FOG Design + Art, Booth 108
FOG Design + Art, Booth 108
Fort Mason Festival Pavilion, San Francisco
For FOG 2018, Jessica Silverman Gallery presents “On the Other Hand,” a group exhibition that explores the shifting meaning of the handmade in an era of digital production. Davina Semo’s wall sculptures draw from a dynamic vocabulary of industrial materials. With the circular “chain” piece Semo examines the beauty of power, tension and restraint, responding to the surprise discovery of a wave pattern that curves across the surface of the powder-coated links. Luke Butler’s paintings riff on themes of mortality, self-portraiture and what the artist calls “epic frailty.” In this series, Butler appropriates text from cinema, “The End” or producer credits such as “L BUTLER PICTURES” run over landscapes and seascapes. Woody De Othello’s large-scale ceramic sculptures often anthropomorphize objects. In the case of Othello’s “Telephone” series, the plastic, mass-produced originals are enlarged and transformed into glistening sculptures that exude both hyperbolic grandiosity and weary emotional deflation. Dashiell Manley’s meditative “E” paintings seek serenity in the face of the relentless onslaught of social media and unnerving news. They contain two kinds of brushstroke: a short, rhythmic, repetitive stroke, which relates to a mindful focus on the process of painting itself; and a longer, drifting transgressive line, which signals and attempts to correct a moment of distraction. Finally, John Houck’s “Coordinate Systems” works, made with flashe paint and archival pigment prints, explore digits in all senses of the word – fingers, numerical grids and digital art-making techniques – in pursuit of thought-provoking trompe l’oeil images.
Image: Woody De Othello, Don’t Hit My Line, 2017
- Installation view
- Installation view
- Installation view
- Installation view
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Dashiell Manley
e.f.w. (t.c.o.i.a.), 2017
Oil on linen
61 x 38 inches / 154.9 x 96.5 cm
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Dashiell Manley
e.f.w. (t.b.p.), 2017
Oil on linen
24 x 110 inches / 61 x 279.4 cm
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Davina Semo
AND I PUT MY HAND ON HER CHEST, NOT QUITE PUSHING HER AWAY, BUT STOPPING HER APPROACH, 2017
Powder coated chain
Diameter 60 1/2 inches / 153.7 cm
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Davina Semo
I COULDN’T IMAGINE ANYTHING MORE PERFECT, SHE WAS ENTIRELY BEAUTIFUL, 2017
Stainless steel
13 1/2 x 1 1/8 inches / 34.3 x 2.9 cm
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John Houck
Coordinate System #26, 2016
Flashe paint on archival pigment print
28 7/16 x 21 7/16 x 1 1/2 inches / 72.2 x 54.5 x 3.8 cm
Unique
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John Houck
Coordinate System #7, 2016
Flash paint on archival pigment print
28 7/16 x 21 7/16 x 1 1/2 inches / 72.2 x 54.5 x 3.8 cm
Unique
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Luke Butler
THE END XXXI, 2017
Acrylic on canvas
24 x 30 inches / 61 x 76.2 cm
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Luke Butler
THE END XV, 2016
Acrylic on canvas
22 x 62 inches / 55.9 x 157.5 cm
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Woody De Othello
Collar and Receiver, 2017
Ceramic and glaze
32 x 19 x 19 inches / 81.3 x 48.3 x 48.3 cm
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Woody De Othello
Don’t Hit My Line, 2017
Ceramic and glaze
37 x 27 x 18 inches / 94 x 68.6 x 45.7 cm
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Woody De Othello
Breathing, 2017
Ceramic, glaze, paint and epoxy coating resin
16 x 16 x 2 1/2 inches / 40.6 x 40.6 x 6.3 cm





e.f.w. (t.c.o.i.a.), 2017
Oil on linen
61 x 38 inches / 154.9 x 96.5 cm


e.f.w. (t.b.p.), 2017
Oil on linen
24 x 110 inches / 61 x 279.4 cm

AND I PUT MY HAND ON HER CHEST, NOT QUITE PUSHING HER AWAY, BUT STOPPING HER APPROACH, 2017
Powder coated chain
Diameter 60 1/2 inches / 153.7 cm


I COULDN'T IMAGINE ANYTHING MORE PERFECT, SHE WAS ENTIRELY BEAUTIFUL, 2017
Stainless steel
13 1/2 x 1 1/8 inches / 34.3 x 2.9 cm


Coordinate System #26, 2016
Flashe paint on archival pigment print
28 7/16 x 21 7/16 x 1 1/2 inches / 72.2 x 54.5 x 3.8 cm
Unique

Coordinate System #7, 2016
Flash paint on archival pigment print
28 7/16 x 21 7/16 x 1 1/2 inches / 72.2 x 54.5 x 3.8 cm
Unique

THE END XXXI, 2017
Acrylic on canvas
24 x 30 inches / 61 x 76.2 cm

THE END XV, 2016
Acrylic on canvas
22 x 62 inches / 55.9 x 157.5 cm

Collar and Receiver, 2017
Ceramic and glaze
32 x 19 x 19 inches / 81.3 x 48.3 x 48.3 cm

Don't Hit My Line, 2017
Ceramic and glaze
37 x 27 x 18 inches / 94 x 68.6 x 45.7 cm

Breathing, 2017
Ceramic, glaze, paint and epoxy coating resin
16 x 16 x 2 1/2 inches / 40.6 x 40.6 x 6.3 cm