Joshua Pieper
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Galleries 1,2, and 3
June 27, 2009 — August 8, 2009

Reception: Saturday, June 27th, 5-7 pm

Rosamund Felsen Gallery is pleased to present the second solo show of Joshua Pieper. The San Francisco-based artist continues his mischievous inventions across the varied media of drawing, sculpture and video. Pieper’s very smart engagement of the world around him emerges from the experience of a Midwesterner living and working in a gritty section of San Francisco’s Mission District.
Joshua Pieper’s work recalls Bruce Nauman’s fascinating transposition of linguistic puns into visual forms. Word-as-image forms the basis of some of the drawings, as in A Nineteen Letter Text, while images conjuring words are everywhere in the rest of the work. In his ongoing incorporation of video monitors as both a conveyor of images and components of sculpture, Pieper plays poetically on scenes from the city. In a variation of his previous inclusions of plants from his backyard, he moves beyond a nature/culture opposition keeping us looking.
Easily moving back and forth between his matter-of-fact drawing style and ready-made sculptural motifs taken from life in the city and the garden, Pieper constantly refreshes the boundaries of his practice and continues taking new risks.

For more information please contact Sandy de Lissovoy 310.828.8488
Please join us for the artist’s reception on Saturday, June 27th, 2009 from 5 – 7 pm.
Gallery hours are 10-5:30, Tuesday-Saturday.