Receiver Guest Artists — San Francisco. August 5th — 29th, 2006.

Guest Artists Show

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Receiver Guest Artists Show

Continuing our West Coast tour at homebase Receiver Gallery in San Francisco, we proudly present artworks from:
Nathan Fox, James Gibson, Maya Hayuk, Ogi, Henry Lewis, Chris Pew, Kelly Tunstall, Paul Urich, and Marci Washington.

Receiver Guest Artists Show
Saturday, Aug 5th, 6 - 10pm

Receiver Gallery
1415 Valencia st.
San Francisco, Ca 94110
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Apparel designed by Receiver's Guest Artist's will be for sale at the show to compliment the exhibit. As a socially responsible company, Receiver will be donating a percentage of Receiver's Guest Artists art and Tshirt proceeds to Habitat for Humanity, San Francisco, a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide homeownership opportunities in partnership with low-income families.

Refreshments will be served and artists will be in attendance. Thanks to Anchor Brewing and The Onion for their generous support.

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Artist Biographies

 

Nathan Fox

Born 1975 in Washington D.C., Nathan graduated from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1997 and moved to New York City in 2000 to attend The School of Visual Arts Illustration As Visual Essay Graduate Program. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Interview, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Wired, ESPN Magazine, Print, Mother Jones, Spin, Mad Magazine, DC Comics and many other publications.

Becoming a father in 2004 led Nathan and his family back to Milwaukee where he currently resides with his wife Jennifer and their daughter Maille Rose.

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James Gibson

James Gibson is a designer and artist who has developed broad design skills including graphic, interaction & interface design. James is experienced in designing across different technology platforms including PC, mobile phones, Web and digital television, as well as producing creative design solutions for print. An active participant in the UK and international art & design community, not only in practice, but in education, where James is involved in the teaching of design and research projects as well being a lecturer in renowned Design Institutes, and currently teaching at the prestigious IAMAS in Gifu. Previously James worked as Senior Human Interface Designer at Sony Design Centre Europe. He was responsible for a number of commercial products as well as being involved with core research and development projects at Sony worldwide.

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Maya Hayuk

Maya Hayuk’s paintings, murals, prints, drawings and photographs can range from tender mockeries of idealized social rituals such as hot tubbing or undressing, to transcendent portrayals of geometries giving way to nature. Growing up in the Wonderbread suburb of Baltimore the daughter of Ukrainian immigrant parents, she converted to punk rock early on. Studying in Boston, Toronto and Odessa, Ukraine, she earned her BFA in Conceptual Art,Interrelated Media and Philosophy. These and other sojourns to Europe, the U.S.S.R. and Northern Africa gave Hayuk exposure to a panoply of rich cultures. She landed in San Francisco, and later helped to found and creatively direct withitgirl, a skate-surf-snowboarding-punk-art website and magazine with the aim of mentoring young women and nurturing their individual artistic expression. Hayuk has also had a hand in the music world, making videos with Andrew Deutsch under the moniker “Open Arms,” and lending her artwork to album covers, tour posters and publicity for numerous artists, from Prefuse 73 to Devendra Banhart. In 2005 she built and painted a massive skate track in Pittsburgh, PA and painted a hotel room at the Hotel Des Arts in SF alongside numerous other large scale painting projects. The cornucopia of Hayuk’s worldly experiences is ever-present in her curvilinear, psychedelic, organic-cum- geometric and palpably patterned handiwork and she continues to show nationally and abroad.

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Ogi

Born in Tokyo, Japan, Ogi received a BFA in Illustration from the California College of Arts (& Crafts) in 2003. He now resides in Tokyo. He has exhibited at Cowboys & Angels, Giant Robot, Andeken Gallery, and with the Sneaker Pimps global Sneaker Exhibition. Ogi has designed T-shirt graphics for Poketo and Android 8. His artwork is featured in the graphic art book “Io: Art of the Wired” and in “Evil Monito” magazine.

