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Eli Ridgway Gallery

July 24 - October 17, 2010

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172 Minna Street San Francisco, CA 94105
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Tape, Paint, Repaint
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 24th, 4-7pm Zachary Royer Scholz's site-responsive installation in Baer Ridgway's hallway embraces the material realities of its own production. Evolving progressively over the exhibition, the work begins as a tape installation, shifts into a wall painting, and culminates with its own destruction. The piece uses the space's existing architecture and painting's most banal requirements as its starting point. Each component, including the materials and actions required to paint and erase the work, stands as an integral and equal aspect of the whole. By democratizing its constituent parts, the work exists as an interdependent multiplicity rather than a singular "piece." This temporal status gives the work, like us, what Heidegger described as being-toward-death, or sein-zum-tode. At any moment that the work is viewed, its previous history and eventual future are embedded as a present reality. Every interaction with the piece is unavoidably impacted by this relational status, as are the memories that each viewer retains from the experience.