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Photographs from 2012 residency. Location: San Francisco Center for the Book Photography: Robyn Lehr One for Each As part of my residency...
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Photographs from 2012 residency.

Location: San Francisco Center for the Book

Photography: Robyn Lehr

One for Each

As part of my residency at the San Francisco Center for the Book, I’m in the process of creating a sensory Wunderkammer. This elegant cabinet of curiosities contains five drawers, one for each of the human senses. Each drawer holds a distinct, self-contained object. I’m striving for the playful manner that, I hope, is seen as routinely characterizing my work — and if it all works, the senses will mingle in unexpected ways.

Three-dimensional projections emphasize the tactile nature of printed images. Silhouettes of leaves ask you to gauge species by contour, yet the absence of color brings attention to the visual. Talking tapes acknowledge a tangible aspect of sound. A musky, smell-based exploration summons up mental images of physical activity. A unique taste enhancer promises to temporarily bond to your receptors, making all things sour seem sweet — but first your fingers must negotiate the brittle blister pack.

And all, in combination and individually, show how our senses can deceive us, and in the process yield something akin to a child’s surprise at the roles these senses play in helping us navigate the world.

The completed “One for Each” will be a compact set of drawers, a box of English buckram and black leather, nearly 250 cubic inches of sensory activity. I’ve enlisted Boon Design to oversee typography, and Marc Weidenbaum to develop a series of short interlocking essays.

 

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Photographs from 30th Anniversary.

Location: Headlands Center for the Arts

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Photography: Heimo

Photographs from 2012 Spring Open House.

Location: Headlands Center for the Arts

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Photography: Heimo

Materials: Borosilicate Glass, Aluminum, Delrin, Rubber, Scent.

Locations shown: Marin Headlands, CA. 2011, The Performance Art Institute, CA. 2012

Statement:
The painter says that the graphic novelist damages the image by trampling it with text. The video artist says that the painter leverages nostalgia for ancient craft at the expense of modern craft. The sound artist says that the visual artist’s hegemony keeps sound registered as a second-class citizen, and then mumbles something about “apartheid,” as if floating a rhetorical test balloon. (It sinks.) The sculptor says that the visual artist and sound artist are coddled in the gallery, while sculptures weather the elements in the inevitable, and far from Edenic, “garden.” The tactile artist bemoans being stuck at the kids table. And the smell artist? No one asks the smell artist. No one notices the smell artist is in the room.

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Press:
Disquiet

Images from opening.

Materials: Paper.

Location: Aggregate Space, Oakland, Ca.

Statement: 
The tightly packed layers of black card stock could, from a distance, be mistaken for sample swatches, or perhaps acoustical tiling. Upon approach, however, the deep impressions in them become apparent, and in turn they make a deep impression. There are angular indents, and sharp holes, and conical excavations. These are quizzical things, enticing geometries that seem at once iconic and whimsical. The impressions suggest some form of impact introduced them to the thick paper. The step-like quality of the indents imply the ravages of motion, arcade asteroids hitting the dark side of a pixel moon.

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Press:
Disquiet

Photography: Heimo

Materials: Carbon Steel, Aluminum, Nylon, Motors, Control Electronics.

Location: Marin Headlands, CA.

Statement: 
The place where past and present meet is a liminal state. It is not unlike the skin that protects internal organs from the elements, or the surface of the ocean, where vessels skim the division between sea and sky. The place where past and present meet is not unlike a window, which allows views in as well as out.

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Press:
Bay Citizen
Disquiet
The Present Group

Photography: Andria Lo

Materials:  Teak, Rope, Delrin, Steel.

Location: Marin Headlands, CA.

Statement: 
The gymnasium is the art gallery of physical activity. The room is Spartan: bare floor, tall ceiling. The room is Platonic: an expansive blank space. The room is Euclidean: its markings an elegant geometry that has survived well into our quantum era. Those markings, circles and straight lines, set down rules by projecting the contours of human motion.

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Press:
SFGate
Disquiet
Bay Citizen
Laughing Squid

Photography: Andria Lo

Materials: Aluminum, Steel, Rubber.

Statement: 
The bathroom scales have been modified to show a 10%  decrease in weight with each hop. Converting the game we played as children to the one we play as adults.

Photography: Andria Lo

Materials:  Acrylic Mirror, Aluminum, Motor, Control Electronics.

Location: Marin Headlands, CA.

Statement: 
Adding a window, subtracting a window.

Photography: Andria Lo

Materials:  Polarized Acrylic, Aluminum, Steel.

Location: Marin Headlands, CA.

Statement: 
The 2010 full solar eclipse was seen by a few lucky people. With this installation Salvagione creates a local eclipse.

Photography: Andria Lo