A blast through the past 15 Gestures exhibitions

As our artists are feverishly working away down at 1414 Monterey, we hope you are all getting excited for the opening celebration of our sixteenth Gestures exhibition on March 30th, 2012! Join us on Friday, March 30th, from 6-8pm to check out Gestures: Intimate Friction.

Each year, several artists come to our satellite galleries at 1414 Monterey to create site-specific works for our Gestures exhibitions. To help prepare you for the excitement that is about to ensue, we have provided you with a smattering of past Gestures works from throughout the years. Enjoy!

Tom Bedger

Fall, 2001

Gestures 1

Harry Schwalb

Workplace, 2002

Gestures 2

Nathan Nissim

Heliogabalous, 2002

Gestures 3

Robin Stanaway

Collective Corrected Vision, 2003

Gestures 4

Todd Swan

Lamplight, 2003

Gestures 5

Nami Ogawa

, 2005

Gestures 6

Peter Lambert

Sketches in Steel, 2005

Gestures 7

David Sleasman

Hybrids: Pittsburgh: Prairie, 2005

Gestures 8

Jen Lucchino & Freddie Croce

Untitled, 2006

Gestures 9

Jairan Sadeghi

The Current State of Things at Point A, 2008

Gestures 10

Derk Wolmuth

Space Vacuum, 2008

Gestures 11

Amber Coppings

Echoes of Objects, 2009

Gestures 12

Patricia Villalobos Echeverria

Parasite (40°27'25"N 80°00'48"W), 2009

Gestures 13

Ryder Henry

Periphery, 2010

Gestures 14

Jerstin Crosby

On the Inside, 2011

Gestures 15

Gestures 16 "Gestures: Intimate Friction" is guest-curated by Mary-Lou Arscott, of Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Architecture. Participants include Nina Marie Barbuto, Dee Briggs, Nick Durrant, Jeremy Ficca, Pablo Garcia, Jenn Gooch, Ling He, Matt Huber, Nick Liadis, Transformazium, Gill Wildman, and Spike Wolff. Again, the opening reception is Friday, March 30, 2012, 6-8pm, and runs through September 16, 2012.

Gestures 14 & David Beattie Open This Saturday

It's only May, but things are really starting to heat up here at the Mattress Factory. For example, we're opening two exhibitions this coming Saturday evening at 7:00 PM. The first is the 14th installment of the Gestures Exhibition Series. Guest-curated again by the incomparable Katherine Talcott, Gestures 14 features new work from Danny Bracken, Dee Briggs, Matthew Conboy & Heather Pinson, Ryder Henry, Mary Mazziotti, Connie Merriman, Ben Schachter, Paul Schifino, Tugboat Printshop: Paul Roden & Valerie Lueth, Robert Villamagna and Larkin Werner. It's looking great in the galleries and if you plan to attend the opening reception, you can RSVP and keep tabs on who else will be there over on FaceBook.

In case you'd like to help spread the word to your own online network, I've embedded an electronic flyer (complete with corresponding HTML code) below. Feel free to share this awesome Brett Yasko-designed flyer with your online community. You can also email it to the art-loving friends in your contact book. As always, thanks so much for your online support.

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Also opening on Saturday is Old Light, New Darkness, a collection of new works by David Beattie. Born in Northern Ireland in 1979, Beattie earned his B.A. in Fine Art from Dublin’s National College of Art and Design, and his M.A. in Visual Art Practices from Dun Loaghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology, also in Dublin. He has received a number of awards including an Arts Council Artists Bursary in 2009 and a grant from the Harpo Foundation whose mission is to support artists who are under-recognized by the field.

Beattie is currently the subject of a solo exhibition at the Mercer Union Centre For Contemporary Visual Art in Toronto, Canada. Other solo shows include Butler Gallery (Kilkenny, 2009); Oonagh Young Gallery (Dublin, 2009); Mermaid Arts Centre (Bray, Co. Wicklow, 2008) and Temple Bar Gallery & Studios (Dublin, 2006).

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