FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Maggie Foster & Tim Sullivan
we'd both be better off
 
October 7th –- October 29th, 2006
OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, October 7th, 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 the work of Maggie Foster and Tim Sullivan in their eagerly anticipated collaborative show entitled we'd both be better off.  The pair will show new photos, video, and sculpture.

Maggie Foster and Tim Sullivan capture a morbid California in a series of unique works, maintaining a clean, baroque aesthetic. Over a flat-screen television monitor is a hand-colored portrait of Jayne Mansfield with her eyes cut out and replaced with a video loop of the sky. Ms. Foster and Mr. Sullivan will show an ambitious, interactive piece that includes a cell phone, matches, a motion-detector, and a sculpture of the state of California in vanity light bulbs, which, with a phone, can be activated from virtually anywhere.  Among other pieces, rock posters of California inmates executed in 2005 round out this intriguing show.

Ms. Foster received the Bernard Osher Foundation Scholarship for Study at The San Francisco Art Institute.  Her video work has shown nationally and internationally in such locals as Poland, Columbia and Norway.  She will receive her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute this year.

Mr. Sullivan is currently featured in the California Biennial at the Orange County Museum.  His solo shows include Lucky Tackle in Oakland, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery in San Francisco, and Kino Lab in Warsaw, Poland.  Mr. Sullivan received his BA from Evergreen State College and his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute.