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Steven Wolf Fine Arts

March 21 - April 27, 2008

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2747 19th Street A San Francisco, CA 94110
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John Dugger is an Oakland-based artist celebrated in Europe where he has spent much of his career but hardly known in his country of origin. He began in the 1960s by creating participatory art events in London alongside other expatriates like Lygia Clark and Helio Oiticica. This work culminated in Dugger being given his own pavillion by Harold Szeemann in the 1972 Documenta. In the late 1970s he started making banners, an ancient art form that was largely being ignored by western artists. He has since gone on to create Banners for the Dali Lama, the Black Panthers, The Queen of England, and the Olympics. In the 1980s he began climbing mountains and this resulted in the Mountain banners, large geometric tapestries with a large drawing of mountains at the center. Dugger makes the drawings on site then uses a dye-transfer process to fix them to fabric in the studio. These monochromatic panels then become the central focus of colorful banners that are hung using state of the art mountain riggings.