Final Show @ Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco

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The Jack Hanley Gallery will mount its final show in the gallery’s San Francisco location, April 3 – 28, 2010.  The show will include new work from a selection of gallery artists.

The Jack Hanley Gallery opened in downtown San Francisco in 1990 showing emerging international artists.  After closing for two years, from 1996 – 1998, the gallery reopened in a new location in the Mission District of San Francisco.  Continuing to focus on working with emerging international artists, the new incarnation of the gallery helped to establish the careers of a number of emerging San Francisco artists, as well.  In December 2007 Jack Hanley Gallery opened a location in New York.  At the end of April 2010, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco will close thus allowing for the further growth of an innovative and focused program at the New York location.

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Michael Samuels /// Clusterfuck

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Michael Samuels presents his third exhibition at the gallery with a brand new body of work, which manipulates space, light and everyday objects to create a disorientating environment and viewing experience.

The exhibition’s title, Clusterfuck, describes a particular kind of Catch 22 in which multiple complicated problems mutually interfere with each others solution. A chaotic situation may be the first impression that the viewer has of Samuels works installed together in the gallery; surfaces accrue, light fractures and any visual coherence is disturbed. Samuels transforms and disrupts the viewer’s spatial coherence but what appear to be fractured parts, slowly reveal themselves as dependant, balanced and refined configurations.

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