Guerrero Gallery

Glen Baldridge Featured SoloMarissa Textor Project Room

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Mike Giant Featured SoloAdam 5100 Project Room

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More information coming soon…

MaterialismAaron Noble and Greg Lamarche

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Guerrero Gallery is pleased to announce Materialism, an exhibition by Greg Lamarche and Aaron Noble. This show presents the unique stylistic design of each artist, where meticulousness, flow and composition are a common characteristic. The artists’ re-appropriation of images through collage work and other mediums, drawing influence from graffiti to comic books, seem to evoke a sense of reminiscent nostalgia. Materialism is an examination of the love and thoughtful consideration that Lamarche and Noble give to the raw materials utilized in their work, all reused and pieced from other items that had been produced for consumption.

Greg Lamarche’s collage work is inspired from many years of writing graffiti in NYC and The City itself, where letters and words are his primary source of imagery. He employs graffiti elements through the deconstruction of letters, movement, repetition and layering. Utilizing vintage paper, Lamarche gives discarded, forgotten things a second life and new meaning. The exhibition will feature new works from his O Series, consisting of controlled graphic collages; Remnant Series, composed of abstract letterforms, created from leftover shards of paper from previous collages, which create the O Series; and Diamond Series, which explores the negative shapes created by letters and their resulting abstract quality. Lamarche’s continued interest in expanding and transforming letterforms into endless possibilities is evident in his featured works.

Aaron Noble’s work is an investigation of superhero cartooning. His practice begins with a literal dissection of contemporary superhero comics, where he looks for interesting forms embedded within printed figurative artwork. He progresses by creating new forms out of those fragments. The resulting collage is the first iteration of the work, and the model for subsequent versions on paper, canvas, and/or wall. Noble developed this practice in the Mission district of San Francisco, as a synthesis of three distinct forms: murals, collage, and comics. The exhibition will feature new works by Noble that consist of multiple iterations of ideas, including, for the first time, the original collages. Several works will appear in at least three forms: as collage; as ink on bristol board; and as gouache on watercolor paper.

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Greg Lamarche, born and raised in New York City, has been making collages since the sixth grade. He began writing graffiti in 1981 and published Skills magazine during the early 90s. His work plays with a profusion of font styles, word fragments and multiple layers and employs characteristics from graffiti such as repetition, bold colors, multiple perspectives and movement. He has worked both as a designer and artist since 2000. His work has been featured in numerous magazines including, New York Times Magazine, Print Magazine, Juxtapoz Modern Painters and Arkitip, among others. His artwork has also been published in several new books including, Graffiti New York, Ornamental Type and Piecebook Reloaded for which he created the cover graphics.

Aaron Noble attended the San Francisco Art Institute in 1981-82. He cofounded the Clarion Alley Mural Project (CAMP) in San Francisco, which he directed from 1997 to 2001. He has done permanent outdoor murals in San Francisco, Los Angeles, London, Indonesia, Taiwan and Beijing; and temporary wall paintings at the UCLA Hammer museum in Los Angeles, White Columns in New York and the Davis Museum at Wellesley College, among others. He has shown at Blum & Poe and Track 16 in LA, PeerUK in London, Pavel Zoubok Gallery in New York, and many others. He is represented by Kaycee Olsen Gallery in Los Angeles and Guerrero Gallery in San Francisco, and is a member of Brooklyn Artists Alliance and the Artists Pension Trust. Aaron Noble lives and works in Los Angeles.

To download a .PDF of the show press release click here.

Gallery Inventory

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The following pieces are currently included in Guerrero Gallery’s inventory. Please inquire for prices.

