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Opening: Friday, Jan 7th, 2011 (6-9pm)
Fecal Face Dot Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by San Francisco-based artist Paul Urich from January 7 – February 6, 2011. This will be Urich’s second solo show at the gallery.
For his new body of work, ink drawings and gouache paintings, Urich was inspired by tattoo "old timers" and prison based artists. The artist explains, “some pieces would have a few designs on them. Others would have the whole piece of paper packed with as much as would fit. Some of the designs in my work are directly copied from those guys, some are altered, and some are my own... all influenced by the "old timers". While the pieces on handkerchiefs were inspired from watching a prison documentary. The men were making incredible drawings with ball point pen on handkerchiefs and trading them for Cinabuns, ramen noodles, and other shit like that. So I hooked a ballpoint pen up to a tattoo machine and started drawing.”
Paul Urich’s selected exhibitions include Fecal Face Dot Gallery, San Francisco; Space 1026, Philadelphia; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; Headlands Center for the Arts, Marin Headlands; Eleanor Harwood Gallery, San Francisco; 96 Gillespie Gallery, London. Urich was the 2005 Bell Foundation for Cultural Development, Individual Grant Recipient. COLLECTIONS include Museum of Modern Art, NY (Library Archives - Hot and Cold complete publications)
