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Sight School

January 8 - February 7, 2011

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5651 San Pablo Avenue Oakland, CA 94608
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Opens Saturday January 8th, 7-10pm Time, at times, is immediate. Simultaneously it bookends one’s understanding of death. There's More After We've Finished reveals layers of history unfolding in images of pop cultures passed, materials and techniques outmoded by technology, and sophomoric renderings. Manduley's paintings and collages visualize excerpts from vintage America that have both formed and been formed by his desire for adventure and play. Calway-Fagen's sculptures combine materials that through their assemblage magnify associations made with objects: arrows, clay, ceramic tile, snake skin, etc. Peter's process is one of simplicity; line work, palette, materials. His drawings on paper explore the narrative potential of images we are most accustomed with. The wrinkled adage, history repeats itself operates as a point of departure for this, the first show of Sight School's 2011 exhibition calendar. In Morgan Manduley's paintings he depicts moments just less than spectacular, viewed from the event horizon. The work explores his garbled boyhood fantasies impacted by popular culture. National Geographic (Fool's Paradise) places the viewer out of harms way viewing a remote cabin in imminent danger. The image alludes to the freedom, risk, and isolation of adventures dreamt. By simultaneously embracing the euphoric and soporific he creates the opportunity for intimate connections between the subjects he depicts and the viewer. Peter Gray Hurley's work is a garage sale of works on paper. You’ll find a bubbling cauldron of creation mixing traces of the familiar with disparate narratives. His approach to collage, drawing, and painting is immediate, yet quick witted. The wide array of work, and aversion to definition in Hurley's practice becomes the defining characteristic. Mike Calway-Fagen openly claims to understand very little. More importantly he wants us all to empathize, knowing that between everything there is a connection and that everything will end in a glorious, tragic way. In Remedy Against Time Mike connects seemingly disjointed scrap (snake skin, a gas tank used for target practice, a stick, some rocks, etc.) to create an object filled with narrative and ripe with metaphor. It explores the existence of objects after their intended use and the narratives left behind. Their conceptions of time manifest as individual memories or slices of daydreams. Sight School is an artist run storefront, directed by Michelle Blade. The space began from a desire to create dialogue around new modes of living and being in the world in order to reveal connections between art and life. Thursday-Sunday, 12-6pm Or call for appt. 323-304-2722