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Steven Wolf Fine Arts

September 4 - October 5, 2008

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2747 19th Street A San Francisco, CA 94110
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Let’s Pretend
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 4, 5:30 – 7:30 Since the late 1960s, Charles Fahlen has been using humble materials to make enigmatic sculptures that explore personal memory and cultural myths while reflecting on the sculptural process and the objecthood of things. Fahlen spent the last 30 years in Philadelphia, where he was one of the city’s most renowned artists. This show surveys work from the early 1970s up through his most recent work, made since returning to California. The Gallery will publish a catalog in conjunction with this exhibition. Fahlen came of age in the post-minimalist era with artists like Eva Hesse, Scott Burton and Richard Tuttle, and began his career making works that allude primarily to their own strange forms and unusual materials. In his more recent work he seems to have made off with the plumbing from Duchamp’s urinal and reused the brass rod, steel chain, and cast epoxy spheres to make sculptures that resemble toy models of planetary constellations. Fahlen’s work is in many public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, NY, The Pennsylvania Museum of Art, PA, The Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY and the Oakland Museum, CA. He has received NEA and Fulbright grants and many commissions public and private. Fahlen has had 19 solo exhibitions, including shows at Richard Feigen Gallery, NY, Droll/Kolbert Gallery, NY, Stefanotti Gallery, NY, Lawrence Oliver Gallery, PA, Marian Locks Gallery, PA and a 1991 installation at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia. He was in the 1973 Whitney Biennial.