Everyday is Not the Same
featuring Hadley Williams and Pablo Manga

June 11 - August 7, 2010
Artist reception: Friday, June 18 6-9pm
First Friday receptions: July 2, August 6, 6-9pm

East Bay artists Hadley Williams and Pablo Manga create beautifully refined artworks through the use of ordinary, utilitarian objects.  Giving a new reflection on the term “art is everywhere”, these artists explore cupboards, office supply cabinets and miscellaneous drawers of stuff, finding and extracting the possibility of beauty in the everyday object.

Hadley Williams’  work explores the relationship between control and flexibility. Exploring mechanized order she creates relaxed grids using machine made materials such as bubble wrap, cashmere, orthodontic rubber bands, masking tape, correction tape, foam rubber, thread, felt and tissue paper.

In each work a single form is repeated to create an abstract field of accumulation. Her process is both meditative and obsessive.  The combination of replicated patterns and clean edges with wavering lines and irregular spacing, reflect the manmade notions of perfection and order and the realization of natural imperfection and unpredictability.


Pablo Manga uses transparent and semi-transparent adhesive tape to make works that evoke both painting and drawing.  His work is a meditation on both the formal properties of the everyday material from which it is made and the broader everyday world from which it is drawn.
 
Manga began using tape as an artistic medium in 1998-1999 while living in Mexico City.  Much of his prior work involved manipulations or transformations of found objects or everyday materials, and when he encountered a street vendor selling vibrantly colored tape he felt an immediate flash of recognition that the material had possibility.  

In his current Linescape series, he uses multiple kinds of transparent adhesive tape, layered horizontally, to create a quietly undulating landscape of line, form and tone.  


Branch Gallery
455 17th St. Suite 301
Oakland, CA 94612
510-508-1764
www.bayvanbranch.org
branch@bayvan.org
Gallery Hours: Thurs-Fri 12-6pm, Sat 12-4pm open until 9pm on First Friday. 
Located 1/2 block from 19th St. BART