilson in Copenhagen, ICA Philadelphia and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. He co-curated the exhibit Hauntology at the Berkeley Art Museum with Larry Rinder in 2010, and played in the bands, The Alps, Troll, and Aero-Mic’d (with Wayne Smith). He has been a contributing columnist for Open Space, the SFMOMA blog, and writes about music for Stranded Records in San Francisco. With his husband, the artist Cliff Hengst, Hewicker co-edited and illustrated the book, Good Times, Bad Trips published by Gallery 16 editions in 2007. He currently teaches at CCA in the First Year Program. Hewicker is represented by Gallery 16 in San Francisco. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. He co-curated the exhibit Hauntology at the Berkeley Art Museum with Larry Rinder in 2010, and played in the bands, The Alps, Troll, and Aero-Mic’d (with Wayne Smith). He has been a contributing columnist for Open Space, the SFMOMA blog, and writes about music for Stranded Records in San Francisco. With his husband, the artist Cliff Hengst, Hewicker co-edited and illustrated the book, Good Times, Bad Trips published by Gallery 16 editions in 2007. He currently teaches at CCA in the First Year Program. Hewicker is represented by Gallery 16 in San Francisco.

Rebeca Bollinger’s work has been featured in exhibitions such as Art in the Anchorage curated by Creative Time (New York); the California Biennial (Orange County Museum of Art); Bay Area Now (Yerba Buena Center for the Arts); and the SECA Award Exhibition (SFMOMA). Solo exhibitions include Henry Art Gallery (Seattle); Feigen Contemporary (New York); Rena Bransten Gallery (San Francisco); The LAB (San Francisco); and Walter Maciel Gallery (Los Angeles) along with group exhibitions at Ballroom Marfa, Krannert Art Museum, Asian Art Museum, Museum Fridericianum, Hunter College, the De Young Museum, and Pacific Film Archive, among others. Bollinger is a recipient of a SECA Award from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the James D. Phelan Award in Video, a NEA Creation & Presentation Grant, the Artadia Award, Creative Capacity Fund grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation, a Eureka Fellowship from the Fleishhacker Foundation, and a 2018 Art+Process+Ideas artist-in-residence award at Mills College in partnership with the Mills College Art Museum.

Wayne Smith is a visual and sound artist living and working in San Francisco. Smith received a BA in Painting and MA in Sculpture from the San Jose State University. Working in a variety of media including drawing, installation and video, his work has been shown locally and internationally. Smith collaborated with Berlin-based artist D-L Alvarez on a sound and video installation loosely inspired by Joan Didion’s “The White Album” that took place at Derek Eller Gallery, New York. A video installation at Exile Gallery in Berlin, Germany was shown as part of the Psychometry exhibition in 2009. Recording as Aero-Mic’d, Smith has released several albums, employing combinations of field recordings, improvisation, and digital manipulation.