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Gallery 16

January 11 - February 16, 2008

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Gallery 16 is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition Guise: Recent Prints by Deborah Oropallo. Over the past year, Gallery 16 Editions has worked with Oropallo to publish this critically acclaimed suite of thirty prints. Portions of this series were shown at the deYoung Museum in San Francisco in 2007. This is the first exhibition to present all of the available work from this collection, including six new compositions never seen by the public. For the past twenty years, Oropallo has been one of the San Francisco Bay Area’s most influential artists. In the last decade she has moved from traditional painting and printmaking to incorporating digital media and imagery into her work. “I use the computer as the tool, but painting is the language of deliberation that is running through my head...” Anna Lucas of the deYoung Museum noted: “The images in her current body of work were initially borrowed from Internet sites for sexy costume. Women in revealing pirate, soldier, and other outfits are posed in photographs that recall, in Oropallo's words, 'the formal portraiture male power stance with elaborate costume.' The artist deconstructs and enhances the images to investigate the seduction and power that are evoked by gesture and pose.” For additional information and images, please contact Vanessa Blaikie at 415.626.7495 or vanessa@gallery16.com.