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Moroso Projects

November 15 - January 15, 2014

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582 6th Street San Francisco, CA 94103

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The Popular Workshop is proud to present an exhibition of new works by Greg Ito, introducing our offsite curatorial endeavors at a brand new art space, Moroso Projects, San Francisco. We look forward to working with Moroso Projects, located in the SOMA district, through 2014, on developing a program of progressive emerging contemporary art.

"and when we thought it would last forever…"

Solo exhibition by
GREG ITO
Curated by The Popular Workshop

November 15, 2013 - January 15, 2014
OPENING RECEPTION 6-10PM // Friday November 15

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show me the way
of ways
upon ways
upon waves
~ ~ ~
i miss u already

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"and when we thought it would last forever…" is a solo exhibition by Greg Ito composed of new sculpture, painting, and installation. The works are a mediation of common desires incorporating a visual vernacular tailored by familiar aesthetic tropes. Using everyday objects and textures, "and when we thought it would last forever…" becomes a meeting point that dovetails the innate and idealized human desire for freedom, against the contemporary constructed systems of work and servitude.

Exploring multiple methodologies of contemporary artistic production, Ito prompts the viewer to experience disharmonies between common cultural objects' practical functionalities and their imbedded symbolic connotations developed over time. This relationship offers both distressing and comedic experiences, cultivating subtle narratives which gravitate towards an investigation of a romantic nostalgia for escape and pleasure. Ito's practice often roams within concepts surrounding human interactions and one's relationship with companionship and solitude.

Greg Ito, currently lives and works in San Francisco and was the co-founder of the Ever Gold Gallery, San Francisco and the San Francisco Arts Quarterly - SFAQ, an international arts and culture publication. Ito has exhibited at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts - San Francisco, Eleanor Harwood Gallery - San Francisco, and Mountain Fold - New York. Ito recently was awarded the Loop Arts Award 2013, and True Silver Residency 2013, San Francisco.

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