Park Life in SF Art Show "Looking Back Into the Future" Friday, July 6

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Looking Back Into the Future

July 6 - August 4, 2007

Opening Reception: Friday, July 6, 6-10 PM

Park Life

220 Clement St.

San Francisco, CA 94118

415.386.7275

[email protected]

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Park Life proudly presents Looking Back Into the Future, a Broken Wrist Project show.

Looking Back Into the Future is an exhibit featuring three Broken Wrist Project painters: Ashley Macomber, Steve Sueoka, and Ryan Wallace. These three painters use the power of narrative to provoke and encourage viewers to create and share thousands of stories. Looking Back Into the Future provides visual cues to the past, present and future of each artist's work as well as insight into intended and unintended stories. The importance of the narrative in our lives is best described by the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, "By telling stories, we make sense of the world: We order its events and find meaning in them by assimilating them to more or less familiar narratives" (Mateas & Sengers, 1998).

The Broken Wrist Project is an award-winning artist's collective focused on supporting and advancing the work of emerging fine artists and illustrators. Its work is driven by narrative, aesthetic and emotion. This July's exhibition advances Park Life's mission to support a provocative and intellectual exhibition that nurtures and encourages an appreciation for and understanding about the contemporary arts for both aspiring artists and art lovers alike.

Co-curated by Chako Suzuki

About the Broken Wrist Project:

The Broken Wrist Project originated as an artist collective in Los Angeles in the late 1990s. It was formed to promote the efforts of a creative syndicate of painters, illustrators, and designers. The Broken Wrist Project consolidated its work with a network of writers based in Chicago to provide literary content to inspire and navigate the group's visual identity. The result of this collaboration is the Broken Wrist Project Book Series, a hybrid format that blurs the line between street-level art book and literary journal. Anthem Magazine hailed the Broken Wrist Project as "filled up to the brim with short stories abreast art from some of the most noteworthy figureheads in street, graphic, and fine art." The collective has also been nationally recognized in magazines such as American Illustration Annual 2004, I.D., Communication Arts, The Fader, Flaunt, and Tokion among others, and received the Merit Award at the Art Director's Club's 83rd Annual Awards.

About the Artists:

Ashley Macomber was born in 1978 in Massachusetts and lives and works in Los Angeles. Macomber has had solo exhibitions at Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago and New Image Art, Los Angeles. Recently she was included in Panic Room - Works from The Dakis Joannou Collection at the Deste Foundation in Athens, Greece as well as Paper Trails at V1 Gallery in Copenhagen and Good World in association with Beautiful Losers in Cincinnati, Ohio. She has also exhibited her work in exhibitions at Marianne Boesky Gallery, NY; John Connelly Presents, NY; Creative Time, NY; Elizabeth Dee Gallery, NY; and Clementine Gallery and White Box, NY.

Steve Sueoka was born in 1974. He received his BFA in illustration from Art Center College of Design in 2000. Steve is an artist, graphic designer, book publisher, racist beater upper, lover, cusser, foodie, freedom fighter, tequila/whiskey drinker, hugger, brother, uncle, sancho, righteous troof-seeking gangster with a heavy glowing pimp hand. Steve is one of the founding members of The Broken Wrist Project and currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

Ryan Wallace was born in 1977 in New York City, where he currently lives and works. He received his BFA in 1999 from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). His work is based on personal, exterior, desired and fictitious experiences. He creates worlds of variously interpretable, often romanticist narratives. His pictures act autonomously--and as a whole--suggesting each piece as a segment or selection lifted from a larger landscape or longer timeline. Wallace's imagery and symbols reflect an interest in the dualities, fleetingness and half-lives of the beautiful and awesome. His symbols are enacted to create brochure-like pictures of the adventuresome and romantic, subverted by an inherent apprehension at the improbability of the universe that they exist in. Wallace has exhibited his work in exhibitions at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, CA; New Image Art, CA; Space 1026, PA; Aidan Savoy Gallery, NY; Alston Skirt Gallery, MA; and Alena Gallery in Montreal, Canada.

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