Opening reception for the artist
Monday, September 13th, 7 – 10pm
Marco endlessly searches for Polo. Polo will eventually become Marco. This repeats.
Marco Polo is the anti-Ulysses; he is not trying to get back home. He is
not trying to find a new one. Each city encourages movement.
Upon arrival it’s always useful to find an emergency exit.
Pablo Guardiola is an artist who lives and works in San Francisco. For more information, please visit: http://www.pabloguardiola.com.
Opening: Sunday, August 1, 5 – 8 p.m.
Right Window is pleased to present a new installation by Louisiana-born, San Francisco-based artist Neil LeDoux.
The exhibition takes its name and its imagery from the finale of Season 5 of the now-defunct ABC TV series Lost, which memorably ended with Juliet (spoilers ahead) grabbing the detonator to a nuclear bomb and crying out, “Come on, you son of a bitch,” while blowing up the whole world to a white screen. The episode, titled, “Fade to White,” will be playing on the ATA screen during the exhibition’s opening.
In response, LeDoux attempts, like a magician, to make a piece of art that will go away completely. Specifically he is creating a large watercolor designed to fade to white in the sun of Valencia Street over the course of his month-long residency. Will the painting completely disappear? Will a ghost remain? Only time will tell.
LeDoux was inspired not only by Lost, but by a previous exhibition at Right Window (Christine Wertheim: “The Plastic Exploding Inevitable,” September 2008) in which Alicia Escott’s delicate painting on a plastic takeout container lost color and definition over a month of bright San Francisco weather. In addition, this work addresses the impermanence of Tibetan sand paintings, created during hours of intensive labor, then swept away in an instant, by Buddhist monks.
Neil LeDoux (b. 1976) is currently working on his MFA at the California College of the Arts. His work has been included in group exhibitions at the California College of the Arts and the Whitney Museum of American Art. In 2009, he had a solo exhibition, “The fountain of giant teardrops,” at San Francisco’s Silverman Gallery.
July’s window installation is by ATA staff Anne Heinrich & Scott Dragoo. Please join us for an opening reception of Wednesday, July 7th, from 7 to 11pm.
Stemming from her compulsion to boil and eat those who are not pure-of-heart, Baba Yaga has unfairly garnered a reputation as an evil, “old hag.” In an imposing hut standing on chicken legs, hidden deep within the forest which she controls, Baba Yaga’s infinite wisdom is accessable for those brave enough to inquire. She employs many spooks, including the earthly elements, and fences made of human skulls, in an attempt to ward-off those who seek her guidance solely for personal gain. Baba Yaga is not malevolent, she is simply protecting all that comes with hundreds of years of experience, dispatching wisdom to those she trusts will use it correctly. All she really wants is for you to spend some time with her, visit, and eat some of the food she is offering….much like your Grandmother. So, moral of the story– be nice to Old People………OR ELSE!