Dan Grayber

EXHIBITIONS

Mechanisms, 2009

STATEMENT

Objects are invented in order to satisfy particular needs, specifically, human needs. With my sculpture I investigate the concept of need when the human is removed from this equation. I do this by replacing the human with the object itself. My sculptures are invented only to sustain themselves, functioning as self-resolving problems. The result is an object that has been invented only to compensate for the complications created by its own existence. The piece alone represents the need and the resolution.

Many of my pieces are small, spring loaded, mechanical objects. They are intricately designed and fabricated to accomplish one of the most simple, yet most essential tasks that an autonomous object can. This task, this need, is that of holding itself up. In most cases, my pieces accomplish this by actively attaching themselves to specific architectural features and individual objects.

BIO

Dan Grayber creates mechanical objects that are intricately designed to resolve their own problems or shortcomings. He received his BA in Visual Arts from Hampshire College, and his MFA in Sculpture from the San Francisco Art Institute. His work has been shown at several galleries within San Francisco, and the bay area. He was the recipient of the Harold E. Weiner Memorial Award. Dan lives and works in San Francisco.

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Barbara Horiuchi

EXHIBITIONS

Sumi Ink Paintings, 2009

STATEMENT

Barbara Horiuchi is a California-born third generation Japanese-American, a Sansei. In her current art she explores the repercussions of trauma born from issues of injustice. This examination wells from personal familial experiences; immigration, the historic internment experience of Japanese-Americans during WWII, marginalization, loss, and attempts at recovery. The information processed from these experiences was passed to her by a culturally-influenced, verbal and visual language which often was not articulated directly but indirectly expressed. This information informs her work and shapes the manner in which it is conceived, constructed and created.

BIO

Barbara Horiuchi received her MFA in painting from San Jose State University in December 2009. She received her BA in Creative Arts from SJSU in 2001. She comes from an artistic family who created various types of art from woodcarving, calligraphy, watercolor painting, ikebana and sculpture. She has participated in group exhibitions in her hometown of San Jose, California as well as at the de Young Museum and Kearny Street Workshop in San Francisco.

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Erin Morrison

EXHIBITIONS

Patterns of Impermanence, 2010

STATEMENT

The intention of my work is to approach the differences between what has been identified in our culture as organic and inorganic, and to clarify the impression of empathy amid “viewer” and “subject” by referencing the transforming qualities of photography.

As most of the plant and animal life today have evolved to their present state due to continual environmental changes, recently the primary focus of my work has been to depict the adaptation of these transformations in conjunction with our standards of modification. In the most recent body of work, the scale is intended to capture a diverse range of urban ecosystems, and is used simply as a reference or transcription of seemingly common, although modified, events.

Since the pursuit of landscape transformation began by making direct reference to nature publications, I began to take an interest in the re-interpretation of the photographic image; approaching it’s transcendental atributes using non-traditional mediums. The recreation of this viewer/subject barrier was intended to invoke a feeling of detachment, creating a contingency between what has been studied to the fullest extent and what we have yet to see. With these new images I hope to recover the alliance lost between the viewer and subject, inadvertently brought on by the obstacle of the lens.

BIO

Erin Morrison was born in 1985 in Little Rock, AR. After many years of studying at parochial middle school and an all-girls Catholic High School, at the age of 18 she made the decision to attend art school at Memphis College of Art. During her time there, she had the opportunity to study at the California College of the Arts through an exchange program, take occasional trips to New York, participate in an annual residency program at the Horn Island nature preserve, and assist with the installation works by Kenyan artist, Wangetchi Mutu, at the Power House. Erin has lived in New York, San Francisco, and Seattle. Currently working at Cornish College of the Arts, she continues to pursue an active role in the Arts community.

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