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 How I Learned To... by Weston Teruya & Michele Carlson April 21 - May 24, 2008 Gallery Hours: Wed-Sat, 12-6pm, FREE Opening Reception: Monday April 21, 6-9pm Artists Talk: Saturday May 24, 2pm A collaborative installation by Weston Teruya & Michele Carlson that looks at the construction of nationhood and identity through a sculptural disruption of institutional educational spaces. This project exposes the power dynamics contained within the architecture and set-up of traditional American classrooms and explores how histories of marginalized communities are taught and absorbed into concepts of nationhood and citizenship. This new installation destabilizes and re-imagines the environment that we learn and grow up in. Weston Teruya was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawai'i and currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area after a nine year stint at various points in the greater Los Angeles area. He has facilitated community and youth arts projects with organizations including the Youth Justice Coalition, Public Allies - Los Angeles, Strategic Actions for a Just Economy, Little Tokyo Service Center and the Asian Pacific American Legal Center's PAPAYA youth program. He currently works for the San Francisco Arts Commission's Cultural Equity Grants program. Weston received an MFA in Painting and Drawing and MA in Visual & Critical Studies (Visual Criticism) from California College of the Arts. His academic research interests include contemporary practices by artists of color, Asian American Studies, piracy, settler colonialism in Hawai'i, and speculative fictions. Weston has exhibited artwork at Patricia Sweetow Gallery, Southern Exposure, the di Rosa Preserve and BLK/MRKT Gallery. He is represented by Patricia Sweetow Gallery in San Francisco. Michele Carlson was born in Seoul, Korea. She received her MFA in Printmaking and MA in Visual & Critical Studies (Visual Criticism) from California College of the Arts. She received her BA in History & Interdisciplinary Visual Arts and her BFA in Printmaking from the University of Washington. Her academic research interests focus on issues of difference and identity, Asian American studies, transnational adoption, popular culture, and art analysis; contemporary art practices with an interest in artists who focus on issues of difference and identity, race, gender and sexuality, narrative, drawing, text, and craft. She has exhibited her work locally at Patricia Sweetow Gallery, On Six Gallery, Kearny Street Workshop, Giant Robot, and San Francisco Arts Commmission Gallery, and at Tin Lark Gallery (Los Angeles, CA), Okok Gallery (Seattle, WA), Korean Cultural Center (Los Angeles, CA), and Junc Gallery (Los Angeles, CA). "Weston Teruya's...provocative mixed-media works on paper articulate powerful cycles of creation and destruction." - Glen Helfand, Artforum "...to appreciate Michele Carlson's [work]...you could be jumping up and down and not miss out." - Hiya Swanhuser, SF Weekly |
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| About the Gallery at Intersection Gallery Hours: Tuesdays by appointment Wednesdays through Saturdays, 12-5pm, FREE The Gallery at Intersection develops and presents brand new installations and exhibitions that provide a resource of visual ideas and a platform for communications; art that transgresses boundaries of culture and discipline; artists who define, interpret and help to transform society through their work. Mirroring the multi-disciplinary heart of Intersection programming, exhibitions have included media as diverse as photography, video, printmaking, sculpture, embroidered suits, glass, sound and audio, historical artifacts, painting, collage, architectural models, site-specific murals & illustration. Intersection presents a wide variety of work - work by prominent established artists who have shown work in major galleries and museums, local emerging artists, and concept driven, Intersection-curated shows. Exhibitions are always programmed with events (artist's talks, panel discussions, film & video screenings, performances, critics' roundtables) that highlight the inter-disciplinary and inter-cultural nature of the work. "Every moment of Intersection’s past conflates with its present and future; it is always reaching forward and behind. The artists, images and ideas of Intersection’s past continuously inform and resurface in the work of today’s artists. No matter what door you enter...inside that door is a consistent and coherent commitment to nurturing a space for alternative art.” – Amber Whiteside, Artweek |
