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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
South Bay Art Exhibition: AfterHours
Four California artists
draw on workplace imagery to create art exhibition.
San Jose, CA, May 2, 2005 - Artists Hilary Chartrand, Karen Theisen, Trish
Stone and Sean Fletcher offer a multi-layered response to the theme of
the office environment, approaching it with humor, curiosity, and a bit
of obsession. The
exhibition runs from May 10th - June 4th, 2005, with a reception Friday
May 13th, 7-9pm and an "Artist Talk" Thursday May 19th, 5-7pm,
all at Works/San Jose, 30 N. 3rd Street, San Jose, CA 95112.
Works/San Jose
408.295.8378
works_sj@yahoo.com
www.workssanjose.org
CONTACT:
Lis Dubois
Hilary Chartrand's background in screen-printing informs the way she looks
at everyday objects. She uses the registration and color codes on security
envelopes and box tabs as a starting point for her paper abstractions.
These collages and sculptures re-examine the printing codes in terms of
color and shape, and may or may not resemble their office supply origins.
Karen Theisen became interested in office power dynamics through her position
at a hi-tech company in Silicon Valley. Her ballpoint pen drawings, reminiscent
of doodles obsessively scribbled at departmental meetings, convey her
emotional landscape through the language of emoticons and stock imagery.
Trish Stone looks at the office environment from an outsider's perspective,
photographing cubicle spaces through an office building's street-level
windows. While documenting the minor changes which occur in an employee's
cubicle from one day to the next, these pictures bring up questions about
personal versus public space.
Sean Fletcher became a Life Insurance Salesman as a 6-year long performance
piece. He then took the opportunity to turn his company's conference room
into the Office/Gallery which he curated. His artwork blends wit with
subversion, and adds a unique voice to this show.
As a group, their artwork takes the monotony of the office place and imbues
it with both personal and critical attention to detail that starts in
the workplace and continues after hours.
works/san josé
451 south 1st street • san josé,
california 95112• 408.286.6800
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