Bill McRight

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About the Artist

In his most recent body of work, he has crafted shivs and handmade weapons from found materials. When making the shivs, McRight draws upon the traditions of the prehistoric, fashioning blades from shards of obsidian. The artist collects materials found in streets and at flea markets and repurposes them into crude weapons by utilizing discarded bits of metal, old screwdrivers and broken baseball bats, converting them into bludgeoning weapons. These items are given new life as not only utilitarian, but also decorative art objects. The artist’s work is influenced by an interest in individuals and groups of people who exist on the fringes of society, including soccer hooligans, street gangs, prisoners and metal heads. Growing up with punk rock music and skateboarding, McRight is fascinated with individuals and groups who depart from mainstream society.

August Group Show Co-curated by Eddie Martinez

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About the show:

Guerrero Gallery is pleased to announce its August Group Show, featuring works by nineteen artists. The focus of this month’s show was to bring together a group of artists having a dramatically expressive and poignant method to their work, either in concept or in visual presentation.

Central to the development of the programming at Guerrero Gallery has been to provide a uniquely rich experience for viewers and patrons. Interested in challenging the public eye, we strive to offer dynamic exhibitions geared toward encouraging viewers to broaden their standard way of thought and perception. Our August group show provides a collection of works revealing each artist’s quality of practice alongside individualistic fortes, evoking a challenge to look deeper into the process/approach involved in the progression of each artist’s finished piece.

Featured Artists:

Alisha Kerlin, Brian Belott, Conrad Ruiz, Derek Aylward, Eddie Martinez, Eduardo Recife, Fanny Bostrom, Jamison Brosseau, Jeanette Mundt, John Copeland, Joseph Hart, Kareem Rizk, Karim Hamid, Kristine Moran, Marie Koetje, Paul Brainard, Stephen Smith, and Wes Lang.

» To download a .PDF of the show press release click here.

Brett Cook

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Upcoming Shows

2010 June – Supernatural, Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Curriculum Vitae

PUBLIC PROJECTS

2011
Radical Inclusivity with YouthSpeaks, Multiple Bay Area Locations, CA
Acts of Reclamation, VPA Department, Cal State University Monterey Bay, CA

2009
Face Up: Telling Stories of Community Life, Durham, NC

2008
Amherst Community Portraits, Amherst College, Amherst, MA

2007
National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian) and Duke Ellington School for the Arts Washington D.C.
Fall Artist Residency, Duke University, Durham, NC

2006
Empire State Partnerships Summer Seminar Collaborative Project, CW Post, Long Island, NY
Identity of Interbeing Collaborative Project, Packer Collegiate Academy, Brooklyn, NY

2005
Headlands Center for the Arts Collaborative Open House Project, Sausalito, CA
Deer Park Monastery Collaborative Project, Escondido, CA

2004
Philadelphia Department of Recreation Mural Arts Program Collaborative Projects, PA
Headlands Center for the Arts Peace and Mindfulness Collaborative Project, Marin, CA
Bowling Green Collaborative project, Bowling Green, OH
Reinvented A Collaboration workshop with Wendy Ewald and Galeria de Luz, Oaxaca, Mexico

2003
Revolution: Celebrate Harlem 127th Street, New York, NY
Wayne State University Collaborative Community Project Development, Detroit, MI
South (Central) Los Angeles – Divine, West Vernon Elementary/6 Months space Los Angeles, CA
Martin Luther King Jr.- AHIMSA project, Harlem, NY

2002
June Jordan Collaborative Project, Harlem, NY
Columbus: Tobacco West Central Health District Dept. of Health, Columbus, GA
Learning Buckingham, Browne and Nichols Project Cambridge, MA

2001
Information for Peace and Democracy, CAP project, Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY
(De)Segregation, Harvard School of Education, Cambridge, MA
Harlem Development/Gentrification collaborative Project, Harlem, NY
Chatham/Art Omi Collaborative Project, Chatham, NY

2000
Issues of Hip-Hop (Society), Brooklyn, NY
Issues of Barbados, with Pedro Nogeura’s U.C. Caribbean Sociology Course
Public Work, 6th St. Photo Workshop and Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1999
Public Work, Greenwich Country Day School, Greenwich, CT
Community Healthcare Network/Lower East Side Center, New York, NY
Service and Protection P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY
Separations, Multiple Site Public Project, University of California, San Diego, CA

