FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Annual Summer Student Show
Plan View

July 14th – August 5th, 2007
OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, July 14th, 6pm-9pm

little tree gallery
3412 22nd St @ Guerrero
San Francisco, CA 94110
415.643.4929
www.littletreegallery.com
info@littletreegallery.com

little tree gallery is pleased to present its first annual summer student show, Plan View. This year’s show is an installation curated by Laura Cassidy Rogers and features new work by Cameron Hockenson, Christy Kay Lopez and Sarah Willis, all from the San Francisco Art Institute. In this collaborative show, the gallery will transform into its own ecosystem with shinny clouds, a stylized tree, and mechanized earth-balls that are dipped into molasses.

Working together, the artists and curator have developed a body of work that relies heavily on each other’s pieces. The dialogue runs deeper. The title of the show, Plan View, alludes to Hockenson’s summer residency in Skowhegan, Maine. Before he left, Rogers’s found a dead Melaleuca tree (similar to the tree outside little tree gallery) and informed Hockenson. Hockenson took the tree into his studio, dismantled it and drew intricate instructions of how Lopez and Willis are to install the work while he is away. The final product will see a trasformed tree interacting with the floor, wall and window of the gallery, twisting and turning at different angles, reaching for the natural light.

Hanging above from the gallery ceiling will be Lopez’s clouds. Lopez heats up large rectangles of PETG plastic and then molds them into undulating forms. The clouds will completely cover the ceiling as the natural vs. artificial dialogue becomes more pronounced.

Lastly, Willis will display 5 mechanical sculptures that repeatedly dip small earth-balls into shallow pools of molasses. The movement is visual and visceral. The thick molasses dripping from the dunked earth-balls brings to mind prehistoric bogs and erosion: at one end of the spectrum time is captured while at the other end time is chipped away.

All hail from the San Francisco Art Institute: Rogers is a MA candidate in Exhibitions and Museum Studies; Hockenson and Willis are MFA sculpture candidates; and Lopez recently received her MFA in painting.

For inquiries and questions regarding the show, please contact J. Brent Large by phone at (415) 643-4929 or by email at info@littletreegallery.com.