4030 Martin Luther King BlvdOakland, CA 94609Google Map »
OPENING: Friday, April 2nd : 6-10pm
Curated by Kevin P. Clarke
Casey Kasem, Time magazine, Sports Illustrated, and Forbes all had “Top” lists that created the sense that if you made first, second or third, when you grew up your name might be in a Top Ten. At the same time the authoritative voice of mass media was being diluted by ubiquity David Letterman was applying the top ten list to pop trivia, chipping away at it through Irony. It eventually lost all authority.
Reading wRiting and aRithmetic, and neatly ordered rows of folding top desks were part of the idea that life should have a regular order- and the Top Ten list used to be about success within that order. On April 2nd at MacArthur b arthur 10 artists will turn order on it's head and be give authority to the idea of Top Ten once again. Their lists might not be a competition; all 10 items could be a number 1. The list does not have to be a list, it can be any 10 units of light, time, space or words.
Artists:
Andrei Boutyline
Kevin P. Clarke
Beth Alice Cook
Erica Gangsei
Lori Gordon
Carrie Hott
Colter Jacobson
Ashley Neese
Zachary Royer Scholz
APRIL GALLERY HOURS: Wednesdays, 5-10pm and Sundays 1-6pm and by appointment. t: (510) 219-0774
