Control Group

Please join us for a reception to close CONTROL GROUP

SATURDAY, MARCH 5TH, 6 TO 9 PM

“The Vallejo” by John Chiara at 7:30 pm

at NOMA Gallery, 80 Maiden Lane, 3rd fl

Control Group is an investigation into the individual artistic process and the risks
taken when directed to work outside one’s chosen medium(s). With the metaphor
of the fish out of water in place, each artist will communicate their ideas and
aesthetics through unfamiliar means, allowing new variables to emerge.

We intend to challenge the comfort zones artists sometimes inhabit by asking
them to relinquish a degree of control over their creativity, while perhaps
exercising it more completely than usual, invigorating the dialogue between artist
and viewer. Control Group is an invitation to make mistakes. While this may
seem counterintuitive, we see the threshold between success and failure as a
space for progress.

Partisan Gallery, NOMA Gallery, and fourteen artists of different disciplines have
come together for this project, co-curated by Chris Fallon and Jasmin Lim.

Opens
Friday, January 28, 2011
@ NOMA Gallery
80 Maiden Ln. 3rd fl,
San Francisco

Artists:

Nate Boyce / Joshua Churchill / Chris Fitzpatrick / Colter Jacobsen / Jennifer Locke
Sean McFarland / Keegan McHargue / Emily Prince / Paul Schiek / Leslie Shows
Margaret Tedesco / Paul Wackers / Lindsey White / David Wilson