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Inhabit Gallery

January 22 - January 22, 2011

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1066 47th Avenue Oakland, CA 94601
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Inhabit Gallery is an impromptu exhibition space intermittently located in vacant live/work units at the 47th Avenue Studios in Oakland, California. The gallery opens with Cohabit, an inaugural one-night group exhibition and public reception, on Saturday, January 22, 2011, from 7 to 9 pm only. Cohabit, curated by Anné M. Klint, features installations, paintings, drawings, sculpture, prints, video and texts by artists working in the Bay Area, Los Angeles and Central California. Selected artists include Mark Thompson, Heather Wilcoxon, Lisa McCutcheon, Elizabeth Dorbad, Frances Lerner, Lorraine Bonner, Nils Schirrmacher, Jenna North, Fred Nocella, Bachrun LoMele, Matthew Hopson-Walker, Erica Kremenak, Lexygius Calip, Lisa Carroll, Nicole Shaffer, Laura Anderson, Brian McQueen, Kelsey Webb, Janis Anton and Anné M. Klint. Through their work, the participating artists investigate how alliances with non-human companions (microbes, pets, cyborgs) shape our existence as individuals and as a species. Human life and human culture are contingent upon and inseparable from the co-evolution of interrelated species; by examining human/non-human relationships, the art in Cohabit explores how we connect (or don’t) with non-human others. Perceiving nature through personal, cultural, scientific, or religious lenses, the artists address the increasingly difficult dichotomy between culture and nature. As they reconsider the split between nature and culture from a perspective that doesn’t presuppose human superiority or domination, they question how humanity will continue to evolve in a multi-species environment.
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