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Romer Young Gallery

January 14 - January 14, 2011

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1240 22nd Street San Francisco, CA 94107
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Please join us at the gallery for a special performance on FRIDAY, JANUARY 14th at 2:00PM. Stayrook will be reading from his expedition's Captain's Log with musical accompaniment by The Barbary Ghosts who will be playing traditional sea shanties. There will be various hijinks and whisky for all. 

Stayrook's exhibition, "The Search for an Unattainable Beast”, uses the loss of his tooth as a catalyst for an adventurous journey into the unknown. Consisting of video, photography, drawings, journals, sculptures, installation and performance, the artist’s search centers on his quest to secure the unattainable: a journey towards understanding something larger than himself through scientific ambiguity and the battle between man and nature. This exhibition represents his journey north.

 Using humor and absurdity as tools for interpreting the unknown, “The Search for an Unattainable Beast” is about the human struggle to find meaning, happiness, and salvation. In the context of this project, the artist discovers as much about the futile nature of such a search, as he does about the liberation that can be found within such futility. New York based artist Chad Stayrook received his B.F.A. in Sculpture from Ohio University and his M.F.A. in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute. He has exhibited extensively throughout the US in New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia, and Washington D.C. and internationally in the UK, Netherlands, and South Korea. He was an artist in residence at the Tin Shop Studio in Breckenridge CO, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning's Studio LLC program in Queens, NY. Stayrook is also an independent curator and a founding member of the Bandwagon artist collective.