1997
First Night Newark Celebration, Communal Resolutions, Newark, NJ
All You Can Eat (Capitalism), Railroad Square Cinema, Waterville, ME

1996
See What I See, Public work with Satellite Academy students, New York, NY

1994
Afrikans, Public Work, McClymmons High School, Oakland, CA
Public Work, Cohen Alley, San Francisco, CA

1993
Public Work, 6th St. Photo Workshop, San Francisco, CA
Relative Concerns, SF Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA

1992
Homelessness, Public Work, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Teaching-Learning Public Work, SF MOMA, San Francisco, CA

1990
Commission for the City of San Francisco, Youth Expo at City Hall, San Francisco, CA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010
Supernatural, Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco CA

2008
Face Up Exhibition, Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, Durham, NC

2006
Identity of Interbeing, Carol Shen Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
Reflections, White Walls Gallery, San Francisco, California

2005
Meditations, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT

2004
Reflections of Revolution, Provisions Gallery GAEA Foundation Washington, D.C.
Blackness, Stony Brook University, Long Island, NY

2003
Revolution, P·P·O·W, New York, NY

2001
MultiFaceted, P·P·O·W, New York, NY

1998
Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Augusta, GA

1997
Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, NJ

1994
Politically Correct?, David Raymond Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA

1993
Automatic, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010
How We Roll: Black Engagement in Skateboarding, California Afro-Am Museum, CA

2007
Portraiture Now, Smithsonian/National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Amherst Portraits with Wendy Ewald, Mead Museum, Amherst MA
In The Fullness of Time, the Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco CA
Core Values of Social Change, Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, NY

2005
Change Methods, Provisions Gallery Washington, D.C.
Walls of Heritage Walls of Pride, Smithsonian Anacostia Museum, Washington, D.C.
Contemporary Portraiture, Snug Harbor Museum, Staten Island NY
The Other Mainstream, Arizona State University Museum, Tempe AZ

2004
Social Studies/Brown V. Board of Ed. 40th Anniversary, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Walls of Heritage, Walls of Pride, The Cambridge Arts Council, Cambridge, MA
Impact: New Mural Projects, PPOW, New York, NY

2003
Community Interactions, Wayne State University Gallery, Detroit, MI
Black President Exhibition, New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY
Coming Home Exhibition, Parrish Museum, NY, with South Hampton Schools

2002
Cut, Pulled, Colored & Burnt, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
Social Landscape, P·P·O·W, New York, NY

2001
Boomerang: Collector’s Choice, Exit Art, New York, NY
One Planet Under A Groove: Hip Hop & Contemporary Art, Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY
Hip-Hop Nation, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
InSite/OutSite, Apex Art, New York, NY

2000
Public Project with Art Clash, Red Clay Art Group and Sarah Jones,
Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
Unbottled: New York’s Waters, Hammond Museum, New York, NY
Identity Show, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
African American Artists Survey Show, Rockland Center for the Arts, Nyack, NY

1999
Generation Z, P.S. 1/MoMA, Long Island City, NY
The Process Show/Show Your Work, Pelham Bay Arts Center, New York, NY
New Voices/New Vision, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA

1998
The Choice, Exit Art, New York, NY
Artists in Residence Exhibition, Studio Museum of Harlem, New York, NY
New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship Exhibition, Jersey City Museum, NJ

1997
Sunny Days/Critical Times, The Bohen Foundation, New York, NY

1996
Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY
Inaugural Exhibition, Rush Foundation Gallery, New York, NY
New Jersey Biennial Exhibition, Ben Shahn Gallery, William Patterson College, NJ

1995
Alternative Museum, New York, NY
20th Anniversary Show, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ

1994
Capp Street Project, San Francisco, CA
South of Market Cultural Center Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Southern Exposure’s 20th Anniversary Exhibition, San Francisco, CA

