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Electric Works

January 9 - March 1, 2009

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1360 Mission Street San Francisco, CA 94103
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The Airport Project SFO/OAK (from The Airport Project)
Opening Reception: Friday, January 9, 6-8 PM Electric Works is pleased to announce "The Airport Project” featuring collaborative work by Amanda Hughen and Jennifer Starkweather as well as original solo work by each artist. Starkweather and Hughen create collaborative artworks that explore the layers, complexities, and patterns that comprise a specific geographic location using both current and historic information, photographs, maps, and other data. The resulting artworks represent unique forms and patterns derived from constructed systems and natural movements around a specific locus. “The Airport Project” is a new collaborative series of six prints in which the artists isolate and overlap forms and patterns based on seven airports. Each airport is the subject of an artwork — Chicago O’Hare (ORD), Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta (ATL), John F Kennedy (JFK), Los Angeles (LAX), Miami (MIA) — with the exception of the San Francisco and Oakland (SFO/OAK) airports which were combined to create a single piece. The original work, which travels back and forth from one artist’s studio to the other, receives new marks upon each visit. On one layer, Starkweather drew with ink, graphite and gouache to articulate the individual routes of airlines that originate from each airport. On additional layers, Hughen mapped the various services available at each terminal; various airline departures; and color systems used for airport parking garages. She also created solid color shapes based on the runways and highways surround ing each airport. GALLERY HOURS: Monday-Friday 11 AM – 6 PM, Saturday 11 AM – 5 PM