Scott Oliver The Valley detail
Excavations
featuring works by:
Misako Inaoka courtesy of Stephen Wirtz Gallery
John Roloff courtesy of Gallery Paule Anglim
Lewis de Soto courtesy of Brian Gross Fine Art
Mark Brest van Kempen
Scott Oliver
Andrew Benson
Yvette Molina
Val Britton
Jana Flynn
Excavations, an exhibition of landscapes that blur the typical boundaries between nature and artifice. Refusing to take our natural landscapes at face value, the eight local artists unearth an improbable array of artifacts that reveal humankind’s increasingly complicated relationship with its environment. How apropos that Johansson Projects breaks ground on it’s new venue, the most recent addition to Oakland’s gallery district, with Excavations, a show exposing and re-rendering natural and urban ‘scapes. The natural environment will prove to encroach on the man-made, with moss hanging from the ceiling and eco-systems sprouting from the walls.
REVIEW by Reyhan Harmanci of SF Chronicle
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