August 2007 News


IIn 2007 Urban Digital Color and Gallery 16 enter their 14th year. This newsletter is designed to keep our friends up to date on interesting projects, new services and technology and artist profiles. The printshop and gallery has worked with some of the world's leading artists, photographers, and graphic designers have helped pioneer the use of digital print forms. Our extensive catalog of Gallery 16's limited editions as well as work in original media are available through this web site.

UDC is internationally renowned as one of America's foremost digital printers. UDC's master digital printers are continually innovating and pushing the boundaries of the print process and offer a wide range of services to artists. Our printshop services include archival pigment-based large format printing on virutally any material up to 74" wide x 100 feet along with high resolution scanning and a range of mounting and framing options for artists and graphic professionals.

Current Gallery 16 exhibition:
Jeff Kao be just because i said so
Gallery 16 is pleased to announce our third exhibition with Jeff Kao. This new body of work features two films titled "Inside Out" and "Peter Panic" along with new paintings, drawings, and sculpture. The show runs through August 31, 2007

Visit the exhibition page for more information.

New Gallery 16 book:
James Miles with Harrell Fletcher

The third book in the
1 Artist 1 Concept series is James F. Miles Is A Boyfrined And A Girlfriend with Harrell Fletcher, in which the work of Creativity Explored artist James Miles is presented by Harrell Fletcher.

In conjuction with the publication of this book, Creativity Explored is presenting an exhibition of James Miles' work. There will be an opening reception and book release on Thursday, June 21 from 7-9pm at Creativity Explored, 3245 16th Street in San Francisco. The show runs from June 21 through August 9, 2007.

More information on our website www.expandingcolorsystem.com
or at the Creativity Explored website
www.creativityexplored.org

Gallery 16 publishing project:
Darren Waterston and Tyrus Miller The Flowering

Internationally heralded painter Darren Waterston in completing a project with Gallery 16 Editions this month. The Flowering portfolio culiminates over a year of work.

The boxed portfolio contains thirteen original prints sized 13"x18" and thirteen letterpress broadsides written by Tyrus Miller. Waterston's compositions began by combining many sketches and watercolor studies together to create unique original compositions. Each print was realized through a number of digital and traditional print methods. The artist finishes each print with silver leaf, ink, and washes.

For more information and images, visit our page for this portfolio here.

New Gallery 16 editions: Deborah Oropallo

Gallery 16 is pleased to announce a new series of prints published by Gallery 16 Editions, titled Guise. The work is currently on exhibition at the De Young Fine Art Museum in San Francisco through September 16, 2007.

The images in her current body of work were initially borrowed from internet sites for sexy costuming. Women in revealing pirate, soldier, and other outfits are posed in photographs that recall, in Oropallo's words, "the formal portraiture male power stance with elaborate costume." The artist deconstructs and enhances the images to investigate the seduction and power that are evoked by gesture and pose.

The nineteen prints in the Guise suite range from 40"x60" to 30"x40" each print is published in a limited edition of ten.

Visit Oropallo's page for this edition here.

Previous Gallery 16 exhibition:
Alice Shaw Group Show

In her last show at Gallery 16 Alice Shaw exhibited a body of work wherein she photographed herself with people who had something in common with her. This time Shaw will display black and white photographs of herself and her physical opposite. In another body of work she will compare the photographs of Charles Dodgeson (a.k.a. Lewis Carroll) and E.J. Bellocq to question the use of the model as a source of inspiration and look at simultaneous invention in photography. A large color photograph will also be displayed.

Visit the exhibition page for more information.

Past Gallery 16 exhibition:
Amy Franceschini and Phil Ross Spanners

Gallery 16 is pleased to present Spanners, two independent but related bodies of work by SECA award winner Amy Franceschini and Phil Ross. It is the second exhibition at Gallery 16 for both artists.

Franceschini, one of the five most recent SECA award recipients, is an artist who works with the boundaries between art, activism, community organizing, and in the case of the work currently on display at SFMOMA, gardening. Her project featured in the SECA exhibition re-imagines the Victory Gardens of World Wars I and II for the present political and ecological situation.

Phil Ross' work as a sculptor has transformed a variety of living species into forms that are at once highly crafted and naturally developed, skillfully manipulated and sloppily organic. He has been an artist-in-residence at the Exploratorium's Life Science Department, the Johnson Oyster Farm in Tomales Bay, and was invited to the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Department of Plant Biology. Ross is currently a resident at SymbioticA in Australia, working on a video about microorganisms, collective bodies, and the history of the scientific method.

Visit their exhibition page for more information.


Recent Gallery 16 edition: Rex Ray

Wall of Sound
is the first 2007 release from San Francisco Artist Rex Ray. This print was inspired by an exhibition at Gallery 16 in which the artist installed a group of 700 paper collages. It measures 50" x 66".

David Bonetti remarked ³Whether we like it or not we live in a Rex Ray world². His ubiquitous graphic work has received significant international acclaim. His designs have graced the covers of magazines, record albums and books worldwide.


Visit Rex Ray's page for this edition here.
 

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