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Gallery 16

May 13 - July 9, 2011

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501 Third Street San Francisco, CA 94107
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Gallery 16 is pleased to present an ambitious new exhibition by TUCKER NICHOLS. For this, his third solo exhibition at Gallery 16, Nichols has filled the entire gallery with his characteristic mix of objects, drawings, paintings and signs. He remains focused on the futility of the systems we devise to navigate the world, its overabundance of neglected things, and the messages we make to advertise nearly everything and seemingly nothing at the same time. This marks the first exhibition on the west coast to feature the full range of his work - in size, media, subject and approach - and a comprehensive look at his distinctive worldview. Among the new work is an evolving series of loose stripe paintings somewhere between vibrant sunsets and technicolor curtains. These new paintings and drawings show a recent interest in abstraction as a method for exploring things we cannot easily describe - like the physical experience of sublime light - on their own nonobjective terms. A mural-sized wallpaper print based on these stripe images has been produced in collaboration with Gallery 16. In addition, a documentary video, "blow up," by artist Jonn Herschend on the making of the wall mural is on view.
New Work Original wall mural
New Work Installation view from TUCKER NICHOLS at Gallery 16