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Alley Cat Books Gallery

August 5 - August 31, 2015

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3036 24th Street San Francisco, CA 94110

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"Identity
No more running
Stopping to feel even when it's difficult
Showing that I care and that I am cared for….
Help me break down any fears. When I have a fear or when I feel gratitude and love, to put that into a challenge … put that into my higher vision higher value I have for my self … deepening my humility.
Deepening opening my ability to know to trust that I am feeling things … I do feel … I am able to feel, I am able to stay with emotion long enough to reap its benefits … to reap the rewards of staying in and giving in.
Seeing what that looks like."
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What that looks like:

"Levels, Tiers, Altars, Passageways.
Aluminum to clear away anything that is blocking you.
The spiritual properties of materials—Oak, Almond, Maple, Aluminum, Plaster, Birch, Poplar—working together.
Tables/objects (in the vein of Joseph Beuys's social sculptures) designed with spiritual properties … seeing what their energy is and activating their healing properties through craft, concept, prayer. Letting go to let in.
Tree of Life drawings to match these intentions, as well as to meditate upon … to put your prayers into … a platform for your dedications, clearing/cleansing and charging you back to you."
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Based in Los Angeles, Veronica De Jesus studied at SF Art Institute (BA, 1993) and UC Berkeley (MFA, 2003). She has shown solo at Eleanor Harwood Gallery in SF and Royal NoneSuch Gallery in Oakland, and in group contexts at Berkeley Art Museum and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Her Memorial drawings can be seen in the window of Alley Cat's sister store Dog Eared Books at 900 Valencia Street in SF, and some are collected with an essay by Regina Clarkinia in Hello Now From Everywhere, published by Colter Jacobsen's Allone Co. in 2008-10.
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Curated by Johnny Ray Huston