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Hyde Street Gallery

September 4 - October 9, 2010

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1987 Hyde Street San Francisco, CA 94109
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Days of Plenty Green Spectrum
Opening Reception: Saturday September 4, 8 – 10pm Curated by Robin Juan Hyde Street Gallery presents a group exhibition curated by guest curator, Robin Juan, from Chicago’s Hungryman Gallery. Days of Plenty exhibits Chicago based artists Carson Fisk-Vittori, Michael Hunter, Jessica Labatte, and Casey McGonagle. The exhibition opens September 4 with a reception from 8 to 10pm. The works find common ground in the artists’ working with established forms while exhibiting traces of self-curation through various conditions of arrangement and framing. The evident formalist structure and restrictions are representative of Chicago art practice, yet the artists were chosen by their work's ability to transpose for Midwest and West Coast audiences. Fisk-Vittori abstracts common objects and flora through photographic and sculptural composition with Hunter creating unassuming arrangements as sculptures, sculptures as paintings, and paintings as sculptures. Labatte manipulates the perceptions of perspective with a humorous nature in her photographic assemblage. The subjects in McGonagle's photographs create a stage on which he is able to blur the space in between objective reality and the subconscious. Hunter and Fisk-Vittori collaboratively have created a site specific installation piece, accompanied by photographic works from Labatte and McGonagle. Labatte’s photograph, Green Spectrum, illustrates the formalist structure through exploring paradoxical connections between an apple, cucumber, and head of lettuce. Through color, she is able to create a surreal sense of space and circular movement. Labatte has been featured in Artforum and is the recipient of the 12x12 exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.