Jeronimo Roldan & Amanda Curreri - Opening Reception February 22, 2008

Jeronimo Roldan & Amanda Curreri
You ROYGIBIV Me

February 22nd - March 28th
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, February 22nd, 9-11pm

Performance by Pebbles & Bam Bam at 9:30pm

TARTINE
600 Guerrero Street & 18th
San Francisco, CA

Curated by Brianna Toth

You ROYGIBIV Me is a collaborative exhibition exploring physical space and spectral
color as a collective language within Tartine Bakery. The show draws on the idea of
the bakery as a traditional hub of neighborhood activity and builds from the
intertwining of food and community. Roldan and Curreri display and augment the
activity specific to this local gathering place by utilizing constructive
vernaculars and a variety of media, incorporating them with the built space of the
bakery itself.

Through the combination of drawings, digital prints, encaustic panels, a mirror
sculpture, and a sound performance, the work draws from the relationship between the
physiological and architectural space of Tartine. Encircling the inside of the
bakery is a spectrum of digital prints that function as a systematic guide or
alphabet of color and light. This can be seen as a reference for viewing the
surrounding work. As the viewer walks through the space, fourteen encaustic panels
line up in visual fields to create a visual representation of light that has been
projected inside the bakery. The relationship to the space is explored on a more
conceptual level with the historical recipe and tradition shared by Tartine's
artisan pastries and the encaustic method of painting. In contrast to the static
information of the colored panels, the three-tiered mirror sculpture is used to
display the activity taking place in the room, while highlighting that the viewer is
central within the creation of the new image.

An opening night sound performance by local duo Pebbles and Bam Bam will allow both
the space and art to take on functions of temporality.

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Jeronimo Roldan and Amanda Curreri are both artists based in San Francisco.

Roldan currently works at the architecture firm Adamson-Molina Design and is
interested in bridging the disciplinary gaps between art and architecture. In
addition to studying architecture at the California College of the Arts from 2002 –
2007, he also works in photo collage and silkscreen.

Curreri graduated from the MFA program at the California College of the Arts in
2007. Her work employs the tactical reuse and reordering of vernacular and other
things social. Curreri was recently featured in ArtForum's "Critics Picks" for her
solo exhibition Make New Friends at Ping Pong Gallery.