The OMNICIRCUS is pleased to pass the word about
an ART EXHIBIT curated by Harry Roche entitled
PAPER CUTS
Jan 7 - Jan 30, 1999
with the drawings of multi-media artist and OmniCircus director
FRANK GARVEY.
Garvey's incisive modernist, old masterish drawings put a social surrealist
spin on topics ranging from Melville's MOBY DICK to Andrew Wyeth's "HELGA"
pictures and hallowed art magazines. Acid humor and Goya-esque social
commentary abound.

        "Frank Garvey is an artist, musician, and director of the OmniCircus
gallery and performance space,. This robotic red-light district, created in
colaboration with Aaron Edsinger, Jeff Weber, and Carl Pisaturo, is replete
with machines that beg, shoot up, heckle and brawl. It is one of the most
powerful, exciting art projects in the city."
                        -Michelle Goldberg, SF Metropolitan, Dec 21 1998

Check out the amazing OmniCircus at our website
http://www.omnicircus.com

In addition to Garvey's work, the PAPER CUTS show features:

Leona Christie's labor intensive pop surrealist pen and ink drawings
inhabit a quirky and decidedly female realm. Following her successful
exhibition at the Drawing Center in New York last year, this Oakland artist
now experiences the joys of jetlag that come with being a bi-coastal artist.

Oakland painter Nils Schirrmacher's NEW YORKER-ish watercolors
document the slightly ludicrous (non) encounters of his college chum,
Travis, with high definition humor and deeply felt pathos. Close but no
cigar...

A reformed realist, Meg Hitchcock has evolved a recalcitrant personal style
that embraces grungy, anti-precious gestures. This nowadays Santa Rosa
artist's crude schoolgirl scrawls turn gender-based hierarchies topsy-turvy
as they indulge in the pleasures of paint itself.

John Sheridan's high-key drawings occupy a Twilight Zone time warp
depicting American pop culture via historical heroes such as Monet and
Mondrian. Another Oaklander, Sheridan floats hyper-realistic figures
resurrected from undervalued secondary sources like pulp novels and
B-movies. One of three PAPER CUTS participants with a history of having
his/her work censored in the Bay Area, Sheridan's drawings nontheless revel
in their own ambiguity.

"PAPER CUTS's five artists approach their subjects from a variety of
vantage points: personal, almost painful engagement to artful whimsy and
conceptual detachment. Chockful of cutting social commentary and pulp
friction pratfalls, this works-on-paper show assembles a prickly melange of
multi-media drawings that range from funky to finished."
-Harry Roche, curator

AT THE BRADFORD SMOCK GALLERY
251 POST STREET - SUITE 225
HOURS TUES-SAT 11am-5pm
info 415.677.0919
or for more info on Garvey's work 415.621.4068
http://www.omnicircus.com
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Frank Garvey
OmniCircus
550 Natoma, SF 94103
415-621-4068
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