FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Brian Wasson
THIS SHIT

September 8th – September 29th, 2007
OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, September 8th, 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 Brian Wasson in his solo show entitled THIS SHIT. Presenting sculpture, drawing, and painting, Mr. Wasson has compiled a tight show highlighting irony in America through the industrial manipulation of familiar goods.

The title refers to what a person off the street might comment after seeing Mr. Wasson’s show; “What is THIS SHIT?”

Big or small, manipulated or fabricated, the work forces the viewer to reexamine the simplicities of everyday life and its beauties. Polo-style shirts are forced over canvases, their straight lines contoured from being stretched, with colors bright and suddenly remarkable. The benign shirts become vivid paintings.

In the window seat of the gallery will be Ghost, a replicated lawn sprinkler that will move back and forth, just like a typical hose-powered sprinkler. Yet this one is ivory, silent, and dry. Form is said to follow function. Mr. Wasson challenges us to revel in the attractiveness of these utilitarian results; and then search deeper, observing material and American habitus. The movement of the Ghost is hypnotic, soaking the viewer with invisible water and nostalgia.

Mr. Wasson works as an industrial modeler. He builds his sculpture in CAD, a 3D digital modeling program, and utilizes the machinery at his work to realize many of his projects. The results are clean, precise sculptures mimicking the familiar. The car Mr. Wasson drives has been shrunk to 1/10th scale. The cache has been placed atop a remote control car body. The 1991 Toyota Corolla now has the ability to achieve what the original couldn’t—find parking.

Rounding out this diverse show, Mr. Wasson will have a cassette tape 4 times larger than its original. Precisely replicated, Mr. Wasson recorded the Styx Album Kilroy Was Here onto magnetic tape inside the cassette. Revel in the glory of Mr. Roboto, and a bygone technology.

Brian Wasson has shown extensively throughout the United States, including New York City, San Francisco, Portland, and throughout Arkansas. In San Francisco alone, Mr. Wasson has shown at Hosfelt Gallery, Ping Pong Gallery, and Queens Nails Annex. Mr. Wasson received his MFA in Sculpture from the San Francisco Art Institute and his MA in Sculpture from Arkansas State University.

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.