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September 25 - September 27, 2009

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Art at the SF Dump David Hevel's Monkey Series
Art Reception and Exhibition at SF Recycling Artist in Residence Program This Sugar is Raw by David Hevel and Systemic Obsolescence by James Sansing When: Friday, Sept. 25, 2009, 5pm to 9pm Saturday, Sept. 26, 2009, 1pm to 5pm Admission is free and open to the public Each artist will exhibit a body of work created during their residency at San Francisco’s city dump. For the past four months, David and James have shared a studio space in which they have each collected, sorted and constructed respective bodies of work for exhibition. On one side of the studio, David Hevel accumulated colorful piles of discarded plastic, ornate chandeliers, beads, pink Styrofoam and a full rainbow spectrum of paint samples. On the other side of the studio, James Sansing amassed piles of typewriters, wooden scraps, metal frames, machine chassis, circuit boards, ceramic tiles, branches and concrete. The organized piles of found material were predominantly gray, brown, green and metallic. The shared studio space for the Artist in Residence Program (AIR) is often separated, but the dissimilar materials that these two artists were drawn to and the work that has come from their residencies could not be more contrasting. This Sugar is Raw by David Hevel For the past several years, Hevel has been focused largely on our obsession with celebrity culture. His work has juxtaposed mid-American aesthetics of taxidermy and floral arrangement with the gossip, glamour and glitz of Hollywood royalty. For the AIR exhibit, Hevel will be turning his sights away from celebrities and setting his critical eye on us, the consumers. Using only materials found in the Public Disposal and Recycling Area, the sculptural work reflects his reaction to the desperate nature of our culture’s level of waste. Where before his work represented the front end of consumerism, meaning 90% of his materials were purchased new, this work is more reflective of the back end of consumerism where nothing is new, everything is found. Systemic Obsolescence by James Sansing Sculptor, photographer and filmmaker, James Sansing, is accustomed to using reclaimed objects. He uses a variety of materials as a way to explore the balance between several dichotomies: strong and fragile, miniature and grandiose, natural and artificial, light and heavy, narrative and abstract. After four months of collecting, sorting and constructing, James has created installations that hold imaginative worlds shaped by these dualities. The title of this exhibition, Systemic Obsolescence, speaks to our inherently wasteful culture. This commentary comes from witnessing the massive amount of discarded goods as manufacturers create products with shorter life spans and offer constant upgrades. He found materials designed to endure. He contrasts mechanical chassis from the 1920s and typewriters built to be repaired (rather than disposed of) with appliances that are quickly replaced by newer and better models. http://www.sfrecycling.com/AIR http://www.flickr.com/artatthedump