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Gallery 16

July 15 - September 1, 2011

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501 Third Street San Francisco, CA 94107
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Jared Sprecher, “Shadows of Friction” and Wayne Smith, “1996” Desert, Smith
Opening Reception for the Artists, July 15th 6-9 pm JERED SPRECHER is at the forefront of a new generation of abstract painters who are revitalizing the practice. Drawn from sources that are changing and evolving, his work shows images that are revealed as fragments in the midst of change, destruction, redefinition and restoration. Not wishing to be constrained by any single reading, Sprecher considers the meaning of his paintings to be open ended - they are, in fact, all “unfinished” parts of a continuing narrative. To this end, he feels free to draw from a variety of painting styles as he adapts and re-con-textualizes the various “images” that he hunts and gathers. SPRECHER earned his MFA at the University of Iowa in 2002, and he is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Recent and upcoming solo exhibitions include shows at Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York; Kinkead Contemporary, Los Angeles; Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston. Sprecher has had solo exhibitions throughout the United States and his work has been included in group exhibitions at The Drawing Center, New York; Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York; Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville; Des Moines Art Center; Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids and Arthouse, Austin. In 2003, Sprecher participated in the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Space Program. He was an artist in residence at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, Ireland in 2007. He is a 2009 recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. Gallery 16 is also pleased to announce the release of a new series of print editions, “1996”, published with San Francisco artist WAYNE SMITH. In this new edition of prints he continues his ongoing interest in landscape, repetitive drawing and altering print advertisements. These new prints, original landscape images culled from magazine advertising, are an extension of an edition entitled “Souvenir” which Gallery 16 produced with Smith in 1996. These ads were altered by the artist with ruled lines and folding techniques. Fifteen years later, Smith revisits these works to create an extraordinary hand embellished edition of prints. The suite of 8 prints are all individually hand-worked using various forms of folding, cutting, and metallic ink over-painting. A new group of small works on paper that employ similar techniques, with an additional layer of imagery sandwiched between glass, will also be shown. The “1996” suite reflects the artist’s interest in landscape and abstraction, the handmade and the digital, and comment on ideas of the past, impermanence, the reductive and the additive. WAYNE SMITH is a visual and sound artist who lives and works in San Francisco. Smith received a BA in Painting and an MA in Sculpture from the San Jose State University. Working in a variety of media including drawing, installation and video, his work has been shown locally and internationally. In 2007 he collaborated with Berlin-based artist D-L Alvarez on a sound and video installation loosely inspired by Joan Didion’s “The White Album” that took place at Derek Eller Gallery, New York. A video installation at Exile Gallery in Berlin, Germany was shown as part of the Psychometry exhibition in 2009. Recording as Aero-Mic’d, Smith has released several cds, employing combinations of field recordings, improvisation, and digital manipulation.
Jared Sprecher, “Shadows of Friction” and Wayne Smith, “1996” Nature of Nurture, Sprecher