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. Her pilot gardens were realized in under-utilized front and back yards in San Francisco, using Franceschini's vision. She supplied each garden with a carefully designed kit containing seed-packets and other tools helpful in the realization of these gardens.
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.
On View Through 15 May 2007
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