E6 Gallery/Robert Berman Gallery Presents

River of Time

New works by Josh Graham

June 2nd - 25th

Opening Reception / June 2nd  7 - 10pm

Robert Berman / E6 Gallery is pleased to present “River of Time” an exhibition of new works by Brooklyn based artist Josh Graham. 

 Graham’s digital assemblages ebb and flow on the fault line between fiction and reality. The nature of time is explored and documented in complex landscapes of urban blight and detrition. The images are so seamless and sublime that they take on a somewhat organic reflection of the tireless composition. Artifacts of war and industry lay weathered amongst bourgeoning flora and fauna; stripped bare of any meaning or function to pure form and color. Juxtapositions suggest beyond the pale renditions of natural history dioramas where time is suspended at the brink of epoch. The mies en scene of found images resonate though a silent orchestration of light and shadow. Void of any passage, these frozen constructions allow the viewer to formulate narrative based on their own personal relationships to the objects and space contained. 

 “River of Time” focuses on the artist’s recent works in a range of visual output including digital collage, video installation and photo. These three forms of media make up the integral framework within the artists practice. The interrelationship between the mediums is evident throughout the work, as is the result of their convergence on the artist’s method. In the exhibition Graham’s milieux of fragmented realities are explored through a series of corresponding works from the various mediums. 

Artist Bio /

Josh Graham is a visual artist and composer based out of Brooklyn. He is highly regarded as one of the early pioneers in today’s abrasive music community, being recognized widely for his involvement in the New York doom outfit,  A Storm of Light, and his visual contributions to the seminal post metal band, Neurosis. Graham’s desire to coalesce music and visuals into a cohesive experience has spawned countless monumental records and performances over the last decade. Grahams vast discography has long been imbued with an equally rich visual aesthetic, thus creating a uniquely recognizable catalogue of work. Graham began exhibiting his work in 2007, and has shown extensively throughout the united states, in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Recent shows include “Catalyst” at 5024SF (2008),“Voices in the Bardo” at Shadow Space Gallery (Philadelphia) 2010, and Scion’s “Installation 6” a traveling video exhibition in Los Angeles/ Austin/ Minneapolis/ Brooklyn/ Wichita 2010.

 Graham’s work — up to and including musical set pieces with any number of his earth moving bands, from a past with Red Sparowes to a present with A Storm of Light — addresses with no uncertain focus the inescapable slide of time in passages significant and singular where the fleeting nature of the illusion of permanence and its ruin are nothing if not inevitable. In print/altered photographic mnemonics, visual installation, and sculpture, Graham pursues an obsession with light, dark, shadow space and natural forms. 

 Large formats [6 feet plus] on aluminum dominate [with wolf sculptures redolent of his ground-breaking work with musical confrontationalists Neurosis abounding], and round out an expansive body of work that is, in micro and macro, about nothing if not the emphasis on form, structure, discipline and their eventual loss. Using found objects, digital manipulations and video/audio installations, Graham’s work presages a near eschatological understanding of life cycle and being.

 - Eugene Robinson

Robert Berman / E6 Gallery is pleased to present

for the closing of his show of erotic paintings

drawings and assemblages by Ben Talbert

and the evocative works of John Altoon…

The Gallery Girls, live drawing session… in a first time San Francisco appearance!

This will be in traditional Gallery Girl style with MUSIC Selections by Jason Savvy, BAR & SNACKS and some of the best MODELS LA has to offer!!!!

THIS Saturday, May 28 at 9:00pm - 1:00am

Only $15

25 min poses all night

E6 Gallery

1632 Market St # B

San Francisco, CA 94102-5990

(415) 558-9975

www.e6gallery.com

http://gallerygirls.org/drawing-event-in-san-francisco-e6-gallery/

Judgment Day “It’s a Wrap-ture Party!” After-Fair Party & Screening

Premiering at the Robert Berman / E6 Gallery

Saturday, May 21st from 10pm - 11:59pm

Featuring: The Second Coming of A Rebirth of Wonder: Lawrence Ferlinghetti A film by Christopher Felver

In conjunction with: “Sex in the Sixties” The Beat Goes On: Select works by Ben Talbert and John Altoon / Beyond Erotic Art from the 60s

Sponsored in part by: artillery / Artpad SF / art ltd.

