KEITH BOADWEE AND PATRICK ROCK: CULT CLASSICS, NOT BEST SELLERS, APR 20 - MAY 25, 2007
Queen's Nails Annex is pleased to present solo exhibitions by Keith Boadwee and Patrick Rock with a special opening performance by Pete Nelson. The gallery will host an opening reception on Friday, April 20th, 8 - 11 pm. The exhibition CULT CLASSICS, NOT BEST will continue until May 11th, 2007.
Keith Boadwee and Patrick Rock present their new work in a 2-person show at Queen's Nails Annex. Both artists work in a variety of media including photography, drawing, painting, collage, video and sculpture. While Boadwee and Rock's projects explore the pathetic and the abject, they do so with a healthy dose of humor, sarcasm and tongue held firmly in cheek.
Keith Boadwee and Patrick Rock met while they were both working at the San Francisco Art Institute where Boadwee works as an associate professor and Rock received his M.F.A.
Keith Boadwee is a graduate of U.C L.A. where he studied with Chris Burden and Paul McCarthy. His butt hole targets and enema paintings have endeared him to a generation of artists and critical thinkers. His work has been featured in a number of historically significant exhibitions and catalogues including the New Museum's "Bad Girls", P.S. 1's recent "Into Me/Out of Me", Hidden Histories, The New Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, England and MOCA Los Angeles' 20th Anniversary Photography Portfolio curated by Cindy Sherman. Boadwee's work continues to investigate his obsessions with Identity, the body, scatology and the abject.
Patrick Rock is a graduate of the New Genres department at the San Francisco Art Institute and has exhibited in venues such as; Laden Fuer Nichts, Leipzig, Germany, San Francisco Arts Commission, Buro Spors, Berlin, Germany, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, 2004 Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba. His work consists of sculpture, installation, videos and photography, in which he stages himself: as an idiot in the everyday life, roguish saboteur of public ordered society, or as victim of an all around commercializing environment suffering from a flattening of perception. In his dialectic of utterances and use of materials, the painful moments of his everyday experiences are always apparent: as fun, which only pretends to be fun, or laughing about the fact, that there is nothing to laugh about. Rock lives and works in an Oregon self-styled seclusion, with three bad dogs, and one mean cat.
Damned if I do
Pete Nelson will present and host Damned if I do, a drink
tasting of distilled spirits for Queens Nails Annex during the opening. The project
explores the cloak of craft and ritual, as Nelson travels in his portable distillery,
a 1982 Toyota pick up to locations in the Bay Area such as The San Francisco Hall of
Justice and Oakland Police station to create and distill a product that is as unique,
truthful and as tasteful as the region from which it was born. Come and investigate
qualities of this mysterious and marginalized drink.
Pete Nelson was born in Lexington, Kentucky. His work currently concerns synergies between materials and ideas. "Materials have cells within interior experience, which build and structure what we call home." These materials contribute to his work in much the same way our bodies participate in our understandings of the landscapes that surround us. Nelson was granted the MFA residences at the Headlands Center for the Arts for 06 and accepted a residency at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Recent exhibitions include Five Habitats at New Langton Arts, American MythologyII, Oliver Art Center, Oakland CA. and Aint no party like a Holy Ghost party. At Blank Space Gallery, Oakland CA.
