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Gallery 16

September 9 - October 31, 2011

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501 Third Street San Francisco, CA 94107
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Reception, Friday, September 9th 6-9 PM Gallery 16 is excited to present a new edition with artist Ari Marcopoulos. Ari began his career in New York where is assisted Andy Warhol. Since then he has documented the diverse subcultures of American youth. His photographs and videos document the immediacy of underground music, art and the rebelliousness of youth, including that of his own sons. His straightforward portraits and lush snapshots capture arresting, unsentimental moments of beauty and anxiety. The new photogravure edition combines elements of his own history, using iconic images of Warhol's Marilyn Monroe portrait, and his more recent photographs of graffiti. For years Marcopoulos worked with Xerox machines as a medium to create his photographic prints. In these compositions he uses several of his photographs to make multi-pass Xerox prints, resulting in new compositions born out of chance. Using the Intaglio process, we elevate the simple and direct beauty of the low-fi Xerox technique through the lavish tradition of Photogravure. The edition consists of 15 prints and will be presented from September 9th to October 30th at Gallery 16. Marcopoulos was part of the 2010 Whitney Biennial Exhibition. The artist has also presented exhibitions at The Berkeley Art Museum, PS1/MOMA, New York, NY, New Orleans Museum of Art, The Detroit Institute of Art and MU, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. A monograph of the artists work, Ari Marcopoulos:Directory was just published by Rizzoli. Bound to mimic a phone book, his newest publication Directory is a collection of approximately 1,200 photographs, with text by curator and critic Neville Wakefield.