Opening Michael Campbell+Kevin King

Fri, Sep 9
6:00pm-8:30pm
free

dates of exhibition:
September 9th - October 4th, 2005

artists: MICHAEL CAMPBELL + KEVIN KING

title of exhibition: Assisted Living

medium: mixed media, collaborative site-specific art installation

gallery hours:
Fridays 11am-5pm & always by appointment

Gallery Statement:

In the art installation Assisted Living, two uncompromising
individuals ,
Michael Campbell and Kevin King , playfully collaborate, probing the
way we live
: our props, objects, accessories, toys and status symbols and the
system that
creates them.
With the colorful, shiny objects found in toy stores, sex shops, rummage
sales, or container marts, Campbell and King create hybrids and
dysfunctional
objects that reveal the hypnotically mercantile reasoning hidden in
the "happy
messages" sent by the "useful things" that "assist" us with our daily
life .
In Assisted Living, the seduction of the skillfully crafted clusters
and
assemblages mirrors the way consumerism has absurdly ritualized our
existence;
it also seems to ironically comment on the aura of the art object,
the idea of
its "commodity" .
Whether it is in collecting art objects or in collecting objects to
make art,
Campbell and King go on their object-finding missions fueled by a shared
longing to find and create a subversive and extraordinary universe
infused with
subliminal social commentaries .
In Assisted Living, Campbell and King have created such a universe.

Venue:

ampersand international arts
1001 Tennessee street
San Francisco
415-285-0170
www.ampersandintlarts.com

1001 Tennessee at 20th street, parallel to 3rd street/by the bay ,
dog patch-east potrero hill

Additional Info:

415-285-0170
www.ampersandintlarts.com