San Francisco Collage Collective art opening tomorrow::

Month Year WestSide Art House & Jazz Club Art Opening & Live Jazz Party Friday Oct 21st 5pm-10pm Exhibit by S.F. Collage Collective "Ekstasis" Live Music With WestSide Jazz Club Free Admission Drinks by Donation Show Title "Ekstasis" The San Francisco Collage Collective is a group of local collage artists who have been working together since 2006. It is a loose knit group of artists from a variety of disciplines and varying degrees of formal art training, who gather together to make collage works. The primary idea is to democratize art by inviting anyone to participate. Since 2006, over 50 artists have worked with the collective. This current show at the WestSide Art House is the collective's first show in San Francisco in 2 years. This show includes works by artists who have previously exhibited with the collective including Gustavo Rivera, Rob Reger, Kathryn Kain, Aimee Friberg, Aung Aung Taik, Chuck Gonzalez, Matt Sullivan, Matt Springman, Rod Ciferri, and Matt Gonzalez. Artists showing with the collective for the first time include Karen Imperial, Danielle Rathbun, Tony Hall, Gary Birnbaum, Mark van Proyen, Roberta Scott, and Joe Engler. Some of the artists work with figurative elements, while others work purely abstractly. There are a variety of different methods employed to construct each piece. Some of the artists utilize magazines, album covers, found materials, and cardboard. Others use textile samples, paint chips, and painted pieces they themselves have created. Exhibition invites, original photographs, and colored paper are among the varied sources these artists employ. To learn more visit our website at http://sfcollagecollective.wordpress.com/ Aimee Friberg Gustavo Rivera Rob Reger Danielle Rathbun Karen Imperial Matt Springman Matt Sullivan Mark Van Proyen Kathryn Kain Matt Gonzalez Aung Aung Taik Roberta Scott Chuck Gonzalez Gary Birnbaum Jim Dorenkott Rod Ciferri Tony Hall Joe Engler Stephanie Vernier -------------------------------

Opening Reception: Thursday, Oct 6,

5pm till late

* sounds by Electroleum and Freemountain Pulsewave

Show runs from October 6 - 29

111 Minna Gallery

111 Minna Street (at Second)

San Francisco, CA 94105

Below, Rob describes his process of the three states of materiality that his collaged forms take in this show:

“Select areas of imagery are first dissected, then carefully brought back to life one connection at a time through the surgical practice known as collage. This life, as these frankensteined “originals,” is similar to childhood- finite in time that it exists, given the nature of the materials used. That childlike existence is then captured and brought into adulthood when I create a second life as these “characters” are re-imagined and printed and painted on wood. Finally, if their Creator is inspired enough by their previous existences, they make it into the spirit-world through film and animation. It is here they are finally allowed to move and have everlasting life. I am interested in taking these collages to a “larger than life” place by physically reproducing them on a large scale, and animating and projecting them. In the past, similar collage works have only been shown in small frames with a magnifying glass. Now the work will be accessible from anywhere in the room.”
-Rob Reger, artist