DISTILLED MOMENTS / INVISIBLE CITIES at 111 Minna Gallery

October 4-27, 2007

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From Eastern Serenity to Western Urbanity. Landscapes dominate 111 Minna Gallery.

111 Minna Gallery is proud to present DISTILLED MOMENTS with new works by Miya Ando Stanoff and Ted Lincoln in the Dragonfly Lounge alongside INVISIBLE CITIES, a Multi Media Installation presented by Ethsix*, Instant City and Watchword Press in the Zappa Room. The shows will be on view from October 4-27th with an opening reception Thursday, October 4th at 6pm – Featuring live music by San Francisco’s own The Fortune Towers and The Sandal and Swords whose sounds reflect the multi-elemental theme - ranging from free jazz to psychedelic auditory-landscapes.

Distilled Moments

In DISTILLED MOMENTS through the influence of both eastern and western cultures, philosophies, and practices, Ted Lincoln and Miya Ando Stanoff create paintings that explore the transitory nature of landscape. Drawing from their individual backgrounds and experiences in eastern culture, both Lincoln and Stanoff use industrial materials such as steel, aluminum, acids, and automotive enamel to create landscapes that simultaneously feel strong and illusive. The austere nature of their materials are softened and rendered into expansive meditative space.

Ted Lincoln’s work utilizes traditional techniques of Chinese Sumi-e ink painting on rice paper but diverge from the traditional use of the medium as they coexist with postmodern signifiers and hard edge abstractions on aluminum panels. Rather than the traditional Chinese chop mark, or signature stamp, barcodes and binary language are intermingled with craggy cliffs and swirling layers of fog. Lincoln’s work is influenced by his studies of Chinese landscape painting in China. The subtle works on steel by Miya Ando Stanoff elicit the ethereal division between water and sky and how that division sometimes becomes lost in the shifting haze of atmosphere and refraction of light. The application of acids, sanding, pigments, and heat create soft variants in surface and tone of the steel, allowing sea and sky to become almost indistinguishable. Often the steel reflects its surroundings and viewers, further implying the coming together and co-existence of all things. The use of steel as a medium stretches back into the history of Miya’s family as she was raised among Japanese sword smiths turned Buddhist priests. She is descendant of the renowned Bizen sword maker Ando Yoshiro Masakatsu. www.miyaandostanoff.
Invisible Cities

In INVISIBLE CITIES, Ethsix* Magazine presents an evening of images, words and tunes from your multifarious city by the bay. A unique collaboration between art and writing, this exhibition will produce a schema of the surreal, metaphysical San Francisco. The artists and writers included will reflect upon intangible elements and conditions of the city. From the hundreds of faces passed and forgotten daily, to personal, emotional city-scapes, this exhibition gives three local independent publications, Ethsix*, Instant City and Watchword Press, an opportunity to bring the art and stories folded into the pages of their publications on to the same stage in three dimensions. This event will be the launch of Ethsix*’s blog site which will give this annual publication a weekly outlet for commentary and analysis of media coverage of social issues. Ethsix* is an annual, interdisciplinary publication project addressing critical social problems that remain invisible until they are sensationalized by the popular media. Ethsix* is the recent recipient of the Southern Exposure Alternative Grant Awards as well as an Incubator Project through the intersection for the arts.

The evening will be graced with the exceptional musical stylings of two San Francisco acts whose tunes range from free jazz to psychedelic sound-scapes.

Images by Beryl Fine, Jana Flynn, Yael Martinez, Linda Nguyen, Hilary Pecis, Rachel Styer, Nadim Sabella, Michael Page & Adam Weir with an installation by Monica Canilao & Eve Ekman. Live projection by Amber Caddy. Readings by Ethsix* Instant City and Watchword Press and tunes by Fortune Towers & Sandal and Swords.

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Distilled Moments

Jana Flynn