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Ever Gold Gallery
September 10 - October 17, 2015Info
441 O'Farrell Street San Francisco, CA 94102 Google Map »Reception
September 10, 2015 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm
Pat McCarthy Flights Cinematheque, 2015 Film and Sculpture (porcelain, steel stove, vinyl taped bamboo, copper wire, twine, epoxy resin, denim, kerosene lantern, brick, digital HD cinema projector, digital copy of Flights super 8 film 45″ x 20″ x 60″ tall
Pat McCarthy’s first solo exhibition with Ever Gold Gallery explores the ritualized carpentry of sheltering pigeons — architecturally and poetically, using sculpture and film. The artist has been raising and training pigeons for 4 years on a rooftop in Brooklyn. The majority of the pigeons are born in one of McCarthy’s large coops, others arrive of their own accord, and others are bought or traded for at the local pigeon market. All are free to fly and return at their will. The artist endures a daily custodial stewardship of the coops, feeding, boarding, and nursing the animals. The works in Shelters survey intersections in this relationship between superintendent and flock.