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Eli Ridgway Gallery

October 21 - December 5, 2010

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172 Minna Street San Francisco, CA 94105
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Darin Klein & Friends: We ride them and Tingel-Tangel Photo of Darin Klein by Jeaneen Lund, 2010.
Opening: Thursday October 21, 5-8pm --- SPECIAL EVENT with DARIN KLEIN Saturday, October 23, 2:00pm 'Zine release: 21st Century Queer Artists Identify Themselves #2 & #3. and A Transcription of the Audio Tour Darin Klein Childhood Home and Museum Clovis, California by Christopher Russell The chapbook written by Christopher Russell is a publication of 2nd floor projects and Baer Ridgway Exhibitions. Exhibition walk-through and artist lecture by Darin Klein with performance by CLIFF HENGST. For the Baer Ridgway exclusive, Cliff Hengst performs a ritualistic delivery of the brand new Darin Klein & Friends 'zine, 21st Century Queer Artists Identify Themselves #2 & #3. --- Working with an ever-expanding network of friends, DARIN KLEIN curates and organizes exhibitions and arts programming, simultaneously producing, collecting and promoting artists' publications and independent media. A recipient of Printed Matter's Awards for Artists this year, he has been creating, exhibiting, and distributing solo and collaborative independent publications for nearly two decades. Recent curatorial endeavors include Christopher Russell's Hammer Project at the Hammer Museum and a series of exhibitions and related public programs at Amy Adler's Echo Park Studio, both in Los Angeles. A regular exhibitor at Printed Matter's NY Art Book Fair since 2007, Klein's recent and upcoming publishing projects include Box of Books, Vols. I-III and 21st Century Queer Artists Identify Themselves #1, #2 and #3. CHRISTOPHER RUSSELL is an artist, writer, and academic vagabond based in Los Angeles, currently teaching at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. He received his BFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts in 1998 and his MFA from Art Center College of Design in 2004. From 2001 to 2005 Russell edited, designed, produced, and distributed the destroy-to-enjoy literary art magazine Bedwetter. Landscape, a monograph of Russell's work, was published in 2007 by Kolapsomal Press. He wrote and edited the exhibition catalog, Against the Grain, which accompanied his 2008 curatorial debut at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. His illustrated novella, Budget Decadence appeared earlier this year through 2nd Cannons Publications. His first novel, Sniper, will be published in early 2011. Russell has written over two dozen articles about contemporary art and has exhibited internationally, including a solo exhibition at the Hammer Museum, and upcoming solo installations at Luis De Jesus, Los Angeles and the NADA Art Fair in Miami. Russell's work is included in the collections of The J.P. Getty Museum; Rhode Island School of Design Museum; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles; The Hammer Museum; Tom of Finland Foundation, and New York University/Fales Library. CLIFF HENGST is an artist based in San Francisco. His wall drawings, paintings, and performances have been included in numerous exhibitions including Marella Arte (Milan, Italy) and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Gallery 16, and [ 2nd floor projects ] (San Francisco, CA). He has worked collaboratively with Larry Rinder at Testsite in Austin Texas and with Scott Hewicker on Good Times: Bad Trips, a book dedicated to the phenomena of the bad drug trip. Over 50 contributors (including noted artists Devendra Banhart, Tony Labat, and Chris Johanson) recount their bad trips, each paired with photographs, paintings and collages by Hewicker and Hengst. Hengst has an exhibition currently on view at Gallery 16, San Francisco.