1993
San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Swig/Watkins Award Exhibition, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA

1992
Luggage Store Gallery, 509 Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA

AWARDS

2010
Sea Change Residency, Provincetown, MA

2009
Americans for the Arts/Public Art Network public works award

2008
Lehman Brady Visiting Joint Chair Professor in Documentary Studies at Duke University and American Studies UNC – Chapel Hill

2007
Visual Artist Residency, Duke University’s Center Community Engagement and Art/Art History

2005
Richard C. Diebenkorn Fellowship, San Francisco Art Institute

2004
Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Artists in Communities Grant recipient with MAP of Philadelphia
Headlands Center for the Arts Bridge Residency, Sausalito, California
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council

2003
The Puffin Foundation

2002
The Jacob Lawrence Institute for the Visual Arts
New York Post
The Rheedlen University for Community Education (TRUCE)

2001
Art Omi International

2000
Vibe Magazine

1998
The Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, New Jersey State Council on the Arts

1997
The Studio Museum of Harlem
Skowhegan Residency/Camille Hanks Cosby Fellowship

1996
ArtMatters Grant

1994
Best New Muralist Award, Precita Eyes Arts Center

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Smithsonian Institution/National Portrait Gallery
Walker Art Center
Studio Museum of Harlem
Harvard University
Yili Art Foundation
Frances Greenberger Foundation
Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute Mysore, India
Ashtanga Yoga Shala New York City
Greenwich Country Day School
Buckingham, Browne and Nichols School
Mikki and Stanley Weithorn Collection
Joel and Nancy Portnoy Collection
Peggy Cafritz Collection

TEACHING & LECTURES

2010
Speaker, College Art Association Conference, Chicago, IL

2009
Collaborative Art: Theory and Practice and Working with Community, Vera List Center, NY
Panelist Transformations Conference, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA)
Public Dialogue/Visiting Artist, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Public Dialogue on Collaborative Aesthetics, Washington University, St. Louis, MO

2008
Public Dialogue/Workshop, Intersection for the Arts November 5, San Francisco, CA
Public Dialogue/Visiting Artist November 20, 2008, California State University at Monterey Bay
Lehman Brady Visiting Joint Chair Professorship in Documentary Studies and American Studies at Duke and UNC–Chapel Hill, NC
Dialogue on Art and Social Collaboration The Nasher Art Musuem, Duke University Durham, NC
Public Dialogue – Page-Walker Arts and History Center, Cary, NC
Keynote Discussion, Public Art 360, Hanes Art Center, Chapel Hill, NC

2007
Commencement Speech – University of California, Berkeley, May 18 2007, Berkeley CA
Co Teacher, Practice of Collaborative Art w/Wendy Ewald, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
Public Dialogue – February 15, San Francisco State University, San Francisco CA
Public Dialogue – February 22, 2007 Durham, NC
Public Dialogue – April 19, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Public Dialogue -Meditative Art W/Katherine Sherwood UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

2006
Graduate Seminar – San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Visiting Artist Series/Dialogue – October 10, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
Visiting Artist/Dialogue – May 1, Amherst, MA
Art Lecture Series/Dialogue – April 26, SUNY New Paltz, NY

2005
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Dialogue Collaboration, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
San Francisco State University – May 4th San Francisco, CA
Visiting Artist Presentation – February 23rd Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Panelist, NYSCA Upstate History Alliance Rochester, NY

2004
Galeria De Luz Collaboration workshop with Wendy Ewald. Oaxaca, Mexico
Philadelphia International Mural Conference Presentation, Philadelphia, PA
Collaboration Panel, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
TRUCE/NEA visiting artist project, Harlem, NY
Visiting Artist, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Visiting Artist, Bowling Green, OH
Weekend Fellow/Presentation, Gaea Foundation, Washington, D.C.
Peace and Democracy, at the Democracy Collaborative, University of Maryland
Visiting Artist, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Visiting Artist, Stony Brook University, Long Island, NY

