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Visual Aid Gallery presents:
Strange Ideas, Time-Travel and Reckless Contact with Electric Eels
April 28 - May 30, 2013, open 10am - 6pm, M-F, San Francisco
MORE INFO: http://www.visualaid.org
In this exhibition of ambitious, large scale mixed media paintings, David Young Allen explores the complex achievements of three men who opposed slavery, Simon de Bolivar, activist warrior who freed Latin American colonies from Spain; Alexander von Humboldt, adventurer and explorer of South America; and Roger Williams, advocate for Native American rights and early proponent of religious freedom and separation of church and state.
Allen made these paintings in New York City, where he lived during the mid-1980s and early 1990s, before returning to San Francisco. Informed by his travels to Ecuador, Venezuela and Australia, Allen's near-obsessive interest in the three figures portrayed in these paintings was his response to the United States' illicit interventions in Central America in the 1980s and Reagan's failure of leadership during the AIDS crisis.
Allen lives and works in San Francisco, California. He is known as a member of the San Francisco Renaissance, when a thriving poetry scene in San Francisco in the 1950's and '60's broadened into a community of artists. Painters, avant-garde filmmakers, collagists, and musicians freely explored form and content, embracing new aesthetics and breaking away from codified style. The blossoming movement encompassed philosophy, a new interest in other cultures and changing social sensibilities.
DATE/TIME:
April 28 - May 30, 2013, open 10am - 6pm, M-F
LOCATION:
Visual Aid Gallery
57 Post Street, Suite 905
San Francisco, CA, 94104
415-777-8242
COST/REGISTRATION:
Free
MORE INFO:
Website: http://www.visualaid.org
Email: visaid@visualaid.org
Phone: 415-777-8242
Contact: Julie Blankenship, E.D.
About Visual Aid Gallery:
Visual Aid Gallery creates dialogue around illness and art. Visual Aid encourages artists with life-threatening illnesses to continue their creative work, by providing art supplies, grants, exhibition opportunities and community. Artists with HIV/AIDS and cancer confront the uncertainty of illness and side effects of medication, while battling prejudice and isolation.
