Silverman Gallery
804 Sutter St
415.255.9508
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Torreya Cumming, Bearsuit, 2008, Courtesy Silverman Gallery
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Oct 17, 2008 – Nov 22, 2008
Tuesdays–Saturdays (11am–6pm)
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The artists in Silverman Gallery's latest show use fanciful relics to invent alternative histories. To create her piece Mail Order Tumbleweeds, Torreya Cummings purchased samples of the western weed online and then staged them as spilling from postmarked cardboard boxes, turning their iconic aimless drift into a calculated e-commerce transaction. In the kitschy Bearsuit, she lays out a Panama hat, faux-bear fur pants, and clawed gloves on a velvet armchair — the natty wardrobe, she argues, of a newly invented queer hero from the Wild West. Meanwhile, Airyka Rockefeller's compilations of miniature images of castles invite viewers to revisit a dusty medieval fairy tale.
