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Ampersand International Arts

October 16 - November 14, 2009

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1001 Tennessee Street San Francisco, CA 94107
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Snippets 'Switzerland' Dunlop Gallery, Regina SK Canada.
Snippets: Lori Gordon vinyl prints, wall painting, take-away newspaper Curated by Bruno Mauro Lori Gordon is a San Francisco-based cross-disciplinary artist and independent curator. Gordon received her MFA at the California College of the Arts. She is the recipient of a SECA Award nomination and the Murphy Cadogan Fellowship from the San Francisco Foundation. Exhibition venues include Richmond Arts Center, San Jose Mus eum of Art, Mission17, Southern Exposure, Temescal Amity Works, RockPaperScissors, The Kitchen (NYC) and Gavin Brown's Enterprise at Passerby (NYC). Gordon’s work investigates the structure and power of belief. Through collaborative endeavors, she explores the distance between coincidence and intention, with an emphasis on setting up moments that deviate from the expected. With all her work, she is more interested in the journey than the destination; attempting to make the ineffable visible. SNIPPETS: These textual declarations are derived from snippets of things Gordon has heard or had said to her, provided out of context for others to read. By sharing these messages, she is able to impart ambiguous moments for others to consider and appreciate. Inevitably some are interpreted as advertising; poetry; or an insider's joke, but she is interested in that ambiguity as well. Participants are always invited to send photographs of snippets installed in locations of their choosing. For this exhibition, Gordon will feature one large snippet painted on the gallery wall, vinyl prints and photographic images, and a newspaper of Snippets. Gallery visitors are invited to put these signs up in their windows and send documentation to the artist for addition to her online archive.