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Ampersand International Arts

October 24 - December 8, 2008

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Scrap + Aftermath Andy Vogt, untitled, 2008, salvaged wood, paint
October 24th - December 7th, 2008 OPENING reception:Friday, October 24, 6:00 - 8:30 pm SCRAP Jeff Morris drawings / mixed media sculptures JEFF MORRIS Jeff Morris is a San Francisco Bay Area artist who has successfully exhibited his mixed media sculptures, installations and drawing projects at Ampersand International Arts in San Francisco and Paris, MM Galleries, Limn Gallery, Southern Exposure and the Luggage Store gallery in San Francisco as well as the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, PA. Jeff Morris artwork is in private collections in Paris, San Francisco, New York and London. www.jeffmorris-studio.com About Jeff Morris work , James Nestor says: Lines are the subjects of Jeff Morris’ work. But not just lines. It’s the spaces outside and in between the lines, around the lines, their shapes and colors, where they start and stop – these are the real players in these pieces. Because as each line is magnified and manipulated and abstracted (...) so are the spaces that surround it, so is the meaning and our perception also changed. Light turns to dark, day to night, unmoving earth becomes ephemeral air – definition is redefined" AFTERMATH Andy Vogt drawings / wood sculptures ANDY VOGT Andy Vogt completed a BFA in Intermedia at Carnegie Mellon University. Vogt is a founding member of Operation Re-Information (O.R.I.),a science+information / art performance collective that champions "the repurposing of existing information and the resultant product: reinformation." Andy Vogt's current artwork explores again "repurposing", not only through the reinterpretation of wooden structural remnants salvaged from dumpsters around San Francisco, but the drawings they inspire. Vogt's work has been exhibited in the San Francisco Bay Area at Swarm Gallery, Ampersand International Arts, The Luggage Store, Headlands Center for the Arts, Southern Exposure, The Lab, Mission17, 301 Bocana, 111 Minna and New Langton Arts. In Los Angeles, his work has been shown at Upspace, and the LH Horton Gallery in Stockton, and the UC Davis Memorial Union Gallery in Davis, California . Additionally, Vogt has exhibited at the Samson Projects in Boston, and The Skinny Building and Pittsburgh Filmmakers in Pittsburgh, PA. Andy Vogt presently lives and works in San Francisco. www.andyvogt.com About his own artwork, Andy Vogt says: "Looking back, moments appear suspended between intersections of time and place, certain details crisply defined, the rest ragged and hazy. Interlocked, they become a mental landscape that extends in all directions but is seen from a consistent vantage point; the present. The things and spaces we build have the same fate. Created for one purpose, they endure for a time acquiring new meanings shedding old ones. They are adrift until their demise when they become a marker of time’s inescapable pull downward (...)I see these works as re-crystallized skeletal incarnations of an obsoleted system that has been frozen in suspended animation. Their shapes have a hazy connection to literal structures but subscribe to alternate formal hierarchies."
Scrap + Aftermath Jeff Morris, 071308, 2008, graphite on paper