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Henry Lewis

Born in Pasadena, Ca, in 1977, Henry Lewis moved to San Francisco in late 2000 to pursue a career in tattooing, illustration, and painting. Henry is a featured artist at the world renowned tattoo studio, Everlasting Tattoo. Working as a tattooer for the past 8 years, Henry’s acclaim as a painter and illustrator has grown as well in that time. Since relocating to San Francisco Henry has shown his work at 111 Minna Gallery, 5024SF, Hotel Biron, White Walls, The Shooting Gallery and a group show during the Sundance Film Festival, in 2006. Henry has worked and collaborated on projects with Receiver Gallery, Juice Design, K2 Snowboards, Ashbury Images, and the band, The Liars.

Henry draws on a broad range of influences, most notably other tattooers and his contemporaries, such as Don Hardy, Mike Davis, and Jason Schroeder. This doesn’t mean that he eschews a more formal influence. Henry also notes the influence of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Peter Paul Reubens, and Gian Lorenzo Bernini in his work.

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Chris Pew

Merging the dynamic, and often polar, worlds of science and art, Oakland, Ca. artist, Chris Pew explores ideas of an abstract cosmos and different trajectories for the unobservable universe. Chris’ work revolves around scientific theories and his art is an interpretation of those theories. He is interested in the hypothetical conditions of these theories and this is what he portrays in his work. Many times, scientists are purely speculating on a theory that only takes place if a certain condition exists, or the theory is impossible to prove in the foreseeable future.

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Kelly Tunstall

The strength and assurance of femininity, in both a sarcastic and reverent sense, are the driving force behind Kelly Tunstall’s body of work. In her studied portraits, Tunstall renders stylized, leggy, female figures, and their pets, prey, powers and whims in acrylic and ink on panel.

Also working in illustration, installation, and multimedia projects - Tunstall plays with the contrast between the formality of opulent form and the revelation of method. The patina of age and calligraphic drawing methods lend a contemplative atmosphere to her colorful, story-filled worlds.

Common themes reflect the contrasting dualities of Tunstall’s imagined ladies: interior and exterior realms; innocence and mischief; concrete reality and the dreamscapes of the supernatural. The result is a comprehensive study of the modern and sometimes not so modern woman.

Kelly Tunstall (born 1979) received her BA from California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco. She has held solo exhibitions in San Francisco, Miami and London as well as group exhibitions in New York, Portland, Tokyo, Detroit, and Los Angeles. Tunstall has been featured in Anthem, Flux, Juxtapoz, Oyster, The San Francisco Examiner, The San Francisco Chronicle, and the Metro Times(cover). Tunstall’s first music video, “Everything is OK,” for band Halou, is set to be released this spring. Tunstall has also been recognized for her illustration work for clients Papyrus, Bonfire Snowboarding, The LA Weekly, as well as her permanent commissions on view at 111 Minna Gallery, The Art Hotel, a16 restaurant, bar crudo (all San Francisco), and Zuzu Nova, Los Angeles.

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Paul Urich

Born in South Carolina, 1974, lives and works in San Francisco

Solo Exhibitions

2005
Low Gallery, Inside out, San Francisco, CA

Group Exhibitions

2005
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, The Zine Unbound, Kults, Werewolves and Sarcastic
Hippies, San Francisco, CA
Hallway Bathroom Gallery, Well All Right, San Francisco, CA
Pigman Gallery, Paper! Awesome!, San Francisco, CA
Mimi Bar, Wonders, Wows, Wins, San Francisco, CA
Juice Design, Art 4 Tibet, San Francisco, CA

2004
Lump Gallery, Heartswork, Raleigh, NC
Voice 1156, The Form and Energy, San Diego, CA
111 Minna Gallery, Life and Death, San Francisco, CA

2003
Culture Cache, Get Your Off, San Francisco, CA

Awards
2005
Bell Foundation for Cultural Development, Individual Grant Recipient

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Marci Washington

Marci Washington grew up moving all over the California bay area, finally settling in Oakland to attend the California College of the Arts, where she received her BFA in 2002. Drawing from history and literature, she uses seemingly familiar fictional themes to reflect the social truths/tales of the past onto those of the present. Exploring themes such as social roles and expectations, our strange connection to each other and the world around us, and how we attempt to navigate these uneasy relationships, she creates work heavy with a sense of inevitable isolation and unseen, but inescapable threat. She has shown nationally, as well as abroad, and will begin pursuing her MFA at CCA this fall.

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Opening Photos

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