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Art
William T. Wiley

When

Opens Friday May 16 (6–8pm)

May 17 – July 3

Mondays–Fridays (10am–6pm)

Saturdays (10:30am–5:30pm)

Where
Electric Works (130 8th St, 415.626.5496)
Price
FREE
Details
http://www.sfelectricworks.com/futureexhibitions.htm
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Pinball machines have largely been relegated to the scrap yard of nostalgia, but that hasn't stopped William T. Wiley from resurrecting a 1964 game called North Star and giving it a contemporary spin. The original backboard depicts Eskimos and North Pole femmes fatales, clad in thigh-skimming fur and perched on icecaps with walruses and polar bears; Wiley, with his flair for maps and surreal cosmologies, repaints the scene as The Eye Scabs Are Melting — a cautionary tale of global warming. Visitors test their pinball wizardry on both the original and the artist's updated version.

Jeanne Storck