Rooted (in the Bay Area)

(August 16, 2008-September 8, 2008)

Opening Reception August 24, 2008 12-5pm
Musical Performance by Judgement Day, Anteatereatant, & a special guest.

When we communicate with other people we are often challenged in many ways. Differences in language, gender, and personal experience, all contribute to our diverse nature of understanding and ways of thinking. We express ourselves through a complex system of interaction. Body language, eye contact, touch, and smell are lost over the Internet, phones, and satellite signals-often resulting in communicative misunderstandings.

With so many ways to reach people in our global environment many of us feel disconnected and isolated within this web of communication gaps. Six artists have contributed work that expresses their frustration or joy in human attempts to communicate.

ARTISTS: Angie Brown, Crystal Morey, Jake Gabel,
Nancy Bach, Patrick Renner & Amanda Jayne Kennedy

Closing Reception Friday, September 5th, 2008 7-10pm

Also Showing in our Artist of the Month Gallery: Work by Amy Martin

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(September 13, 2008-Ocober 6, 2008)

Opening Reception: Saturday September 13, 2008 6-9pm
Educational Tea: Sunday September 21, 3-5pm
(with Nam Tran Nguyen, Chau Thuy Huynh, and Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde)
Closing Reception: Friday October 3, 7-10pm

In her 1859 book Notes on Nursing: What It Is and What It Is Not, Florence Nightingale wrote, ”Little as we know about the way we are affected by form: by color and light, we do know this, they have an actual physical effect. Variety of form and brilliancy of color in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery. People say the effect is only on the mind. It is no such thing. The effect is on the body, too.” We additionally believe yelling can help.

The Compound Gallery is pleased to announce a group show by the art and disability collective YELLING CLINIC. Their first international project centers on the American legacy of military pollution in Vietnam and its multi-generational affects on disabled people there. The artists included are:

Chau Thuy Huynh was raised in Vietnam as a Communist propaganda artist. After she moved to America at the age of 27, her artistic restrictions were removed and she began exploring Vietnam from a different perspective. For this show, she is exhibiting a drawing from her series An Nguyen’s Story, entitled Soul Catcher, that are taken from her interviews with a Vietnamese Boat survivor.

Sunaura Taylor uses her background as a disabled person whose disability was caused by US military pollution and her life long dedication to animal ethics, to explore issues of value, suffering and person-hood. Her painting Culled Male Chicks in a Dumpster, represents hundreds of newly hatched male chicks, who have been discarded and left to die. They are of no use to industry and so they are seen as valueless. Her work exposes the parallels between how animals and disabled people are treated, metaphorically co-opted, valued and devalued.

Ehren Tool, makes and decorates cups. He will be showing Charlie Company. The cups are displayed in units; fire teams, squads, platoons, and companies. If the unit sells it lives forever as art, as a unit. If the unit does not sell it is redeployed and eventually the officers are decommissioned and the unit is disbanded. The cups die alone as fun time hobby craft.

Katherine Sherwood, the guest curator, is mixed-media painter and a disability scholar. For Vietnam, she is working a series of prints entitled joybringers. Hoa Mai will be available through the gallery with all the proceeds going to Yelling Clinic.

Also Showing in our Artist of the Month Gallery:
Work by David Spiher

“Rooted (in the Bay Area)” featuring the work of Mikhael Banut

First Friday Reception: Friday, August 1, 2008 7-10pm
with music by Irgasm Productions

July 12, 2008-August 12, 2008

Each piece is a direct reflection of his own roots. Some are very obvious, while others display his roots more obscurely. Mikhael’s roots are unearthed as he personally expresses his representation of scriptures that all encompass a theme of creation, nature, and above all- trees.

Rooted-v. To grow roots or a root.
To become firmly established, settled, or entrenched.
To come into existence; originate.

Also Opening in our Artist of the Month Gallery:

New Work by Tallulah Terryll
July 12 2008-August 12, 2008

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Life is a Pigsty

It’s July 4th and the closing reception of Jason Byer’s “Life is a Pigsty”!  Potluck from 5:30-7pm. If you bring an item to the potluck, you can get into the Blankspace variety show next door for free! (otherwise it is 5$ at the Blankspace door) There will be good old fashion popcorn, hotdog machine, tasty treats, and great art, and good company!

New Work by Jason Byers “Life is a Pigsty”

Opening Reception: Friday, June 6, 2008 (7-10pm)
Closing Reception: Friday July 4, 2008 (7-10pm)

June 6, 2008-July 7, 2008

Also opening: “Water, Oxygen, Light” organized by Eric Sanchez on our “Artist of the Month” wall.

A.I.S. - Working with Biology
By Eric Sanchez

“Water oxygen temperature” is a collaborative art project made possible by the Kala Institute, Emery Secondary School, and The Compound Gallery. This project was created by Cassandra Neaves, Emery Secondary School Biology Instructor and Eric Sanchez, Kala Artist / Instructor, to explore the process and illustration of seed germination and vegetative rooting. Cassandra Neaves AP Biology course consists of 8 students; Himani Aggarwal, Bayli Annamuhamedov, Gicela Mendoza, Ravnit Plaha, Christina Sabas, Husai Saidhakim, Gurdeep Singh, Darryl Taylor.

Students planted 9 seeds daily in a hydroponic environment, dissected and then captured the seeds (corn and 2 beans) at various stages of germination via flatbed scanner. These scans will be printed and on display at The Compound Gallery this Friday June 6th, 7-10pm. Students then made cyanotypes from the seeds as they reached a height of 6” to illustrate the leaf and root structure.. The cyanotypes were contact prints made from the plants pressed by plexiglass. In addition to the scanning project students were responsible for capturing photos 2 times a day, over a 2 week period, as the vegetative root experiment took place. The samples include basil and coleus. These samples were snippings taken from a host plant and the photos will be presented via stop motion animation this Friday. The students had a successful presentation of their class projects to fellow classmates, faculty and staff the high school on Friday May 30th. Don’t miss the opportunity to see the experiments on display at The Compound Gallery this month.

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Steven Barich’s work addresses how images can address nature and technology’s effect on the human condition—whether it be the technology of science, of the artificial, or implied rules of perspective and depth—and how an artwork concerns vision, how we see or don’t see…or how the artwork is looking back at us.

OPENING RECEPTION: MAY 2, 2008 7-10pm