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Cricket Engine is a former military infirmary, utilised in the early part of this century. It is located in the 5th Avenue Marina, near Oakland's Jack London Square, among many other historic buildings, now artist work sites.
CRICKET ENGINE PRESENTS
The results of this project will be shown at the Illuminated Corridor on October 3 in Kahn's Alley, Oakland.
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Time-Sensitive Materials
Larnie & Bodil Fox
Sept. 12- 28, 2008
Opening Reception: Friday, Sept.12, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Time Walk: Saturday, Sept 20, 4:00-7:00 p.m.
We were married on May 22, 1999, in the Redwoods at Butano State Park and the next day were whisked away on a honeymoon to Costa Rica. While we were there, we we began a series of discussions about time that have continued to RIGHT NOW, this very day. We were very surprised at how sometimes the time seems to pass very slowly and other times passes very quickly. Being in Costa Rica, surrounded by unfamiliar sights, smells, tastes, and sounds, we noticed our time appeared longer. We sensed that a day included a lot more time than a "normal" day at home. We thought about the measured, linear way time is described by our society, and the winding, colored and irregular way we experience it. We theorized that experienced time consists of "packets", that is units of experience. The more packets, the longer the the time seems to take. Since then we have been noticing the length of our days change vary depending on the amount and qualify of packets. We enjoy the richness and sense of fulfillment when the packets are plentiful. In contrast, we notice that some days have fewer packets of new experience with the same commute, the familiar office, the usual coworkers, kitchen, shower, etc.. We notice how the passage of time, as we experience it, can have qualities other than length ~ it can also have depth and emotional color.
Our discussions have included historical measures of time (water, sand, sky, machines) human life (Lucy, who lived three and a half million years ago), our own life time (30,000 days), and eternity (endless?). We thought about time as defined from different perspectives: Society claiming a linear, repetitive time as defined by clocks and calendars, science claiming a time that can be curved, that is part of a continuum with space, that can have parallel time lines, and the way we actually perceive time. Is time a straight line? Is it a circle? A spiral? A network? Though "clock time" is not in our control ~ is perceived time? Can we cure our "time poverty" through manipulation of "packets" of perceived time?
We explore time from very different artistic perspectives; Larnie by using sound and kinetic sculptures while Bodil is moving to a painting style that is highly influenced by her textile background. As we struggle represent packets and perceived time using a visual format, we confront other ways of looking at time ~ a life time, eternity, our own time, measures of time ~ raising questions arise that have no easy answers.
--Bodil and Larnie Fox
Bodil Volmer Fox is a textile artist and sculptor. She holds an MFA and BA in Art with an emphasis on textiles from San Francisco State University, an AA in Visual Communication from Shoreline Community College in Seattle and has studied at Engelsholm Hojskole Textile College, Vejle, Denmark. She works with unusual materials such as wire, fortune cookie notes and lampshades. She has shown her work at numerous Bay Area locations including Thoreau Center Art Gallery, California Crafts Museum, Art Rise Gallery, Vorpal Gallery, Olive Hyde Gallery and SFSU Gallery. Collaborations with her artist/husband Larnie Fox include a giant working Dragonfly Ornithopter for the DuPage Museum, Naperville, Il, and 23 ft. bamboo and muslin airplane/kite for Burning Man, 1998. Bodil has also created a giant clothesline and laundry hanging near the SF airport for viewing by airline passengers, and has worked with Contraband for their Religare 2 public housing installation and ritual. Bodil is a member of the new music group "the Crank Ensemble" and sings alto for the San Francisco Sinfonietta Chorus. Originally from Denmark, she now lives and works in San Francisco with Larnie and teen-age daughter Liv. Bodil is a manager at Tides Center, a non-profit organization and also a Bay Area Realtor specializing in first-time home buyers and artist's spaces.
Larnie Fox is a visual and sound artist known for paintings, monumental bamboo sculpture, sound art, sound installations and performances. His kinetic/sound sculpture and paintings have been shown in one-person shows at The Lab, The Richmond Art Center and The Randall Museum, and in numerous group shows in San Francisco and Salt Lake City, Utah. He is also a founding member of Art Bias and Art Club, two Utah Fluxus-influenced groups, and is a founding member of 23five Incorporated, a Bay Area non-profit that promotes sound art. He was commissioned to create and burn a 20 ft. bamboo and muslin windmill at Burning Man 1997, and there he made and flew a 23 ft. bamboo and muslin kite in 1996, and an airplane in 1998 with his wife Bodil. In 2003 he built a bamboo airplane/sound-sculpture in The Lab with a thirty foot wingspan. He is currently directing the Crank Ensemble, a fourteen-member group that performs on hand-cranked instruments built by Larnie.
Larnie Fox is the Director of the Children's Art Program for the City of Palo Alto at the Palo Alto Art Center. He has directed the ArtKids Children's Art Program at the Community School of Music and Art in Mountain View, where he also taught. A co-founder of, and past instructor for Utah's Youth Arts Academy, and Project Coordinator for the Utah Arts Festival Children's Art Yard, he also taught at Weber State College, the University of Utah, and the Community University in Bozeman, Montana. He holds an M.F.A. in Painting and Drawing from the University of Utah, and a BA in Painting and Drawing from Slippery Rock University, Pennsylvania.
Larnie lives with his wife Bodil, and daughter Liv in San Francisco’s well-known Excelsior district.
Upcoming 2008
Michele Kern & Michael DeLeon. October 4-19
Jaime Lakatos. November 14-23
Namita Kapoor. November 28-Dec 7
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