2003
Art in the Public Realm for Pluralism and the Open Society, College of New Jersey, NJ
Visiting Teacher, West Vernon Elementary/6 Months Art Space/, Los Angeles, CA
Visiting Educator/Artist, Duke Center for Documentary Studies, NC
History and Democracy lecture/event, New York University, New York, NY
Moderator, Dialogue: Collaboration, the New School and Queens Museum, NY
Featured Panelist, National Black Fine Arts Show, Puck Building NY
South Hampton Schools, Parrish Museum, Southampton, NY

2002
Presenter, Coalition for Essential Schools Conference, Washington, D.C.
Teaching/Curriculum development at Buckingham, Browne and Nichols School, Cambridge, MA
Lecture, Brooklyn College Visiting Artist Program, Brooklyn, NY
Lecture, College of New Rochelle visiting artist Program, New Rochelle, NY
“Collaboration for Peace and Democracy” Triple Candie Artist Lecture Series 9/10/02 NY
“Visual Artist and Collaboration” NYCMER conference w/Guggenheim Museum, NY
Collaborative Art Luncheon at New School University, New York, NY
Visiting Artist “Brett Cook-Dizney: Concept, Technique and Social Change” Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
“Public Art; Problems and Process” The Art School at Snug Harbor, Staten Island, NY

2001
Lecturer, Askwith Forum, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA

2000
Co/Teacher/Curriculum South Hampton Schools, Parrish Museum, Southampton, NY

1999
Greenwich Country Day School, Greenwich, CT

1999-1996
Satellite Academy, New York, NY

1996
Cooper Union, New York, NY

1996-1994
Sponsors For Educational Opportunity New York, NY

1994-1993
Berkeley High School, Berkeley, CA

1992
San Francisco Conservation Corps, Northern CA
Brewer Jr. High School, Oakland, CA

1991
Southern Exposure Teaching Program, San Francisco, CA
East Bay Conservation Corps/Project Yes, Northern CA
UC Berkeley/Berkeley High Collaborative Mural Project, Berkeley, CA
UC Berkeley Undergraduate art Seminar in Spray painting, Berkeley, CA

1990-1989
Bayview Child Development Center, San Diego, CA

1989
Kieler Middle School, San Diego, CA

1988
Jefferson Child Development Center San Diego, CA

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2009
Weissman, Jane. On the Wall: Four Decades of Community Murals in New York City
Jacoby, Annice. Street Art San Francisco, Abrams

2008
Natale, Michelle. Art Picks Review, Face UP Exhibition, Raleigh News and Observer
Boutilier, Emily Gold. “Open Up” the Amherst portraits project, Amherst Magazine Winter

2007
Rickard, Carolyn. “History In The Art” The Herald-Sun, November 19

2006
Richard Diebenkorn Fellowship article, San Francisco Art Institute Magazine

2005
Muralist Profile Feature, Public Art Review Fall/Winter

2003
Sarah Valdez. Art In America, December
Liv Wright. International Review of African American Art, Hampton U. 18:4
Catalogue Black President: Fela Kuti New Museum of Art

2002
Cook, Brett. Interview TRACE magazine Spring 2002
Garvey, Marianne. “Portraits for the People is Artist’s Aim” New York Post August 12
Gierer, Larry. Activist Art, Columbus Ledger Enquirer, April 26th, 2002

2001
Tahashi, Corey. One World One Groove New York Newsday, October
Catalogue One Planet Under a Groove: Hip-Hop and Contemporary Art, Bronx Museum of Art
Reid, Calvin. Review, Art in America, October 2001.
Soloman, Debora. The Downtowning of Uptown, The New York Times Magazine, August 16
Leland, John. In the Ateliers of Harlem, The New York Times, June 14, p. F9
Folkes, Toure. Flippin’ the Lens, Volume.com, June
Sulivan James. Hip-Hop Nation Show has a Rap on Black Culture, The San Francisco Chronicle, May 17, 2001, p. D1.
Cotter, Holland. Review, The New York Times, May 11.
Fasching-Gray, Benjamin (art listings), Shout, May, p. 10.
Levin, Kim. Short List, The Village Voice, May 1, p.80
Worth Alexi, Review, The New Yorker, April 23, p. 37.
Perez, Miriam. The Education of Clinton Hill, City Limits Magazine, Febdruary, p. 5.

