donna anderson kam

“fall-out shelter” yoga studio
Gallery 60six, San Francisco
curator/ gallerist Gwen Terpstra

Friday, November 2 - Dec. 14, 2018
455A Valencia street, SF, 6-10pm

This 60SIX group show of paintings, drawing, sculpture, photography and video, features work around the theme of art as “fall-out shelter”... A place to contain or release energy. The exhibition takes place in an actual yoga studio housed in a historic artist live/work space. Notable musicians and artists have lived and worked in 455A Valencia, such as 60SIX artist and composer, Peter Whitehead, violinist, singer, Carla Kihlstedtand performer, comedian Whoopi Goldberg.
Donna Anderson Kam’s drawings juxtapose her subjects’ (young girls) delicacy and innocence with a graphic toxicity, speaking to our living with a large level of daily denial.

curator/ gallerist Gwen Terpstra

In Leigh Barbier’s drawing, “The Watcher” a cyclops-like woman observes the room, a quiet but powerful presence. She is exposed but modest. Both victim and heroine, she has balls…for hands. Suppression of power, containment of power, forces reaching in to steal
or heal are illustrated in Barbier’s surrealistic work. Sally Smith’s drawings contain
cathartic alchemy. In the large drawing “Golden Shower” she concocts the charcoal by burning pages from Trump’s “Art of the Deal” mixed with urine and Aunt Jemima syrup, and uses a template of a drain cover to create a rhythmic vibrating field of yellow and grey. Donna Anderson Kam’s drawings juxtapose her subjects’ (young girls) delicacy and innocence with a graphic toxicity, speaking to our living with a large level of daily denial. Oliver DiCicco’s kinetic sculptures are styled in a purist modernist form, which contrasts with the unpredictable randomness of their sound and motion. German artist Jürgen Trautwein’s
video piece called “gif me a break” gives a nod to philosopher Jean Baudrillard’s ideas, questioning (among other things) whether humans will eventually become machines. Brent Willson presents a large abstract painting, “Entropica,” reminiscent of the painter Alber Oehlen’s energetic, automatic painting. Other artists include Heike Liss, Isabelle Maynard, Steve Molnar, Anne and Laina Terpstra, Dave King
and Peter Whitehead.

Curator/Gallerist Gwen Terpstra