f Receiver Gallery - No Format - A Group Photo Show  

No Format — A Group Photo Show. April 29th — May 28th, 2006.

No Format - A Group Photo Show

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No Format — A Group Photo Show

Receiver Gallery brings together a diverse group of national and local photographers for its first ever photo show, in which the artists are free to focus glass on their choice of subjects.

Receiver will be filled with prints by eight photographers of varied backgrounds and styles, ranging from fine art to street scenes, landscape to architectural abstraction, and portraiture to editorial.

This confluence of styles will create an open, or “no format”, anti-themed exhibit, leaving the viewer to draw conclusions about overall theme and artist intention. In this vein, we will be asking our audience to fill out a physical or online response to the artwork. The results will be available both online and in the gallery space for further discussion and review.

Exhibiting photographer's include:
Dave Franklin, Maya Hayuk, Jessica Miller, Andrew Paynter, Dave Potes, Chrissy Piper, Ray Potes, and Brian Pritchard.

An opening reception will be held Saturday, April 29, from 7 - 10 pm. Refreshments will be served, and photographers will be in attendance.

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Photographer Biographies

 

David Franklin

I'm originally from a small town in Oregon but have lived in SF since 1992. Besides some photo classes in high school way back in the day, I am a self-taught photographer. I shot photos for skate magazines and random periodicals on the side while I worked with special education classes at an elementary school for 10 years. Now I stage homes for Julie Jay staging and take photo assignments for the SF Bay Guardian and freelance for magazines. I also produce the UnderSkatement Film Festival.

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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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Jessica Miller

With a talent for highlighting the most subtle nuances of her subjects, Jessica Miller has been making a name for herself as an archivist of the human condition. Her candid images regularly grace the covers and pages of The Wire, Bust, Paper, Spin, Flaunt, and XLR8R. Her work has also been featured on album covers, in news publications, and in books. She has handled visual depictions for artists on many record labels including Ghostly International, Domino, Mush, Tigerbeat 6, Eighteenth Street Lounge, and Look Records.

Jessica received a bachelor of fine arts in photography from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2003. In 1999, she earned a bachelor of arts in psychology from Randolph-Macon Woman's College.

Since then, her photographs have been featured at the Charles University in Prague, The Diego Rivera Gallery, Spanganga Gallery, Dublab's Up Our Sleeve, Ladyfest, and at Lucas in Los Angeles, where she recently opened a solo show of her most current work. A collection of her photographs can be viewed at www.jessica-miller.com

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Andrew Paynter

LA | SF based photographer. Mainly interested in the human spirit and individual as well as environments from urban to rural. Most notable for his work within the music community and art world, Andrew began shooting photos while living in New York city. He began to venture out on his own making photos of bands touring as well as traveling to Europe and Asia. His work as been used by Levis (United States), among other apparel companies, record labels and magazines.

Andrew has shown his work in London, New York, San Francisco, LA and Chapel Hill. Some of his favorites include: Danny Clinch, Richard Avedon, Danny Lyon, William Claxton and Julius Schulman.

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Chrissy Piper

As a young kid, my Mom would give me her unloaded camera to walk around and take photos with. I could entertain myself for hours with that thing. One day it stopped working and when I took it to my Mom, she realized that there was a roll of film in it. After getting the photos developed and seeing photo after photo of our metal trashcan, she asked me why I had taken so many photos of it. My answer was simple, "I was waiting to take a picture of Oscar."

Not much has changed since then, still waiting for those special moments to photograph, except now I am always sure to have film in the camera...

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Dave Potes

With the spontaneous instances and intensities life transmits, Dave Potes shoots photos with a passion for imagery - capturing images that reflect upon certain moods using aesthetics, composition, and lighting. Along with Ray Potes and Stefan Simikich, Dave Potes has helped Hamburger Eyes Photo Magazine be what it is today - a B&W photo journal that has reached heights and corners of the publishing and photography world they never thought would accomplish. Dave's photos have been published in Hamburger Eyes, Kitchen Sink Magazine, Made Magazine, SF Bay Guardian, and Xcelerator Magazine.

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Ray Potes

Ray Potes has been making pictures for the past 20 years. At age 14, he made his first zine and has been doing the same ever since. Today he edits and publishes Hamburger Eyes Photo Magazine, a magazine inspired by the traditions that began with National Geographic and Life Magazine, dedicated to revitalizing the sensation of photography as a craft as well as a tool to record and document.

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Brian Pritchard

Brian Pritchard, a 5th generation San Franciscan, works as a freelance photographer and general building repairman. He starts his photojournal essays by following faint threads of subjects, and writes the resulting stories with his pictures. When not shooting, he enjoys surfing at Ocean Beach, building hot rod cars, and playing music with his friends.

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