2000
Lee, Felicia. A Hip-Hop Artist Brings It All Back Home, The New York Times
Prigoff, Jim and Robin Dunix. Walls of Heritage-Walls of Pride, Pomegranate Press
Henn, Jennifer. Artist Joins in Student’s Search for Identities, Southampton Press

1999
Heiss, Alanna. Interview, Conaissance Des Arts
Keatings, Peter. The Color of Joy, Blaze Magazine
Johnson, Brett. Brett Cook-Dizney Profile, The Source
Caccamise, Bob. WABC News,

1998
NY1 News, Expressions of Harlem
Young, Victoria. Where Art Often Mourns, Memorials to Life, New York Times
Brackett, Charmain Z., Artist Combines Messages in Works, Augusta Chronicle
Sollie, Emily and Kent Kimes. Painting Fetes Arts Advocates, Augusta Chronicle

1997
Pickett, Dar la L., Artist Paints a Message, Maine Sentinel

1996
Drescher, Timothy W., Street Dialectics: The Art of Brett Cook Dizney, Urbanus Books

1995
Watkins, Eileen. Review of New Jersey Arts Annual, New Jersey Star Ledger
Watkins, Eileen. City W/Out Walls 20th Anniversary Show, New Jersey Star Ledger
Raynor, Vivien. City With Out Walls 20th Anniversary Show, New York Times

1994
Baker, Kenneth. Review, San Francisco Chronicle/Examiner
Roche, Harry. San Francisco Bay Guardian
Drescher, Timothy W., San Francisco Community Murals, Pogo Press

1993
Roche, Harry. Critic’s Choice, San Francisco Bay Guardian
Helfand, Glen. Critic’s Choice, San Francisco Weekly
Leonard, Andrew. Critic’s Choice, San Francisco Bay Guardian

1992
Porges, Maria. On the Scene, San Francisco, CA, Artweek ArtSpace Magazine

1991
Brezinski, Jamey. Review of “Wet Paint” competition,

1990
Kaufman, Laura. Vandal or Artist?, Los Angeles Times
Pincus, Robert. Social Questions in a Medium of Questions, San Diego Union
Olman, Lea. Social Questions in a Medium of Questions, Los Angeles Times

PUBLICATIONS

2010
A Conversation with Brett Cook. Art and Social Justice Education: Culture as Commons. Routledge.
How to Win!: Exploring the political Efficacy of Art. Edited by Stephen Duncombe and Steve Lambert. The Pacific Foundation.
Collaboration and Spirituality, Why Not Reciprocity? Edited by Tom Finkelpearl

2009
Who Am I in This Picture: Amherst Collage Portraits with Wendy Ewald, Amherst College Press
Enlightenment Through Collaboration. Community Arts Perspectives Volume II Issue 3. Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA)
The Amherst Portraits Project. Degrees of Freedom By Sam Chaltain, Rowman & Littlefield

2008
Reflection and Action. Document: a publication from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, Spring/Summer edition.

