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Leigh Wells, /Thought/Action /(Gainsborough) 08.09, Courtesy of Gallery 16, San Francisco
Opens Friday June 6, 2008 (6–9pm)
June 7, 2008 – July 12, 2008
Mondays–Fridays (9am–5pm)
Saturdays (11am–5pm)
Gallery 16
501 3rd St
415.626.7495
Illustrator Leigh Wells builds collages over discarded reproductions of of great masters. Her new exhibition at Gallery 16 delights in little birds, rococo flourishes, arabesques, and silhouettes, while her daintier pieces recall the absurd delicacy of Joseph Cornell. Other works unleash the kind of relentless visual onslaught familiar to fans of Kara Walker or Lari Pittman. Gainsborough prints are fair game, but Wells isn't just making mincemeat of art history — her collages evince a great deal of poetic consideration for, and collaboration with, her raw materials.
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