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Adobe Books Backroom Gallery

August 6 - September 4, 2011

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3166 16th Street San Francisco, CA 94103
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David Horvitz David Horvitz, Shelter Cove
Opening reception: Saturday, August 6, 7-10p On June 24th, David Horvitz boarded a train in San Francisco headed toward Washington, D.C. following a route that traced the path of the first transcontinental telegraph transmission in 1861. With the support of the New York City-based non-profit art organization Creative Time, Horvitz Tweeting quotations from A.C. Baldwin’s 1853 book The Traveler’s Vade Mecum; or Instantaneous Letter Writer, by Mail or Telegraph, for the Convenience of Persons Traveling on Business or for Pleasure, and for Others, Whereby a Vast Amount of Time, Labor, and Trouble is Saved. The book contains 8,466 coded sentence shortcuts that would allow longer messages to be sent over the telegraph system. For example, on June 29th Horvitz Tweeted from The Traveler's Vade Mecum code number 5630: "I had a pleasant journey." Horvitz draws attention to the innovative, thought limited, technologies of both Twitter and telegrams, highlighting the creative solutions that such limited formats may inspire and the need for human connection over distance that originally gave rise to these forms of communication. For Public Access, a multi-level project that began in January of this year, he traveled North along the West Coast, photographically documenting his presence at beaches from Mexico to Oregon and posting the images on the locations' corresponding Wikipedia pages. Adobe Books Backroom Gallery is pleased to present David Horvitz' first solo exhibition in the Bay Area. Exhibited will be photographs and text that expand on the main ideas of several projects from the last two years, including the previously mentioned project #VadeMecum (5992. I will, with Pleasure, Take Letters for You), 2011 and Public Access, 2011. Horvitz reaches out to the electronic community and far-flung geographical communities as well to build relationships both lasting and fleeting. Curated by Katie Hood Morgan David Horvitz was born in 1982 in Los Angeles. He now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He received his undergraduate degree from UC Riverside and his MFA from Bard College. He has exhibited in Europe and America, published books with 2nd Cannons Publications and Mark Batty Publisher, and organizes and curates collaborative projects with many other artists. Follow David Horvitz' Twitter feed at twitter.com/davidhorvitz.