2007
Revolution. Total Chaos: The Art & Aesthetics of Hip-Hop edited by Jeff Chang
Identity of Interbeing. The Mindfulness Bell Magazine, summer issue #45

2004
Collaborating Voice: The Harlem Development/Gentrification Project Mantis Poetry Journal Poetry and Politics issue Stanford University Press, September

2003
Hip Hop and Cultural Memory. Souls Journal, Columbia University

“Supernatural”Brett Cook

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About the Show

Guerrero Gallery is pleased to announce Supernatural, a new exhibition by Brett Cook. Cook documents individual and collaborative transformation to promote awareness and celebrate the interconnectedness of all things. His creative practice includes crafting artifacts and experiences that reflect varied influences from art, education, and esoteric traditions. Supernatural features new and evolving installations from Cook’s public practice, altar-like assemblages, and works on mirror created from his ongoing study of nonviolence.

Supernatural includes new works picturing Arundhati Roy, Martin Luther King Jr., Cesar Chavez, Julia Butterfly Hill and Thich Nhat Hanh that were originally drawn and colored by hundreds of hands at collaborative events in California and New York City in 2002 and 2004. The artifacts of these events have since been embellished by Cook with a wide array of media, including documentary photographs, medicinal plants, LED lights, and reflective paper. The inclusion of diverse sensibilities and symbols – from poinsettia flowers and brooms to the five elements – invites viewers to explore the similarities underlying ostensibly disparate cultural expressions and celebrate the interconnectedness of all things in their process and product.

At the opening celebration, Bay Area/New York City based Trust Your Struggle (TYS), a collective of visual artists, educators, and cultural workers dedicated to social justice and community activism and artist/educator Evan Bissell will collaborate with Cook on a site-specific wall piece that is the culmination of a two-week retreat focused on studying the divinity of collaboration. Eco Chef/Author/Food Justice Advocate Bryant Terry will also be present for the social collaboration.

Click here to download the show Press Kit.

Click to View Timelapse of ‘Documentation of a Grandma’ Installation

2010 SF Fine Art Fair

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For almost a decade, San Francisco has not hosted an internationally ranked fine art fair. This year, the San Francisco Fine Art Fair has arrived and Guerrero Gallery is pleased to announce its participation. Visitors can view works by over 500 artists from around the globe. Guerrero Gallery will be exhibiting three artists: Hilary Pecis, Ryan Wallace, and Cody Hudson.

Hilary Pecis
A native Californian, Hilary resides and works from the city of San Francisco, where she is a recent MFA graduate from California College of the Arts. Receiving awards such as SF Weekly’s Mastermind Grant and San Francisco Arts Commission’s Murphy and Cadogan Fellowship. Also being featured in publications such as New American Painters. Pecis’ work is a depiction of landscapes influenced by Internet, television and other media sources. Images and shards from glossy magazine pages are reassembled into a surrogate image within the new composition in combination with code imbedded drawings of rock formations. With an interest and focus on the interchangeability of images and the capability to perceive and ignore them, Hilary, draws attention to how we are conditioned by the media’s overwhelming supply of information.

Ryan Wallace
Born in New York in 1977, Ryan Wallace now lives and works in Brooklyn. Inspired by the crackpot as well as the genius, Ryan creates atmospheric work that draws influence from physics, cognitive sciences and ideas such as the Omega Point or Singularity. Embracing ambiguity with a simultaneous sense of assembly and disintegration Ryan Wallace’s multi-faceted practice truly cultivates a sensuality of surface, texture and tone.

Cody Hudson
Cody Hudson is a Chicago based artist, also known for his graphic design contributions under the name Struggle Inc. Known for the production of clean, multi-dimensional graphics, Cody’s design aesthetic is part urban modernism, and part organic visual deconstruction. His graphic work and paintings have been exhibited throughout the US, Europe and Japan including the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), New Image Art (LA), Rocket Gallery (Tokyo), The Lazy Dog (Paris), & Andrew Rafacz (Chicago). In 2006 Cody was commissioned by the City of Chicago Public Art Program to create a permanent installation at the Sox/35th CTA station as part of the Arts in Transit Program. Cody’s work has been featured in numerous magazines and publications including idN, Arkitip, Anthem & Juxtapoz.

Ryan Travis Christian Featured SoloChris Duncan (Courtesy of Baer Ridgeway)

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