23.5 x 18.1 x 0.3 cm
Curated by Holly Coley and Liz Walsh
Eleonor Boström , Karina Gill, Eric Landmark, Emily Peck, Rob Spector, Kim West
Holly Coley and Liz Walsh chose to include artists that are also musicians in Hello, Sunshine. The artists sometimes shift between sound and visual practice as creators. Materials include; pen and ink drawings, photo, collage, ceramics, and video.
The pieces in the show lean into community and the environment of the city. Sometimes this appears in portraits and other times through collages of found materials, some through gestural articulations of spirit and joy.
Artists
Eleanor Bostrom (ceramics)
Karina Gill (video)
Eric Landmark (photo)
Emily Peck (ceramics)
Robert Spector (drawing)
Kim West (collage)
Eleonor Boström is a Swedish ceramic artist based in San Francisco. A main theme throughout her work are dogs (and sometimes a protagonist cat). Dogs are a source of happiness and so are also objects with a purpose. Eleonor strives to add functionality and playfulness to every porcelain sculpture. Inspiration comes from exploring the Bay Area flea markets and cartoons from her childhood.
More info at www.eleonorbostrom.com
Karina Gill grew up in New York and New Jersey and has been living in San Francisco for twelve years. Gill is a filmmaker and musician whose projects are the bands Cindy and Flowertown.
About her work:
I almost always start with an observation that, by unexplainable lines, lights up a web of association between the thing seen out there in the world, experience from my life, mood, and something I call impersonal, i.e. something that feels true in an impersonal way. For a song, I often only have one connection to start with -- someone I see on the street might light up a memory of a private mood -- and, if the song is worthwhile, that one line will pull other, unexpected, things into the structure of the song and make its own sense. For visual work, there's an image that itself carries unexplainable but compelling coherence and that one image then leads to variations and explorations of whatever it's holding.
Eric Landmark info coming soon
Emily Peck is an artist living in San Francisco, making work inspired by kitsch and fantasy.
Rob Spector info coming soon
Kim West is a graphic designer, musician and artist based in the Bay Area. Her musical acts include Crack: We Are Rock, Death Sentence: Panda! and T.I.T.S. She has collaborated and worked with artists such as Sophia Wang, Brotez Purnell, Leah Rosenberg, Lisa Rybovich Crallè, Desiree Holman and Masako MIki and has shared the staged with acts such as the Slits, Raincoats and Lydia Lunch. She is also known for her bracing collages, numerous album covers and event posters, and a host of other graphic endeavors.