SUPERNATURAL:
FORM + REPLICATION
Sep 14 - Oct 14, 2007
NATE BOYCE
MISAKO INAOKA
KEI ITO
KRISTINA LEWIS
NATE BOYCE
MISAKO INAOKA
KEI ITO
KRISTINA LEWIS
co-curated by Kyu Che and Jennifer McCabe, in collaboration with Queen’s Nails Annex.
September 14 – October 14, 2007
Opening reception: Friday, September 14th, 8-11pm
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Supernatural: form + replication
Queen’s Nails Annex presents a group show of artists who appropriate images and objects from material culture blurring such polarities as function and dysfunction, natural and artificial, and analog and digital. Supernatural: form + replication features site-specific installations, sculptures, and videos by the artists Nate Boyce, Misako Inaoka, Kei Ito, and Kristina Lewis. The artists use common forms to dissect their design, use, and potential mutation; resulting in works that refer to alien or microbiological nature.
Nate Boyce is an artist and musician who creates perceptually disorienting and organically complex sound image works that take the shape of musical compositions. Influenced by the technical limitations of early video art and the 1960’s structural film movement, he employs antiquated analog processing devices alongside custom-built image processing software to generate an anomalous fusion of both analog and digital materials.
Misako Inaoka creates objects and installations that question the boundary between the natural and artificial. Inaoka's environments often reflect vanishing species or mutating nature, becoming a hybrid of fabricated and natural forms.
Kei Ito started working in Tokyo as a graphic designer before studying fashion design at Central St Martins. For the last 14 years, Ito has run her own fashion and costume studio. Her creations move from wearable forms to structural installations that resonate with elements from the natural world.
Kristina Lewis renders everyday objects useless before imposing strict boundaries on their replication in order to insure a pattern of, yet unknown, outcomes. Synthetic materials take on organic forms creating a tension between aesthetically beautiful and profoundly disturbing forms.
ARTIST BIOS
Nate Boyce is a part time member of the band Matmos and the audio/visual performance trio Phase Chancellor. His first solo exhibition was at Queens Nails Annex, San Francisco (2005), and his work has been shown at Galerie Neue Alte Bruecke, Frankfurt, Germany (2007); CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco (2006); 9th Havana Biennial, Havana (2006); Anthology Film Archives, New York (2006); Super Deluxe Gallery, Tokyo (2005); and audio-performances at Cartier Foundation, Paris (2007); Donau Festival, Krems, Austria; Royal Festival Hall, London (2007); and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2006). Boyce lives and works in San Francisco.
Misako Inaoka’s solo exhibitions include Secret Nature, Blankspace Gallery, Oakland (2006); Invisible City of Moon Watching Plants, View 155 San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery (2005); and The first twenty-four hours, Artists’ Television Access, San Francisco (2004). Group exhibitions include Excavation, Johansson Projects, Oakland (2007); Emerge, GenArt exhibition, San Francisco (2006); and Close Calls, Headlands Center for the Arts, Marin Headlands (2005). Inaoka recently completed the Headlands Center for the Arts Summer residency (2007). She received an MFA, Mills College, Oakland (2006) and BFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence (2001). Inaoka lives and works in San Francisco.
Kei Ito’s solo exhibitions include Centro de Artesanía y Diseño, Lugo, Spain (2004); Lesley Craze Gallery, London (2001); and Mac (Midlands Arts Centre), Birmingham, UK (2000). Her work has been featured in recent group exhibitions such as Import Export, Franz Meyer Museum, Mexico City (2006) and Victoria & Albert Museum, London (2005); The Heart of Art, Jendela Gallery, Singapore (2004); and Double Vision, Japan Embassy, London (2004). Ito received a BA in Fashion Design, Central St. Martins College of Art, London (1992). Ito lives and works in London.
Kristina Lewis’ selected exhibitions include Wish You Were Here 6, A.I.R. Gallery, New York (2007); Alumni at the Centennial, California College of the Arts, Oliver Art Center, Oakland (2007); Sketch, Memorial Union Art Gallery, UC Davis, Davis (2006); and By Any Means Unnecessary, Mission 17, San Francisco (2004). She received an MFA, Interdisciplinary Design, California College of the Arts (2003) and BFA, University of Colorado, Denver (1993). Lewis lives and works in San Francisco.
