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San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery

October 26 - January 28, 2013

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401 Van Ness Avenue San Francisco, CA 94102
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Nothing to See Here Nicole Jean Hill, Mad River Windbreak
Opening Reception: Friday, October 26 6-8pm An Exhibition of Photography featuring; Johnna Arnold, Joshua Band, Nicole Jean Hill and Jin Zhu. Curated by Aimee Le Duc. The visions of landscapes put forth by four California photographers reveal sites that should either be ignored or passed over, such as freeway overpasses, dilapidated urban sidewalks and roadsides. Nothing to See Here is an examination of how we interact with or are repelled by these spaces, and features images that, for the most part, are devoid of any human presence. Exhibition curator and SFAC Galleries Manager, Aimee Le Duc states, “With this exhibition I wanted to add to the ongoing dialog created by Bay Area artists’ preoccupation with landscape, so I honed in on works by photographers examining a particular kind of site that is not entered into but acted upon or in front of.” Many of the works have an inherent theatricality about them; with one in particular by Joshua Band that invites viewers into an almost-life-sized menacing landscape. The landscapes become a backdrop for actions that are perhaps incongruent with the spaces whose utility lies in its ability to be ignored. By honing in on specific sites – reconsidering them as topographies of our culture, the viewer is provided with enough information to begin to imagine illicit, inappropriate or simply sad actions that perhaps at one time occurred inside these environments.