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Make Hang Gallery

September 28 - October 20, 2012

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450 Green Street San Francisco, CA 94133
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Cumulous "Cumulous reaches for impossible escapes into a world hinging just off the one we know. The body is the tool for measurement and touchstone into what’s real." -Cara Levine, 2012
Cumulous, new work by Cara Levine at Make Hang "Cumulous reaches for impossible escapes into a world hinging just off the one we know. The body is the tool for measurement and touchstone into what’s real." -Cara Levine, 2012 Opening: October 19th, 6-9 pm Closing: November 30th, 6-9 pm Razzle dazzle whisky cocktails at opening and closing! Artist Talks: Casual and intriguing discussions with Cara Levine and Make Hang’s artists. Snacks and drinks galore, free and open to the public Tuesday, October 22nd, 7-8:30: “Hiding in plain site” how do we cope with circumstance and use our environments and bodies as personal vehicles for escape? Tuesday, November 27th, 7-8:30: “Illusion” How do we understand what’s real? Cumulous, new work by Cara Levine: I am always looking for a way out. I don’t know why and I am not even that clear it is happening until I feel myself migrate towards the door or imagining some possible escape. I get claustrophobic; I think this has something to do with it. Also, I have endured 10 years with a chronic ankle injury which, once in a while, renders me immobile. And as I have learned, my greatest fear is immobility. I have found, there is always an escape hatch–be it imagined or real. Escape is a fleeting notion though: I always have to come back, I always have to live in this world, feet grounded on the floor, materials existing as they are. In the work for this show, I am not only toying with different escape plans and alternate realities, but I am also confronting the locked-in-ness of the real world: Can a cloud hide if it is pulled down from the sky and painted with illusionist patterns? Throwing a steel rope ladder out of a window is likely to act more like an anchor. And lastly, the photographs continue to stretch new realities and forms for objects that already exist.