ARTPAD SF: MAY 19-22, 2011

Be sure to check out the amazing gallery lineup and events at ArtPadSF @ the Phoenix Hotel, May 19-22, 2011 http://artpadsf.com/

ROBERT BERMAN / E6 Gallery Presents:

THE BEAT GOES ON:

Select works by Ben Talbert and John Altoon 

Beyond Erotic Art from the 60s 

April 13, 2011 – May 28, 2011

Opening Reception Wednesday, April 13, 2011; 6-9pm

7pm Walk-through with Hal Glicksman

8pm Performance by Norton Wisdom and Mercury Falls

Robert Berman / E6 Gallery is pleased to present a selection of erotic paintings, drawings and assemblages by Ben Talbert alongside the evocative works of John Altoon.  Painter and sculptor, Ben Talbert and Ferus Gallery artist, John Altoon were part of the Semina Group: an original circle of beat and alternative Venice, CA artists from the 1960s centered around Wallace Berman. Talbert worked closely with many key art world players, namely close friend and former roommate Hal Glicksman. Glicksman, a well-known curator, began his career working under Walter Hopps, the director of the Pasadena Museum of Art (now the Norton Simon Museum) in the 1960s.  Hopps exhibited Talbert in a major show at the museum.

In the late 1960s, Talbert painted large Pop paintings of pin-up, pornographic playing cards using the American Flag as the background. This work was shown in a group exhibition in 1972 at the David Stuart Gallery in Los Angeles only to be closed down by police categorizing the imagery as obscene. Soon after, his friends, lead by Wallace Berman, successfully organized a secret two-day exhibition: Luck and Love - at the Mermaid Tavern in Topanga, California.  Afterwards, most of the works were stored and disseminated to friends, including Glicksman, who held onto the pieces after Talbert’s death in 1974.

“Talbert’s career, from his abstract expressionist origins to his untimely death, actually parallels that of John Altoon.  Like Altoon’s, Talbert’s late-‘50s oils are big, tumultuous, and often clearly orgiastic.  Like Altoon, not to mention Berman, Kienholz et al., Talbert was a social rebel and he was making a statement.”  -      Peter Frank, Art Ltd. Magazine

 Talbert died long before he gained proper recognition but his assemblages are still well known, attributed in part to recent exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Santa Monica Museum of Art.

Altoon and Talbert were both leaders of beat culture, the “lost generation” and pushed the boundaries of humor in eroticism.  Though Altoon rose to considerably loftier heights - his work resides in the permanent collections of LACMA, MOMA, MOCA and the Whitney, amongst others - both artists thrived on counter-culture expression bordering on “anti-art” on the fringes of the Pop and Fluxus movements. 

Please join us for the Opening Reception, April 13, 2011 from 6-9pm with special musical performance with Norton Wisdom and Mercury Falls and a walk-through with curator Hal Glicksman. Contact Ashley for images or more information E6Gallery@anet.net

THE BEAT GOES ON

Please refer to Robert Berman’s article in Huffington Post: 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-berman/ben-talbert-emluck-and-lo_b_471908.html

David Trulli
Beyond Daylight
February 23 - April 8, 2011
Closing Party: April 7th, 6:30-8:30pm

The Beat Goes On:
Select works by Ben Talbert and John Altoon
Beyond Erotic Art from the 60s
April 13, 2011 – May 28, 2011

Opening Reception Wednesday, April 13, 2011; 6-9pm
7pm Walk-through with Hal Glicksman
8pm Performance by Norton Wisdom and Mercury Falls

David Trulli

Beyond Daylight  

February 23 - April 8, 2011

Closing Party: April 7th, 5:30-7:30pm

NEW Gallery Hours:  Wed - Sat, 12-6, Sun 12-5 and by appt.

*Be sure to check out Alan Bamberger’s ART BUSINESS review:

http://www.artbusiness.com/1open/022311.html