You roll away your stone, I'll roll away mine... Curated by Jason Hanasik

Right Window is pleased to announce that artist Jason Hanasik has turned November into a running series of individual shows under the general title of You roll away your stone, I’ll roll away mine.

Opening November 6th, Abner Nolan: Babble

San Francisco based artist Abner Nolan's Babble is informed by the wandering creative impulses of his 4 year old son. The installation combines videos documenting the intimate building of temporary structures overlaid by boarded up windows, a contemporary symbol of urban recession and blight.

Opening November 13th, Patrick Hillman: Sets & Reps

Patrick Hillman’s new installation Sets & Reps evolved from a series of conversations and interactions between the artist and a 70 year old bodybuilder named Guy. Discussions on male muscle culture, gay sex apps, and heartbreak translated into a diverse range of works including crocheted undergarments, a paper and Mylar sculpture, and a series of photographs.

Opening November 20th, Melissa Wyman: Backwards Beasts

Melissa Wyman’s Backwards Beasts is the marrying of two participatory projects that explore the awkward and symbiotic nature of interpersonal relationships. Collaborating with intimate partners, total strangers, and her 14 month old daughter, she utilizes wrestling and backwards gestures to seek out the transition (and oscillation) between forced and fluid moments: when ‘foreign’ or strange actions appear ‘natural’ and vice versa.

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You roll away your stone, I’ll roll away mine is a series of week long solo exhibitions organized by artist Jason Hanasik. Noticing the generative nature of the intergenerational relationships in his own life, Hanasik tasked each invited artist to create a week long solo show with the stipulation that the artists collaborate with someone significantly older or significantly younger than they are. The result is a captivating series of projects which eloquently build on top of each other to collectively explore the themes of isolation, miscommunication, and expectations.

Please join us for three receptions, one for each artist:

On Sunday, November 6th from 7:30-9:30, Abner Nolan: Babble

On Sunday, November 13th from 6-8pm, Patrick Hillman: Sets & Reps

On Sunday, November 20th from 6-8 pm, Melissa Wyman: Backwards Beasts

Classic Rock

An installation in the Right Window

by Anne McGuire and Karla Milosevich

October 5th - October 29th, 2011

Classic Rock is an analysis of organic and inorganic materials in such a manner that allows each to maintain its individual properties while allowing an overlap to achieve different Results. The installation draws on symbolic elements that, for the purposes of this collaboration, are called Figures. The Methods and Figures used in this experiment were decided upon using a strict protocol conceived of by the artists during an 11 year research cycle.

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Anne McGuire
Karla Milosevich

Thank you to Steffen Frech, Kota Uetsu, and Greg Milla the Journeyman.

Capitalism Is Over! If You Want It

You're invited to leave your opinion about our current economic situation on the window. Don't tag - bring a dry erase marker or leave a note.

Installation September 1 - October 1, 2011

Screening of Living Without Money followed by a panel discussion and a surprise from Green Bag Lady on Sunday, September 25th, 2pm.

* There is a companion exhibit including co-organizers of CIO (Capitalism Is Over If You Want It!) at the Luggage Store Gallery's Projection Space Series through October 1. For more details click here.

Cecilia Dougherty - In a Station, Petals

July 25th - Aug 14th
Viewable from dusk to dawn

Cecilia Dougherty Interviewed

by Right Window Staff August 2011

Right Window. People ask me, "What are we seeing" when they watch your new video installation presented at Right Window, "In a Station, Petals." It seems to pop right out of the box of windows onto Valencia Street, but it's a curious mix of abstraction and figuration.

Cecilia Dougherty. We’re seeing the fragments of television. In some scenes I found beauty and in others somewhat too overt expressions of emotion. For me they seemed to assemble and dissemble a narrative. I chose to focus on the beauty, letting the narrative go its own way, and therefore abstracted the images to a point between beautiful and awful.

Right Window. Where were you when you collected the materials for “In a Station, Petals,” and where were you when you molded them to their present form? It is a video that continually returns to the things of this earth, while suggesting an alternate reality shimmering right behind the one we know.

Cecilia Dougherty. I was in my bedroom, on my bed, while collecting most of the images. Possibly I collected all of the images from my bed. Then I went to my studio (front of the apartment—quite far from the bedroom) and did the most meticulous editing to get each image in good form and to put them in order and apply a few effects to each one (like putting on make-up). The piece wasn’t finished when I came to San Francisco, so I did the last of the editing at my friend Nancy’s apartment in Diamond Heights.

Re the continual returning to the things of the earth, this is a very nice thing to say. If that is true, then that part of it was done in San Francisco—it must have to do with the pacing, which is the last thing I worked on.

[Later.] I was thinking about your question about where I was when I got the images for my video and realized you must have meant where were the images when i got them. I said I was in bed! which is true, but maybe I should have said that I got them from watching tv shows online, playing with my cell phone’s camera (an old one, a relic) and holding it up to the screen while the image was paused so I could capture parts of the frame. the tv shows were: breaking bad, kings, combat hospital, royal pains, bones, fringe, a show about the friend of one of the royal pains stars getting a make-over, and a t-mobile commercial. There are others I forgot, but that covers most of the images.

The part about editing? in my studio? all true.

Right Window. You're an international artist and you live in NYC, but presenting your show in San Francisco has something of a homecoming feel to it.

Cecilia Dougherty. I feel at home in San Francisco, since this is where I learned to do everything—love, art, fucking up, thinking, reading, taking photographs, etc. This time around, I had no expectations of what the city could offer me and so had many excellent experiences while here.

Right Window. What are your upcoming projects, Cecilia?

Cecilia Dougherty. I'm working a 3-D video pretty much for the hell of it, and would like to do another longer story using a script and actors—I have a book in mind to interpret as a video, but haven't finished discussion with the author, so best to wait until I get started before talking about it. I also want to create a large-scale projection onto the Pirelli Tire Building in New Haven, CT. The landmark building was designed by Marcel Breuer in the late 1960s but sits, unused, in the middle of the Ikea parking lot. He also designed the Whitney Museum, btw.

Farewell, Heliosphere!

FAREWELL, HELIOSPHERE!

From June 4th to June 30th, 2011

Opening: June 12th from 5 to 7 PM

Right Window Gallery at ATA

992 Valencia at 21st Street, San Francisco

FAREWELL, HELIOSPHERE!is an installation by Christine Canepa, and will be on view at Right Window through June 2011. It is a cover of General Idea’s installation Fin de Siecle, which was on view at SFMOMA in 1993. Like a musician covering another artist’s song, she has reinterpreted and rearranged General Idea’s piece, as both a humble homage, while adding her own layers of meaning. Replacing their 3 harp seals with a polar bear (another endangered animal), she is considering their ideas about extinction and endangerment. Endings have been a reoccurring theme in Canepa’s work. What happens to lives, events, relationships, or matter when they are no longer in the present temporal/spatial dimension is something she has explored in various bodies of work over the years. Sadly, polar bears will be gone in 50-100 years, according to author Richard Ellis. Beyond endangered, polar bears are facing imminent extinction. It is time to say goodbye.

General Idea are AA Bronson, Felix Partz, and Jorge Zontal. The latter two have since died from AIDS, while Bronson continues to work as an artist.

A Window Into Save KUSF

As the fight to save KUSF rages on, we look at the history of KUSF's 34 years on the air and the current fight to save 90.3 FM and keep it in the hands of the community where it belongs.

The installation features ephemera from KUSF's past as well as the living & breathing artifacts of the Save KUSF movement.

Curated & installed by local artist & KUSF supporter Nic Chaffin.

Live events and opening party coming soon.

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