PRESS RELEASE for further info. please contact: laurie lazer/darryl smith: 45 255 5971 luggagestore@sbcglobal.net   The luggage store 1007 Market Street (nr. 6th) San Francisco, CA 94103 Tel. 415 255 5971 Website:  www.luggagestoregallery.org Email:  luggagestore@sbcglobal.net   Dates:            March 19th - April 24th, 2010   Opening Reception: March, 19th 2010 6pm - 9pm   Address:  1007 Market Street (nr 6th)                  SF CA 94103   Who: DUSTIN FOSNOT, solo exhibition   Title:  “Dusted.”   Gallery hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 12pm - 5pm   The luggage store is pleased to present a solo exhibition featuring “Dusted: work by Dustin Fosnot.  Fosnot  uses materials that are close at hand or found on the street and reworks them to comment on their originating environment or  their related  materiality  His work is also about creating other worlds, which the viewer can be transported to - all the pieces are loosely tied together through their content, the different materials in the pieces are related in terms of the cheapness or found aspects.   The pieces revolve around stereotypical depictions of environmental degradation, the economy, or pollution.  However, these larger themes are more like springboards with which to create other worlds, which have simpler meanings people can relate to such as wonder and humor.  Most of this work balances between cliché, darkness, play, and humor.   For instance, one of Fosnot’s works “Snow Blind” ( Styrofoam, mixed media, portrays a “fossilized” view of industrial society…where cars are seen speeding down a freeway, frozen in motion.  The cars become artifacts of a “lost age”   Fosnot finds beauty in trash or what most people find useless.  Reworking  material such as broken glass into geological formations, begins to speak about the erosive forces of nature that are at play within the urban environment and how time tends to overwhelm and engulf all things cities, mountains, and earth.   Fosnot received his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2005. His work has been exhibited at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Steven Wolf Fine Arts, Southern Exposure, The Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, and Light Box Gallery in Los Angeles. He currently lives and works in San Francisco.  JPEGS UPON REQUEST