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Arc Studios & Gallery presents: Making Money Exhibition Opening Reception
Opening reception Sat, June 8, 12 - 3pm, Exhibition June 5-29, 2013, San Francisco
This installation consists of stacked "gold bars" made out of gold-colored, biodegradable PLA plastic using a hobbyist 3D printer. Each bar is 70mm by 160mm by 44mm, roughly the dimensions of a traditional gold bar and takes nearly an hour to print. The 3D printer will be on display during the opening as a performance to create an opportunity for conversation about topics ranging from the relationship between wealth and art and the utopian promise of 3D printing to the role of labor in contemporary art practice.
Also on view are photographs documenting the original installation in a bank vault at the Old Mint and of the crowd-funding campaign created to raise funds to buy the materials to produce the "gold bars."
Artist Alex Shepard is the winner of the Ella King Torrey Graduate Award for Innovation and Excellence in the Arts at the SFAI MFA 2013 Exhibition.
Artist website: http://alex.meatfreezer.com
EXHIBITION June 5-29, 2013
DATE/TIME:
Opening reception Sat, June 8, 12 - 3pm, Exhibition June 5-29, 2013
LOCATION:
Arc Studios & Gallery
1246 Folsom Street
San Francisco, CA, 94103
415-861-3504
http://www.arc-sf.com/
COST/REGISTRATION:
No Charge.
MORE INFO:
Website: http://www.arc-sf.com/
Email: arcstudiossf@gmail.com
Phone: 415-861-3504
Contact: Stephen Wagner
About Arc Studios & Gallery:
Arc Studios & Gallery features art galleries, artist studios, art education center, the offices of Kearny Street Workshop, San Francisco Artist Network and Vega Blue Bottle coffee kiosk.
