RESIDENCY: THE ELEMENTS: AIR

MINNETTE LEHMANN

ZINA AL-SHUKRI

SARAH BISCARRA DILLEY

EDDY FALCONER

key words: MOTHER-TONGUE, LANGUAGE,
PLACE, PASSAGE, TRANS-FORM

The 2016 Krowswork Residency program presents four month-long cycles of three artists in the space at a time, plus a video by a fourth artist shown in the gallery as well as streamed online (see video at right).

The residency cycle follows the elements:
AIR, EARTH, FIRE, WATER
and focuses on four concepts:
BODY, ALTAR, SANCTUARY, TRANSMISSION.

STILL YOU MUST GO from Eddy Falconer on Vimeo.
2016
TRT: 10 minutes

MINNETTE LEHMANN - MAIN ROOM

Minnette Lehmann, born in Sacramento, got out as soon as she could and attended UC Berkeley in the late 1940’s. Fueled by Marx & Freud, she helped establish Pete Martin’s City Lights Books. She became a wife/mother and later re-entered the art world by way of the SF Art Institute, where she earned an MFA in Photography. After receiving a NEA grant for photos that questioned the institution of marriage, she taught History of Photography and studio work throughout the Bay Area. Major shows were Thin Skin at New York's Grey Gallery and Naked Portraits at San Francisco’s Camerawork. She did Performance by way of Linda Montano and finally realized she is a painter.

ZINA AL-SHUKRI - PROJECT ROOM

Zina Al-Shukri, born in Baghdad in 1978, holds an MFA from California College of the Arts and a BA in Painting and Drawing from University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Her work has been included in national exhibitions at the Berkeley Art Museum, Patricia Sweetow and Jack Hanley galleries in San Francisco, and international shows in Turkey, London and Austria. Her process takes into consideration the notions of transition, conflicts/hybridity between culture/religion, individuality and shared experience, psychology and social determination.

SARAH BISCARRA DILLEY - PEW ROOM

Sarah Biscarra Dilley is a multi-disciplinary artist, ‘axi and co-conjurer in Black Salt Collective. Her work explores the spaces between the worlds; between blood sickness and bloodlines, between grief and joy, between body and land, between the spatial and the temporal. Using found footage, cut paper, archival material, handwork, language and thread, she traces a landscape of indigenous resilience and shifting relationships of belonging, displacement, and home. She is full of birds.

EDDY FALCONER - VIDEO TRANSMISSION

A 1968 transplant to San Francisco from Cambridge, MA, Eddy Falconer designs and documents worlds and their characters in a variety of idioms. Starting out artistically in New York as a writer of sci-fi and a comics artist, Eddy moved to Berlin with a Hi-8 squatter documentary in hand on the cusp of German Reunification and stayed 6-7 years. While shooting epic length Super-8 movies and painting, Eddy invented multiple artistic personae for photographed performance.  After a volatile stint at the HdK, in 1997 Eddy began work with George Coates Performance Works, doing spoken word on the side. Then came digital retooling for personal ends and in 2007 a series of live action and experimental videos began. Eddy was also an original, founding member of the mutual aid organization, The Icarus Project.