FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
FOLLY: NEW WORK BY ELISHEVA
BIERNOFF
TRIPLE BASE, SAN
FRANCISCO
SEPTEMBER 10 - OCTOBER 10,
2010
OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 7-10PM
Triple
Base is proud to announce
Folly,
a solo show of new work by San Francisco-based Elisheva Biernoff. Folly
is an installation that reinvents
the
architectural follies (fanciful garden structures often in the form
of
ruins) of the 18th century. The main component of Folly
is a trompe l’oeil “ruin” composed
of
two uneven walls, painted to evoke layers of peeling wallpaper. A
window
in one of the walls opens onto a flat screen television
showing a
time-lapse
film of a darkening landscape. Vines painted in gouache on cut
paper
creep over the walls, and the ground is punctuated with bits of painted
and
sculpted debris. By assembling disparate pieces that mimic reality, Folly
creates a fantasy
world.
In the
Triple
Basement, Biernoff
has
created a paper sculpture titled Out the Window.
This installation, using visual
and
audio elements, considers the reality of loss and the instinct to preserve.
It
celebrates the small things we overlook and the large things we undervalue,
and
meditates on the moments where nature and culture meet. Keeping in
mind
that the word ecology derives from “oikos,” the Greek word for
household,
this
work considers how the home relates to the wider world, and how the
wilderness
is reintroduced into our
homes.
Elisheva
Biernoff was born
in
Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1980.
She attended Yale University, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London,
and
received her MFA from California College of the Arts in 2009.
Her most recent awards include the
Kala
Art Institute Fellowship and the 2008 Murphy and Cadogan Fellowship. Her
2010
exhibitions include 2 x 2 Solos: Elisheva Biernoff, ProArts, Oakland, CA
and Front
and
Center: Weather
Stream,
Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA. In 2009 Biernoff participated
in
Art in Storefronts, administered by San Francisco Arts Commission and
Triple
Base, San Francisco, CA and her exhibitions included Punctuation, Right
Window, San Francisco, CA,
Introductions
2009, Root Division,
San
Francisco, CA and Children of the Revolution, Federal Art Project, Los
Angeles,
CA.
Triple
Base, 3041 24th Street (@Treat), San
Francisco
Regular Gallery
Hours:
Thu-Sun,
12-5pm
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