An Evening With Descry

A Presentation Featuring the Work of Descry Artists

Hosted by Chelsea Rae Klein

January 8th, 2011, 7:30pm

Undisclosed San Francisco Mission District Residence

Purchase of ticket includes a complimentary Korean and Japanese inspired California Cuisine meal by

Chef Dennis Lee of San Francisco's Namu and Cake Oh Takano.

Local wines included.

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All proceeds will support Descry's 2011 expansions.

Tickets must be purchased by December 29th and are limited to 30 seats.

An email will be sent 48 hours prior to event to ticket holders with location and directions.

For more information and ticket purchase click on 'events' page @:http://descrythis.com/

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Issue No. 2- Catalogue of the Night, with guest editor Donald Graham Hershey

is now available for order here.

Issue No. 2 Features the Work of 28 Artists:

Michael Bailey-Gates, Lauren E. Simonutti, Kati Mennett, Angela Berry, Angel Chiriboga, Sarah Small, Gregory Bartlett, Chris Woodcock, Kristoffer Axen, Corey Michael Smithson,Jordan Reznick, S. Gayle Stevens, Julia Forrest, Morgan Kendall, Sarawut Chutiwongpeti,Bonnie Briant, Jeffery Campbell, Alek Lindus, Rytis Gervickas, Adrienne Lesperance,Ursula Sokolowska, Blair Phillips Friederich, Randi Berez, Viola Booth, Michal Giedrojc, Justin StGermain, Chelsea Rae Klein, Elena Zavala

Descry Presents:

CATALOGUE OF THE NIGHT

3641 Main Street Gallery, Occidental CA

October 22, 7-11pm

Issue No.2 Release

Art Exhibit

And Silent Auction Featuring Work By:

Kristoffer Axén

Gregory Bartlett

Randi Berez

Chelsea Rae Klein

Kati Mennett

Jordan Reznick

Ursula Sokolowska

Elena Zavala

And Chris Weller Presents:

A Magnificent Microcosm- The Smallest Circus in Western Territories

Performance By: Odd Bird

Homemade Ice Cream and Infused Beverages By: Born & Raised

With Toppings By: Produce to the People

Issue No.2- CATALOGUE OF THE NIGHT

Issue No. 2 will be released in late October

But is currently available for online pre-order here.

Please visit our website for more details.

DEADLINE IS MIDNIGHT TONIGHT!

There's still time to submit. Check guidelines here.

Meanwhile, here's some more submissions to look at:

ANGELA BERRY

JOY WHALEN

RIKKI WARD

MEGAN V. BAUSKE

Bauske's work resides in the space between dreams, reality and memory.

Bauske lives and works in San Francisco.

See more of Megan Bauske's work here.

ALEK LINDUS

From the series The Sewing Machine and the Umbrella

Night photography is another language- it is a different spacial plane- a different consideration of time- I see it as a hyperbolic reality- by framing isolated areas of light and darkness- it contains the subject whilst simultaneously proposing an infinite in black. It's this relationship that is surreal in subtlety- the person or the object and its stance with darkness proposes a multitude of questions.

Lindus was born in Paris, France and currently resides in Samos, Greece.

See more of Alek Lindus' work here.

CLARE ROSEAN

"Helpless"

Rosean "used to be terribly afraid of the darkness and thus, spent most of [her] nights indoors"..." illustrating the night and its associated horrors has helped [her] cope with the darkness."

See more of Clare Rosean's work here.

JULIA FORREST

Forrest's medium format work "turns a mirror towards the viewer" in order to disengage the audience from the identity of the woman, instead demanding focus on her performative presence and power to manipulate the landscape.

See more of Julia Forrest's work here.

JASON ROCHELLE TALLEY

Talley's series confronts the "disturbing images and perversities" suppressed by our culture and thereby often exposed only in our dreams.

See more of Jason Rochelle Talley's work here.

LAUREN E. SIMONUTTI

"Mad Eyes"

"Over three and one half years I have spent alone amidst these 8 rooms, 7 mirrors, 6 clocks, 2 minds and 199 panes of glass. And this is what I saw here. This is what I learned...."

"I began to break time down.

Smaller and smaller parcels are easier to digest, easier to recognize, easier to bear.

This would be the math:

4 birthdays

3 + 1/2 years

42 months

1307 days (taking into account the leap year)

1,882,080 minutes

112,924,800 seconds..."

"I figure it could go one of two ways- I will either capture my ascension from madness to as much a level of sanity for which one of my composition could hope, or I will leave a document of it all, in the case that I should lose."

See more of Lauren E. Simonutti's work here.

GREGORY BARTLETT

From the series Darling if You Only Knew

"Of all the places that I experience in my day to day, many are beyond a place where one can physically venture to. It is through my daily routines and practices that these environments have materialized and come into being, literally and conceptually. They were created as a means to bridge a gap, to tell a bit about myself; where I travel to at times, sprite-like and fanciful in nature. Darling if you only knew all the things that float through my mind,

[so many] sweet sweet fantasies."

See more of Gregory Bartlett's work here

SHAYNA LEAH

"In my dreams he lurks: on open roads, at the water hole, the barber shop, the ice cream stand, in the gardens. He exists in the shadows, behind open doors, in the tall grass, a driver passing by. I cannot make out his face, always obscured. If only I could make out his face, I might begin to shake him from my mind..."

Contact Shayna Leah at shaynaleah@hotmail.com.

ANGEL CHIRIBOGA

"Estirpe" from the |eks| series

I am interested in exploring one of the primary inhibitors to my sleep: cancer. Four years ago, my father was diagnosed with cancer. The fact that I am both far away from home, and that cancer is a synonymous with having an expiration date, has made my head spin day and night.

Using x-ray images, Chiriboga explores the ubiquity of cancer by making the “'invisible visible... [to] express the continuous presence of the past contained within us'” as David Maisel wrote.

See more of Angel Chiriboga's work here.

VIOLA BOOTH

Viola Booth is a multitalented San Francisco artist, developing works as a videographer, photographer, painter, musician, and crime scene investigator, among other things.

Hear More of Viola Booth's work here.

See more here. And here.

MICHAL GIEDROJC

"Fly" from The Dream series.

Giedrojc's subject exists in discomfort and alienation.

The artist explains that each "person is isolated from reality with the imaginary world around [her]," thus posing the question: whose dream are we really glimpsing and is it a dream at all?

See more of Michal Giedrojc's work here.

COREY MICHAEL SMITHSON

"Cone"

Smithson is a Brooklyn based multimedia artist whose work explores "various dimensions of queerness, identity, gender, eroticism, self-expression, biology, history, beauty, shock, fear, and love."

See more of Corey Michael Smithson's work here.

RANDI BEREZ

Berez's images are rife with exuberance and glee expressive of the night's comedic obscurity.

See more of Randi Berez's work here.

SARAH SMALL

"Hanging Redhead", from the series Delirium Constructions.

Small's series explores "disassociated themes and characters brought together into the same space...[to] examine the social and graphic contrasts of youth and experience, hysteria and discipline, tragedy and hilarity, and sexuality and desexualization."

See more of Sarah Small's work here.

JUSTIN STGERMAIN

Adapting to our changing landscapes is a fear that we have, and as a population, must face. Justin StGermain's images represent the destruction that climate change has on our planet and the overwhelming necessity for us to reframe our view of the world using light to isolate and identify our transforming surroundings. Through long exposures, StGermain erases context, modifies the landscape, and emphasizes the demand for humans to critically modify their own perception of and relationship with the land.

See more of Justin StGermain's work here.