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Marcos Ramirez "ERRE" and Allison Wiese: STOP. YIELD. MERGE.
Submitted by yolietorres on Mon, 10/29/2007 - 12:34pm.
Faculty Show
STOP. YIELD. MERGE.
Featuring Works by Marcos Ramirez "ERRE" and Allison Wiese
September 29, 2007 - January 18th, 2008
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 29th, 7-9pm
L Street Fine Art | 628 L Street, San Diego, CA 92101
The San Diego Art Prize will be given annually to three established artists and three emerging artists who have exhibited outstanding achievement in the field of Visual Arts. The Prize recipients will receive a cash grant and an exhibition a the L Street Gallery. Each exhibition will pair an established artist with an emerging artist. The final exhibition will run from June 2007- September 2007 and will feature work by all recognized recipients.
The Prize is sponsored by The San Diego Visual Arts Network, SanDiegoArtist.com and the Omni Hotel, Downtown, San Diego.
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PRESS RELEASE
STOP. YIELD. MERGE. Featuring works by Marcos Ramirez " ERRE" and Allison
Wiese
September 29, 2007 - January 18, 2008. Opening Reception: Saturday,
September 29, 2007 from 7pm - 9pm.
San Diego, CA. September 1, 2007 - The San Diego Visual Art's Network and SanDiegoArtist.com has established the San Diego Art Prize which is given annually to three established and three emerging artists who have exhibited outstanding achievement in the field of Visual Arts. The Prize recipients will receive a cash grant and an exhibition at the L Street Fine Art Gallery
in the Downtown Omni Hotel. Each exhibition will pair an established artist with an emerging artist.
Kicking of the second year of the San Diego Art Prize is the exhibition, STOP. YIELD. MERGE. Featuring works by Marcos Ramirez " ERRE" and Allison Wiese, which will begin on September 29, 2007 and run through mid-January 2008 at The L Street Fine Art Gallery. Road signs and eye charts dominate this show - both artists use these ready-made architectural fabrications to
express truths or observations that communicate ideals of individuality, anachronistic displacement, as well as social and political sentiments that are both present and archaic.
Marcos Ramirez "ERRE" was born in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico in 1961. He studied law at the Universidad Autonoma de Baja California. He has exhibited throughout Mexico and in the United States since 1993. His most critically acclaimed installations have been "Century 21" for inSite '94, and "Toy and Horse" for inSite '97. His most "memorable exhibition", as Robert Pincus writes, was "Amor como primer idioma/Love As First Language" at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego in 1999. In the year 2000 at the Whitney Biennial, he presented "Stripes and Fence Forever - Homage to Jasper Johns," a metal structure in which two flags (Mexico and the United States) are built as if they were the fence that divides Tijuana and San Diego.
ERRE's work is about social and political behavior, about humans, their environments and their relationships with their boundary spaces, specifically when these spaces overlap. His work then is about the frictions produced by people's interactions. It is work that does critique, but most of the time does it by asking a question, that supports the possible
coexistence of more than one truth and struggles against absolutes and blind postures.
Allison Wiese is an interdisciplinary artist who makes sculptures, installations, sound works and architectural interventions. Wiese's work has been exhibited throughout the US. She recently developed a site-specific solar audio work for the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, and her project's have also been presented by Machine Project.
(Los Angeles, CA), DiverseWorks (Houston, TX), Socrates Sculpture Park (Long Island City, NY) and apexart (New York, NY). Her work makes poetry with the ready-to-hand, altering spaces through christening and commemoration. Wiese's projects often employ the diversion of commodities or language through space and time. She recently negotiated a large awning off an empty
office tower in downtown Houston, for instance, and installed it, capsized, on the floor of a tiny residentially scaled gallery. Wiese also created a solar-powered audio work for the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego.
The San Diego is sponsored by The San Diego Visual Arts Network ( http://sdvan.net