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Togonon Gallery

October 1 - November 1, 2009

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77 Geary Street Second Floor San Francisco, CA 94108
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CeWEBrities: The Virtual Red Carpet
Togonon Gallery is pleased to present Ariel Erestingcol for his second solo exhibition at the Gallery. Erestingcol's portraits comment on the process of fame and media, utilizing plastic beads to construct hyper-familiar composite portraits of individuals made famous by their Internet status. Tom, the founder of MySpace, is a prime example of this kind of subject seen in his Internet persona, rendered in a life-size, pixilated, plastic bead portrait. The exhibition's central piece is a billboard, the 20th-century, urban auto-centric medium, comprised of 18 cewebrities’ portraits. Erestingcol creates his work within the context of painting, always inserting alternative media such as craft item into the work. A native to Los Angeles, his art reflects the ebb and flow of mass media images and the stories that created the sensation. Ariel Erestingcol achieved his Masters of Fine art from California Institute of the Arts and his Bachelor's from San Francisco Art Institute. His work is in the collection of the Crocker Art Museum, in Sacramento, California. He lives and works in Los Angeles.