Main and Focus Galleries and Cardinale Project Room
Lewis deSoto: BEFORE AFTER
Exhibition: January 31 - March 28, 2009

Lewis deSoto has been exploring personal narrative through his artwork for over 20 years using an extraordinary range of media. DeSoto’s multimedia installations combine sound, light, video, space, and sculpture elements and are site-specific or oriented toward making a complete environment. His conceptual artwork utilizes automobiles, inflatables, electronics, photography, wood and metal construction.

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Image: Lewis deSoto, The Restoration, Lightjet transparency in light box, 2006, Courtesy of Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco

NIGHT MOVES
After-dark programming in the ICA's front windows
Lewis deSoto
OBSERVATORY
January 31 - March 28, 2009

Observatory combines the static or “snow” of analog television with sounds collected from outer space.  The interpretation of both television static and the sound recordings has been a topic of controversy as humans question the existence of extraterrestrial life.

Image: Lewis deSoto, Observatory, video still, 1993.

Focus Gallery, Project Room
It's Not Us, It's You
Exhibition: April 4 - June 20, 2009

Guest curated by artist Ray Beldner, It’s Not Us, It’s You explores the inevitability of rejection in our lives. The work in this exhibition responds to the tragic and heartbreaking realities of rejection with subversion, humor and brutal honesty. Artists include Anthony Discenza, Stephanie Syjuco, Michael Arcega, Arthur Gonzalez, Kara Maria, Steve Lambert, Jonn Herschend, Dee Hibbert-Jones, Nomi Talisman, Desiree Holman, Orly Cogan, Kate Gilmore and Robert Eads. Read more >
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Image: Orly Cogan, Fluffy Fuck-offs, 2009,  Courtesy of the Artist

NIGHT MOVES
After-dark programming in the ICA's front windows
Kate Gilmore
With Open Arms
April 4 - June 26, 2009

Kate Gilmore’s video artworks address specific struggles and dramas of everyday life, creating narratives that explore the symbols, behaviors and sentiments associated with stereotypical expectations of women. In this six-minute video, the artist dressed in a sleeveless, lavender cocktail dress, arms flung wide-open, proudly gestures to her audience as if saying “ta-da!” Though it appears to be the finale of a theatrical performance, the actress is pelted with tomatoes while she tries to maintain her pose and smile.

Image: Kate Gilmore, With Open Arms, 2005, Single-channel video, Courtesy of the Artist, Catharine Clark Gallery, SF and Smith-Stewart, NY