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Guerrero Gallery

February 12 - March 6, 2011

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2700 19th Street San Francisco, CA 94110
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Half Truths and Outright Lies Hilary Pecis, "Kingdom", edition 1 of 3, 2011, Giclee print, 48in x 36in
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 12th, 7-11pm Guerrero Gallery is pleased to present “Half Truths and Outright Lies”, an exhibition of new works by Hilary Pecis. This body of work consists of landscapes constructed from Internet images. Interested in the dishonesty, self-regulation, and speed in which information can be delivered over the Internet, most of the images utilized in the works are from numerous untrained photographers via Google image searches. Functioning as mythological landscapes, her works call into question the ownership of imagery and the intended use and significance of those images. This exhibition is both a dialog with the history of collage and a gradual extension of Pecis’ older work. A lover of epic landscapes, Pecis starts the construction of her landscapes with mountains, jungles, icebergs, and deserts. By way of the nature of Internet searches, other images happened upon are utilized, shifting the initial direction of the landscape. Constructed with little research or question, making for an amateur idea of how places should appear, her landscapes mix varieties of flora from different regions and mountains from across the world. Images pulled from sensational news stories have also found their way into the work, giving the image a somewhat longer lifespan. The title of the show is based on an Intelligence Squared debate, “Good Riddance to Mainstream Media”, which discusses the relevance and fate of traditional journalism and the blog. David Carr, a writer for the NY Times said “They become an echo chamber of half-truths, sometimes outright lies, without any real data points coming in. And so you end up with a sort of mass of people talking to each other, no one has read anything. No one knows anything. They’re talking about something that someone else read that read that read that read. And we end up in a meta-world.” Hilary Pecis’ work is a depiction of landscapes influenced by Internet, television and other media sources. With an interest and focus on the interchangeability of images and the capability to perceive and ignore them, Pecis draws attention to how we are conditioned by the media’s overwhelming supply of information. Her work is influenced by artists Jess (Collins), Marco Brambilla, David LaChapelle and Rob Pruitt. Hilary is a native Californian, having received both her MFA and BFA at California College of the Arts. She has exhibited her work at Catherine Clark in SF, Roberts and Tilton in Los Angeles, Morgan Lehman in New York, Western Exhibitions in Chicago, and will be having solo shows at both Guerrero Gallery in SF in February and Galleria Glance in Turin in March.