Please join us at icTus gallery! for the closing reception/artists talk for “Love and Anarchy,” an art exhibition featuring works by Cece Carpio, Kira Curtis, Fernando Marti, and Jermaine Rogers.
Love and Anarchy
July 23rd – Sept 1st 2011
Closing Reception: Thursday Sept. 1st, 6pm - 10pm
icTus Gallery - 1769 15th St. @Albion (Between Valencia and Guerrero), San Francisco, CA 94013
Also featuring live music by Zebedee Zaits (
www.facebook.com/sparrowsgate)
Indianna Hale, front person for band aka Indianna Hale
(
www.myspace.com/in diannahale) and Bob Thayer of band Rad Cloud. (
www.facebook.comradcloud) (
http://vimeo.com/3409414)
Ictus Gallery presents an installation of indoor graffiti mural art, posters, paintings and prints celebrating all things that deviate, defy and yet carry each other.
We can define our days as we choose, and infuse the most fraught of situations with emotion. And out of that alchemy can come the transformation of a soul, a block, a city and beyond. In the works of Cece Carpio, Kira Curtis, Fernando Marti, and Jermaine Rogers, we see this kind of celebration of renegades, who resist the constructs of power but do so with all encompassing love that builds rather than tears down.
“Love and Anarchy” brings together four artists working in different mediums, each with their own unique and distinct styles, infusing and combining to create exciting visual, immersive narratives. “Love and Anarchy” explores these ideas through popular and accessible mediums including posters and mural graffiti. The works writing to ever present, universal themes of love and power.
About artists:
Cece Carpio - From the islands of the Philippines to the streets of Brooklyn, Cece Carpio paints people and places on the edges of survival. Using acrylic, ink, aerosol and installations, her work tells stories of immigration, ancestry, resistance and resilience. She documents evolving traditions by combining folkloric forms, bold portraits and natural elements with urban art techniques. She has produced and exhibited work in the Philippines, Fiji Islands, Cuba, Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Italy, Norway and throughout the United States. She can often be found collaborating with her crew, Trust Your Struggle
www.trustyourstruggle.org, teaching, and traveling around the world in pursuit of the perfect wall.
Kira Curtis - Known for figurative paintings from the artist's travels, Kira Curtis' recent series, watercolor line drawings/paintings, "The Discontented" and "Alaskan Men" where human emotions are the central subjects are held in numerous private collections nationally. Curtis will present new works on paper that convey the extremes of human emotion, alternating from passion to alienation and touching points in between. Kira Curtis attended the Maryland Institute College of Art, Lacoste Ecole des Beaux Arts, in Lacoste, France, and then accepted a scholarship to attend the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Over the last four years Curtis' work has been shown in Chicago, Vermont and New York and is in private collections in L.A., Boston, Chicago, and Vermont.
Fernando Marti - Fernando Martí is an artist, community architect, and activist. He was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and has made his home in San Francisco since 1992. As a member of PODER and the Mission Anti-Displacement Coalition, he has been deeply involved in organizing, policy, and cultural production in San Francisco's Mission District. Fernando also creates art through the San Francisco Print Collective (
www.sfprintcollective.com) and Just Seeds Artists Cooperative (
www.justseeds.org). “My intent as a printmaker, installation artist and altar-maker is to explore the clash of the Third World in the heart of Empire, and the tension between inhabiting place and the urge to build something transformative.”
Jermaine Rogers - Based in NY, Jermaine Rogers is most widely known as one of the leaders in the field of modern rock poster art. Rogers has designed nearly 800 posters for a wide variety of musical festivals and acts, including Afropunk festivals, Radiohead, Neil Young, Tool, Weezer, Tori Amos, David Bowie, The Deftones and the Melvins and and literally hundreds of others. Roger's illustration work has appeared in Entertainment Weekly, New York Newsday, NME. Esquire, Bang, The Free Press and various other periodicals and news weeklies. Rogers has achieved a significant following of fans and collectors alike. His distinctive style of line art has become instantly recognizable, and his original use of color has been praised and derided alike. Rogers' artwork is collected worldwide. He deals with galleries in the USA, Europe, South America, Asia, Australia.
Ictus Gallery features an emerging aesthetic of multi-dimensional realities and art forms occurring between and within places and people, the territories of artists, the revealing of things... within landscapes of travail and transformation. The artists in transit - inside their work, and their worlds, bent on a subversive contemporary point of view.
