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Alphonse Berber Gallery (Berkeley)

February 27 - April 12, 2009

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2546 Bancroft Way Berkeley, CA 94704
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New Nature Emily Jan: Noms
Located in a beautiful 7200 sq. ft. Julia Morgan-designed building across from the University of California, Alphonse Berber Gallery presents the work of dynamic, aggressively innovative emerging to mid-career contemporary artists. With each exhibition, the interior space will be re-imagined in order to craft the ideal vehicle for showcasing a diverse range of genres and mediums. "New Nature," the gallery's inaugural exhibition, will focus on how fourteen West Coast artists engage with and interrogate their relationship to the natural world in ways that are personal, provocative, and at times seemingly hostile toward traditional notions of ecological awareness. The work of Reuben Margolin, Justin Margitich, and MachineHistories (Jason Pilarski and Steven Joyner) translates their experience of the wild, elemental, and biological into a more mechanistic idiom. Viewers find themselves contemplating the natural by way of the very ontological mode that supposedly alienated them from it in the first place. In part, "New Nature" seeks to challenge the mindset that regards technology and environment as inherently opposed, exploring how they serve as means for engaging with and understanding one another. Imagining the possibilities for reconciliation, the artists presented in "New Nature" compel us to find new modes of participation in our continually evolving environment. “New Nature” will be on display from February 27th through April 11th. The grand opening reception is free and open to the public, and will be held on February 27th from 6 to 10 pm. For more information, call 510-649-9492.
New Nature Yvonne Mouser: Untitled (Table and Chair)
New Nature MachineHistories: Chandalier Doors
New Nature Reuben Margolin with Pentagonal Wave